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These film festivals judge unproduced scripts as well as the films they screen. Placing can bring a festival pass, a public reading of your pages, or meetings during the festival week.
11 listed. Deadline Oct 21, 2026 is the soonest.
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University students in the eastern Black Sea area can send a short script about the region's food and nature to this contest at the second Trabzon Film Festival.
closes tomorrow
A festival in Campania brings ten Italian film students under 30 to a December writing residency, where each writes a short script on a set theme and place.
closes in 11 days
New Jersey's festival runs a script contest beside its film program, with feature, short and teleplay categories.
closes in 12 days
Nantucket's festival has judged screenplays since the early 2000s and now takes features, hour and half-hour pilots and shorts.
closes in 16 days
Out of each year's pool the Atlanta festival picks five scripts: three features, one pilot and one short.
closes in 17 days
A Nebraska festival in its 22nd year that takes feature, teleplay and short scripts alongside films.
closes in 20 days
London's Raindance festival judges unproduced scripts in four categories: feature, short, TV comedy and TV drama.
closes in 48 days
Benidorm's short film festival holds a contest for unproduced short scripts written in Spanish or Valencian, with EUR 1,500 for the winner.
closes in 49 days
Ibiza's independent film festival runs a contest for short scripts in Spanish or English alongside its March program.
closes in 51 days
Writers with a finished short-film script in Turkish can enter this contest run inside the Akbank Short Film Festival.
closes in 52 days
A prize for unfilmed German-language feature screenplays, decided by a jury appointed with the Grimme-Institut and presented at the June festival in Emden and on the island of Norderney.
closes in 118 days