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31st Fade In Awards | Screenplay Competition

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🏆 Cash prizes • HPF pass • Pro mentor session • Project marketed to industry
🙌 Winners include Cold Pursuit & The Marksman
✍️ Enter the 31st Annual👇

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Swipe for an inside look at our process, the standards, and what makes a script rise above the reading pile.

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One submission. A serious shot at cash, recognition, VIP access, and industry visibility.

#Screenwriters & filmmakers! The 31st Annual FADE IN AWARDS is now open.

You wrote the screenplay. The short. The web series. You rewrote it. Then rewrote the rewrite. You stared at page 47 at 2:13 a.m. and briefly considered becoming a florist.

But here you are. And so is the work.

For more than three decades, the Fade In Awards has helped emerging writers and filmmakers get in front of the people who can actually move a project forward. Past winners have signed with UTA, CAA, WME, Gersh, and Paradigm — and gone on to make #1 box-office films and television (and win Oscars) that exist outside their Google Drive.

Enter for your chance to win:
• Cash prizes
• A VIP pass to the 2027 Hollywood Pitch Festival
• One-on-one industry mentoring with @nextlevelscribe
• Submission opportunities through @greenlightmymovie
• Exposure to 3,000+ buyers and industry reps

Your project has done enough sitting quietly on your desktop. Give it a next act.

Enter now at FadeInAwards.com
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#fadeinawards #filmmakers #scriptcompetition by @fadeinawards

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At the Fade In Awards, the goal isn’t just recognition; it’s connection. It’s putting your work in front of the people who can actually move it forward — directors, producers, decision-makers looking for the next story that hits.

One script. One meeting. One jolt to the system.

One minute it’s you, a blinking cursor, and a script nobody’s read yet. Next minute — you’re in the room. Across from directors. Talking shop. Talking your story. The thing that used to live in your skull at 2 a.m. is now on the table, dissected, considered…wanted!

Our Grand Prize winners don’t just take home a title — they kick the door open and walk straight into the machinery.

Because winning the Fade In Awards isn’t the finish line — it’s the ignition point.

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Our Winners Work!

#fadeinawards #screenwriters #authors #emergingwriters #writer by @fadeinawards

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Welcome to THE MONSTER – Challenge 4 of #PitchOWeen.

Who or what stands in your protagonist’s way?

Be specific!

Finish this sentence:
“Standing in my protagonist’s way is _____, which prevents them from ______ by ______”

Drop your monster in the comments.
Make us worry for your protagonist.

Don’t forget to tag 👉 #PitchOWeen @hollywoodpitchfestival

#writingchallenge #screenwriting #writers by @fadeinawards

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Say yes and send this to the screenwriters in your life...because there’s always a better choice available.

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#Screenwriter #Screenwriting #Yes #Nonono #screenplay taken in Hollywood - Los Angeles by @fadeinawards

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Screenwriters welcome to THE GHOST – Challenge 3 of #PitchOWeen.

What wound, secret, fear, or past failure haunts your protagonist?

No actual ghost required. Emotional damage will do.

Finish this sentence:
“My protagonist is haunted by ____ which leads them to ____.”

Drop their ghost in the comments.

Don’t forget to tag 👉 #PitchOWeen @hollywoodpitchfestival

#screenwriter #screenwriting taken in Hollywood, California by @fadeinawards

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Your protagonist wants something. Peace. Power. Their ex’s Netflix password.

But what do they want badly enough to make a terrible decision?

Welcome to THE COVET – Challenge 2 of #PitchOWeen.

Finish this sentence:
“My protagonist wants ___ so badly, they’re willing to ___.”

Drop yours in the comments. Give us a goal worth making a mess over.

Don’t forget to tag👉 #PitchOWeen @hollywoodpitchfestival

#PitchOWeen #WritingChallenge #Screenwriting by @fadeinawards

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What can happen when you win a Fade In Awards Grand Prize? For 2026 winners Kieran O'Dea and Brennan O’Dea, a seven-figure, first-screenplay sale! In August, Sony snapped up “The Ballad of the Ember Knight."

A Fade In Awards success story with a medieval-sized breakthrough: Set during the Hundred Years’ War, the brothers’ medieval epic is a 190-page spec. Not exactly a modest calling card — but a bold swing that got Hollywood’s attention.

Then came the kind of plot twist every emerging screenwriter hopes for: a major studio stepping up to bring that vision to the screen.

Congrats Kieran & Brennan!

Submit your project 👉 fadeinawards.com

Our Winners Work!

#fadeinawards #screenwriters #filmmakers #writers #screenwritingcompetition by @fadeinawards

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🎃 Pitchoween has begun!

CHALLENGE #1: THE HOOK

You get one sentence. Can you make us want more?

Tell us who it’s about, what they want, what stands in their way, and the irony that makes your story stand out.

Drop your hook in the comments. Let’s hear what you’re conjuring. 🔪

Remember to tag 👉 #PitchOWeen @hollywoodpitchfestival by @fadeinawards

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🎃 Welcome to #PitchOWeen: 11 Days to a Killer Pitch!

Starting tomorrow, we’re dropping 11 bite-sized daily prompts to help you sharpen your hook, raise the stakes, define your characters, find your comps, and nail your 30-second pitch.

No rewriting 110 pages. No exorcising your entire third act. Just small, focused steps to make your story impossible to ignore.

🕸️ Share your answers in Stories, comments, or Reels.
🎃 Tag @hollywoodpitchfestival and use #PitchOWeen so we can follow your progress.

🏆 Bonus: One lucky participant will win a Craft a Killer Logline session

Day 1 drops tomorrow. Bring the script you’ve been avoiding. It’s time to give it a killer pitch. 🩸

#PitchOWeen by @fadeinawards

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Writers, some good news: if you’ve revised a project you entered in a previous year — or it previously placed in the Fade In Awards as a semi-finalist — you’re absolutely welcome to enter it again.

Because sometimes a rewrite is more than a rewrite. Sometimes it’s the version that earns the meeting, gets the attention, and creates the momentum you’ve been waiting for.

Give your newly improved screenplay its moment. Enter the 31st Annual Fade In Awards 👉 fadeinawards.com

#screenwriting #fadeinawards #scriptcompetition #writers #filmmakers by @fadeinawards

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What haunts your screenplay most? by @fadeinawards

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