Categories, Prizes and Criteria

WE ACCEPT SCRIPTS WITH 1-120 PAGES

 

SUBMISSIONS FOR 2025 ARE NOW OPEN!

 

Our MAIN FESTIVAL accepts submissions for one-page scripts to features and full-length plays. There are categories to suit all script lengths and budgets.

Courtesy of our partnership with POSTERITY ENTERTAINMENT, we'll send them all feature screenplays or full-length stage plays we think they may like, thus offering entrants a potential route to production.

We don't separate entries into genres, but into varying lengths (and in shorter categories, plays, audio plays/podcasts and screenplays are pitted against one another). We judge each script on its own merits, whatever the subject matter.

Prices are on FILMFREEWAY (they vary depending on when you enter: the earlier you enter, the less it costs), and categories are:

• • • • • • • • • • LOGLINE AND SYNOPSIS (1-2 pages)
                  • PITCH DOCUMENT (1-2 pages, with recording requested from Semi-Finalists)

• • • • • • • • • • MICRO: FILM, STAGE OR AUDIO/PODCAST SCRIPT (1-2 pages)
                    
                  • MINI: FILM, STAGE OR  AUDIO/PODCAST SCRIPT (3-10 pages)
                  • SHORT: FILM, STAGE OR AUDIO/PODCAST SCRIPT (11-27 pages) 
                  • AUDIO/PODCAST SCRIPT (28-69 pages)
                  • TV PILOT SCREENPLAY(28-60 pages)
                  • MID-LENGTH STAGE PLAY SCRIPT (28-69 pages) 

• • • • • • • • • • FEATURE SCREENPLAY (80-120 pages)
                  • FULL-LENGTH STAGE PLAY SCRIPT(70-120 pages)

• • • • • • • • • • BEST IN FESTIVAL as decided by all judges.

PRIZES

Quarter-Finalists, Semi-Finalists, Finalists and Winners will receive laurels, emailed to print or post on social media/websites.

Winners will leave the Festival with personalised S&Co glass trophies (sent, with postage at your cost, if you can't attend) and a licenced copy of FD13, thanks to FINAL DRAFT, producers of the world's industry-leading scriptwriting software.

And if your script is sent to Posterity Entertainment - at our judges' discretion - you could enjoy career-changing opportunities via talks with us and them, and the chance of a route to production.  If Posterity likes your script, we will work with you develop it  with a view to producing a feature film with international distribution; and/or a play to be staged in the UK.

 

RESULTS

S&Co will draw up and publish lists of Quarter-Finalists, Semi-Finalists, Finalists and Winners for all categories in the Main Festival.

Whichever category or categories you choose (you can enter as many times as you like), we wish you GOOD LUCK!

 

SCRIPT NOTES

'This is the most insightful, honest, no-bullshit feedback I’ve ever received. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Excited to run with it. It’s crazily invigorating to have 6 unbridled responses, pointing out the crap and the gems in the same authentic breath! No polite false praise here. Love it! Guarantee you’ll be getting my custom for further notes. I’ll spread the word!' Anna Wright, Screenwriter

After the festival, in exchange for a nominal £30 admin fee, we'll send candid judges' notes to any writer who reached the Quarter Finals, Semi-Finals or was a Finalist or Winner. The higher you were placed, the more comments you're likely to see! If you'd like to know what we said, and why you did or didn't progress further, just order your notes AFTER 11 May, 2025.

 

 

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