The Louisiana Film Commission announces its second Screenwriter's Competition

for feature screenwriters.  The competition is open to all screenwriters and

offers recognition and an opportunity for screenplays to be read by industry

porfessionals.

 

Submissions are being accepted through Friday, December 1, 1995.  Cash prizes

of $1,000 each will be awarded to the top three screenplays which will be

announced in March.  Submissions will be judged in a preliminary round by the

Louisiana Film Commission and other designated represenitives.  The (3) three

top screen plays will then be determined by a panel of industry professionals.

 All screenplays can be returned after the competition.

 

Louisiana screenwriter's Competition Rules are as Follows:

 

1.  Screenplay's only of standard lenght and acceptable feature film length

(100-125 pages) and format will be accepted.

 

2.  No television pilots, episodes, specials, documentaries, game shows,

storyboards, music videos, stroy treatments, story ideas, synopsis, memoirs,

novels or short stories will be accepted

 

3.  The competition is open to anyone.

 

4.  Material cannot be pornographic.

 

5.  Material may be based on an original idea or adaptation from another

medium; however all adaptations must be accompanied by written proof of its

first author's permission.

 

6.  Material must be copyrighted or WGA registered, but not previously

produced or sold.

 

For more information contact Louisiana Film Commissioner, David H. Jones at

(504) 342-8150 or [log in to unmask] with "LA Screenplay" in subject line.

 

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