Please go Vote for Pumpkin Nightmare II.

Voting ends Today! This is the short video that Dena and Pia filmed last year.

Stealing Moses (22 pages in pdf format)

The story of 2 fatherless boys on an unlikely journey of brotherly love. Josh needs to get little Moses to his Father, but in doing so he will jeopardise his own future. God is watching.

This award nominated short film was accepted into The British Urban Film Festival. Written by Bobby Stevenson and Directed by Martin J Pickering. British /urban Film Festival supported by Channel 4 UK.

Stealing Moses on IMDB

Over on the Original Scripts page are twenty four original scripts for your reading pleasure.

Please note that regular script submissions are closed until October 23rd while the One Week Challenge is underway.

– Don

The Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference is the place where experts, newbies and everybody in between in the writing world come together under one roof and share. This is where you will learn and grow as a writer, get a better understanding of the new and exciting storytelling outlets such podcasts and digital series, learn valuable information about other arenas like writing for the stage, brainstorm your own ideas, find good material if that’s your goal, or just simply find your own voice and where it fits in the universe. And if just watching movies is your game, we have hundreds of them, an 8-day extravaganza of cinema. Did we leave anything out? October 26 – November 2 – Find out more at AustinFilmFestival.com.

– don1

You have seven days to write a screenplay between 6 and 12 pages. The screenplay must be properly formatted and in PDF format on the following theme:

Fight that Phobia

Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Rating: Children / Young Adult / Adult
Budget: Open

A character must possess and fight some kind of phobia. And, the last line of dialogue should contain “Rest in Peace”. Here is a list of phobias for inspiration.

The scripts are due on Friday, October 20 at 11:59PM HAST (Baker Island Time – this is the last place in the world that it is October 20th in the world aka GMT-12) and must be submitted to: SimplyScripts.com/owc.

Timeline:
October 13 at 12 Midnight GMT – Theme and Genre announced.
October 20th at 11:59PM HST (GMT-12) – Scripts are due to SimplyScripts.com/owc (check the timer on the Discussion Board)
October 22st (Sunday edt) – Scripts Posted
October 29th – Writer’s Choices submitted
October 31th – Names and writer’s choice revealed.

The Gist

6 – 12 pages, properly formatted & saved as a PDF file, Script submitted anonymously, Free to submit*, This isn’t a contest. There are no prizes. One entry per person.

You can revise your script as many times as you wish up until the deadline.

Participants are strongly encouraged to read and comment/review the scripts submitted.

Do not put your real name on your script. However, please use your real name when submitting your script. (After the challenge closes you can either have your script removed or resubmit with your script with your name on it.)

Please put © 2017 on the bottom left corner of your title page.

There will be a Writer’s Choice wherein the participants (and only the participants) will be asked to rate the scripts.

Questions? Post ’em on the Discussion Board.

When Dena and Pia get together for the weekend, I get bad dreams. And ideas…

A woman suffering from coulrophobia must deal with being stuck in an elevator with a clown.

The theme and genre will be announced this Friday the 13th at Midnight Greenwi[t]ch Mean Time.

Scripts will be due Friday the 20th at Midnight HAST (Baker Island Time)

This will be open to all comers.

And it is free. (Not a contest).

Over on the Unproduced Scripts page are fourteen original scripts for your reading pleasure.

And a heads up. On Friday the 13th the Genre and Theme of the October One Week Challenge will be announced.

Don

Help Forever Red by Steve “stevemiles” Miles Get Made!

Two former intelligence operatives are forced to confront a dark secret from their past. (10 pages, pdf format)

Grand Production Films | Baltimore Video Production Company plans on filming on Super 16 Film. They are in fundraising mode.

Their goal is to shoot on Super 16 film and they’ve launched a crowd-funding campaign through Seed & Spark to help secure part of the financing.

Aside from donations, if the project can reach 500 followers then the production receives support in both equipment and distribution from Seed & Spark. Signing up to follow is free and you can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. Watch the pitch video below for an outline of the project and follow the link for further production details and to sign up to follow at SeedAndSpark.com/fund/Forever-Red.

In English. If you don’t have money to donate, you can still help by subscribing and following them on Seed & Spark.

Discuss this script on the Discussion Board