A lot of screenwriters just starting out often think “All I need to do is write an amazing script, and the rest will fall into place.”
Not really. Having an amazing script helps, but that’s just the beginning.
Learning how to write a script, let alone an amazing one, is one thing. What to do when the script is done is a whole other topic.
Do you know how to pitch? What about dealing with contracts? How are your negotiating skills? These and many other business-oriented topics are vital. And if you’re thinking “Why should I care? My reps can handle all of that,” think again.
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As this blog enters its 15th(!) year of existence, its primary purpose has been and continues to be about one thing: helping screenwriters.
While my experience, influence, and social media presence may not be as extensive as some, I try to offer whatever help and guidance I can.
If that means giving writers the chance to include their script on a list for anybody and everybody to peruse, share, and spread across the internet, then that works too.
Therefore, I humbly present The Maximum Z Winter ’23 Script Showcase.
An amazing assortment of 71 screenplays and 39 TV scripts covering a vast spectrum of genres and subjects, many of which with notable contest achievements.
And to make it that much more of a valuable resource, each writer’s contact info is included. A script or three sounds like it would be a good read? Drop the author a line and say “Hey, I’d like to read that!”
If your script is among those in this list, take pride in that (You finished a script! Yay you!) and feel free to tell the Internet to your heart’s content. (In fact, it’s highly encouraged.)
Once again, a huge thanks to all the writers who participated. I wish you nothing but amazing results and stupendous returns.
Thanks for reading, and enjoy.
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Sadia Carone
Military, Action-Adventure
A mysterious ancient hourglass gets accidentally tipped over at CIA Headquarters — triggering a series of events. A beast in Scotland awakens. A similar hourglass in Cairo starts to glow. Seven chosen people. Who can put the facts together to unlock the ancient secrets?
A robbery sets off a chain reaction of revenge as an aspiring country singer, a broke bartender, and a two strike criminal find their lives thrust together under the neon shadows of music city as they try to make it out alive.
Quarterfinalist – 2019 Nicholl Fellowship
Winner – 2019 California Film Awards
Finalist – 2019 Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival
A former Military Intelligence Soldier is recruited to root out corruption and seeks revenge on the turncoat who killed her men and almost succeeded in killing her.
A hotheaded political journalist is ordered to relax at Niagara Falls and write a puff piece about the monumental dewatering project going on there, but discovers a cold case mystery involving one of the construction workers and her pageant-winning twin sister.
A safe-averse lawyer plans on reuniting with his ex but must first defeat her uncles – two Rabbis – in a court case seeking to find her incompetent as heir to her fathers’ billions because she’s a lesbian! – And Broken Promises!
An Oahu-based marine biologist sets out to determine the cause of unusual shark behavior while the research institute employing her battles for funding, and her relationship partner issues unrealistic demands.
After a big-city schoolgirl, obsessed with her gig as a pirate-radio broadcast DJ, is forced to move to a tiny town just after graduation, she lies to win a legit radio license – claiming to be a Native American – and then must redeem herself with the tribe (and outfox the FCC) to stay on the air.
Jillianne is trapped in a haunting Voodoo curse when she marries into an influential French Quarter family. After her husband succumbs to the family’s twisted beliefs, Jillianne must uncover the truth behind the curse and protect her unborn child from the clutches of Desmond Bennett, a deranged killer determined to prove the curse’s power.
After learning that his ex-girlfriend is nine months pregnant and trapped in her home from a weather disaster, an irresponsible high school senior must act as labor coach for the birth of his child, over video chat.
After losing millions on a risky investment, a group of ex-bankers pull off a daring heist against the Russian mob and must use all their smarts when the Russians seek revenge.
On the moon’s largest colony, one happy-go-lucky stoner must do what no one has done before, protect the aliens he accidentally saved until they can make ‘official’ first contact unless a xenophobic moon command – or far, far worse – stops them.
Desperate to save his job and regain family brownie points after a pink eye “incident”, a neurotic germaphobe ventures to a remote tropical island chasing an interview with a free-spirited pop star during a hurricane, in spite of his phobia for water, wind and girls.
Unable to afford his dream college, a high school graduate lands his first job where he creates friendships with the jaded staff and follows his passion as a comic book artist.
Quarterfinalist – Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards – Season 8
When his girlfriend leaves him for not being “big enough,” an introverted engineer will walk a path of self-discovery through bodybuilding that turns into a self-destructive journey fueled by anabolic steroids, cocaine, and casual sex.
After six years in a French convent high school, a teenage girl with a pathological narcissist disorder in full bloom is released to return home in California determined to having sex with herimagined hero, her father’s best friend, the man she’s always call Uncle Chuck.
When two young up-and-coming filmmakers gain mentorship from their retired hero, they jump at the opportunity for his help completing their student film before the old man’s erratic behavior turns deadly.
A rebellious, resistant and inherently funny hell-on-wheels seventy-five-year-old alcoholic falls down the stairs in her home twice in the last two years. She is rescued by her daughter who intervenes by sending her to detox and rehab with Francine discovers that recovery will take her in an unexpected direction that offers her a chance to reclaim her sobriety and dignity after facing down her demons.
Winner – The Big Apple Film Festival
Finalist – LA International Women in Film Screenplay Awards
Semifinalist – NYC Screenplay Awards
Official Selection – Cannes International Cinema Festival
Official Selection in the Toronto Independent Women in Film Festival
After she is stabbed by an obsessed Stalker, a troubled J-Pop Idol and Her Loyal but suspicious Manager fight a curse: A Demon that kills the Idol’s loved ones whenever she feels love, as punishment for rejecting her Stalker.
Quarterfinalist – 2022/2023 The Script Lab Free Screenplay Competition
When a music obsessed graduate student discovers the members of a hot new boy band are actually bloodthirsty vampires, she teams up with friends, family, and former bandmates to stop the pop group’s evil beat.
An Atheist, desperate to comfort her dying son, tells him she will enter Heaven by his side, which leads to haunting and exorcism intended to make her keep that promise.
This film hasn’t received any awards. However, my short film, Penance, was an Audience Favorite at HollyShorts Film Festival, where the screenplay was also a Finalist.
When Nazis invade the Soviet Union in WW2, young Ukrainian flier Lilya Litvyak joins the Soviet Air Defense and fights not only the pilots of the Luftwaffe but the sexism and bureaucracy of the Soviet system to become the highest scoring female ace in history only to have her records and story buried by Stalin.
Finalist – Nicholl Fellowship
Quarterfinalist – Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – Screencraft True Story & Public Domain Competition
After making a discovery at a vintage record store, a nostalgia-obsessed musician begins an on-air affair with a mysterious radio DJ, only to discover that she’s broadcasting from 1977.
The mysterious sole survivor of a small plane crash ingratiates himself into the family of his rescuer – a kind Nebraska schoolteacher and her troubled teenage son – with sinister results.
A brilliant young software developer puts her career and life in jeopardy when she fights to hold a billionaire tech titan accountable for assaulting her and stealing her world-altering code.
When his new girlfriend is accused of a felony, a former alcoholic lawyer battles against an ambitious prosecutor who is also the woman who left him at the altar and caused his emotional descent.
When Krampus discovers his former boss and toxic-bro, Santa, has enspelled the entire North Pole with dark magic, he must get over his hundred-year-heartache and return to rescue his old flame, Mrs. Claus.
A lonely neuroscientist transfers her elderly cat’s consciousness into the mind of one of her coma patients. But when the cat gets his tongue, the fur starts to fly and she has a difficult decision to make.
When a precocious 7-year-old girl, adopted by her late mother’s twin sister, receives a mysterious terrier for her birthday, they instantly bond and are joined by unseen forces to survive a deadly plot to destroy her and her family.
Senior year, a newly-questioning Muslim and a love-lorn agnostic Jew begin a FWB relationship, for their first sexual experience, but when they begin to fall in love, they must figure out if they’re truly right for each other.
When her scorned suitor shows up with an army of 300 men and abducts her into the heart of the Viking world, a semi-legendary princess struggles for vengeance while envisioning a new nation of laws that would prevent this from ever happening again.
A group of teens and their transformer spaceship form a formidable team, guided by a veteran they’re able to face the federation tyrannical Admiral and his army of cyborgs and machines.
America’s first chrononaut sets off on an exploratory mission to travel back in time. But when he returns to the present, he finds that this initial breach of space/time has set off a chain reaction that’s sent the world into chaos.
Five years after surviving a madman’s murder spree, a real-life “final girl” finds herself falling for the DP of a documentary crew dedicated to exposing her darkest secrets.
When a successful architect’s search for his husband’s misplaced wedding ring is interrupted by home invaders, his life and all he knows to be true are upended until he starts to question his identity.
An emotionally-guarded young widower struggles to find a way to connect with his eight-year-old son who – believing he’s responsible for his mother’s death – refuses to leave the house unless he’s wearing the caterpillar costume she had made him for Halloween.
Seven years after the disappearance of his son, a grieving father partners with the mother of another missing youth to hunt down those responsible—a sadistic backwoods cult operating under the radar of local police.
Semifinalist – 2023 Austin Film Festival
Recommend – 2023 Roadmap Writers Accelerator Program
Top 10 Finalist – Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards Season 7
Burnt out and disillusioned with Hollywood, a fragile and struggling actor finds a lifeline when he’s thrust into the heart of an epic guerrilla film shoot led by an infamous director.
After a bus crash, a teenage dancer caught between life and death must grapple with the father who abandoned him, his own deepest regrets, and the prospect of saying goodbye to his love – or joining her forever in the afterlife.
Winner – Fantasy Category – 2020 Script Summit
Semifinalist – Filmmatic – Inroads Fellowship Season 6
Quarterfinalist – 2020 CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2021 Industrial Scripts – The TITAN Awards
A troubled biker and a pistol packing ex-nun rescue an abused woman and play a deadly game of hide and seek when her powerful preacher husband calls in a hitman to save his political career by burying the family sins.
A Nendoroid encounters a human survivor in a post-apocalyptic world and forms a friendship. However, their friendship gets tested when they face off against a killer cyborg. It’s Wall-E meets The Terminator.
A genetically gifted teen is forced to go on the lam when an egocentric scientist and his dying henchman, hunt him down to harvest his advanced DNA as a cure.
Invention comes with with both a spark of genius and a moment of deceit. This is the story of Philo Farnsworth, the boy genius who figured out the electronics of television at the age of 14. And the corporation that erased him from history.
In a world where state-sponsored death penalties are banned, a private execution specialist faces a moral dilemma when a family’s conflicting views on capital punishment challenge her mission.
Finalist – Fall 2023 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab
Finalist – Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards -Diversity Initiative III
Semifinalist – 2022-2023 Finish Line Script Competition
When a gallery owner with a thieving side hustle is hired to steal a priceless Mummy and take down a shady museum director, she enlists the help of an eclectic team with their own agendas and must outsmart her Interpol boyfriend.
While escaping a tyrannical wizard, a novice witch from a magical dimension ends up stranded without her powers in the least magical place of all – New Jersey.
3rd Place – Family/Teen/Animation – 2023 StoryPros
Christopher D’andre Williams & Nicole Simone Backus
Teen Horror
In a tale of supernatural reckoning, ‘Voodoomon’ follows a bullied teen’s return from death, her soul infused with voodoo might. As she seeks retribution, her mother faces a heart-wrenching choice: kill her own daughter to save the world.
Hired by a ruthless CIA asset to hunt down North Korean agents operating in Los Angeles, a burnt-out spy living off the grid discovers his target… is himself.
Comedy about a gay male couple and their straight best friends who plan a double wedding with unexpected romantic, financial and familial complications –and the world’s most take-charge wedding planner (based on my produced L.A. stage play).
When a gutsy third grader becomes the first girl to wrestle on a boys’ team under federal law, she must fight injury and animosity on her way to the State Championship.
Claustrophobic and confined to an underwater grave for stealing billions in Bitcoin from the Russian mob, a Los Angeles retail store manager has just 60 minutes to prove his innocence and save his family.
Semifinalist – 2023 StoryPros
Quarterfinalist – 2023 PAGE Awards
Recommend – Dec 2023 Barb Doyon/Extreme Screenwriting
After a big snow storm hits, a jaded New York businessman and renown holiday grump finds himself trapped in a Christmas-obsessed small town just as their famously cheesy holiday festival is starting.
Isolated for six months on a seafood processing vessel in the wild Bering Sea, a young man struggles with sanity when the love of his life disappears from the ship without a trace.
Pregnant from a sexual assault, the pro-life granddaughter of a conservative Supreme Court justice attempts to escape her forced-birth state to obtain an abortion, but gets apprehended by a vigilante group headed by her brother and incarcerated at a “Life Mall” where she must remain until she gives birth.
After being robbed of their phones and money on their first date, two middle-aged strangers must work together to get home on one crazy, awful night in Los Angeles.
A fragile woman with an unhealthy reliance on her helicopter parents gets a chance at growth and redemption when both she and her fed-up therapist are held hostage in a dysfunctional bank robbery. (No Hard Feelings meets Bandits)
The sociopathic Dr. Victoria Frankenstein brings Mary to life, and forces her to kill people for scientific experimentation, but as Mary evolves into an ethical person, she must find a way to sabotage her creator’s evil agenda.
Semifinalist – 2021 Screencraft Fellowship
Finalist – Fall 2021 Big Apple Film Festival
Semifinalist – Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Season 7
At a clinic where troubling emotions can be cleansed, a series of tormented clients discover that the seemingly utopian procedure is an expressway to destruction.
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Page Turner
Honourable Mention – 2023 Finish Line Script Competition
Exceptional Achievement – 2023 Multi Dimension IFF
After a female football prodigy saves a failing collegiate program, she defies the odds and becomes the first woman head coach in college football history, until she discovers an underground sports-betting plot against the team and threatens to expose it to the world, even if it means destroying her own legacy.
Best Drama – Script Summit
Best Screenplay/Excellence in Screenwriting – Twin Falls Film Festival
Best Sports Screenplay – Las Vegas International Screenplay Contest
Based on the 2004 case of Jack Irwin, a reclusive veteran is taken advantage of by two women and disappears. Without the determination of his only friend, Sandy Bailey, his case would have vanished like him, instead, it uncovered a twisted case of elder abuse and a horrifying murder in the mountains of Southern California.
Semifinalist – 2023 Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Creative Screenwriting Pilot Competition
Three unusual kids with secret mind-bending abilities struggle to contain the detrimental side effects that their existence causes society. But when their medical records are leaked, the cure they so desperately need is at stake.
Semifinalist – 2021 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2022 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
After a failed writer accepts a temp job on the City’s Equity Team he is quickly pulled into the absurd labyrinth of municipal government and must find his way out.
A goofy and not-always-honest attorney’s unique–and illegal–plan to have an old friend carry his baby hits a literal bump in the road when a pregnant ex appears.
Top 50 Pilot – 2023 Roadmap Jumpstart
Second Rounder – 2023 Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – The Script Lab Free Screenplay Competition
Semifinalist – 2022 Omaha Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Lala and Jon – a biracial couple – are caught in the middle of an American race war. With battle raging, and a bounty on their heads, where will they run? Where will they hide?
An unhealthy accountant that’s inherited a gym from his recently deceased dad works to keep things afloat as he deals with the annoyance of his extremely fit staff and manages a health scare after collapsing while filling in as a yoga class instructor.
A devilishly-charming former Scotland Yard Inspector tries to redeem his fall from grace & dark past by working as a private detective in a quirky Cotswolds village in 1950’s England, surrounded by equally-quirky & eccentric inhabitants with secrets of their own.
Semifinalist – 2022 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2022 Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2023 ISA’s Table Read My Screenplay
After 28-year-old James McKinnon wakes up in a field as a walking corpse, he enlists his high school best friend-turned-mortician and a transplanted police officer to help him answer the question of what is happening in their small, Midwest town.
Semifinalist – Creative World Awards
Quarterfinalist – Stage 32 Happy Writers TV Contest
When a kid’s collection goes viral overnight, she must learn to navigate the cut-throat fashion world with only her working-class mom’s help and a talking magazine cut-out of her favorite supermodel.
Seeking adventure in a divided fantasy society, a tenacious teenage girl and her friends unknowingly repeat history when they take on the responsibility of saving their world from a corrupt Queen.
A high school football star recovering from a brain injury must stop his friends and family from being infected with a sentient slime mold that threatens to turn everyone in the remote Minnesota town of Kitteritch into a single, murderous hive mind. TOMMYKNOCKERS x TWIN PEAKS
Eight diverse career struggle talented artists with personal and Mental Health issues partner up to develop a TV series to level up their troubled careers.
A homeless detective – who can only solve crimes when drunk – struggles with sobriety. Mick has 8 days to solve a murder, while living in his car. But each clue pulls a thread of mystery that could unravel the town, and cost him more than a job.
In the midst of a forbidden affair with her commanding officer, a sharp-witted transgender combat medic embarks on a journey to be true to herself, challenging old-school military rules amid internal conflicts and the complexities of love, identity, and self-acceptance.
N.E.S.S. (Nightmare and Extraction Storage Solutions)
Simon Laurence Doyle
Comedy/Sci-Fi
A government agent trained to infiltrate and extract rich clients’ nightmares must balance his debt to the mob, a suspiciously keen new intern and some rather stabby dreams of his own. Easy peasy.
Hakeem, a drug dealer and Voodooist from New Orleans, is the first spiritual son of the Voodoo deity, Obba Nani. Despite his reoccurring psychosis, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery and love, guided by his poetry and Obba Nani’s mystical teachings that bestow upon him supernatural powers.
After his estranged son steals a new tech innovation with destructive capabilities, a retired mercenary must track him down before a war is waged between a multitude of corrupted corporations.
The true story of the world’s most infamous terrorist and how he teams up with his bumbling Jihadi cohorts to evade U.S. forces and convince superstar pop singer Whitney Houston that they are each other’s soulmates.
After leaving her cheating, well-to-do husband, an ex-graphic designer opens an edgy greeting card design studio and store. When her ex opens a competing card studio she must ramp-up her edgy and take her studio Over The Edge!
Semifinalist – 2023 The Script Lab’s TSL Free Screenplay Contest
When a huge first round upset busts 99% of America’s March Madness brackets, the uptight and introvert owner of the last possible perfect set of selections is forced to navigate overnight fame, a desperate rookie reporter, and the Las Vegas underbelly, when pick after pick goes his way.
Quarterfinalist – Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards – Season 8
A former JAG attorney starts a new life as a private sector lawyer and gets caught up in a class action lawsuit against a crooked pharmaceutical company.
A bold, dark comedy that follows our main character Matthew, who’s stuck in a temp job at a call center, living with his ex-girlfriend and battling an extraordinarily mediocre existence. He eventually finds solace and friendship in the one place he never thought to look: the people who also inhabit the unpredictable world of his temp agency.
A young privileged African-American baseball scout puts his job on the line when he vouches for an undiscovered pitching phenom who’s trapped in the drug game.
A happy-go-lucky private investigator finds himself stuck between a past he’s been running from, and the hope of what the present brings. But his curious nature leads to a revelation of supernatural proportions.
A crew of desperate college journalists investigate a peaceful cult in their area. However, the more they uncover about this community, the less peaceful they seem.
The son of a famed Draconian Knight survives years of imprisonment and torture with an iron will and singular purpose – to escape his oppression and exact revenge upon those who murdered his family… giving birth to a terror that had endured over five centuries.
When the Princess of the Zombies is outed as a vegetarian she runs away from home, finding a portal into the monster multiverse and proof that her Father, the missing King, is still un-alive.
A young man crashes into his own past when he wishes for a second shot at a high school romance. A time-travelling LGBTQ+ love story, told against a backdrop of slightly askew seaside attractions, a chilling serial killer and a gaggle of elderly genies.
Finalist – 2022 Screenwriters Network TV Pilot Competition
Semifinalist – 2021 The Script Lab Screenplay Competition
A Westernized East Indian teen defies and denounces his Muslim upbringing and culture much to the chagrin of his traditional parents, who’s arranged marriage for him is in conflict with the white girl he plans on marrying.
Three siblings struggling to overcome a heinous family secret become the prime suspects in the death of a renowned entrepreneur and wrestle with the consequences of grief, guilt and growth.
Submissions continue to come in for the upcoming Maximum Z Winter ’23 Script Showcase, which goes live on Friday 22 December. The cutoff for sending in is Thursday 21 December, so there’s still time to add your screenplay or TV script into the mix.
If you’ve been trying to think of a way to spread the word about your script, then look no further. Once the post is up, I’ll post a link to it on several of my social media platforms, and hope you’ll do the same.
All this free marketing and publicity, with an emphasis on the “free” part.
Here’s how it works:
Email the following info here with the subject line “Maximum Z Winter ’23 Script Showcase”
-Film or TV?
-Title
-Author(s)
-Genre(s)
-Logline
-Awards (if applicable) – limit of 5
-your email
And that’s it. No more, and definitely no less.
A few important things to remember before sending:
-DO NOT SEND THE SCRIPT! If somebody is interested in reading it, that’s why your email is included.
-ONLY ONE SCRIPT PER PERSON
-MAKE SURE YOUR LOGLINE IS ACTUALLY A LOGLINE. A few writers have sent in synopses and taglines, which are most definitely NOT loglines.
-PROOFREAD YOUR INFO! Is everything spelled correctly? Is all the info there that needs to be there? I will post what you send as is – no editing on my part, so make sure it reads the way you want it to.
The inbox remains open for just a few more days. The cutoff date of Thursday 21 December will be here before you know it, so don’t delay and send today.
The number of listings continues to grow for the upcoming Maximum Z Winter ’23 Script Showcase.
The Showcase will post on Friday 22 December, so submissions will be accepted until Thursday 21 December. Like the lady in the gif says – you’ve got two weeks and counting to send in the details about your script.
I’m thrilled that lots of writers are taking advantage of this absolutely free opportunity to put their screenplay or TV script in the spotlight.
Are you one of them? If so, great and thanks!
If not, why the heck not? It’s super-easy and all you need to do is send an email here with the following info:
Film or TV?
Title
Author(s)
Genre(s)
Logline
Awards, if applicable – limit of 5
Your email
And this cannot be stressed enough: PROOFREAD YOUR INFO BEFORE SENDING IT!!
Is everything on there accurate and spelled correctly? There have been a few listings that left out some important details. As one writer responded when asked if it was a TV or film script, their response was “Oh, God. I had ONE job: Fill out the form correctly!”
Exactly.
Also important: DO NOT SEND THE SCRIPT
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ONLY ONE SUBMISSION PER PERSON
Once the post is up, I’ll put a link to it on my social media accounts. Hope you’ll share it around and proudly announce your inclusion.
For those that have submitted in years past, already-submitted scripts are welcome, but new material is encouraged.
A few writers have asked if short film scripts and specs for existing TV shows are allowed. The answer is YES.
Feel free to email me at the address above if you have any other questions.
With the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes over, an event originally planned for earlier this year can now take place.
That’s right. It’s time for the triumphant return of The Maximum Z Winter ’23 Script Showcase!
Got a feature or short screenplay, or a TV script you want the rest of the world to know about? This is your chance to do exactly that – for the incredibly reasonable price of ABSOLUTELY FREE.
On Friday, December 22nd, a list of scripts easily available and shareable with pretty much anybody will be posted here, and yours could be part of it. I’ll also post a link to it on a few other platforms, thereby enabling as much access to it as possible. You are also more than welcome to do the same so you can proudly proclaim “Hey! Check it out! My script’s in here!”. What better way to toot your own horn?
And since it’ll be a wide assortment of scripts, chances are some of the listings could make you think “Hey, I’d like to read that!” Each listing already includes the writer’s email, so it’s a piece of cake to contact them directly and say “Hey, can I read this?”
What a bargain, huh?
Submissions accepted between now and Thursday, Dec 21st.
Here’s how it works:
Email the following info here with the subject line “Maximum Z Winter ’23 Script Showcase”
-Film or TV?
-Title
-Author(s)
-Genre(s)
-Logline
-Awards (if applicable) – limit of 5
-your email
That’s all. Pretty simple, right?
However, there are two very important details to keep in mind:
-ONLY ONE SCRIPT PER PERSON
and
-DO NOT SEND THE SCRIPT!!
Previously-listed scripts are okay, but new scripts are encouraged.
Also highly encouraged – PROOFREAD YOUR EMAIL BEFORE SENDING!! Is all the info correct? No typos? I’ve received more than a few over the years that could have used a good edit. How it’s written in your email is how it’ll be written in the post.
The inbox is open with a deadline of Thursday, December 21st, so don’t delay and send today!
Maximum Z 