call-for-entries Shore Scripts 2024 TV Pilot Contest

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OUR 2024 TV PILOT CONTEST IS OFFICIALLY OPEN!

The Shore Scripts' 2024 TV Pilot Contest is looking for writers who want to get staffed on shows and have their original pilots picked up by production companies.

Many contests will quickly move on after announcing the placings. Not us. We are constantly getting each year's top scripts out to the industry and creating real and tangible opportunities and successes for our writers.

As a direct result of our TV Pilot Contest, past Winners and Finalists have gained representation and gone on to write for shows on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Universal, Syfy, Fox, Sony, SkyTV, Peacock, and others.

THIS SEASON

Accepting TV & Web Series Pilots from 5 to 100 pages.

We will be awarding a $2,500 cash prize to each of the two Grand Prize Winners (1-Hour and 1/2-Hour), and a $500 cash prize to each of the two 2nd Placed Winners (1-hour and 1/2-hour).

Plus, Both the 1-Hour and 1/2-Hour TV Pilot Grand Prize Winners will get on a call with SEAN CHARLES, Development & Production Manager at AMC Networks, to discuss their winning scripts.

The Winners and Top 10 Finalists (both 1-Hour and 1/2-Hour) will have their pilot scripts circulated to our Industry Roster of 150+ managers, agents, and production companies which includes The Gotham Group (CREATURE COMFORTS), See Saw (SLOW HORSES), Bellevue (HAWAII FIVE-O), Sugar23 (DICKINSON), FilmNation (I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE), Zero Gravity (OZARK), and more!

ENTER YOUR TV PILOT
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv-pilot-contest/​

 

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GET FEEDBACK ON YOUR SCRIPT FROM A PRIMETIME EMMY WINNER

We are honored to announce the Industry Mentors for this year's TV Pilot Contest!

ALLBLK AMC'S DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION MANAGER - SEAN CHARLES
Both the 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV Pilot Grand Prize Winners will get on a call with Sean Charles, Development & Production Manager at AMC Networks, to discuss their winning scripts and how to take the next best steps in their screenwriting careers.

CASTING DIRECTOR OF BLACK MIRROR & SUCCESSION - HENRY RUSSELL BERGSTEIN
The 1/2-hour TV Pilot Grand Prize Winner will get on a call with the former VP of casting for HBO Max. Henry was Emmy nominated for casting the pilot and first season of HBO's SUCCESSION and for Netflix’s limited series INVENTING ANNA. Henry was also nominated for the Artios Award for the US Casting of Netflix's BLACK MIRROR.

CASTING DIRECTOR OF YELLOWSTONE & OPPENHEIMER - JOHN PAPSIDERA
The 1-hour TV Pilot Grand Prize Winner will get on a call with the Emmy-winning casting director of Paramount’s YELLOWSTONE. John's other TV credits include HBO's CARNIVALE, PRISON BREAK, WESTWORLD, Showtime’s RAY DONOVAN, and Paramount’s 1883, LIONESS, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY and THE OFFER.

Mentoring in the entertainment industry is key to any writer’s success. Experienced industry professionals offer their support and guidance to writers looking to gain skills and knowledge. Mentoring can help new writers improve their career trajectory, better understand how the industry works, and receive advice about challenges and opportunities that arise.

Understanding the importance of mentoring, Shore Scripts has leveraged its long-standing and extensive relationships with producers, managers, and agents to bring about this new opportunity for emerging writers as part of our TV Pilot Contest prize package.

FIND OUT MORE
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv-pilot-contest/​

 

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OUR EARLY DEADLINE ENDS AT MIDNIGHT APRIL 26TH PACIFIC TIME

This year our prize packages include industry mentorship with John Papsidera CSA (OPPENHEIMER, YELLOWSTONE) for our 1-Hour Grand Prize Winner, and Henry Russell Bergstein CSA (SUCCESSION, BLACK MIRROR) for the Half-Hour Grand Prize Winner.

Both are experienced casting directors who are deeply involved with scripts from the outset of a film’s production to its later stages. They not only understand how great actors can elevate a script but also what makes a script successful in its entirety.

We chatted with John and Henry to get their thoughts on characterization, the casting process, and why a solid script matters.
"The script is really the basis of where all things begin. Not only descriptions of characters but all the subtleties that you draw upon when you start to think about characters and the variety of actors that could play them" - John Papsidera

READ THE INTERVIEW & WATCH THE VIDEOS
https://www.shorescripts.com/2024-s...-with-john-papsidera-henry-russell-bergstein/

MORE ON THIS YEAR'S PRIZES

INDUSTRY GUIDANCE WITH AMC'S DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION MANAGER
Both the 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV Pilot Grand Prize Winners will get on a call with Sean Charles, Development & Production Manager at AMC Networks, to discuss their winning scripts and how to take the next best steps in their screenwriting careers.

INDUSTRY SCRIPT CIRCULATION
The Winners and Top 10 Finalists (both 1-hour and 1/2-hour) will have their pilot scripts circulated to our Industry Roster of 150+ managers, agents, and production companies which includes The Gotham Group (CREATURE COMFORTS), See Saw (SLOW HORSES), Bellevue (HAWAII FIVE-O), Sugar23 (DICKINSON), FilmNation (I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE), Zero Gravity (OZARK), and many more!

WRITER DEVELOPMENT
Our Writer Development Manager will work with each of our Winners and Finalists to create tailor-made plans for each writer's career development and script circulation.

"It's been a great experience so far. Ajit is a very thoughtful, deliberate, and open-minded collaborator"
- Rudi O'Meara 2023 TV Pilot Finalist.

CASH PRIZES & MORE!
We will be awarding a $2,500 cash prize to each of the two Grand Prize Winners (1-hour and 1/2-hour), and a $500 cash prize to each of the two 2nd Place Winners (1-hour and 1/2-hour).

Additional prizes include a development call with a Save the Cat! Master Cat, a free 4-month InkTip pro membership, and access to our private Facebook community.

Are you a writer looking to get staffed on a show or have your original pilot picked up by a production company? Our TV Pilot Contest is for you!

As a direct result of our TV Pilot Contest, past Winners and Finalists have gained representation and gone on to write for shows on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Universal, Syfy, Fox, Sony, SkyTV, Peacock, and others.

Standard Entries before the Deadline:
1-Hour $55 / ½-Hour $50

ENTER NOW - SAVE $$$
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv-pilot-contest/​

 

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SCRIPT & WRITER DEVELOPMENT
INDUSTRY MENTORS & GUARANTEED MEETINGS
CASH PRIZES

OUR TV PILOT CONTEST REGULAR DEADLINE CLOSES MAY 31ST!
MIDNIGHT PACIFIC TIME

We are looking for writers who want to get staffed on shows and have their original pilots picked up by production companies.

What makes Shore Scripts different is the strong connections we build between our writers and the 300+ producers, agents, managers, and directors on our Industry Roster.

Our personalized Writer Development Program can build the value of your IP in the market and make specific matches with industry pros actively looking for projects.

The contest has a proven track record of helping emerging writers achieve their goals of becoming full-time working TV writers in the US & abroad.

As a direct result of the contest, past Winners and Finalists have gained representation and gone on to write for shows on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Universal, Syfy, Fox, Sony, SkyTV, Peacock, and others.

SHORE SCRIPTS SUCCESS STORIES

NATE O’MAHONEY – STAFFED & SIGNED

Nate was a Finalist in our 2019 with his script KIDS OF THE BLACK HOLE; a story about a commune who discovers they’ve been squatting and how they fight to keep the house they’ve called home. He currently lives in New Orleans and Los Angeles and has worked as a writer’s assistant in a variety of productions. Nate has recently written an episode of Zac Penn’s BEACON 32 starring Lena Headey (GAME OF THRONES) and two episodes of Fox’s TV series THE RESIDENT. Nate also wrote the 2020 short film SWEATBOX. He is repped by 3 Arts Entertainment.


AMY WANG – STAFFED & SIGNED

Amy was a Finalist in 2018 with WA WA. Her feature screenplay, WENDI was featured both on The Black List, and The Hit List in 2019. That same year, she directed five episodes of the series THE BIRCH for Facebook Watch. Amy was recently nominated for a NACCP Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Television) award for the Netflix Limited Series FROM SCRATCH, starring Zoe Saldana (AVATAR, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY) and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine and is the co-creator of THE BROTHERS SUN with Emmy-winner Brad Falchuk (AMERICAN HORROR STORY) and Bryon Wu. Amy is represented by Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment.


LAURIEL MARGER – STAFFED & SIGNED

“The thing I like most about Shore, why my experience with Shore has been so great, is that they really do get your script out there to people who can actually do something with it, people who can help you.”

Contest Winner Lauriel subsequently signed with Shore's Industry Roster Manager, David Katsman of LINK Entertainment, and her winning script PEACHES was commissioned as a series by QUIBI, produced by Stephen Garrett (THE NIGHT MANAGER, HUNTED, LIFE ON MARS, EASTERN PROMISES). Lauriel recently sold a series to YouTube and has written on the FOX show PRODIGAL SON and CW’s NANCY DREW.

We accept Pilots for web series, ongoing and limited series, and anthology shows.

ENTER YOUR TV PILOT BEFORE THE DEADLINE
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv-pilot-contest/​

 

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2024 TV Pilot Contest Final Deadline - June 28TH

IS OUR TV PILOT SCREENPLAY CONTEST RIGHT FOR YOU?

Have you written a TV Pilot that you believe has the potential to make for a great show or do you want to use it as a sample to help you get staffed? Are you struggling to get your script read by someone in the industry? Are you thinking of moving on to the next project, or maybe even giving up? WAIT! At Shore Scripts, it’s all about how strong your work is, not how well you can network. So, don’t worry if you don’t know anyone. We have over 300 agents, managers, production companies, producers, and directors on our roster who have all agreed to read the best scripts we send to them in 2024. If your TV Pilot Contest submission stands out, we’ll get it to the best people working in the industry.

WHY HAS THE INDUSTRY ROSTER COME ON BOARD?
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• Because we have a track record of finding the best new screenwriting talent out there. That’s why we’ve had over 100 success stories to date.​
• The industry wants to work with new talent, it’s a misconception that they don’t. They just don’t want to read thousands of screenplays to find people. That’s where we come in! They read what we send them because they know the caliber of the material and writers that we connect them with.​

HOW DO WE DEVELOP OUR WRITERS?
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• Unlike most other contests, Shore Scripts has a dedicated Writer Development Manager who works with all our winners and finalists. Zoom calls and emails will help us learn more about you as a writer and your career aspirations, helping us to best place you, and your work, within the industry.​
• On top of that, our 1hr and ½-hr Grand Prize Winners will be mentored by Sean Charles who works in Development and Production at AMC. His insight will be invaluable to helping you grow as a writer.​
• Plus, we have two of the best Casting Agents in the business ready to give feedback to our Grand Prize Winners on their characters, and how to write for TV - John Papsidera (Yellowstone, Oppenheimer), and Henry Russell Bergstein (Black Mirror, Succession).​

HOW DO WE GET YOUR SCRIPT OUT THERE?

Through the calls with our writers, we can carefully pair your script with the most suited people and companies on our 300+ Industry Roster that work in TV. This is paramount as sending mass emails to the industry never works because each person has specific parameters for projects that interest them. By carefully curating the screenplays we send out, we maximize our writers’ chances of success.
We are accepting pilot scripts from 5 to 100 pages long! Here are a few of the Judges and Production Companies on our Roster that will read this year’s best scripts:

JUDGES
Sean Charles - Development & Production at AMC.
Kirstie Macdonald - Producer at FilmNation | Line of Duty, The Fear, Dark Angel
Peter Mohan - Showrunner | Orphan Black, Mutant X
Randall Keenan Winston - Writer/Producer | Mixedish, Grace and Frankie, Scrubs
Daisy Haggard - Writer/Actress | Back to Life, Breeders
Rachel James - Development | Happy Valley, Years and Years

AGENTS & PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Leyla Hobart - Aardman Animations
Robyn Meisinger - Anonymous Content
Zack Zucker - Bellevue Productions
David Weissbourd - Cadence 13
Alec Ring - Cinetic Media
Greg Gilreath - Divide & Conquer
Jen Kenwood - Drama Republic
Allard Cantor - Epicenter
Scott Stoops - Good Fear Films
Natalie Gergely - Gunpowder & Sky
David Jimenez-Katsman - Sugar23
Justin Littman - The Gotham Group
Roberto Larios - Verve Talent

Our TV Pilot contest is for screenwriters looking to get staffed on TV Shows, and have their pilots picked up by Production Companies. This contest has a proven track record of helping emerging writers achieve their goals of becoming full-time working TV writers in the US & abroad.

DON'T MISS THE FINAL DEADLINE – JUNE 28TH
SUBMIT YOUR PILOT TODAY
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv-pilot-contest/​

 

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2024 TV PILOT QUARTER-FINALISTS​

WE ARE HONORED TO ANNOUNCE THE QUARTER-FINALISTS OF OUR 2024 TV PILOT CONTEST

We at Shore Scripts are extremely grateful to all the writers who have graciously shared their TV Pilots with us. We have been humbled by the quality of the scripts this year, as well as the boldness with which so many writers shared their voices. Your stories are unique, creative, and definitely deserve to be celebrated. Congratulations to everyone moving on as Quarter-Finalists!

OUR SEMI-FINALISTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SEPTEMBER 11th.​