“Unveiling the Hidden Talents: Who Will Claim SYS’s $100,000 Screenplay Prize in 2024?”
Drumroll, please! We’re thrilled to roll out the red carpet for this year’s screenplay contest winners and finalists. It’s always a special moment when we get to celebrate the creativity and hard work of talented screenwriters. Now, if you’ve ever dabbled in writing, you know how subjective the craft can be. How do you measure the brilliance of a script — do you go by emotional pull, character development, or just that gut feeling it gives you? This year was particularly tough; we received an avalanche of fantastic entries that made our selection process quite the challenge! Each screenplay was scrutinized by numerous first-round readers and industry judges, with results that merely reflect their collective insights and opinions. So, without further adieu, let’s shine a spotlight on our outstanding winners and finalists who navigated their way to the top! LEARN MORE.
We’re excited to announce the winners and finalists from this year’s screenplay contest. A big thank you to all the screenwriters who entered. There were lots of excellent screenplays this year making our work even harder trying to figure out which screenplay deserved the award. It’s never easy trying to apply objective criteria to something as subjective as screenwriting, but that’s what we must do. As a screenwriter myself, I want to really emphasize the fact that this is in no way a “best of” or that any script is “better” than any other. Our process involves a lot of people reading a lot of scripts. All the scripts entered this year were read by numerous first round readers, and the scripts that made it into the later rounds were all read by numerous industry judges and the results here today simply reflect the response from those first round readers and industry professionals.
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