Inspired Script
Inspired Script's CALL FOR FEATURE FILM OUTLINES is now closed.
Rules & Regulations and Submission Guidelines submission guidelines can still be found here
The Atlantic Film Festival Association is very pleased to announce screenwriter, author, and story consultant, Noel Baker as our special guest instructor for the 2009 Inspired Script Program, presented by sponsors, Telefilm Canada and Astral Media The Harold Greenburg Fund.
Inspired Script offers a unique opportunity for four Atlantic Canadian writers to develop their feature film outlines to treatments and pitch them to a panel of industry professionals at the 29th Atlantic Film Festival. The program winner will be eligible to receive up to $20,000 in development financing and will also receive a live, staged full read-through with local actors at Script Out Loud during the 30th Atlantic Film Festival, September, 2010.
The four outlines, selected by an Inspired Script Jury, will be developed into treatments through three intensive weekend workshops with script editor, Noel Baker and world-renowned pitching expert, Jan Miller.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 5:00 PM, April 17, 2009
Workshops: May 29 - 31, July 24 - 26, September 18 - 20
Inspired Script Pitch & Match: September 17 - 26 - Session to be scheduled during the 29th Atlantic Film Festival (exact date to be determined)
Our Past Winners
2008
Dot's Will by Scott Simpson (NS):
Reverend Douglas Hitchens is anything but a model minister - as devoted to the bottle as much as the bible, to singles bars as much as the sacrament. It’s time he preached somewhere less... high profile.
Lakeland, Cape Breton is the very definition of a small town - perfect for a fresh start... Or is it? A large inheritance has been left to Douglas’ new church and the congregation can’t decide what to do with it. Soon infighting turns to all-out war. And Douglas is left to determine if this is God’s idea of a cruel joke, or the path to salvation.
2007
Pot of Gold by Drew Hagen (NS):
Doug Davidson and his wife Penelope are living paycheck to paycheck, expecting their second child, when he suddenly loses his job down at the chocolate factory in Dartmouth. With their life is thrown into turmoil, Doug is convinced by his crazy buddy Lyle McKelvey to take a wild road trip across the country to the promise of a lucrative job in the Alberta oil fields. Doug and Lyle quickly find that the streets of gold are actually paved with broken dreams as they run into dubious local characters hell bent on their destruction.
27th Atlantic Film Festival Program Guides
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