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Considered
among the top 100 most popular film festivals in the world, the 8th annual
Great Lakes Film Festival Scriptwriting Competition has officially opened its
Call for Entries and will accept submissions internationally of short and
feature length screenplays, stage plays, and teleplays of all genres and
niches including documentary, horror, experimental, Religious/Spiritual,
animation and Gay/Lesbian for the 2009 competition. The Great
Lakes Film Festival Scriptwriting Competition has achieved such great success
in past years that we now are able to offer a $5,000.00 cash award to
our first place winner of the 2009 competition. The annual Scriptwriting Competition is a way for new and veteran scriptwriters to possibly get the break they need. Each year we are contacted by many agents and production companies and have launched the careers of many budding scriptwriters while giving new exposure to veteran scriptwriters. The 2009 Great Lakes Scriptwriting Competition will accept all forms of religious, Christian, and spiritual scripts including African, African American, Gay/Lesbian, Black, Hispanic, Islamic, Latino and Native/Aboriginal from the United States and around the world. The Great Lakes Film Festival Scriptwriting Competition horror categories will include Horror, Thrillers, Science Fiction, Suspense, Grindhouse Horror, Horror Documentary, and Horror Animation. Prizes for the winning script will include cash award of $5,000.00. The winning script will be forwarded to agents and industry professionals for consideration. What people say about the Great Lakes Film Fest Scriptwriting Competition: The Great
Lakes Film Fest gave me my start. In 2005 my screenplay Santa Claus Goes to
Pirate Island was a runner-up. It went on to place at the Beverly Hills Film
Fest, The Phoenix Film Fest, The Script Dig Film Fest, and was named one of
the 20 Best Scripts of 2006 by Script P.I.M.P. Santa Claus is now in
development with the producers of the soon to be released film Car Babes. If
it weren't for the initial success at the GLIFF, it might still be sitting on
my shelf! Erie is a fun place and I'm glad it all started there at the
Roadhouse for me! I was a
script writing participant and one of the winners in the Great Lakes Film
Fest. I went to Erie for the occasion and found it to be a delightful town
with many wonderful sights and great dining places. The officials at the
Festival were helpful and courteous at all levels and made my visit a
pleasure. They had time for their guests even while conducting the major task
of keeping things running smoothly. I take my hat off to Steve Opsanic, his
hard working assistant, Kelly, and to all of the others at GLFA who helped
make this event such a success.
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