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People's Pilot Competition
Cloud Creek Ranch
3767 Marion County 5026
St. Joe, AR 72675
United States
870-449-2488
larrybrody@tvwriter.com
www.tvwriter.com
| | Description: | With more networks and cable channels on television than ever before, and New Media garnering larger audiences everyday, the market for bright, fresh, and original ideas is at an all-time high.
The old pros who have been the traditional creators of TV series are hard on the job, but even they can't fill the demand. Executives and producers are ready and waiting for new people they can count on to supply them with material unlike that ever before seen.
This is the dawning of the era of YOU, THE NEW WRITER, with your unique vision. To help you sell your series, TV Writer.Com, the most successful television writing site on the Web, has created the PEOPLE'S PILOT COMPETITION.
The rewards can be enormous. Your dream for all to see. With you as the producer/head writer...and collecting the salary that accompanies that job. And all you have to do is commit your dreamchild to paper. Only a few short pages containing the title of your series idea, the main thrust of the storyline or storylines, the characters, and the setting.
That's right. This isn't a screenplay or teleplay contest. Television networks and cable channels don't buy series pilot scripts, they develop them with their creators and production companies and packaging agencies they trust.
| | | Entry Fee: | $40
| | | Type: | TV Scripts
| | | Originates From: | United States
| | | Occurrence: | Bi-Annual
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| | | Start Date: | 12/1/2009
| | | Submission Deadlines: | 3/1/2010
| | | Rules: | 1. The PEOPLE'S PILOT especially encourages NEW writers because of the fresh outlooks and original perspectives they bring to the television industry, but in the interest of obtaining the greatest variety of new concepts possible this contest is open to ALL writers at all levels in all countries in the world except as expressly forbidden in paragraphs 8 & 9 below.
2. Writers-submittors may enter as many times as they wish, but each entry must be accompanied by an entry fee of $40. This fee can be paid by check or international money order in U.S. funds, or by credit card.
3. Entries can be made online, or by U.S. Mail enclosing the entry form. It is recommended that each writer(s)-submittor(s) protect his/her material by registering it with the U.S. Copyright office, the Writers Guild of America, West, or WriteSafe.Com.
4. Pilot submissions must consist of a "presentation," "prospectus," or "leavebehind" containing the following elements:
A. A title page including the title of the series, and the name, address, phone number, and e-mail address of the writer(s)-submittor(s)
B. A summary of the basic idea behind the show, including the setting, theme, profession, etc
C. A summary of the main continuing characters, their background and appearance, personalities, and their interaction
D. A statement of the kinds of situation in which the characters will be placed, including what the basic structure of those situations will be, what effect these situations will have on the characters, and what effect the characters will have on them
E. A short list of possible episodes with enough different stories to show that the series will be viable week to week
F. Submittors may include a pilot teleplay as additional material but it is neither necessary nor desired. If ONLY a pilot teleplay is submitted, we at the PEOPLE'S PILOT will forward the entry form and teleplay to our sister competition, the SPEC SCRIPTACULAR, and the teleplay will automatically be deemed as having been entered in that competition in the MOW/PILOT/SPECIAL category.
5. Sample series presentations can be found here and here
6. All material must be the property of the writer(s)-submittor(s). It must be original work created by the writer(s)-submittor(s) and never before have been optioned, sold, or produced in any form in any medium.
7. The writer(s)-submittor(s) must have copies of the material being submitted, and agree(s) not to hold PEOPLE'S PILOT, TV WRITER.COM, Cloud Creek Institute For The Arts, Inc., Larry Brody, and/or their employees and representatives responsible should loss of the submitted material occur.
8. Relatives and employees of the PEOPLE'S PILOT, TV WRITER.COM, Cloud Creek Institute For The Arts, Inc., Larry Brody and/or their representatives are ineligible for entry.
9. Previous First Place Winners of the PEOPLE'S PILOT COMPETITION are ineligible for entry.
| | | Prizes and Awards: | There are over $20,000 worth of PEOPLE'S PILOT Prizes including:
* $500 from Cloud Creek Instate For The Arts
* Special 1 Week Writing Retreat at Cloud Creek Institute For The Arts
* A copy of FinalDraft Screenwriting Software
* Free Admission to the Action/Cut Filmmaking Seminar
* 1 month (4 weeks) of Weekly Mentorship with Larry Brody
* Free Admission to the next TV Writer.Com Summer Intensive Seminar
* A free Featured Creator Page at WriteSafe.Com
* Free Creative Work Registrations at WriteSafe.Com
* Residence at Cloud Creek Institute Of The Arts to work with the CCIA professional staff to write and shoot a 5-minute DVD presentation of your winning idea for Web viewing and distribution to networks, prodcos and agents
In addition, all "lifestyle" entries, regardless of whether or not they place in the Top Three, will be considered for development and syndication by CLOUD CREEK INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS and REYNOLDS MEDIA as part of a joint distribution venture between the two of them.
Entry forms and full info on rules, prizes, and eligibility can be found at http://www.peoplespilot.com
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