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television drama competition
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Competition
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Scripts
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Deadline:
31/10/2010
(call started
01/09/2010
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Fee:
£20.00
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Organisation: Storyboard TV
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Contact person: Rachel Levy
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Web Site
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Scripts for half hour and one hour television pilots. Any genre is welcome!
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Work That IS Eligible
Scripts must be: (a) the first hour or half hour of a recurring TV show, (b) written in English, (c) in a proper screen-writing format, and (d) wholly original, (e.g. NOT adapted from books, plays, or any other source material and NOT a “spec” of existing films, television programs, or treatments). Scripts must also be registered under the Entrant’s name with the WGA or copyrighted under the Entrant’s name and filed with the Library of Congress. All entrants represent and warrant that their submissions meet these requirements.
Entries must not be: (a) currently under development or optioned by a network, studio, or production company, (b) currently submitted to any other Competition or festival, or (c) previously purchased or produced. Further, no entry may be written or submitted under the jurisdiction of any union or guild, including but not limited to the WGA. All entrants represent and warrant that their submissions meet the requirements of this paragraph.
Entries created or funded by broadcast networks, cable networks or studios are also ineligible.
Entrant Eligibility
The Competition is open only to adults who are age 18 and over who are not currently engaged in any contractual commitments or relationships preventing them from entering into an exclusive development deal with Storyboard. Entrants may be either individual writers or teams of two writers. In the event that there are more than two writers of a given script, a single “lead” writer must be chosen by the writing team. This Lead Writer will be deemed the Entrant for all purposes of the Competition, including the Storyboard Option and Purchase Agreement. If such an entrant wins the Competition, payment of the Grand Prize will be made to the Lead Writer, who will be responsible for any subsequent distribution of the prize.
Storyboard reserves the right to verify and confirm entrants’ ages and compliance with other eligibility requirements. Any prospective participants who have, within six (6) months prior to the start date of the Competition or thereafter, been employed by or performed services for Storyboard or any other person or entity responsible for sponsoring, administering, advertising or promoting the Competition, or any of their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated or successor companies, and immediate family and household members of such individuals, are not eligible to enter or win the Competition.
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About Storyboard TV
Storyboard TV believes in the power of the television drama to document, enhance, and transform people’s lives for the better. Storyboard TV’s mission is to move show selection and pre-production away from the networks and directly to the web. Established in 2009, Storyboard TV endeavors to cultivate new writers and TV scripts, to nurture the connection between the scriptwriter and the fan, and to shepherd new television drama into production during the Internet age.
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