Competitions

Right - managed to get something off to BlueCat today to see what they think about it - it might not have been The Forgotten Daughter of Earth - I got seriously bogged down in Act II and couldn't really see where the story was going so decided that I might need to shelve it for a while! As Dan Polansky says:

"When you're up to your neck in alligators, sometimes you forget that your mission is to drain the swamp."

Instead the group have the pleasure of reading 99% - a little British perhaps for an American audience but they might be able to get the general premise. Also it's probably about 20 pages too short at 78 A4 sides - though they do have funny paper over there so it might come to around 100 if they print it off! I've also got 6 scripts to read on the train down to London this weekend from what appears to be 6 very talented and passionate writers. I'm going to enjoy being able to give some feedback and read some really interesting and engaging stories! 

In other news if you're reading this blog in the hope that there might be something useful here from time to time - I've dug up a few interesting competitions and links today that could be of interest to budding screenwriters and producers:

Euroscript
Standard screenplay competition - write 2 page outline and a 1- page writing sample - quite cheap at £35 per entrance too:
http://www.euroscript.co.uk/competition.html

Stoke Your Fires Marketplace
Really interesting opportunity to be able to pitch to producers and funding bodies at a marketplace event at the Stoke Your Fires film festival - free to enter but £40 if you get through to be able to attend - seems worth it. I sent three ideas in The Forgotten Daughter of Earth, Embracing Kim and Reality Bites.
http://www.stokeyourfires.co.uk/marketplace/

SYF - Script Competition
Another opportunity from Stoke Your Fires. This time a 5 page outline and a 30 page writing sample (Act I) of a screenplay that you want to develop that is set in Stoke-on-Trent or the surrounding area. I sent them something that I was working on a while back called Reality Bites. 
http://www.stokeyourfires.co.uk/script-competition/

SYF - Events calender
I promise that I'm not working for Stoke your Fires or anything - it just seems that they've got some great opportunities at the moment and being in the midlands they are few and far between at the moment for film and TV. If you can get over to Stoke on Trent in early March for these I think that they're well worth it, and the best part about it is that they're all free!!
http://www.stokeyourfires.co.uk/events/

Anyhow back to the chalk face once again. I've got to start seriously looking at Between Lambs and Lions in order to get something to Mark Sutherland for when I get back from the NFTS!

peace,

- Ted