referees and challenges
come aboard
Are you an industry professional interested in being a guest ref for one of our challenges?
- Professional Reader
- Script Consultant/Analyst
- Working Screenwriter
- Producer
- Director
What you’ll need to do: If you want, define the nature of the challenge, and define how many entrants you’re willing to accept. Secondly, read the entries. Choose your finalists and your winner, and write a little bit about what worked for you and what didn’t (in a general sense — no feedback per entry required). That’s it!
In exchange for your time and expertise, your short bio will be posted, along with links to your site and services. Plus, you get the satisfaction of knowing you’re helping build a motivational and creative community.
We’d love to hear from you. Email to: contact (at) screenwriterschallenge.com.
referees
We’re pleased to announce the following industry pros have signed on as future referees!
John Rainey – Rated the #1 screenwriting analyst in the country by Creative Screenwriting Magazine in 2003, John has been in the industry as an actor, screenwriter, reader, and analyst for more than 20 years. Learn more about John’s consulting and writing services at mythmakerjohn.com.
challenges
A few upcoming challenges, in no particular order.
- Breaking the story: We’ll give you a set of circumstances (current news story?) and you provide a one-page pitch.
- It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it: Write a scene where action and inference belie a subtext wholly unrelated to the overt dialogue.
- Silent Movie: Write a scene without any dialogue that demonstrates a significant reveal or character reversal.
- Short Movie: Write a complete three act movie in 600 words or less.
We’ll continually refine and update this list, and we’ll be asking our judges for their input on challenges they’d be interested in overseeing that address screenwriting issues they find troublesome.