Carnegie Screenwriters will host our second annual short film and short screenplay festival in August of 2018 at the Tull Family Theater in Sewickley, Pa.
We are now open to submissions from members and non-members alike. We are looking for the best of the best to be shown and read at our 2 day event. We are open to all genres of films and screenplays that fall within our running time and page count guidelines. Screenplays can also be submitted to receive feedback from our readers. Scripts submitted into this category are automatically entered into the short screenplay contest, please do not submit the same script to both categories.
Winning screenplays will be performed at a seated reading during the opening reception event held on Saturday, August 25th. Winning writers will receive free admission to the opening reception event. All film winners receive live screening of their film on Sunday August 26th. Winning films will receive one free admission to the screening event.
Details at: https://filmfreeway.com/CarnegieScreenwritersScriptandScreenFestival
Carnegie Screenwriters will host our second annual short film and short screenplay festival in August of 2018 at the Tull Family Theater in Sewickley, Pa.
We are now open to submissions from members and non-members alike. We are looking for the best of the best to be shown and read at our 2 day event. We are open to all genres of films and screenplays that fall within our running time and page count guidelines. Screenplays can also be submitted to receive feedback from our readers. Scripts submitted into this category are automatically entered into the short screenplay contest, please do not submit the same script to both categories.
Winning screenplays will be performed at a seated reading during the opening reception event held on Saturday, August 25th. Winning writers will receive free admission to the opening reception event. All film winners receive live screening of their film on Sunday August 26th. Winning films will receive one free admission to the screening event.
Details at: https://filmfreeway.com/CarnegieScreenwritersScriptandScreenFestival
CSW Script & Screen Festival Filmmaker Reception
Join us on Saturday, August 26th for our first Carnegie Script & Screen Festival filmmaker reception and seated reading.
We will have seated readings of our selected scripts read by local actors. Scripts to be presented are:
“The Badge, the Gun, and the Hangman’s Noose” by Edward Santiago.
“Dig” by Robert Brian Taylor
&
“Hell to Pay: The Legend of Robert Johnson” by Giancarlo Fusi
Cocktail hour will begin at 6:00 PM with savory treats from Philomena’s Catering. Come out and meet the screenwriters and filmmakers whose works will be highlighted during our inaugural event.
Portions of the evening will be filmed for an upcoming episode of WQED’s Filmmakers Corner program to be aired as part of a special Carnegie Screenwriters Script & Screen Festival episode to be shown in the fall.
Hope to see you there!
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Carnegie Screenwriters is hosting our first short film and short screenplay festival in August of 2017 at the Tull Family Theater in Sewickley, Pa. We are now open to submissions from members and non-members alike. We are looking for the best of the best to be shown and read at our 2 day event. We are open to all genres of films and screenplays that fall within our running time and page count guidelines. Screenplays can also be submitted to receive feedback from our readers. Scripts submitted into this category are automatically entered into the short screenplay contest, please do not submit the same script to both categories.
Winning screenplays will be performed at a seated reading during the opening reception event held on Saturday, August 26th. Winning writers will receive free admission to the opening reception event. All film winners receive live screening of their film on Sunday August 27th. Winning films will receive one free admission to the screening event.
If the submission is accepted into the festival, the entrant grants a non-exclusive, royalty free license for use for theater screening, and to publish excerpts in print or electronic media to promote the event in any and all media. The filmmaker must secure all rights and clearances. Foreign films must be submitted in English or with English subtitles.
Films should have been completed since January 2014 to present and be no longer than 20 mins.
Screenplay submissions must be in English and be 15 pages or fewer. Entrant(s) must hold the right to perform, reproduce, display and distribute their work to enter the competition. The work must not have been previously optioned, sold or produced.
Digital download of all films selected for the Official Selection must be received by August 1, 2017. Any materials submitted will not be returned. All fees are non-refundable.
The Carnegie Screenwriters Script and Screen Festival is not responsible for lost or damaged submissions.
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Though you could write the world’s greatest script on a legal pad or a typewriter, software tools make every stage of the writing process easier and more efficient. Continue reading Software for Screenwriters
Do I need to purchase Final Draft? (or Movie Magic Screenwriter)
You do not need Final Draft to write your first screenplay. There’s no reason to spend the money unless and until you have a real need for something like Final Draft. Does it make writing and formatting a screenplay easier? Absolutely. Is it expensive and unnecessary to writing your first script? Also, absolutely.
Writers might try to tell you that you must use screenwriting software. Not exactly. What you must be able to create is a standard format script in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) for uploading to registry databases and sharing with other writers.
The reality is, plenty of great scripts were written on typewriters, and manual typewriters at that! I’ve written most of my scripts on yellow legal pads before typing the drafts into whatever software was at hand. I prefer Literature and Latte’s Scrivener for OS X as my primary planning and drafting tool, but I’ve used text editors and Word when those were my available options.
My choice of writing tools depends on my need to share files with other people. If you have colleagues using Final Draft or Movie Magic Screenwriter (or any other writing application) it is always easier to use the same tool collaborators are using.
If you do sell a script or work on a production, the standards are Final Draft and Screenwriter. There’s simply no way to avoid using one of these tools, or both of them, during a professional screenwriting career. Some smaller production companies now use Celtx, and even fewer use Adobe Story, but if you earn a living writing screenplays you’ll use the two big names in our industry.
I hope that every member of Carnegie Screenwriters, and aspiring screenwriter, ends up needing Final Draft or Screenwriter.
