Welcome to The 4th Annual Scriptwood Screenplay Competition taking place in the exciting Disneyland Resort District in Anaheim, California. SSC is an international screenwriting competition dedicated to showcasing and promoting the talents of emerging screenwriters and seasoned screenwriters alike. We provide a competition where you can share your passion of creative vision and talents for crafting stories by helping to advance your exposure and writing careers by connecting the winners with industry filmmakers, producers and production companies, literary agents, managers, and development executives. This year’s contest will also see awesome prizes awarded to our winners.

Awards & Prizes

Multiple awards in several categories including sponsor provided prizes, software for writing and demo offers.

For our screenplay competition we have partnered with InkTip who is providing exciting and valuable prizes for our screenwriters which include:

A prize package of one (1) InkTip Script Listing for the top three (3) winners of your best picture or best screenplay category to assist in providing them exposure. InkTip Script Listings provide writers/filmmakers with the opportunity to get their scripts read by InkTip’s extensive network of producers, reps, manager, agents, and other qualified industry professionals.

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A prize package of one (1) InkTip Script Listing and one (1) InkTip Magazine Listing for the top three (3) winners of your screenwriting competition to assist in providing them exposure for their scripts. InkTip Script Listings provide writers/filmmakers with the opportunity to get their scripts read by InkTip’s extensive network of producers, reps, manager, agents, and other qualified industry professionals.

Rules & Terms

All persons entering the Scriptwood Screenplay Competition must adhere to the following Competition Rules:

All intellectual property rights, ownership, and title to entries submitted remain the property of the entrant. We assume no rights to your work.

Entries must be submitted via our online submission service in any of the following formats: .PDF, Rich Text Format, or Microsoft Word.
Writers who reside in countries other than the United States are welcome to enter the contest.

All scripts must be submitted in English.
Entry fees must be paid in U.S. dollars.
Entry in the competition is void where prohibited by law.
All online script entries must be under 10MB in file size.
Writers of all ages are eligible to enter the competition, provided that entry does not violate any laws in your jurisdiction.

Substitutions of new drafts or corrected pages will not be accepted. If you wish to submit a new draft you will need to enter the script again using our online submission service and pay the appropriate fee.

Competition judges, readers, employees of The Scriptwood Screenplay Competition, their immediate friends and families, are not eligible to enter the contest.
Screenplays must be the original work of the author, although we do accept adaptations of existing works.

Screenplays that have been produced, sold or optioned are still eligible for entry.
The decisions of the judges are final.

We suggest scripts be written in standard 12-point font.
Screenplays will not be returned. Please ensure you keep a copy.
Pages must be numbered, not including the title page.

Once an entry payment has been processed we cannot provide a refund.
Please include a title page on your entry with the following contact information: title of your script, name of the author(s), telephone number and email address.
We notify all winners and official finalists by email at the conclusion of the contest at the address provided by the entrant at the time of entry. It is your responsibility to make sure we have your current contact information.

It is the winners' responsibility to redeem corresponding prizes from us or any third party sponsors or partners by responding to our winners notification email in a timley fashion with your current mailing address or any additional requested contact information. Prizes that go unredeemed after 30 days from the conslusion of the contest will not be delivered.

By submitting your work to the contest, you agree that you have read and understand all of the contest rules and agree to hold us, our company, our employees, and partners harmless from all claims or liabilities.

Scripts should adhere to the following length guidelines:

Feature Scripts: 70 - 250 pages
Short Scripts: Under 90 pages
Television Scripts: 20 - 75 pages
Stage Plays: 20-120 pages
Treatments / Concepts: Under 10 pages