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SPRING - SUMMER 2008 CONTEST
Suzanne’s
Prize:
$2,500 For The Best Love Story Of 2008
A Special Jury Prize of the 2008 AAA Screenplay Contest
In addition to the main-category
awards, we will award this year a new Special Jury Prize, titled,
“Suzanne’s
Prize – The Best Love Story of 2008.”
What
Are The Criteria For Winning?
There are just three:
1. The love story has to be in the main plot line.
2.
Genuineness. Make
us believe it.
3. Originality.
Genuineness and originality
equal
marketability -- in the best sense.
You
will win by making us eager to write that letter to producers starting,
“We are
writing to you because
someone
should turn this script into the best love story to hit the screen in 2009.”
So
What Do We Mean, “Best Love Story”?
A
Rom-Com?
A romantic
comedy is certainly one kind of love
story, and would qualify. But the winning script can
be in any
genre.
You can win by
warming
or breaking our hearts, by making us laugh or making us cry -- or even with a
convincing story seeking to make us believe that love is but a
sham, a snare, and a delusion.
It’s not that hard to
win, really. All
we’re asking for is the next
“Casablanca.”
Or maybe only
“Annie Hall,” "Ninotchka," "Princess Bride," or
"Moonstruck." Or a twisted love story like “Bonnie and
Clyde,” or
“Last Tango
in Paris,” or “Sid
and Nancy.” Or even something like "Platoon," a story of love and hate in war.
Just what do we mean by "love"?
Here are a few quotes that
might help (or not--they express a pretty wide range of views):
| The hunger for
love
is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. --Mother Teresa
There
is no surprise
more magical than the surprise of being loved.
It is God's finger on man's shoulder. -- Charles Morgan
Love
is only a dirty
trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. --W. Somerset Maugham, A
Writer's Notebook,
1949
Life has taught
us
that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking
outward
together in the same direction. --Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated
from French by Lewis
Galantière
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. --Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of
love to give, not our kind. --Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's
Notebook, 1960
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. --Ben Hecht
It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. --Author Unknown
Love isn't blind, it's retarded. --Don Foster and Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. --Miguel de Unamuno
Falling in love is so hard on the knees. --Aerosmith
Greater
love than
this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his
friends. --John: 15, verse 14.
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We hope at least a couple of these quotes offer a theme or two or suggest a plot line to you.
How
Do I Register For This Prize? How Will It Be Judged?
Can I Win Both This and the Grand Prize?
There
is no separate entry fee or registration. Each main-contest
judge will be asked
to nominate his or her 2-3 favorite entries for this category. Those entries will then be
read by a special
jury consisting of the publisher of Creative Screenwriting and other
judges he
selects. It is possible to win both this prize and any one of the other cash prizes. Write well,
and good luck!
What Does the Winner Receive?
Suzanne's Prize For Best Love
Story of 2008 includes these prize items:
● $2,500 cash
●
A
free basic pass to the 2008 Screenwriting Expo, a $149 value
● Five free tickets to the 2008 Golden Pitch Festival to pitch scripts
to producers, a $125 value
● One free year of Hollywoodbyphone, a call-in chat with producers,
agents, and working writers -- a great way to network, created by
Hollywood insiders including a screenwriters' manager with 10
years' experience as a major-firm agent, and a screenwriter mentor, and
a $564 value.
●
A
free copy of Truby Blockbuster software, which sells for $295
●
A
free copy of Truby Love Story software, which sells for $99
● A free "Screenwriting School In A Box," the set of all
50 Creative
Screenwriting DVDs on the business and craft of screenwriting, a $750
value.
●
A
free subscription to Creative Screenwriting Magazine, a $24 value
● The winning script will be sent to producers, agents, and managers
who
have asked to see this Special Jury Prize winner.
● A
synopsis
and
logline will be sent to 300+ of these movers and shakers.
“Why
Is It Called Suzanne’s Prize?
Who Is
‘Suzanne’?”
Suzanne
was the wife of the publisher
of Creative Screenwriting.
She
inspired love in almost everyone around her. If it might help, you can read about her at http://suzannecorrales.com.
Subject
To Revision
This
prize is a new idea. As
this is the first time we have offered
this prize, we reserve the right to revise the criteria should
circumstances
warrant. It
is subject to all the other
rules of the contest.
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