2020 ALL WRITE NOW! Screenplay Competition

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• We will be accepting script submissions, via email from April 1st through June 30th, 2020.
• The Entry Form and Release Form must be signed, scanned and then emailed to sieallwritenow@gmail.com by June 30th, 2020.
• An entry fee of $20 per script submission is due no later than June 30 , 2020. Payment will be taken through our website: http://alumni.stanford.edu/goto/allwritenow2020
• To request a script submission form and release form please email Aaron Ockman at sieallwritenow@gmail.com. The documents can also be found on our documents page: https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/groups/documents/?group_id=0038990700
• Scripts will be judged in two categories: original 30-minute comedy pilots and original 60- minute drama pilots. Scripts must be submitted using 12pt courier font, standard script margins and conventions, body pages must be numbered, and submitted as a PDF. Recommended script length for a 30 minute comedy is no more than 40 pages and recommended script length of 60 a minute drama pilot is no more than 70 pages.
• Every script must have a title page with only the script title on it and at most one sentence logline. There can be no identifying features of the writer anywhere on the script. Every entrant or writing team must complete the Entry Form, pay the entry fee and sign the release for each script submitted.

Rules:

• Eligibility: Current Stanford in Entertainment Members.
• Entered scripts may not have been previously sold, produced or be currently under option.
• Multiple authorship is acceptable.
• An individual/team can submit only one script per category, and at least one writing partner must be an SIE
• member.
• Scripts must be the original work of the author(s), 18 years or older.
• SIE recommends registering your scripts with WGA and/or copyrighting your material with the Library of
• Congress.
• No substitutions of new drafts or corrected pages for script entries will be accepted under any
• circumstances.
• As part of the contest, every contestant, for each script they enter, must evaluate 3 scripts and write at least
• one page of page notes and one page of opinion notes per script, one script per week, with the first page of notes due Sunday, July 12th, 2020. If you can’t keep up with the schedule, your script/s will be automatically disqualified. The contestants’ scripts will also be judged by impartial industry professionals. A combination of scores will determine the finalists and winners.
• This evaluation process will determine the top five scripts for each category. The finalists will be announced on July 31st, 2020. They will then enter a second evaluation period scored by non-contestant readers. At the judges’ discretion there may be additional awards granted. The winning scripts will be announced at an SIE event in August/September 2020.
• The winning scripts will then be submitted to various industry professionals, including Stanford Alum Matt Liepzig of Modern Literary Art, as well as presented to the Stanford in Entertainment membership at a staged reading by Stanford in Entertainment actors.