#TV PILOT COMPETITIONS 2020 TV#

AFF is the place to be for screenwriters, whether your script makes the cut or not. The Austin Film Festival - another of our 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee - is a juggernaut of a screenwriting contest and festival. Val Bodurtha, whose script The Shtick-Up was the winner of the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition. One of the most exciting things about Atlanta’s prizes is that short, pilot, and feature winners are invited to the festival (which also happens to be one of our 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee) to take part in a staged reading of an excerpt with SAG actors. You can read their advice in this story and in greater detail on our podcast, available on Apple or Spotify or here:Ītlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition That doesn’t necessarily mean autobiographical stories - it means stories that no one but you could write. All five fellows agree that Nicholl loves very personal stories. It kickstarted my career in a way I never could have imagined,” she says.īefore you enter this one, you may want to listen to all five current Nicholl Fellows on the MovieMaker podcast, talking about their scripts and what they have in common. “Winning the Nicholl has changed the trajectory of my life. Bartels, who we quoted in our intro, noticed an immediate difference when she became one of last year’s five fellows.

#TV PILOT COMPETITIONS 2020 TV#

She was the winner of the 2018 Tony Cox Screenplay Competition with her TV pilot ALL WE DO IS NGUYEN.Past fellows include Alfredo Botello (F9), Destin Daniel Cretton ( Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), and Rebecca Sonnenshine ( The Boys). Huong Nguyen is a television writer in Los Angeles, where she recently wrapped two seasons of Disney Channel's BUNK'D and is pretty sure she will never work again. Kate is also a drummer and has toured both nationally and internationally, playing at fests such as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, and Primavera Sounds in Barcelona. She's been a reader for Killer Films, New York Women In Film And Television’s Writers Lab, and teaches at Stony Brook University.

Besides the Tony Cox Screenplay Competition, her scripts have placed in the Austin Film Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival, and the Page International Screenwriting Awards where her drama pilot, TROUBLE, made the finals last year. Kate Levitt is a script editor and screenwriter with a focus on untraditional coming-of-age narratives. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she works in entertainment marketing. Andi is also part of the Impact Creative Network. Her writing accomplishments include: Winner, Tony Cox Screenplay Competition 2020 for her pilot BEING SEEN 2019-2020 NBC Writers on the Verge 2018 PAGE Awards Fellowship to the Stowe Story Labs for her feature FAITH 2017 New York Women in Film and Television Writers Lab for her feature THE DEAL. Winter's previous film credits include KRYSTAL, STEALING CARS, BROOKLYN RULES, WAYWARD SON, BURY ME IN KERN COUNTY, and THE LATHER EFFECT.Īndi Delott writes grounded dramas with female leads. She has several projects in development including an untitled LeBron James biopic for Universal, which she will produce with LeBron James and Maverick Carter, and a feature based on the life of daredevil motorcycle icon Evel Knievel at Paramount. Previously, Winter received an Oscar nomination for producing DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, which also received accolades from the Producers Guild of America, the Golden Globe Awards, and the Critics Choice Awards. She also serves as producer through her Tangerine Pictures. Rachel Winter is an Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker and producer who has made her feature directorial debut this spring with THE SPACE BETWEEN for Paramount Pictures. He is the son of Winston “Tony' Cox, for whom the Screenplay Competitions are named. He graduated from Bucknell University as a Global Management major in 2018, and is currently pursuing an MBA at NYU Stern with a specialty in Media and Entertainment.

Prior to that he was Manager of Distribution at Showtime Networks.

Sam Cox is a Marketing Strategy Associate at Disney Streaming, working with connected device partners including Amazon and Roku. She is currently a Blacklist/Women in Film Feature Fellow. Elizabeth is currently working on her first feature project, SUNDOGS, which participated in the Berlinale Script Station and was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Tony Cox Screenplay Competition winner, and Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition Winner. Her work primarily profiles working class women struggling against everyday adversity. Elizabeth Chatelain has directed several acclaimed documentary and narrative shorts which have screened at festivals including Interfilm Berlin and SXSW.

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