Congratulations to The LAUNCH 2019 Winner:
We are extremely proud to announce Abdullah Alhendyani as the winner of The LAUNCH: Million Dollar Screenplay Competition for 2019, with his powerful screenplay HARAM. Abdullah is from and lives in Kuwait, and currently attends Cal State Northridge, completing his Masters Degree in Mass Communication and Journalism.
HARAM is about a Muslim woman who’s being pressured into an arranged marriage and defies her strict religious parents when she falls in love with a female tattoo artist. It’s a story about tolerance, acceptance and love, a story that must be told.
From all of us at The LAUNCH, a big congratulations to Abdullah and everyone else in the Top 8!
We are very excited to reveal our Top 8 Winners!
1. Haram by Abdullah Alhendyani, CSU Northridge
2. Misery, Missouri by Lee Whitten, University of Central Oklahoma
3. Artist, Unknown by Brady Morell, AFI
4. Blackout by Daniel Ocho, St. John’s University
5. Romanza by Helen Doremus, Antioch University Los Angeles
6. The Ghost by Lindsey Gudritz, University of Texas at Austin
7. The Pirates of Fellowship, Maine by James Bentley, UCLA
8. The Show by Obiageli Odimegwu, USC
ANNOUNCING OUR 2020 COMPETITION!
We are pleased to announce The LAUNCH: Million Dollar Screenplay Competition will run again for the third time in 2020! We will be able to help eight more students with the cost of their education, three more gain representatives in the industry and of course, produce another amazing screenplay as feature film. The quality of the screenplay submitted in the first two years have been incredible and we are looking forward to what next year has in store. Submission’s will open on March 1st, 2020 and go through May 31st, 2020.
If you want to be the first to know additional details about the competition, submit your email address below and we’ll get in touch with you soon. You can also stay tuned to our social channels and the website for additional information about The LAUNCH 2020.
The LAUNCH is different than any other screenplay competition
We don’t promise meetings with industry people to pitch your screenplay, we will actually produce your film with a budget of approximately $1 million. The Top 3 Finalists will get an offer of representation and the Top 8 Finalists will share in $100,000 in educational grants and other prizes. Every screenplay submitted will receive one page of professional feedback included with their submission fee, as well as a code for 70% off the annual subscription to the Save the Cat 4.0 story structure software.
The top eight screenplays are carefully chosen and will be announced on or around July 8th, with the Grand Prize winning screenplay entering pre-production shortly after.
2019 Competition Details: Deadlines, Prizes, and How We Judge Your Screenplay
Get all the details on important deadlines and prizes, as well as how screenplays are judged!
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2018 LAUNCH Competition Recap
We are so incredibly proud of the success of the inaugural LAUNCH Million Dollar Screenplay Competition. We saw hundreds of screenplays entered from 207 schools and 37 countries around the world!
After 4 grueling rounds of reads and scoring, the Judging Panel chose our Top 8 winners, based on the story, the creativity found within the screenplay, character development, voice originality, and honest emotion. We were so moved reading the screenplays and brimming with excitement to start pre-production on Stanley Kalu’s Grand Prize winning screenplay, “The Obituary of Tunde Johnson”.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We know that a lot of questions come with entering a contest. When is the deadline? Is there a length or genre requirement? What about formatting? Click here to find all the answers to your Frequently Asked Questions.
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Behind The Scenes: The Obituary of Tunde Johnson
Check out this gallery of Behind The Scenes photos from the set of Stanley Kalu’s Grand Prize winning screenplay The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, featuring Steven Silver (Thirteen Reasons Why), Spencer Neville (Ozark), and Nicola Peltz (Transformers).
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