New York International Screenplay Awards, aims to bring together the producers and all the scenery writers, whether amateur, or professional from all over the world.
The screenwriters who submitted their scripts, producers and the other guests who work in the American movie industry had a chance for networking oppurtunities at the award ceremony and the after party.
NYISA Jury members are New Yorker producers, screenwriters, filmmakers who works on the submissions and provide detailed feedback.

Awards & Prizes

Those scripts chosen will have chance to meet producers in New York. Along with this they will get glamorous NYISA trophies and many other perks are waiting for the winning scripts.

Golden Package:

An InkTip prize package includes one InkTip script listing and one InkTip magazine listing so winners can promote themselves and their scripts to InkTip's large network of producers and reps.
Every InkTip producer has been vetted via resume and references and demonstrated the ability to get movies made. Companies who are InkTip members include ABC, Anonymous Content, APA, CBS Films, HBO Films, ICM, Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, and 20th Century Fox.

iPitch.tv membership for a year.
Industry members in iPitch.tv marketplace is scouting for Feature Film and Television projects for all the major networks, studios, and platforms.  These Executive Members include:
Discovery Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment Television, New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers, Echo Lake Entertainment, Relativity Television, CBS, WEtv, Authentic Entertainment, Forman Productions, Infinity Media Inc., Little Studio Films, Leftfield Pictures, Brian Graden Media... to name a few.
iPitch.tv welcome NYISA winners to use iPitch.tv for free and pitch their projects for direct exposure to Studio/TV Executives and Producers.  

Online Screenwriting course from Script Reader Pro. (retail price $299)

Email blasts will be given the to the 1050+ agents and producers via Scrip Mailer!

One Coverage Ink JC Analysis (value $695) for the Feature Screenplay 1st Place Winner + One Coverage Ink JC Analysis for the Short Screenplay Winner (Value $295- CoverageInk.com founder Jim Cirile will personally read and analyze the winning screenplay as well as mark up and edit it. Jim's analyses generally run around 18-25 pages and are ridiculously in-depth, no stone left unturned. He'll help maximize what's working and break down what's not in order to give the material the best possible chance in the marketplace. Also includes detailed marketability analysis and recommendations. As well, Jim will provide one year of free e-mail follow-ups. Founded in 2002, CoverageInk.com offer industry-leading screenplay and pilot analysis and development services to the industry and writers at all levels.
HALF-HOUR PHONE/SKYPE CONSULTATION
CoverageInk.com founder Jim Cirile will discuss your career path with you and offer advice as to how best to get the attention of the industry. Jim will share tips and advice from his three-plus decades in the biz (and as agent and management expert for Script and Creative Screenwriting magazines as well as The Wrap.) Empowering and helpful guidance you need from the Industry Experts. Visit CoverageInk.com.
You'll also receive our two PDF e-books, The Coverage Ink Spec Format & Style Guide, 110 pages of tips and tricks to help you bring it on the page, and Agent's Hot Sheet: Ten Years of Screenwriting Wisdom from Hollywood's Top Reps, over 240 pages of in-depth interviews with the top literary reps in town, both by CI founder Jim Cirile. Visit https://coverageink.com/coverage-ink-e-books/ for more. Coverage Ink - The Industry Experts.

Free coverage for the short winner from the Screenplay Readers.

Silver Package:

An InkTip prize package includes one InkTip script listing and one InkTip magazine listing so winners can promote themselves and their scripts to InkTip's large network of producers and reps.
Every InkTip producer has been vetted via resume and references and demonstrated the ability to get movies made. Companies who are InkTip members include ABC, Anonymous Content, APA, CBS Films, HBO Films, ICM, Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, and 20th Century Fox.

iPitch.tv membership for a year.
Industry members in iPitch.tv marketplace is scouting for Feature Film and Television projects for all the major networks, studios, and platforms.  These Executive Members include:
Discovery Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment Television, New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers, Echo Lake Entertainment, Relativity Television, CBS, WEtv, Authentic Entertainment, Forman Productions, Infinity Media Inc., Little Studio Films, Leftfield Pictures, Brian Graden Media... to name a few.
iPitch.tv welcome NYISA winners to use iPitch.tv for free and pitch their projects for direct exposure to Studio/TV Executives and Producers.  

Online Screenwriting course from Script Reader Pro. (retail price $299)

Email blasts will be given the to the 1050+ agents and producers via Scrip Mailer!

Each receives one Standard Screenplay Analysis from CoverageInk.com (value $129.) Founded in 2002, Coverage Ink is renown for their industry-leading, detailed and helpful screenplay analyses. Our team of 27 of the world's best story analysts will find what's working in your screenplay and what isn't and give you empowering and specific ideas to help get the material into the end zone. Visit www.coverageink.com. Coverage Ink - the Industry Experts.
You'll also receive our two PDF e-books, The Coverage Ink Spec Format & Style Guide, 110 pages of tips and tricks to help you bring it on the page, and Agent's Hot Sheet: Ten Years of Screenwriting Wisdom from Hollywood's Top Reps, over 240 pages of in-depth interviews with the top literary reps in town, both by CI founder Jim Cirile. Visit https://coverageink.com/coverage-ink-e-books/ for more. Coverage Ink - The Industry Experts.

Bronze Package:

An InkTip prize package includes one InkTip script listing and one InkTip magazine listing so winners can promote themselves and their scripts to InkTip's large network of producers and reps.
Every InkTip producer has been vetted via resume and references and demonstrated the ability to get movies made. Companies who are InkTip members include ABC, Anonymous Content, APA, CBS Films, HBO Films, ICM, Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, and 20th Century Fox.

iPitch.tv membership for a year.
Industry members in iPitch.tv marketplace is scouting for Feature Film and Television projects for all the major networks, studios, and platforms.  These Executive Members include:
Discovery Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment Television, New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers, Echo Lake Entertainment, Relativity Television, CBS, WEtv, Authentic Entertainment, Forman Productions, Infinity Media Inc., Little Studio Films, Leftfield Pictures, Brian Graden Media... to name a few.
iPitch.tv welcome NYISA winners to use iPitch.tv for free and pitch their projects for direct exposure to Studio/TV Executives and Producers.  

Online Screenwriting course from Script Reader Pro. (retail price $299)

Email blasts will be given the to the 1050+ agents and producers via Scrip Mailer!

Each receives one Standard Screenplay Analysis from CoverageInk.com (value $129.) Founded in 2002, Coverage Ink is renown for their industry-leading, detailed and helpful screenplay analyses. Our team of 27 of the world's best story analysts will find what's working in your screenplay and what isn't and give you empowering and specific ideas to help get the material into the end zone. Visit www.coverageink.com. Coverage Ink - the Industry Experts.
You'll also receive our two PDF e-books, The Coverage Ink Spec Format & Style Guide, 110 pages of tips and tricks to help you bring it on the page, and Agent's Hot Sheet: Ten Years of Screenwriting Wisdom from Hollywood's Top Reps, over 240 pages of in-depth interviews with the top literary reps in town, both by CI founder Jim Cirile. Visit https://coverageink.com/coverage-ink-e-books/ for more. Coverage Ink - The Industry Experts.

Other Perks:

And The Official Finalists will receive, 3 months membership for the iPitch.tv and EVERYONE WHO ENTERS
Free Query letter Analysis from Coverage Ink. Just email us your query at info@coverageink.com. CI founder Jim Cirile or one of our Senior Story Analysts will review your query and give you concrete feedback to improve/tighten/make it rock. Mention you are a NYISA entrant. One query per person, please!

Rules & Terms

All scripts must be submitted in English, formatted in 12-point courier font.
Entry fees must be paid in U.S. dollars. Entry in the competition is void where prohibited by law.
Judges and employees who work for the NYISA are not eligible to enter the competition, nor are their affiliates or immediate family members.
Screenplays written by up to four people may be entered in the contest. Only one entry fee is required for such entries. All writers' names should be listed on the online entry. All writers must authorize submission of the entry. If a screenplay is written by multiple authors, prizes will be divided at the writers' discretion.
All entries must be uploaded in PDF format. (www.freepdfconcert.com)
Entrants to the NYISA retain all rights to their screenplays.
Entries will not be returned. Be sure to retain a copy of all material submitted.
You may submit your entry through FilmFreeway. No preference will be given to either method of submission.
Entries must be received by the applicable Entry Deadline.
Once a script has been entered into competition, we will not accept substitutions or revised drafts. If you wish to submit a revised draft of your script, you must enter it as a new submission.
NYISA will not share your screenplay with anyone except the official judges of the competition.
By entering the NYISA, you represent that your entry is your original work, and does not infringe on the copyright or other rights of other people.
Entry fees are non-refundable.
We do not accept hardcopy submissions my mail.
Submissions must be the original work of the applicant. Entries may be adapted from the applicant own work.
The decisions of the judges are final.
NYISA reserves the right to make any necessary changes, postponements, or cancellations to event scheduling at our discretion.
Notification of winners and official finalists will be sent by email and posted on our website. It is the responsibility of the winners to redeem any prizes allotted to them by the NYISA or our sponsors. Applicants will be repsonsible for providing current contact information and mailing addresses for prize redemption purposes.
Feature screenplays must be between 51 and 130 pages in length. Absolutely no exceptions.
Short screenplays must be between 1 and 50 pages in length. Absolutely no exceptions.
There is no limit to the number of screenplays you may submit.
Under absolutely no circumstances will substitutions of either corrected pages or new drafts of the entry screenplay(s) be made. Screenplays will not be returned.
Scripts submitted to the competition must NOT have been previously optioned, purchased or produced at the time of entry. If a submitted screenplay becomes optioned, produced or purchased between the time of submission and the end of the judging period, that screenplay will no longer be eligible.
Screenplays submitted under a pen name will be immediately disqualified.
Screenplay titles cannot be changed upon resubmission under any circumstances.
To enter the NYISA, you must agree to its Terms and Conditions.

To protect your script, we strongly suggest you register your work with the Writers Guild of America, West (www.wga.org or call 323.782.4500) and the US Copyright Office (http://www.copyright.gov).
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  • Leslie Linder

    Supportive community. Great contest. :)

    July 2018
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  • Ian Causer

    I was thrilled Adiona won 'Honorable Mention' at NYISA. It's a fantastic competition run by wonderful people and has already garnered extra attention for my script. Five star experience and highly recommended!

    July 2018
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  • Stephanie Neroes

    Very positive and humbling experience. Highly recommend.

    May 2018
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  • Lachlan Marks

    Fast communication and excellent prizes!

    May 2018
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  • Jeffrey Howe

    I can't rate the in-person categories, alas, but the organizers were very professional and timely in communicating with me. The event looks as if it was a blast--next time for sure!

    May 2018
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