Zoetrope: All Story’s yearly Screenplay Competition is officially underway. The contest aims to find and promote new and innovative voices in cinema and television/streaming. The initial batch is read by pro readers, and when they get it down to the final ten, your script could be read by Francis Ford Coppola himself.

The grand prize is $5,000. Further details are here.

The winner and nine finalists will be considered by the top agencies and production companies. Winners are announced on February 10, 2025. It costs $50 to enter and the deadline is September 4th so get writing.

Best of luck.

Eric Green
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Eric Green has over 25 years of professional experience producing creative, marketing, and journalistic content. Born in Flushing, Queens and based in Los Angeles, Green has a catalog of hundreds of articles, stories, photographs, drawings, and more. He is the director of the celebrated 2014 Documentary, Beautiful Noise and the author of the novella Redyn, the graphic novel Bonk and Woof, and the novel, The Lost Year. Currently, he is hard at work on a book chronicling the lives of the greatest Character Actors.