Announcing a CALL FOR ENTRIES to our fall 2010 film and TV script contests! Categories include feature film scripts, pilot/MOW and TV spec scripts.

CLICK ON the TV and FILM links for complete guidelines and entry forms.

Winners of the Spring 2010 contest will be announced August 23rd.

Our affiliated production companies will have the chance to consider the scripts of the winners, runners-up and finalists, for our film and TV contests.

We're always expanding! Here are the latest companies to join us, showing great interest in reading scripts our winners and finalists.

   Just another reason to get writing!

Also, our affiliation continues with InkTip.com a premier site for industry professionals, from writers to agents to producers. Our top three winning writers (winner and two runners-up of both screenplay and pilot/MOW contests), will receive from InkTip:

• An e-mail announcement about your screenplay and contact information to their list of industry professionals.


• Placement of at least your logline and synopsis on the InkTip.com password-protected website. You may also place the treatment and/or script.


• InkTip.com will include a logline for your screenplay in its printed publication, which is snail-mailed to about 4500 industry professionals, and emailed to thousands more.


• All this is in addition to consideration from several established companies already affiliated with us.

In addition, through our new sponsors ScriptDelivery.net our top three screenplay winners will receive:

• The Full Script Delivery: a personal e-query sent to over 3,000 industry professionals comprised of studio executives, producers, agents etc.


• Eight month access to their Contact Database, which has contact information for thousands of studios, production companies, producers, literary agencies, managers and executives, plus it allows writers to keep custom contact lists and keep notes on their dealings with companies they're submitting to.

To see our full list of affiliations click here!

ACCLAIM'S ADVICE FOR SCREENWRITERS

Trusty tidbits of wisdom on submitting, characterization, dialogue, storytelling ability, and just about anything concerning scriptwriting.

Concerning Format and Style:

V.O. and O.S. Are Two Separate Animals

Some writers use them like they’re interchangeable, but they are not.

Use V.O. (voice over) when a narrator speaks over the story or when we hear a character's internal monologue (The Thin Red Line, About A Boy, Scrubs).

Use O.S. (off screen) when a character that is not in the immediate scene delivers lines. For example, when his voice comes through the telephone, or when he’s in another room.

Writers mix these up all the time so take care not to confuse the two. The reader will thank you for it.

Concerning Characters:

Don't Throw Too Many Characters at Us in the Opening Salvo

Ever been to a party where you’re introduced to a slew of people all at once? You shake hands, nod, smile, greet every single person and by the time you make your way to the bar, you’ve forgotten every last name.

When you shoehorn twelve characters in by page 3, the reader feels overwhelmed. Space them out so the story and introductions flow naturally.

Stay tuned for more tidbits!