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The 13. International Writing Contest finalists have been announced! (Click here to find out!)
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18. Writing Contest Now Open! |
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Former winner Marcus Folmar featured in Scr(i)pt Magazine with his project I'mPerfect! ...it was Folmar’s creativity that prompted him to enter a writing contest in which he sold his first screenplay, called I’m Perfect. “I entered and won Writemovies.com’s 2002 International Writing Contest with this project. The recognition led to meeting the guys at rossWWmedia who optioned and eventually produced the movie.” I’m Perfect, in Folmar’s own words, is a story about, “the handsomest, most romantic man in Los Angeles who is determined to find the perfect woman, if there is such a thing.”
One of the longest established companies in an industry where management companies and agencies come and go, TalentScout Management (formerly "Fortis Management") was established in 1991.
(Managers
Stephen Miller and Alex Ross with Tony Curtis). Seeing the limitations of the agency business, Alex created Fortis Management in order to be able to groom select clients more effectively. His first client was Andrew Niccol who wrote and directed GATTACA and wrote and produced THE TRUMAN SHOW. Sales of screenplays & books by writers discovered by the company having reached $8 Million, Alex sold "Fortis Entertainment" to Sandra Bullock in 1998. TalentScout Management was started off a year later as a more international company that not only looks for the best English speaking talent, but also French and German. Never has the entertainment business been more international. With 25% of German television being written by American writers, more and more French and German stories being adapted into Hollywood movies and an unprecedented number of writers, actors and directors working in several languages world wide, there has never been a greater need for a management company able to represent its clients globally. TalentScout has an unequaled range of contacts with film, TV, casting, agency and publishing executives worldwide. How to contact us: For unproduced or unpublished writers, as well as first time directors, we recommend that they participate in our contest Click! Due to the number of people contacting us, it is impossible for us to bear the burden of having sample material analyzed (the annual costs for this can exceed $300,000). This is the only way we can afford to keep our doors open to all. Produced writers and directors, as well as published novelists, please send us a query letter by email Please clearly state your credits as well as a synopsis of projects you wish to set up. |
The 18th International Writing Contest
Out of close to three hundred "contest sites," WriteMovies.com is one of only a handful that has produced movies from winning projects. That film, THE LIST, was written by WriteMovies.com winner Marcus Folmar. The movie was represented by the Endeavor Agency and acquired by Warner Bros. and ABC Network.In addition, former winner Jon Rosten has parlayed his success in the contest into getting his project, The Edge of Nowhere (aka Valley of Angels) produced. Now we want to help you get your scripts optioned/ sold/ produced, novels published, or plays staged, because we succeed when you succeed. That's why we offer up to $1 million in prizes and option money. Enter Now
WriteMovies Spring 2007 (#15) Miranda Saint trains her only daughter to perfection and gets her into an exclusive elementary school by ruthlessly eliminating the competition, only to face her greatest adversary, a mother even more deranged than she is. WriteMovies Spring 2006 (#12)
Rick Fonte, who grew up in Chicago, got his MFA in Directing from the University of Indiana. After living in Austin for several years he recently moved to Los Angeles. The 12th International Writemovies.com contest is not the first screenwriting contest he has won. His script The Most Biggest Sleepover Ever won the Grand Prize of the Ohio Independent Film Festival Screenplay Awards and four of his screenplays were placed in the finals of various contests. His winning script Her Fortune recently also won the grand prize in the Anything But Hollywood screenwriting competition. Rick is not only a writer, but also an accomplished director. He co-produced, co-wrote, and directed the Internet Sitcom series Ass Wipers, Inc which premiered last autum. In addition to Ass Wipers, Inc he has directed over 30 plays including Shakespeare, Mamet and musicals, both classic and world premieres. One of his productions (written by Don Zolidis) A Night Near The Sun was a Chicago Reader Pick, and his Austin production of Corpus Christi (Terrence McNally) broke local attendance records and garnered several awards. Rick is currently working on two musicals.
WriteMovies Spring 2006 (#11)
Spring
2006 TV Writing Contest Winner (#10):
Two of Sarah's feature scripts also advanced in competitions this past year. Horror/Comedy Thaw is in the final round of American Accolades and was a second round finalist of the 2005 Austin Film Festival. Drama/Thriller Still was a semifinalist of American Accolades, a quarterfinalist of Scriptapalooza, and - along with her Six Feet Under spec - made it to the finals of the CBS Diversity Writers Mentoring Program for 2005. Sarah is currently finishing a second low-budget feature assignment for an independent Producer/Director. The first assignment, a horror script, was completed last fall. |
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Read our fascinating, exclusive interview with the Showrunner for ANGEL & FIREFLY. Take a look at the hectic world of the man who also wrote for LOIS & CLARK and X-FILES. Also read the sequel: Tim Minear's interview with Victor Infante on the weird death and potential rebirth of FIREFLY. |
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Why
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Writings from the real world. Victor D. Infante
explores the drive that makes you have to write.
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To
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letter from a writer to "that" agent who
will make all his dreams come true. Right! Victor
D. Infante, regularly writes for the awesome OC
Weekly as well as the Worcester
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Sarah Tatting moved from Minneapolis to Los Angeles in 2002
to attend the American Film Institute Conservatory’s MFA program and
immerse herself in a thorough, progressive education in screenwriting. Her
pursuit of a career in TV writing can be attributed to the strong encouragement
of an AFI mentor and a successful internship at DreamWorks Television, not to
mention her lifelong obsession with everything primetime. 