Screenwriters Workshop Announces 2008 ScreenLabs Challenge

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Screenwriters Workshop is pleased to announce the guidelines for the 2008 Screenlabs Challenge. Make a short film, win a $1000!

All applicants must submit an email with the following information: your name, project title, mailing address, and email address. We also recommend joining the ScreenLabs Challenge 2008 mailing list to be the first to hear Challenge news.

Download the 2008 ScreenLabs Challenge application hereCompleted films/videos must be received at the IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts no later than 4:00pm on Friday, August 15, 2008.

Screenwriters Workshop designed ScreenLabs as a filmmaking development program intended to foster collaboration among writers, directors, producers, talent and crew through bringing original scripts to the screen. The Challenge began in 2007 as a contest to empower screenwriters to produce their own scripts.

This years theme is "Agony and bliss: Unrequited love." This should be an integral theme that runs through each film. As with last years ScreenLabs Challenge, we require a particular location be included in all completed films. For 2008 filmmakers must include the "Witch's Hat" water tower in Prospect Park, Minneapolis, as a location in their finished film.

Submitted works will be judged by a panel of jurors who are film/video artists and professionals. Winners will be awarded the following cash prizes:

First Place - $1,000
Second Place - $500
Best Screenplay - $250
Audience Award - $250

Click here for detailed information about the 2008 ScreenLabs Challenge. Good luck!

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