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Directors
Circle Scriptwriting Competition
Rules Of
Entry
PLEASE
READ AND FOLLOW ALL BELOW INSTRUCTIONS
Scriptwriting Eligibility:
Must be 18 years of age or older
Applicants under the age of 18 are allowed to enter this
contest. Any applicant who is under the age of 18 must have
a parent or legal guardian enter the competition on their
behalf and provide their signature on each entry form
submitted.
Should an
applicant under the age of 18 win the competition all monies
and prizes will be made payable to the parent or legal
guardian and/or that person whose name and signature appears
on the application.
Teachers may
always submit entries on behalf of their students. Each
entry must include the teacher's signature. Each entry must
also include a copy of the teacher's teaching credential.
The entered script must not be or previously been optioned,
sold, or produced.
Standard Rules:
All
genres are accepted.
All countries are eligible.
Scripts must be submitted in English.
Scripts should be between 80 (minimum) and 125
(maximum) pages not including the title page.
Scripts should be properly formatted. Print on white
paper using only 12 pt. Courier, or 12 pt. Courier
Final Draft fonts.
Please include ONLY the title and the tracking
number on the submitted manuscript to prevent reader
biases. Full contact info, writer, title and company
information should not be printed on any part of the
actual screenplay.
Printed screenplay submissions should be bound with
two or three brass fasteners.
All submitted submissions become property of the
Director’s Circle Scriptwriting Competition and will
not be returned. At the end of the competition, the
Director’s Circle will destroy all screenplays.
With the exception of the 10 finalists,
rewritten/corrected pages WILL NOT be accepted once
the entry has been received.
Script submissions must be postmarked by the proper
deadline dates
Scripts must not have been previously optioned,
purchased, in production or produced.
Any script that becomes purchased, optioned or put
into production before our final deadline will be
eliminated from competition with no entry fee
refund.
Scripts written as adaptations of other works must
have secured rights before being submitted.
Any genre considered
Scripts must be original work of the author
Multiple authorship is allowed.
If the script wins, the writers will divide the prize.
Multiple entries are allowed, but their own completed entry
form and their own appropriate entry fee must accompany each
entry.
No corrected pages or additional pages will be accepted
after the script has been entered.
Script
Guidelines:
Submitted Scripts must be in English.
Do not send originals, scripts will not be returned.
Scripts must be in industry standard format and bound with 2
or 3 brads unless submitted electronically as an Adobe PDF
or Word File.
Body pages must be correctly numbered.
Script title page should only contain name of screenplay.
Must be on white paper.
Covers must be card stock only.
Teleplay
Rules:
Teleplays must be original material. We will not accept spec
scripts for existing shows, treatments or reality television
pilots.
Teleplays must be hour or half-hour or one hour pilots.
Additional material will not be read or considered.
Teleplays must not have been previously optioned, purchased
or produced.
Script
Length:
Feature Length scripts 70 pages or more
Shorts length scripts 69 pages or less
Teleplay Feature Length scripts no more than 60 pages
Teleplay Short Length Scripts no more than 30 pages
All entries
must be postmarked no later than the appropriate entry
deadline they were submitted under.
Additional entry fee will be required if not postmarked by
the appropriate deadline.
Entries received with uncompleted information will not be
considered.
Not
following the guidelines, rules, regulations, or
eligibility may be cause for disqualification.
General. By entering this Contest, entrants
agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules,
which are final and binding on all matters
pertaining to this Contest. All federal, state, and
local laws and regulations apply. All taxes
(including, without limitation, federal, state, and
local taxes) on or connected with any prize
(including, without limitation, prizes that are
opportunities to make donations to a charitable
organization), and the reporting consequences
thereof, are the sole and exclusive responsibility
of respective winners. Each Winner must, if so
requested by Promoter, complete Promoter's winner
verification process and/or execute and return an
Affidavit of Eligibility and a Liability/Publicity
Release within a period of time required by
Promoter. All prizes awarded in connection with the
Contest are nontransferable and nonendorseable. No
substitution of prizes is permitted. The Promoter or
Host's employees or agents or representatives may
view all Concepts in the interest of providing
technical assistance to Contestants. Technical
questions may be referred to Host for assistance at
Promoter's discretion. Dates of official
announcements are subject to change. Release, Waiver
and Indemnification. BY ENTERING THE CONTEST,
ENTRANTS RELEASE AND HOLD THE PROMOTER AND HOST AND
ALL OTHER CONTEST ENTITIES HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST
ANY AND ALL LOSSES, DAMAGES, RIGHTS, CLAIMS, AND
ACTIONS OF ANY KIND ARISING IN WHOLE OR IN PART,
DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, FROM THE CONTEST OR
PARTICIPATION IN ANY CONTEST-RELATED ACTIVITY
(INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE REMOVAL FROM THE
SITE OF, OR DISCONTINUATION OF ACCESS TO, ANY
SUBMISSION OR OTHER MATERIAL), OR RESULTING DIRECTLY
OR INDIRECTLY FROM ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE, OR
MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE AWARDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE
CONTEST, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION PERSONAL
INJURY, DEATH, AND/OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, AS WELL AS
CLAIMS BASED ON PUBLICITY RIGHTS, DEFAMATION, AND/OR
INVASION OF PRIVACY. THE PROMOTER, THE HOST AND
CONTEST ENTITIES DO NOT NOW AND SHALL NOT HAVE IN
THE FUTURE ANY DUTY OR LIABILITY, DIRECT OR
INDIRECT, VICARIOUS, CONTRIBUTORY, OR OTHERWISE,
WITH RESPECT TO THE INFRINGEMENT OR PROTECTION OF AN
ENTRANT'S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, IF ANY,
RESPECT TO ANY SUBMISSION OR CONCEPT, REVIEWS,
MATERIAL, VIDEO AND/OR OTHER MATERIALS PROVIDED IN
CONNECTION WITH THE CONTEST. BY ENTERING THE
CONTEST, ENTRANTS RELEASE, WAIVE ANY CLAIMS WITH
REGARD TO, AND HOLD HARMLESS THE PROMOTER, THE HOST
AND THE CONTEST ENTITIES FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND
ALL CLAIMS OF ANY KIND THAT ARE OR COULD BE ASSERTED
WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER RELATING TO THE CONTEST.
ENTRANTS FURTHER AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD
THE PROMOTER, HOST AND ALL OTHER CONTEST ENTITIES
HARMLESS FROM ANY AND ALL DAMAGES, LIABILITIES, FEES
AND COST INCURRED IN DEFENDING AGAINST ANY THIRD
PARTY CLAIMS OR THREATS OF CLAIMS ASSERTED AGAINST
PROMOTER, HOST AND/OR OTHER CONTEST ENTITIES ARISING
FROM ANY ENTRANT'S PARTICIPATION IN OR CONDUCT
ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONTEST. Entrant agrees to
convey, transfer, and give promoter, host, and
contest all rights to submitted materials for the
purposes of but not limited to fundraising
activities and such fundraising activities shall be
at the complete and total discretion, consideration,
and full and complete authority of the promoter,
host, and contest in perpetuity.
Force Majeure. Nonperformance of any party
shall be excused to the extent that performance is
rendered impossible by strike, fire, flood,
earthquakes, war, governmental acts or orders or
restrictions, or any other reason where failure to
perform is beyond the reasonable control, and not
caused by the negligence of, the nonperforming
party. Governing Law and Waiver of Damages. The
Contest and these Official Rules are governed by and
shall be construed in accordance with the laws of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States of
America, without regards to its principles of
conflicts of law. For any dispute not subject to
arbitration according to Section 4(g) above, entrant
agrees to personal jurisdiction by the federal and
state courts located in Erie, Pennsylvania, United
States of America, and waives any jurisdictional,
venue, or inconvenient forum objections to such
courts. Further, in any such dispute, under no
circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain
awards for, and hereby irrevocably waives all rights
to claim, punitive, incidental, or consequential
damages, or any other damages, including attorneys'
fees, other than participant's actual out-of-pocket
expenses (i.e.,
costs associated with participating in the Contest),
and entrant further irrevocably waives all rights to
have damages multiplied or increased.
Privacy. Information submitted in connection with
the Contest will be treated in accordance with these
Official Rules and the Site's Privacy Policy,
provided that in the event of any conflict between
these Official Rules and such Privacy Policy, the
terms and conditions of these Official Rules shall
prevail. All Contestants and Team Members hereby
acknowledge and agree that Promoter will have access
to some or all of their personally identifiable
information, including but not limited to
registration information collected by the Host.
Film and script selections will be announced no
later than October 27, 2012
Our
festival will take place November 14, 2012 to
November 24, 2012
All
entrants will receive confirmation of receipt of
entry via email and
all
entrants will notification of acceptance or
non-acceptance to the festival.
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