MOVIEXPA SCRIPTWRITING CONTEST

Where finished scripts meet the people who make films.

Production companies and filmmakers across 150+ countries are looking for their next script. MoviExpa exists to put yours in front of them: read, evaluated, and introduced to industry, with a real path to development and sale.

Every submitted screenplay is read by our team and assessed by a professional jury of award-winning filmmakers, producers, and acquisition professionals. The strongest are selected, showcased, and introduced to filmmakers and production companies.

How the contest works:
Selected scripts are featured on our Contest Page during the contest window by excerpt only; full scripts are never made public without your permission.

There, registered readers (filmmakers, producers, reviewers, buyers, and fans worldwide):
🟢 Read a 5–10 page excerpt of your script
🟢 Read your Festival Opinion: a professional evaluation our team prepares for every selected script: concept, writer profile, market read, and summary
🟢 Vote for their favorites
🟢 Leave reviews and reactions
🟢 Reach out to connect with you directly with our help, if you want it

The highest-scoring script wins the Readers' Choice Award.

What selection gives you:

🏆 Awards across format and genre: Best Feature, Short, TV Pilot, plus genre honors (horror, thriller, sci-fi, drama, comedy) with laurels and certificate.
🗣️ Audience validation: real reader response to your concept and excerpt, yours as a free Audience Feedback Report.
📄 An Extended Festival Opinion: a professional evaluation of your script and its market potential.
🚪 A path to producers: selected scripts can be taken to matched producers through our outreach service, the same way we represent scripts in active development today.

Selection introduces your script to industry readers and gives you real audience data and a professional evaluation.
It is not a guarantee of a production deal, no honest contest can promise that.
What we offer is the validation, the materials, and the direct path most scripts never get.

Awards & Prizes

Top honors:
🏆 FESTIVAL WINNER
🏅 SEMI-FINALIST
⭐ READERS' CHOICE AWARD (highest reader score on the Contest Page)

Format awards:
🏆 Best Feature Screenplay
🏆 Best Short Screenplay
🏆 Best TV Pilot / Web Series Script
🏆 Best 1-Page Script

Genre awards:
⭐ Best Horror Screenplay
⭐ Best Thriller Screenplay
⭐ Best Sci-Fi Screenplay
⭐ Best Drama Screenplay
⭐ Best Comedy Screenplay

All finalists receive: Certificate, Official Laurels, Personalized Digital Diploma.
Selected scriptwriters may receive offers for the development or production of their scripts.

Rules & Terms

The official language of the contest is English. Scripts are accepted in English.
All scripts must have been completed in 2021 or later (or updated since).
Submissions are accepted from all countries.
Selected scripts are featured on the online Contest Page by excerpt only (5–10 pages, or approx. 5–10% of the script). Full scripts are never made public without the writer's written permission.
After a script is officially selected, the scriptwriter is notified. Official selection does not by itself guarantee a read-through, staged reading, or award at the contest.
All submissions must be completed by the deadline indicated on the contest's official page.
All submission fees are non-refundable and must be paid via card or PayPal through the platforms listed on the contest's official page.
All jury and award decisions are final.
The information about the scripts might be published on the event website.
The festival’s producer reserves the right to change prizes and awards without any notification to participants (or winners).
Winners are responsible for all applicable federal, state, province, or territory and local taxes, if any, as well as any other costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance or use not specified herein as being provided.
The Festival Producer may set the additional awards, award signs, and prizes.
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  • Kokoe Film Studios

    It is both and honour and garners such a sense of achievement to both be selected and to win an award. The festival is one of those unique places we highly recommend to all writers., Thank you to everyone involved - we are very grateful and wish you all the best for the future. Kokoe Film writers: Mary Lewis McRae and Peter J Tisma.

    June 2023
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    Response from festival:

    Dear Mary and Peter,

    Thank you for your kind words.
    It was a great pleasure and honor to read your script.
    We wish you the great success!

    Best wishes,
    Vladimer and the contest team.