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Prepping Your Screenplay to Win Competitions Intensive

REBECCA NORRIS RESNICK

Prepping Your Screenplay to Win Competitions Intensive

REBECCA NORRIS RESNICK

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Winning or placing in a screenplay competition is a great way to propel your writing career forward. Since the major writing competitions all receive thousands of entries, it’s crucial to make yours stand out.

Many contests hire readers (script analysts) to first score the submissions and they choose which ones will advance to the judges. This course will teach you specific ways to drastically increase the readability of your pages, make your dialogue and description sing, and improve the clarity and structure of your script so you can have a better shot at advancing to the next round. You’ll also learn common pitfalls to sidestep that will help your chances of success. Finally, you’ll be introduced to which writing competitions are most beneficial to enter, and other resources to make the most of each contest season.

Competitions can be expensive and time-consuming to enter but can open doors if approached in the right way. Rather than leaving it to chance, make sure you have a contest strategy and that your script is in the best shape it can be.

Join the Waitlist

Subscribe to be notified when this course opens for registration.

Winning or placing in a screenplay competition is a great way to propel your writing career forward. Since the major writing competitions all receive thousands of entries, it’s crucial to make yours stand out.

Many contests hire readers (script analysts) to first score the submissions and they choose which ones will advance to the judges. This course will teach you specific ways to drastically increase the readability of your pages, make your dialogue and description sing, and improve the clarity and structure of your script so you can have a better shot at advancing to the next round. You’ll also learn common pitfalls to sidestep that will help your chances of success. Finally, you’ll be introduced to which writing competitions are most beneficial to enter, and other resources to make the most of each contest season.

Competitions can be expensive and time-consuming to enter but can open doors if approached in the right way. Rather than leaving it to chance, make sure you have a contest strategy and that your script is in the best shape it can be.

Course outline

Course outline

This workshop is a one week intensive. There are three video lectures for you to view over the week, and one writing assignment at the end of the course for your instructor to critique.

Meet the instructor

Rebecca Norris Resnick

Rebecca Norris Resnick is a screenwriter, filmmaker, script analyst, instructor for Writer’s Digest University, and columnist for Script Magazine. Distributed features include Cloudy With a Chance of Sunshine (Indie Rights and House Lights Media) and short films On Becoming a Man (Shorts International) and Toasted, which won the Canadian Film Centre’s ShortsNonStop competition. Her web series, Split, won multiple awards at LA WebFest and was nominated for an Indie Series Award. 

Rebecca’s films have screened in festivals worldwide including the Cannes Film Festival, Dances With Films, Hollyshorts, and the Manhattan Film Festival, and have won numerous awards. Rebecca is also an alumna of the ABC/Disney Television Discovers program, where her script Misfortune Cookies was performed in both New York and Los Angeles. As a script analyst, she has read for many contests/companies, including Sundance, Screencraft, BlueCat, Screen Queensland, Coverfly, ScriptXpert, QED Entertainment (District 9, Fury), and Southpaw Entertainment (The Space Between Us, August Rush). When not working on her newest project, Rebecca stays on her toes chasing both her adorable daughter and her tuxedo cat, Sox.

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