The Los Angeles Screenplay Contest was created to introduce new screenwriters into the world of professional scriptwriting and to provide recognition to those new and unknown talents looking to forge careers as professinal writers in the entertainment industry. As such, the contest stands as a testament to rewarding and recognizing quality storytelling through film.
The LA Screenplay Contest’s primary goal is to recreate the opportunity channels that were once more accessible in Hollywood when agencies were more diverse and working writers mentored bright prodigies. We bring the best of today’s screenwriters to those who seek their talent with the written assurance that we will never own, sell, or misuse any script that enters our competition.
You’ve proven your discipline. You’ve nearly sacrificed your sanity. You’ve accomplished the impossible. You have written the next Hollywood blockbuster or independent masterpiece: but where do you take it? The Los Angeles Screenplay Contest was created to give screenwriters a new point of access to the film industry and to have their scripts read by professional, industry script readers and create opportunities to sell their stories.
The Los Angeles Screenplay Contest employs judges with combined decades of experience as professional script readers working in the industry for production companies, studios and literary agencies. Our judges know exactly how to recognize quality scriptwriting and storytelling. Undiscovered and signed talents are all welcome to take up the challenge and have their scripts join this competition of tomorrow’s top screenwriters.
Winners will be chosen from a variety of categories and will receive valuable prize packages and industry recognition that can serve as an important stepping-stone for opportunities for even greater success. It is our hope that recognition as a winner of the Los Angeles Screenplay Contest can bring your work attention that can help pave a career as a professional screenwriter.
You wrote the script, now believe in it.
PowerProduction Software
PowerProduction Software is celebrating more than two decades of creating production software for Hollywood and the media production community. Their mission is to make software that enables creative minds - of all backgrounds and skill proficiencies - to express their ideas visually in order to participate in the creation process of media production for entertainment, storytelling and information sharing. StoryBoard Quick is an easy-to-use, easy-to-learn software program that allows you to visually plan and present everything from feature films to corporate presentations. Pre-loaded with libraries of content, StoryBoard Quick will help you design storyboards fast that look great, even with no artistic ability. Adding graphics to your storyboards is as easy as pointing and clicking, so you can design and plan your shots for better end results.
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Michael Wiese Productions
MWP (Michael Wiese Productions) is the world’s leading publisher of books on screenwriting and filmmaking. It started in 1981 when Michael Wiese wrote and published the first book in what is now a line of over 150 books. Their goal is to provide information and inspiration on all aspects of filmmaking to students, emerging filmmakers and professionals through the brightest minds in the creative community. Click on the cat logo to the left and enjoy 25% discount on all the books!
Peck Entertainment
Producer Mitchell Peck most recently produced Crooked Arrows (20th Century Fox), a cross-cultural, Native American sports movie released in 2012. In 2011 Peck produced PRIEST (Sony Pictures), a post-apocalyptic vampire thriller and studio summer release. Peck wrote the story for and produced Bio-Dome (MGM) in 1996, an environmental comedy that's become a cult-classic. Peck was the originating producer on all of these studio movies, successfully developing each of them from script to screen. Throughout his 20 years in Hollywood, Peck has sold more than a dozen movies and television shows to Hollywood’s major studios, including Disney, Columbia, MGM, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Touchstone, Screen Gems, MTV, and New Line, and more. He graduated from Columbia University, and attended USC Graduate Film School.