Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest - Over $15,000 in Prizes

Break out your scriptwriting software and get to work, because the Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest gives you the unique opportunity to spin this idea into a solid spec screenplay that could be your ticket to Hollywood success.

The Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest is an International competition that facilitates relationships between new writers and Industry leaders looking to help aspirants embark on writing careers.

Here’s how it works:

• Write up to the first 15 pages of a script based on the logline above, provided by Robert Mark Kamen
• The top 10 finalists receive a copy of Movie Magic Screenwriter, Development Notes, and a letter of congratulations from Robert Mark Kamen
• Each of the 10 finalists enter into a 12-week Story Specialists mentoring program, consisting of feedback for every 10 pages submitted, with the goal of completing a spec screenplay
• Robert Mark Kamen and Production Company Benderspink judge the completed screenplays and choose a winner

The lucky winner receives transportation and lush accommodations at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, a classic Industry lunch with Robert Mark Kamen at The Ivy, a one-on-one with aIndustry Agent, a meeting with Benderspink and more.

Fees, Dates and Deadlines:

• Contest Begins: June 1, 2011
• Early Submission Fee and Deadline: $40 - June 30, 2011
• Standard Submission Fee and Deadline: $50 - July 31, 2011

Ready for your shot at the big time? Visit the Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest today to learn more and enter.

Who is Robert Mark Kamen?

Robert Mark Kamen is a screenwriter with twenty-one films to his credit, including Taken, The Fifth Element,The Karate Kid and The Transporterfranchises. A native of the Bronx, he attended New York City public schools, and graduated from NYU with a degree in literature, later earning his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

After spending a year in Afghanistan in 1971, Robert wrote a novel based on his experience. At the urging of a director friend, he turned the novel into a screenplay, bought by Warner Brothers in 1979. His second screenplay, TAPS, was released in 1980. This fall sees Robert’s twentieth feature, COLOMBIANA, released and his twenty-first film, TAKEN 2, begin production.

For the past sixteen years, he has been a frequent collaborator with director/producer Luc Besson. In addition to being a full-time screenwriter, Robert grows grapes and makes wine on the vineyard he built thirty-one years ago in Sonoma, California.

A few words about The Writers Store

The Writers Store is the premier resource center for software, books, supplies and services dedicated to writers and filmmakers since 1982. We’re an independent Burbank-based company catering to both professionals and aspiring writers, specializing in story development, script formatting and production software.

Always on the cutting-edge of advancements in the craft, we know that the one-of-a-kind products and services available from The Writers Store will benefit you with the artistic process. And we know this because we’re writers and filmmakers, too. We use our passion for creative expression to aid us in our search for the gear that will raise your writing to unprecedented new heights.

Ready for your shot at the big time? Visit the Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest today to learn more and to enter.