This is a brief excerpt from NoFilmSchool
Most screenwriting competitions are simply out to take your money. They won’t help you with your career. In fact, writing a great screenplay and making industry contacts who may then consider your screenplay will help you with your screenwriting career much more than a screenwriting contest. In other words, hone your screenwriting skills and cultivate industry relationships. So, as far as screenwriting competitions go, if you submit to any at all, I suggest only submitting to those that can actually help you launch or further a screenwriting career. As such, very few meet this criteria. One of the few is the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, now open for applications for 2013.
For those who don’t already know, the Nicholl Fellowships were started in the mid-1980s by Gee Nicholl in honor of her late husband, Don Nicholl, who was a writer for the TV series All in the Family, a producer on The Jeffersons, and an executive producer of Three’s Company. Gee Nicholl started the fellowships because she remembered how difficult it was for both she and Don starting out as writers for television and film, and wanted the fellowships to help launch new writers on their …
By: Christopher Boone
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