2008 The 6th Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest – Entry open
July 3, 2008The 6th Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest
Entry Deadlines & Fees:
Early Deadline: August 1, 2008 ($35)
Deadline: September 2, 2008 ($50)
The winner and finalists will be announced February 3, 2009, on the website.
The winner and top-ten finalists will be considered for representation. To see the complete list, the submission rules, and many other valuable informations please visit the site.
For years I wanted to work in film or tv…when I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor one week, a director the next, and spent a lot of my adult life dreaming that someone out there would want to read some of my screenplays, books, or treatments that I had poured out…I’ve even made several long bus trips out to Hollywood hoping to be discovered…more often than not, I spent the time getting drunk on $10 beer at the snow white cafe on Hollywood blvd…I’m back home in Florida, living in a small apt and realizing that the real reason I never made it was because life kept getting in the way and at 45, I’ve resigned myself that my work, just isn’t very good…the ideas may be, but I just don’t have the talent…then the other day a friend told me that the real talent I possess…is my life…that maybe someone would be inspired or something…I won’t get into too many specifics, because I am sure your lawyers will just send me some nasty grams…but I will tell you this…I lost my father to Vietnam…I lost my family to a drunk driver…I lost my freedom in a faraway desert where as a POW I was tortured, beaten, and had things done to me that most men have nightmares for years…I lost the use of my legs for almost two years…the Army gave me medals and then hushed me under a rug of shame, when it had become evident that I had lost my mind…I lost my soul in a 15-year run of alcohol induced homelessness…I’ve spent years in prison, forgotten glimmers of several mental wards…I’ve slept in streets, slept with hookers unprotected, stolen food and broken hearts…I’ve been sober coming up on 2 years now, got my ass back in college…and even though I know that I’ll never have a star on the walk of fame…I’ve walked in unwanted shoes fot too long…and I spend my days judging my success not by the things I’ve lost…but by the things I’ve had to give up in order to achieve it…is there a movie there?