Table Read My Screenplay - Screenplay Contest

Description

Over 50,000 screenplays are written each year, and only a handful get produced, which means you need to make sure yours is at the top of it's game. A 'Table Read' or 'Read-through' is often a surprisingly powerful tool for identifying problem areas in the script.

Most 'Table Read's' don't happen until you have raised your financing. You can WIN one and work out all the flaws long before your shoot, making your script that much stronger. PLUS you'll win some other AMAZING PRIZES, like having a 'Private Session' with Gary Goldstein the producer of PRETTY WOMAN!

Deadlines and Fees

Awards

GRAND PRIZE
*We FLY YOU to Los Angeles, Ca. and put you up in a hotel!
(Domestic flight only)
* Professional ACTORS will 'Table Read' YOUR Screenplay
* You NARRATE your 'Table Read' with the Actors
* We VIDEO RECORD the 'Table Read' for you! 

PLUS
* A 'Private L.A. Session' with GARY GOLDSTEIN
(Producer of PRETTY WOMAN, THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES and UNDER SIEGE)

* you win a PRO SERIES Class
 (a 6 month online/phone PROFESSIONAL Screenwriting Class)
$1,000 VALUE!
 
 
2nd and 3rd OVERALL
 
VIDEO RECORDING of YOUR 'Table Read' by Professional Actors
 in Los Angeles, Ca.

NARRATE your Table Read, if you'd like
*(Must cover your own travel to, and lodging expenses in, L.A.)
 
 
 
TOP TEN IN EACH CATEGORY
 
1 Winner Per Category!
 
Hal Croasmun's REVEALING SUBTEXT 
A Class from ScriptForSale.com ($90 VALUE)
 
YOUR LOGLINE submitted TO hundreds of PRODUCERS
looking for their next project!
 
More prizes to come!

Formats

Screenplay - Feature ,Screenplay - Short ,TV Episodic

Genres

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Rules

Our judging is VERY simliar to the process producers use to screen your work!

1st ROUND

Submit your LOGLINE and SCREENPLAY by Deadline!
(See Sample Loglines Here)

Our panel of respected INDUSTRY JUDGES will read your loglines
and vote on the TOP 100! So make sure your logline is GREAT!

2nd ROUND

 If you made the TOP 100,  our panel of respected INDUSTRY JUDGES will then
read the screenplays associated with those loglines and decide on the
TOP 10 screenplays per category.

Then our panel will choose a GRAND PRIZE, 2nd and 3rd Place overall winners!
This contest is open to anyone except all employees, directors, associates, and immediate families of the TABLE READ MY SCREENPLAY Logline contest.
  
Multiple entries are permissible, but each entry must be accompanied by a separate
Entry Form and entry fee.
 
Once material has been entered, no substitutions of new drafts or corrections will be considered.
You may submit a REVISED LOGLINE or SCREENPLAY as a new submission
AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LIKE but you must fill in an entry form and pay the appropriate entry fee.
We kept the entry fee low so that if you decide to rewrite your logline or screenplay,
you could re-enter without spending a fortune!
 
Adaptations from other works are permissible provided you have the writer's written
permission to adapt the work.
 
Adaptations of works in the public domain are permissible.
 
Collaborative work is eligible, the writers are responsible for the distribution of the contest prize(s).
 
Writers under the age of 18 years old must have parents permission to participate.
 
Contest applicants must accept without reservation the decisions rendered by the judges.
 
The work or submitted material must not have been previously produced for profit. 

1st round submissions are judged by logline entries only. For the 2nd round, the writers to place in the TOP 100 loglines will have their screenplays read and judged as part of the final judging process.  The reason we chose this process is to simulate the process used by producers to judge your screenplay.
 
Writer understands and accepts without reservation that he/she is an independent contractor and that Contest Administrators are not responsible for withholding any taxes or payments to any government agency, at any level, be it state, local or federal.
 
Writer understands that it is his/her sole responsibility to register Material with the U.S. Copyright Office and/or with the Writer's Guild of America or the appropriate agency in his/her country.
 
You must retain at least one copy of the submitted material, and you understand that all material we receive cannot and will not be returned under any circumstances.
 
You have the option of including a one page synopsis of your screenplay if you advance to the 2nd round.
 
Payments to be accepted via Paypal only. All major credit cards accepted.
 
All entries must be received by November 30th, 2009. TRMS Inc. reserves the right to extend the posted contest deadline up to 90 days.
 
TRMS Inc. is not responsible for late or lost submissions.
 
When your logline, application, and payment have all been received, you will be notified by E-mail only (within four-six weeks). So please provide an appropriate E-mail address;  If your email address changes please let us know.
 
By entering this contest and in the event you are declared a TOP 100 finalist, you understand and accept that we will be free to use your name and likeness for advertising or promotional purposes without additional consideration.
 
If you are a finalist you agree to give TRMS. Inc. permission to post your script's logline
and/or synopsis on its web site.
 
If you are the GRAND PRIZE Winner, 2nd or 3rd Place overall winner, you agree to give TRMS. Inc. permission to post your video or audio file 'Table Read' on its web site.
 
All contest participants understand and agree with the following:
 
TRMS. Inc. very much intends to offer a 'Tabel Read' and hotel and airfare to the Grand Prize Winner of each contest, as well as a 'Table Read' to the 2nd and 3rd Place Overall winners, but reserves the right to award a cash prize, at its discretion. The Grand prize Winner and 2nd and 3rd Place Overall winners are under no obligation to accept the associated prizes but will not be awarded or be due a cash prize upon electing not to move forward with prize offered.
 
TRMS Inc. may develop a series or documentary style program based on the inner
workings of the contest and the production resulting therefrom.
TRMS Inc. reserves the right to contact contestants with offers to participate in any such production.
Contestants are under no obligation to participate therein.
 
Contestants may submit their LOGLINE to any other person, contest, producer, agent,
publisher, and/or organization.
 
Contestants retain all rights to their screenplay, subject to the terms and agreements contained herein.

TRMS Inc. will only accept your submission if you assure us that to the best of your knowledge you are the sole originator of the idea and that you have the legal right to submit it for judging to TRMS. Inc.
 
You understand that your LOGLINE and or SCRIPT will be reviewed by our employees and/or our panel of Industry Judges for evaluation. You also understand that any one of these employees, or judges
may have been or may be exploring ideas similar to yours and you hereby waive any claim that
TRMS. Inc, it's employees or judges may have misappropriated any ideas or portions
 of your submission logline or script.
 
No agreement for compensation, other than the TRMS prizes, has been implied.
 
TRMS Inc. agrees that your work is protected and we have no intention of distributing it for our own benefit. We do however intend to submit the TOP 100 to respected producers with your permission which will be granted upon clicking the 'I have Read and Understand the Contest Rules' button. If you choose to withdraw from this process you can at any time.
 
TRMS. Inc. has the right to change the prizes at any time, without notice, and/or substitute prizes of equal or lesser value.

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