A Feature Screenplay Competition for un-produced film screenplays. The ten finalists will present their projects in an open Pitching session during FRAPA. Each of the three best screenplays, elected by the Jury of the Pitching session, will receive a licensed copy of the Final Draft software. Deadline: July 10.
- The FRAPA Feature Screenplay Competition aims to promote, value and develop quality feature film screenplays, helping the projects find possible producers, co-producers and opening doors to it becoming a filmed feature.
- The FRAPA Feature Screenplay Competition will select:
- 10 (ten) projects to be presented by the screenwriters, in an open pitching session during FRAPA. The screenwriters will have a Pitching Workshop with an invited consultant – before the event – in preparation for the Pitching Session;
- 02 (two) projects will be awarded in the Feature Film Screenplay Competition;
- 01 (one) project will be awarded in the Pitching Session.
- The submission of projects to this Competition can be made by filling the Online form available in the Frapa website, and sending the full screenplay (PDF) and additional documents listed in this regulation.
- The Competition is open to International applicants. Only screenplays in Portuguese, English or Spanish will be accepted.
- The limit of the feature screenplay must be 120 pages, in professional format (Master Scenes Script), and it must be sent in a PDF file.
- Only fiction (live-action, animation) feature screenplays will be accepted.
- Each screenwriter with the All Access Frapa accreditation will have the right to a maximum of 2 (two) feature screenplays submissions.
- The deadline for submissions to the competition is July 10, 2015, at 23h59, BRT.
- The screenwriter must be the owner of the rights of the screenplay hereby submitted or present a letter of authorization by the rightful owners. In case of co-authorship, the other screenwriters must authorize, in written form, the submission of the work to the Competition. Both authorizations must follow and respect the forms available in the FRAPA website.
- If the screenwriter submits an adapted screenplay, he must send a document that shows the option of the original work or a signed authorization by the original author.
- In the best interest of the screenwriter, we recommend that the work is registered in the National Library of Brazil (FBN), Writers Guild of America (WGA) or in the responsible institute of the country of origin of the author(s).
- The 2 (two) winning screenplays of the will be awarded a licensed copy of the Final Draft software each, and, after the Pitching Session, 3 (three) screenplays will receive a script-doctoring session during the Festival de Cinema de Gramado. These awards will be decided by the Jury, whose decision is final and can’t be appealed.
- The winner of the Pitching Session will be awarded a licensed copy of the Final Draft software. The choice of the screenplay will be made by the Players who will be evaluating the pitches. This award will be decided by the Players, whose decision is final and can’t be appealed.
- The submission of screenplays to the Frapa Feature Screenplay Competition 2015 is conditional to the application to the All Access Pass Accreditation. Incomplete applications will be invalidated.
- Of the 10 (ten) finalists there is a quota of:
- 2 (two) projects from screenwriters living in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil;
- 2 (two) projects from foreign screenwriters.
- The production of FRAPA reserves the right to select or not, to award or not, any screenplay in different categories, keeping the prerogative to itself towards the policies of selection, including not awarding or selecting the total of screenplays listed in the second item of this regulations.
- FRAPA is not responsible for any expenses or costs due to the participation of the screenplay and screenwriters in the Competition.
- FRAPA is not responsible for the consequences of any untrue information given by the submitting screenwriter to this Competition, reserving itself the prerogative of disqualifying, at any given moment, those responsible for any infraction of the Regulations.
- In the act of submitting the work, the screenwriter agrees and endorses the terms of this regulation, stating that all informations submitted to the production of Frapa in this submission are true.
The deadline for entries has been closed.
