Screenplay Entries

Famous Monsters of Filmland’s Film Festival is now accepting feature screenplays of 80 or more pages in length and short screenplays of less than 80 pages in length.

Screenplays must be submitted in English.

Each screenplay must be registered with a registry organization such as the WGA and have the registration number displayed on the cover.

Feature length screenplays are more than 80 pages; Short length screenplays are under 80 pages.

Electronic screenplay submissions should be in Adobe (.pdf), rich text (.rft), text (.txt), or Word (.doc) format.

Screenplays must be original work of the author.

Label the title and the Without a Box tracking ID if submitting through withoutabox.com on the submitted screenplay. Full contact info, writer, registration number, title and company information should only appear on the cover of the screenplay.

Printed screenplay submissions should be bound with two or three brass fasteners.

Body pages must be correctly numbered.

Screenplays must be properly formatted, printed on white paper using only 12 pt. Courier, or 12 pt. Courier Final Draft fonts.

Scripts written as adaptations of other works must have secured rights before being submitted.

Scripts must not have been previously optioned, purchased, in production or produced.

Any script that becomes purchased, optioned or put into production before the final deadline will be eliminated from competition.

At the end of the competition, all screenplays will be destroyed.

Previews

Downstream

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News

Famous Monsters of Filmland Film to be launched on Withoutabox.com. Film entries submitted by May 1, 2010 qualify for entry into the Famous Monsters Convention where thousands of fans will descend on Indianapolis, IN, July 9-11, 2010.

The Rise and Fall of Nazi Dinosaurs

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Deadlines

The Famous Monsters Film Festival is a quarterly rolling competition.

Entries submitted by May 1, 2010 qualify to be screened at the July 2010 Famous Monsters Convention.

Entries submitted after May 1, 2010 will roll into the 2011 FM Con.

The Seventh Skoll

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