MoviePoet.com is dedicated to the art of screenwriting, in particular, the short screenplay. Each month, we run a free online five page screenplay contest. Our goal is threefold: help writers improve their craft, celebrate our best work, and connect writers and their scripts with filmmakers.
On the first of each month we announce a new contest. During that month, you can enter your script. During the next month, you can read, vote, and comment on all the entries. Finally, during the third month, the results are announced and all the scripts are searchable in our database.
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Chris Messineo
Contest: "Monster Vision" (1 entry so far)
Your script must be a monster movie, where the monster is never seen.
Contest: "Feature ~ Round 3 of 3: Script" (5 entries)
This is the third of three rounds in our feature length script contest.
In the first round, writers submitted their title and logline. In the second round, the top 30 writers submitted their first ten pages. In this final round, the top ten writers submit their finished scripts.
Contest: "White Out" (27 entries)
Keep your pages as white as possible; action and dialogue are limited to two lines at a time.
"Numbers" by Matias Caruso ~ First Place
Two strangers with claircognizant abilities meet at a bar, learning shocking secrets about each other.
"Fleeting Immortality" by Jon Hill ~ Second Place
A murdered woman gains a little supernatural help in her quest for vengeance
"Recital" by Travis DeStein ~ Third Place
A boy tries to save his grandfather when Death itself comes for them. (co-written by Paul de Vrijer)