Do you have the next great short film screenplay?
The Cine Circle Screenplay Contest is an opportunity to help aspiring screenwriters to get their screenplays turned into films. We welcome unproduced short film screenplays with a maximum of 30 pages in length.
Over the last 5 years Cine Circle has run over 80 live and online filmmaker events including film festivals, pitching competitions, filmmakers fairs, workshops and networking events. Through this competition we want to give writers an opportunity to showcase their work and win a variety of amazing prizes to help bring their screenplays to life.
How’s it going to work?
We have put together a group of judges who will be reading the screenplays and scoring them from a variety criteria.
What are the grading criteria?
Each professional reader will fill out a Script Assessment Form for each screenplay that they read. Each screenplay will be graded based on the following criteria:
- Concept Originality
- Story
- Characters
- Structure
- Tone
Awards & Prizes
Winner: (£700 worth of prizes)
- Comprehensive Online Crowdfunding Course (£300 Value)
- 1 year free access to all our live and online events (£400 Value)
2nd Place: (£400 worth of prizes)
- 1 year free access to all our live and online events (£400 Value)
3rd Place: (£400 worth of prizes)
- 1 year free access to all our live and online events (£400 Value)
4th Place: (£300 worth of prizes)
- Comprehensive Online Crowdfunding Course (£300 Value)
Rules & Terms
- All material must be submitted electronically as a PDF.
- All material must be submitted in the industry standard screenplay format.
- Only screenplays that are 30 pages or less are eligible.
- International entries are allowed but the script must be written in English.
- The title page should contain the title of the screenplay and names of all writers. It’s okay but not mandatory if it also contains the writer’s contact information.
- The decisions of the judges are final and shall not be disputed. The contest and its coordinators may not be held responsible for any errors or omissions by the judges.
- There is no limit to the number of different scripts you may submit. Duplicate entries of the same project, however, will be automatically disqualified.
- The script must be unproduced at the time of submission