British Feature Screenplay Competition

BFSCSay what? A screenplay competition? That’s right… Not just any screenplay competition but .

Why this competition you ask?

Because the winning Screenplay goes into production with a budget of up to $2 million U.S. Let me say that again… The winning screenplay GETS MADE INTO A FILM.

And that’s what we’re here for, right?

As their web site also says, this is the BIGGEST PRIZE of ANY screenwriting competition — EVER. You also know that I’m not very fond of screenwriting competitions. I get it but I don’t get it. I certainly understand it with the bigger competitions but that really leaves a hell of a lot of other screenwriting competitions existing to simply take your money and have some idiot MAYBE review your screenplay.

I have a friend who wrote a screenplay a year ago and his plan was to enter it into the big competitions as well as many of the smaller ones that — HOLD ON TO YOUR FUCKING HAT — offered analysis or critique.

One of the IN-DEPTH critiques he received contained FOUR FUCKING WORDS: I DIDN’T GET IT.

I read the script and it has potential but for some fucking backwater screenwriting competition to even bother writing I DIDN’T GET IT as their in-depth critique makes me wanna puke.

So here you go… You want to enter a competition? This is IT. This is the BIG ONE. I have it on very good authority that the winning film will in fact get made even if it takes a couple of years to bring it off.

In other words — it AIN’T no different than Hollywood, Baby…

The British Feature Screenplay competition is actually being brought to you by and .

Who can enter? ANYONE from ANYWHERE.

How does the prize work? The winning writer will be required to sign an assignment (writers agreement) which offers the writer a purchase price (rights fee) of not less than 1% of the budget with a floor of $15,000 Dollars (U.S.) and a ceiling of $40,000 Dollars (U.S.) less any sums paid — payable on the first day of principal photography of the film. The fee will be pro-rated downwards if a credit were to be shared with any other writer.

When’s the DEADLINE? EARLY DEADLINE is 12 September 2008 while FINAL DEADLINE is 14 November 2008.

Hmmm. That’s over three months to finish, tweak, rewrite, or begin and finish a screenplay of any genre.

Get it?

Some important notes:

The judges:

Links:

Suffice to say, visit their site and read EVERYTHING until you completely UNDERSTAND it. If there’s something YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND, contact them. Their email address is located right there on their web site.

If you enter only one screenplay competition in 2008 — I believe this is the ONE.

Unk

July 30, 2008 | Filed Under Competition

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