Asbury Park Film Festival - Screenwriting Competition

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Asbury Park Film Festival Screenwriting Competition$1,000 for Best Drama Feature $1,000 for Best Genre Feature Deadline: March 20, 2015   Don't wait—only the first 200 scripts will be considered   To Submit Manuscripts must be in screenplay format Submit a PDF or Word Doc All script genres welcome Page count: minimum 80, maximum 150 Courier 12-point font or similar Standard format spacing $20 entry fee Submit your entry via Submittable—click here Our Prizes We will select two grand prize winners: one APMFF Drama Feature Film Screenplay Winner and one APMFF Genre Feature Film Screenplay Winner. Each of the two winners will be awarded $1,000, two event tickets and a personal meeting with one of our experts on site at APMFF 2015. We will select four finalists as well, who will receive two event passes each to APMFF. Event passes include all music and film events as well as all screenwriting events including our agent panel. Our Contest Process All screenplay entries will be read and selected by The Writer's Hotel and The New Guard Editors before proceeding on to our judges. APMFF 2015 Judges are Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue. Final judging is blind. We are accepting submissions online via this submission manager. We are accepting submissions for this contest only. The contest will close to entries after the first 200 are received or on March 20, whichever comes first. Please note we do not provide winners or finalists with travel, lodging, or food vouchers. Should our grand prize winners be unable to attend the festival, we will connect our winners with our experts via phone or virtual meeting. We will also connect our winners with potential agents via email. JUDGE BIOGRAPHIES Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster are writers and producers on the Golden Globe winning series, "Transparent". Together, they wrote "The Motel Life" with Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsch, and Kris Kristofferson. The film won Best Screenplay at the Rome Film Festival. They are currently writing a feature about Mister Rogers for directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris ("Little Miss Sunshine"), and a feature called "IPO Man" for Fox Searchlight, with Jason Bateman attached to star and direct.http://noahharpster.com/ and http://www.roicommunity.org/users/micah-fitzerman-blue The Writer's Hotel is an annual writing conference held in Midtown Manhattan each June. The Writer's Hotel is the editorial and teaching arm ofThe New Guard literary review. Editors are Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven. www.newguardreview.com/#tabTHEWRITERSHOTEL Shanna McNair is Founder and Director of The Writer's Hotel and Founding Editor and Publisher of The New Guard. She writes fiction, poetry, scripts and articles and has a novel and a collection of short stories forthcoming. Scott Wolven is a TWH & TNG Editor. He is the author of the short story collection, Controlled Burn. The film, "Hepburn" by Tommy Davis, a work based on Scott's short story, "Hammerlock", was featured at The New York Film Festival, 2014. Scott's stories have appeared seven years in a row inThe Best American Mystery Stories Series. The title story ("Controlled Burn") appeared in Best American Noir of the Century. More on the Asbury Park Music in Film Festival The first annual Asbury Park Music in Film Festival will be held the weekend of April 10-12, 2015, at various venues in Asbury Park, NJ. The three-day festival fuses the rich musical heritage of Asbury Park with filmmakers and industry leaders from around the world. The APMFF schedule will include many local businesses and historic venues, and will serve to showcase the unparalleled local talent that makes Asbury Park such an iconic destination. The Screenplay Competition is a special component of APMFF 2015. Workshops and panels run by film industry professionals are the cornerstone of this portion of APMFF programming. Please refer all questions about the APMFF Screenplay Competition 2015 toscreenplay@apmff.com. Send all general inquiries about APMFF toinfo@apmff.com. Find us on Facebook and YouTube, and follow us on Twitter.