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In the first 10 pages the writer needs to let the reader know in general terms what the story is about, and what is at stake. Plus, set the tone of what world and genre the writer has created, while also introducing the main characters. All the while you need to engage and entertain the reader.

The contest was created because this is an industry where agents/producers and their team are so busy and are reading so many scripts that if you do not grab them right away then they will put down the script and move onto another one. So you have to capture their attention when you’re writing on spec.

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Tier 1 – Get full feedback on your script (everyone who submits).

Tier 2 – Get your script performed by professional actors.

Tier 3 – Do a written…

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UNSAID WORDS, 3min., USA, Animation

Directed by Stark Zhao
Two girls at a tennis camp overcome a tough situation that could’ve ended their friendship.

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MANUEL, 19min., Italy, History Drama

Directed by Mario d’Anna, Stefano Mangoni
In 1943, a Jewish family hides from the nazi roundups. Adam, a 10-year-old boy, following a strange dream, starts a mysterious countdown.

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Best Film: THE WAY WE CHANGE
Best Dance Film: LET OFF
Best Experimental Dance: COUNT IT ALL
Best Sound & Music: GHOSTLY LABOR
Best Performances: INFERNO

Best Direction: YOU WANTED RIVERS
Best Cinematography: FAREWELL

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FAREWELL, 5min., China, Dance

Directed by Ruo Wen Tian
Countless ordinary life experiences are buried deep in the dust.
In an old factory trapped in stilled time, I try to show how common folk constantly exist in an ever moving forward torrent of time, through the collision and contrast between the youth of young dancers and the antiquity of the machinery and environment, while also using the shoe that appears in the beginning and at the end to represent the memories of people who couldn’t keep up with the changes of the times.

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Best Film: HUNROS JORNA
Best Experimental Poem: MEMORY OF WATER
Best Sound & Music: caprice x²
Best Performances: WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID

Best Fashion Film: SONAR

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caprice x², 4min., Austria, Animation

Directed by Claudia Ungersbäck
Forms and gestures, situations over a copy (is_t) existance. marks and notes happening while light resounds.

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WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID, 4min., USA, Experimental

Directed by Jamie Donohoe
A family is in pain after losing their mother and wife. Will these family members say what they desperately need to say? Or will their fractures deepen?

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Best Film: MOONRISE
Best Music Video: THIS WORLD IS YOURS
Best Performances: IDKN
Best Direction: I AM WHO I THINK YOU THINK I AM

Best Cinematography: THE MIGRANTS
Best Music Film: THE OPENINGS
Best Sound: MÓÐIR

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THE MIGRANTS, 5min., Canada, Music Video

Directed by Louise Marie Beauchamp
Poetic fresco shot in the cold of Canada that expresses the difficulty for a migrant to tame a foreign territory. On J.-S. Bach’s Adagio in D minor, which he brilliantly interprets on the piano, the Guatemalan indigenous artist and farmer Salvador Chavajay tells us with simplicity and clairvoyance the recent forced exodus of workers from his country and offers his definition of the term’s poverty, wealth and conscience.

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Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: ASTEROID RUSH: PLANETARY DEFENSE
Best Short Film: 12 SHADES OF GREY
Best Experimental Film: MILLENNIALS LEAVE IN PEACE

Best Cinematography: REFUGE ALASKA
Best Sound & Music: CYCLE

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ASTEROID RUSH: PLANETARY DEFENSE, 52min., France, Documentary/Sci-Fi

Directed by Jacques BEDEL, Bertrand LOYER
At first glance, it appears unlikely that we are under threat from extra-terrestrial objects. Yet, at any moment, the sky could fall on our heads. Our solar system contains millions of objects known as asteroids. The smallest measure just a few centimetres across but the largest can have a diameter of a thousand kilometres. Some circle the sun, like planets, while others cross paths with Earth’s orbit. Now, technological marvels are under construction to avoid a cataclysmic collision. What seemed like science fiction, has now become reality…

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Can the aging process be reversed – or even halted, altogether? If we manage to decode this final mystery of our human biology, we might soon be able to eradicate age-related illnesses like cancer, dementia and heart problems.

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ELIXIR, 10min,. Canada
Directed by Jean-Marc Abela
After the recent break up of a longterm relationship, Maeve must move through nostalgia and pain to find herself again.

WE DANCE, 12min., USA
Directed by Ethan Payne, Brian Foster
From the world renowned Wideman-Davis Dance Company and award-winning filmmakers Ethan Payne and Brian Foster, We Dance is a love story, deconstructed and distilled into its most elemental ingredients. Dreams. Memories. Family. And environments. Tanya Wideman-Davis and Thaddeus Davis take us from Chicago to Montgomery, from New York to the point where their lives meet and become one. Along the way, they honor and signify on Black American art, poetry…

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Best Long Form Short Film: I BOT
Best Short Form Short: THE LAST WOMAN
Best Sound & Music: THE ROCKER AND THE PUCA
Best Animation: CRUSOE
Best Performances: VOID

Best Direction: SIGNAL DARK
Best Cinematography: AFTER
Best Fantasy Film: THE LADY OF THE HOUSE OF LOVE
Best Sci-Fi Film: THE WORLD IN A BEAUTIFUL BOOK

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CRUSOE, 8min,. USA

Directed by Shane Acker
This Sci-Fi action comedy follows the adventures of Crusoe, an astronaut stranded on an alien planet teeming with hostile life.

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THE ROCKER AND THE PUCA, 12min,. Ireland

Directed by Trevor Courtney
A Teenage busker Jack is driving the locals mad because he plays only one tune…

Directed by Harald Johan Zwart
To win back the love of his life, a charming car mechanic and a gang of soccer-mad friends embark on a madcap journey to the lawless East Bloc to correct a mistake of his past, risking life and prison in an ingenious booze smuggling scheme. This is the third movie in the most successful comedy franchise of all time.

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Director Biography – Harald Johan Zwart

Harald Zwart made his first film when he was 8 years old.

Spent four years at the Dutch Film and TV Academy in Amsterdam where he graduated Masters in Directing, Screenplay and Editing.

After a series of award-winning short films (Audience Award Clairmont Ferrand, Audience Award Montreal), commercials (Cannes, The Golden Pencil) and music videos (for A-ha)…