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deadlines Competition Rules General Rules – All Competitions Scripted Digital Series Competition PC back back typos crash 1. Once an entry payment has been processed, we cannot provide 1. The Scripted Digital Series Competition is only open to writers typing school to grad grad to whiskey Script Competition THE END a refund. If a payment is disputed, the account holder may be who do not currently earn a living writing for film or television. TV Change is in the Air subject to any fees. staff writers are still eligible to submit. Feature Screenplay 2. All submissions must be accompanied by the appropriate 2. Applicants can submit 1-3 episodes, either written or produced, The 28th Annual Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference October 21-28 submission fee PER ENTRY and if submitting by mail a completed totaling no more than 30 pages or 30 minutes - n Early Bird Deadline: March 26 ($45) entry form including authors’ original signatures. Please do not 3. Only new series will be considered. Submissions must be the first n send a photocopy of your signature. Make checks or money one to three consecutive episodes of the series’ first season. Regular Deadline: April 16 ($60) orders payable to “Austin Film Festival.” Only US money orders 4. All series must be in English or, if applicable, have English call crisis Austin Film Festival is the best phins n mom Late Deadline: May 21 ($70) endor The old adage tells us, change eye on eye will be accepted. subtitles at the time submitted. donuts mmmm the prize 3. Submissions must be the original work of the applicant(s). 5. Applicants may submit both filmed episodes and scripted epi- existential festival in the world for writers. Short Screenplay & Teleplay Neither the Festival nor its jurists investigates or attests to the sodes of their series, but each will require a separate application is the only constant in life. authenticity of an applicant’s statement of authorship or rights. n Early Bird Deadline: March 26 ($35) and payment. “ I got my start at AFF, first as a 4. If a submission involves two or more writers as applicants, the 6. Entrants that advance to the Semifinalist level will be asked As it so happens, change is the common denominator n Regular Deadline: April 16 ($50) monetary prize and any reimbursements will be divided equally to provide a treatment of their vision for the series and how among them and only one Typewriter Award will be provided. subsequent episodes will unfold. linking the current state of the world and the unwavering second-rounder, then as a finalist. plot films FREE 6am hole! n 5. Awards are based on overall merit of the entries. Judges reserve more Late Deadline: May 21 ($60) watch watch SPACE state of the storyteller. the right not to grant an award. wakeup Playwriting Competition courage Austin launched my career – from Scripted Digital Series 6. AFF reserves the right in its sole discretion to reject or disqualify 1. The Playwriting Competition is only open to writers who do not any ineligible entries, without a refund. currently earn a living writing for film or television. TV staff writers Good characters, strong plotlines, and impactful theme n Early Bird Deadline: March 26 ($35) 7. Selected Scripts, Films, and Plays Winners: placing in the contests, which led are still eligible to submit. work all depend on change. Does the protagonist stay or n Regular Deadline: April 16 ($40) • AFF has no obligation (other than as stated in these rules or 2. All plays submitted must be in English. on our website) to disclose any of the following information: i) 3. The play must not have been optioned, sold, had a professional does she go? Does the story turn on its heels? Does the directly to getting representation, n identities of readers, screeners, or judges; ii) notes, feedback, or production, or be scheduled to have a professional production this? Late Deadline: May 21 ($45) wine information relating to the submitted material; and/or iii) details prior to October 23, 2021. A “professional production” is defined staring I wrote I wrote blankly draft #4 draft message stop us in our tracks? And if it’s not too bold to tenacity to, a couple of years later, getting n Extended Deadline: July 9 ($50) regarding the submission review or selection process. as a staged production where the playwrights involved were or • Except as explicitly stated, no representations or guarantees will be compensated for their intellectual property or work. Appli- inquire: Does it change us, too? Fiction Podcast Script are made regarding the feedback or comments provided, or the cants must notify Austin Film Festival (“AFF” or the “Festival”) of staffed and my career taking quality thereof. The opinions of the readers, screeners, or judges any changes in status following submission. Meanwhile, here we are in a world, unrecognizable n Early Bird Deadline: April 16 ($20) are their own and do not reflect the opinions of AFF. AFF explicitly 4. Applicants may submit more than one play. entries call for off in earnest. I can honestly say n disclaims any liability or responsibility for any comments, notes, 5. Full-length plays, original or adapted, will be accepted. One-act from a mere year ago, perhaps even a changed version Regular Deadline: May 21 ($30) dog fetal fetal or opinions expressed about a submission, whether by AFF or by plays, musicals, and screenplays will not be considered. 3am idea quad table- table- binge AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL AUSTIN I look forward to returning to the editing its readers, judges, and sponsors. for read n 6. Preferred page length is around 60 – 90 pages. Plays will not be position of ourselves. Late Deadline: July 9 ($40) espresso • Winners will be announced on October 23, 2021. The judges’ disqualified if the page length does not fit these parameters as Austin Film Festival each and Playwriting Competition decision is final. long as it could reasonably be performed within 90 minutes on This is a time that is rife with stories—stories in the making, • Winners receiving cash prizes are solely responsible for payment stage. n Early Bird Deadline: April 16 ($20) of all applicable local, state, and federal taxes. 7. Be sure that a Character Breakdown precedes the script. Please stories crying out to be told, stories yet to be fully realized. every year. include age and gender of each character. The breakdown should Jimmy Mosqueda, writer of n Late Deadline: May 21 ($30) Screenplay, Teleplay, and not exceed one page. Throughout our history, storytelling has been a saving Legacies and Schooled Fiction Podcast Competitions 1. All feature screenplays/teleplays/shorts/fiction podcasts Originality and Permissions; INDEMNITY – grace: from swapping tales on how to adapt to simply (collectively, “Scripts”) submitted must be in English. All Competitions US! LIKE This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of The City of Austin Economic Development Department and The Texas Commission on the Arts. the on Commission Texas The and Department Development Economic Austin of City The of Division Arts Cultural the by part in supported is project This “ finding solace in our shared humanity. And so it is written: Film Competition /AUSTINFILMFESTIVAL 2. The Screenplay, Teleplay, and Fiction Podcast Competitions are 1. Films/Scripts/Plays must be the original work of the applicants. If only open to writers who do not currently earn a living writing for a film is based upon another person’s life or upon a book or other stories will continue to serve a greater purpose as we 2021 Film Competition film or television. TV staff writers are still eligible to submit. underlying work, applicant(s) must secure any necessary rights n 3. Scripts must not have been optioned or sold prior to October 23, to make such adaptations. However, it is not necessary to submit move through the inevitable changes that await us. Early Bird Deadline: March 26 ($50) US! FOLLOW 2021. Applicants must notify Austin Film Festival (“AFF” or the the adaptation rights agreements to the Festival. Neither the @AUSTINFILMFEST Guidelines. Brand e details check out our out check details e mor For Only use blue and/or white. and/or blue use Only e “Festival”) of any changes in status following submission. Festival nor its jurists investigates or attests to the authenticity squar Rounded n Regular Deadline: May 21 ($60) icon Social At Austin Film Festival, we are committed to supporting 4. Scripts that have reached the Semifinalist level or above in of an applicant’s statement of authorship or rights secured. By n Late Deadline: June 25 ($75) previous years within any of the Austin Film Festival Competitions entering the competition, you are acknowledging that you have storytellers. Our mission is to champion, to inspire, to are not eligible for resubmission. secured all necessary rights. July 9 July Extended | 21 May n Extended Deadline: July 9 ($75) Late 5. The Teleplay Competition welcomes spec scripts for any currently 2. Applicants are solely responsible for obtaining all necessary entertain, to provoke, and, yes to create change through April 16 16 April Regular | 26 March airing network or cable program AND original pilot scripts. In rights and permissions for third-party materials included in Early 2021 Produced Digital Series order for spec scripts to be eligible for consideration, the program the film, including but not limited to music, trademarks, logos, DEADLINES SERIES DIGITAL SCRIPTED the transformative power of storytelling. n must not be canceled prior to the start of the current television copyrights, and other intellectual property rights. AFF expressly Early Bird Deadline: March 26 ($35) May 21 May Late | 16 April Regular | 26 March season (September 2020).