Now the Bad News.

Out of over 100 entries from all over the globe there were five first round winners but NO finalists.


CASE OF THE MISSING ENTENDRE by Chris Scott Burdick

Story about an all lesbian police department. (Still awaiting the script)

UNLEASHED by Curtis and Scott Burdick

This story is about an oil well that widens into a huge chasm into Hell. (See Best First Page) (This pair has found other representation)

POWER BALLAD by Walter Delmer

About a girl trying to become a singer, who learns that to do so she needs to believe in herself. (Interesting enough to want to read more, but still needs work.)

MARRY CHRISTMAS by Sue Berg

A Christmas story about a man down on his luck who finds love (Lots of laugh out loud stuff in first 20 pages, but unfortunately, we're still awaiting the full script.)

RIDE TO VENGEANCE by Dave Vaughan

A western about an ex-marshal who takes on a large army of convicts in order to get to the despicable outlaw who raped and murdered his wife. (A rewrite is in progress.)

If anyone knows the writers whose scripts we are still awaiting, please pass the word along that even though Contest #14 has begun, we would still like to see these screenplays.


Our contests of the past have averaged between 10-15 percent first round winners and there has always been at least one final winner but most often there have been several. That is because the 20/20 contest makes winners of all of the great scripts it finds.

The above having been said, we'd like to explain why Contest #13 yielded no grand winners.

The need for scripts that have readers falling out of their chairs with laughter, or scared out of their wits with nightmares to follow, or crying with tears of sadness or gladness is a constant. If a screenplay can pull off one of the above and sustain that excellence for its entire length, it would be impossible to turn down; and our fingers would be itching to call our production contacts to get out their checkbooks.

Yes, there were those few entries where we loved the first 20 pages and you cannot imagine our excitement when we find one of those. Unfortunately they weren't able to sustain the same degree of interest that at first piqued us.

Because the industry mavens have raised the bar so high due to the sheer glut of scripts, we have been forced to do likewise. Our reputation hinges on the quality of material we send out to our contacts. Consequently, we can't afford to send out scripts that might be reasonably well-written, but are too derivative or ordinary.

Today, in order to get one's foot in the door, a writer's material must have a story with a high concept idea and characters that leap off the pages.

We know there are still gems out there from unknown scribes and those are the writers that we are in desperate search of discovering.

In our next contest make your screenplay stand out from the rest and follow Andy's Golden Rules of Writing



And if you can do all of the above in one sentence you will GROW and achieve literary immortality.

Keep slogging and rewriting.

Andy/Bonnie