PAGE International Screenwriting Awards

Before you enter the PAGE Awards competition, please review these rules and guidelines. Any submission that does not comply with contest rules may be disqualified.

CONTEST RULES

1. All writers of submitted material must be 18 years of age or older on the date of submission, and each writer or writing team may not have earned more than $50,000 or the foreign equivalent (jointly or individually) for work as a screenwriter and/or fictional television writer.

2. Writers who reside in countries other than the United States are welcome to enter the contest; however, all scripts must be submitted in English and entry fees must be paid in U.S. dollars. Entry in the competition is void where prohibited by law.

3. Judges, sponsors, administrators, and independent contractors who currently or have previously worked with or for the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards or Production Arts Group are not eligible to enter the competition, nor are their spouses or other immediate family members.

4. Scripts must be the original work of the author(s) and on the date of submission must be wholly owned and controlled by the author(s). If a script has been sold, is currently under option, is being produced, or is in any other way encumbered by a third party on the date of submission, the script is not eligible for an award. If a script is optioned, sold, or produced after it has been entered, it will remain eligible for this year’s contest.

5. Only original screenplays and teleplays are eligible for awards. Novels, short stories, stage plays, treatments, synopses, reality show concepts and spec scripts for existing TV series are not eligible. Scripts that have previously won a Grand, Gold, Silver or Bronze Prize in the PAGE Awards competition are also ineligible.

6. Adaptations of books, plays, or other source material written by another author are not eligible under any circumstances. A script that has been adapted from your own book, play, or other source material is eligible provided that you have retained all film and television rights to the property.

7. Submissions and entry fees must be postmarked or transmitted electronically on or before 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on the Early, Regular, Late, or Last Minute Entry deadline in order to qualify for those entry rates. Any script submitted after the Final Entry Deadline will be disqualified.

8. The contest and its administrators are not responsible for submissions or entry fees that are lost, stolen, or damaged in transit, and we cannot return scripts once they have been submitted.

9. Once a script has been entered in the competition, under no circumstances will we accept substitutions of new drafts or corrected pages. If you wish to submit a revised draft of your screenplay, you must enter it as a new submission and pay the appropriate entry fee. (PLEASE NOTE: As a special courtesy, writers who advance to the Semi-Final Round of competition will be invited to send us the latest draft of their script for the final two rounds of judging free of charge.)

10. Decisions of the Judges are final and may not be disputed. Our Judges are instructed and agree to evaluate scripts based on our standard Judging Procedure; however, the PAGE Awards contest and its administrators may not be held responsible for any errors or omissions on the part of the Judges.

SCRIPT GUIDELINES

Below are some important formatting and submission instructions. Though your script will not be disqualified if it deviates from these standards, in order to maximize your chances of success, we strongly recommend that you follow these guidelines.

FORMAT: Scripts should be written in standard spec screenplay or teleplay format, set in 12-point Courier font.

PAGE COUNT: Scripts should be standard length and pages should be numbered.

Full-Length Features: 80-120 pages
Short Film Scripts: under 30 pages
TV Pilots: 25-75 pages

Scripts that vary slightly from these standard page counts will be accepted, but we do not accept entries that exceed 135 pages in length.

TITLE PAGE: Since our judging process is anonymous, please include ONLY the title of your script on your title page. If you like, you may also include your WGA registration number, but that is not required. When we receive your entry we will assign your script a number and our Judges will identify your screenplay solely by its title and script number. Under no circumstances should you include your name or contact information anywhere within the body of your script.