PWI's Hollywood Movie Treatment Contest.
Pacific Writer's Institute is inviting submissions for our first Writing Contest of 2009. We have been in touch with a Hollywood Movie Producer who has agreed to consider our best Movie Treatment for the novel "Day Follow Night; From Chaos To Redemption" by DH Burns. Read on to find out how to enter this exciting writing contest!
A brief definition of Movie Treatment: Most successful Hollywood Producers won't take the time to sit down and read an entire movie script unless they first know there's a good chance it's a script they can be passionate about. And so, agents and script writers invented the "Movie Treatment." Basically a Treatment is a selling tool to tease a producer into wanting to see the entire book or movie script.
It is usually from one to 25 pages- for our contest, less is more, and we're limiting our submissions from one to eight pages, single-spaced, with one inch margins all the way around.
A Treatment is written in broad strokes in present tense. Use dramatic, action-packed, highly-visual prose. Give us a great hook and tell us a bit about the main characters, use some dialogue to help us see and hear them. We want to see some dramatic scenes and some humor as well.
"Day Follow Night" is a big, episodic novel and we need it boiled down to a few pages. Focus on what you see as the main themes then write with intensity! Bring it to life for us on the page.
"Day Follow Night; From Chaos To Redemption" can be purchased from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Publish America, or through our own online store. It's been out for a few years now and sometimes a used copy can be found online.
Pacific Writer's Institute's Spring Hollywood Movie Treatment Contest opened Feb. 22 and the deadline for entries has just been extended to August 1, 2009. Please use white paper, single-spaced on one side only. Always keep the original for your files. Include your name and contact information at the top of page one. Enter as often as you like but include a $15.00 entry fee made out to PWI on a U.S. bank with each entry. Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Address entries to: PWI Contest, 60894 Willow Creek Loop, Bend, Oregon 97702.
The winner's Treatment will be forwarded to our Hollywood Producer. If movie rights are purchased from author DH Burns he has agreed to give our contest winner a full 25% of the first advance payment he receives for movie option, not including the publisher's cut. Sorry, no guarantees; it could be lucrative, it could be disappointing. Some treatments sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars; most don't sell at all. (The deadline for this deal is midnight December 20, 2009 which gives the winner six months for Option offers to come in after the contest ends). The winner will also receive name credit for the Treatment and a handsome frameable certificate and PWI tee-shirt.
PWI reserves the right to carefully edit the winning Treatment before forwarding to Hollywood. We promise to only make changes to clarify points or otherwise improve the Treatment. Entrants must be at least 18 years old. Treatments become property of PWI. See suggestions on our Tips Page.
Authors of the top five Treatments receive certificates and PWI tee-shirts as well. All winners may enter a short story for a free critique by our staff if they like.
Entries will be judged by our staff and each one will receive a number grade. In cases of ties the earliest post dates will win. Decisions of our judges are final. Send entries by US Mail only.
Our staff is excited about this first-of-a-kind contest! We know we will see some wonderful and creative contest entries from our contestants. The best of luck to all.
For more on the contest, visit the Pacific Writers Institute page.
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