• $5,000 Guaranteed Option for the overall winner! This is your real chance at getting your script made into a feature film! 
• MENTORSHIP with Academy Award® Winner DAN JINKS (Producer of American Beauty) 
• 8 x $500 in Cash to each of our 8 GENRE Prize Winners.
• Each of the 15 finalists will receive an EXCLUSIVE one-page written feedback report from one of our 8 Academy Award Nominated judges! This one is HUGE!  The CEOs of the best film production companies in the world will actually read your script and give you feedback! And if they like it, you'll have a big chance of getting it produced into a feature film!
• Each of the 15 finalists will also receive a 4-month InkTip Pro Membership. (15 x $130 value) As an InkTip Pro Member, thousands of filmmakers can find and read your scripts, and you'll be able to pitch directly to production companies every week. With over 3,000 options and 400 movies made, InkTip is the place for independent film.
• Quarterfinalists, Semifinalists, and 15 Finalists will be published on our Instagram and all our other social media accounts. We currently have more than 1.6 MILLION followers combined and this will be an important exposure for you and will create more opportunities for your screenplay and your writing career.
• Your script will be sent to our Judges & specially chosen members of our industry contacts. You don’t need to be one of our finalists to have your script sent out. If we notice an interesting script that we know a certain producer, agent, or manager will be interested to read, we'll contact you and ask if we can send it to a certain industry contact.

OUR JUDGES INCLUDE:

MICHAEL MANN - Legendary filmmaker, screenwriter and producer of such iconic films as HEAT, The Insider, Miami Vice and Collateral! Four-time Academy Award nominee!

PAUL SCHRADER - Writer of Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER and RAGING BULL.  Academy Award® Nominee for Best Original Screenplay for First Reformed (2017)

DAN JINKS - Academy Award® Winner for Best Picture for American Beauty

WENDY FINERMAN - Academy Award® Winner for Best Picture for Forrest Gump

GARY MICHAEL WALTERS - CEO of Bold Films. Producer of such iconic films as Drive, Nightcrawler, and Whiplash! Emmy Award® Nominee for Outstanding Television Movie Oslo (2021)

MIKE MEDAVOY - CEO of Phoenix Pictures. Academy Award® Nominee for Best Picture for Black Swan. From agent to studio chief to producer, he has been involved with over 300 feature films, of which 17 have been nominated and 7 have won Best Picture Oscars®, as well as numerous international film festival awards. He is a producer of such iconic films as Shutter Island, Zodiac and Black Swan!

 EMILIE GEORGES - Academy Award® Nominee for Best Picture for Call Me by Your Name

ADAM NOVAK - the Head of Story Development for Hollywood's Top Talent and Literary Agency WME (William Morris/Endeavor)