ScriptLinks CA Competitions - Canadian
Canada Council for the Arts - Media Arts - free, semi-annual Specs: professionally produced script
Prize: Scriptwriting Grants for research, scriptwriting and/or development of a storyboard, workshops with actors, and travel, for innovative and artistic projects by mid-career or established Canadian artists
Canadian Short Screenplay Competition - (Toronto) Yorkton Film Festival Specs: Shorts (15 pages or less)
Prize: cash, production by Year of the Skunk Productions, pass to festival, products and services, industry exposure
Canwest Global Writers Program - Specs: TV series
Prize: 4-week internship in the story department of a prime-time series, pass to Banff World Television Festival
Canwest Showrunner Training Program - Specs: for experienced series writers
Prize: one on one training with top creators at the Banff World Television Festival, trip to LA for a week to meet with a variety of story teams on existing US series
CBC Prime Time Television Program - Specs: TV spec script and Original Series Pilot
Prize: 5-month residency in TV series development
Cold Reading Series - (Vancouver) ongoing submissions
Specs: Features or Shorts, Hour or Half-hour TV Pilots or Episodes Prize: live script reading
Crazy8s Short Film Extravaganza - (Vancouver) for filmmakers
Specs: 5-minute video Pitch, in-person Pitch for Short Prize: script workshop, $800 to make films in 8 days, screening upon completion
Female Eye Film Festival - (Ontario) Script Reading Workshop and Good To Go Awards
Specs: Features with a female protagonist for workshop category; Features, Teleplays, and MOWs for awards category
Prize: script reading workshop, industry session, products and services
Final Draught - (Vancouver) script reading series
Specs: Features, Shorts, Teleplays and Animation Prize: live script reading, critique by industry insiders
The-GreenLight.com - (Ontario) monthly, optional notes
Specs: Features (85-120 pages) Prize: feedback, online exposure
The-GreenLight.com Annual Script Contest - (Ontario) 500 entry limit
Specs: Features (85-120 pages) Prize: cash, products and services, feedback, industry exposure
The Harold Greenberg Fund - Canada’s largest private funding agency for film and TV projects, script development program, 3 deadlines a year
The Inspired Script Program - (Nova Scotia)
Atlantic Film Festival, for produced writers, must be available for workshops and festival events
Specs: feature film outlines by Atlantic Canadian writers
Prize: development funding, workshops, full read-through at festival, pitch opportunity
Moving Image Screenwriter's Competition - Toronto Specs: Features (to 120 pages) in several categories and Shorts
Prize: production, option deal with White Night Studios, script doctoring, Final Draft software
PEI Screenwriters' Bootcamp - Specs: Synopsis and sample scene for Features and Shorts, TV and Web series, by residents of the 4 Atlantic provinces Prize: mentoring and group sessions with industry professionals
Praxis Screenplay Competition - (Vancouver) Simon Fraser University Praxis Centre for Screenwriters, semi-annual
Specs: Features by Canadian writers Prize: workshop with a veteran story editor or screenwriter, script reading
Prince Edward Island International Film Festival - promotes film in PEI Specs: Features
Red Inkworks - (Vancouver) semi-annual
Specs: character-based Features Prize: feedback, online and industry exposure
ReelheART Screenplay Competition - (Toronto) part of film festival
Specs: Features Prize: live script reading, coverage
Screenplay Giveaway - CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival at Canadian Film Centre, North America's largest short film festival and market, for filmmakers
Specs: Canadian Shorts Prize: production package, industry access
Toronto Independent Film Festival -
Specs: Features (over 60 pages), with Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror and Comedy categories Prize: cash
WILDsound Monthly Screenplay Festival - (Toronto) monthly, feedback on every entry, changing genre-based contests
Specs: Features and Shorts Prize: live reading, industry feedback, promotion on radio show
WILDsound 1 Page Screenplay Competition - (Toronto) ongoing
Specs: 1-page script Prize: live reading, production, film shown at festival
WILDsound TV Spec Screenplay Competition - (Toronto) part of ongoing film festival, feedback on every entry
Specs: TV Specs and Pilots Prize: live reading, industry exposure
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