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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:11:10 +0800
Subject: Re: [WriteMovies] US screenplay competitions
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It's a waste of time just posting a screenplay on the net. Plus someone can steal it... though why anyone would bother stealing screenplays posted on the net who knows?
If you use an online workshop and distribute your screenplay through their online forums etc. then fine. There is a purpose. You're looking for feedback and this is a good way of getting it. Once again, if someone steals your work that's just the luck of the draw. But, why would anyone bother when they can rip off successful movies to much greater effect?
There are some highly secure sites that offer a screenplay directory service. You post there and they record and vet who looks at the screenplay. These services appear to be having some success and it might be a good way for getting low budget ideas into the hands of low budget producers with a bit of money for options but not a lot of facilities for finding writers. You'll probably find agents creating on-line archives for prestige clients to browse sooner or later.
American competitions are biased towards the American market. If you're writing quintessentially Australian movies, then don't waste your time. Your time is better spent finding Australian producers and writing to their requirements.
Places like Write Movies have an international bent and so look for writers who can write but in the end they will encourage them to fulfil the requirements of the market they can serve, which is mostly the American market.
But... Australian movies are for Australia. Note that Ozzie movies often pull in a Brit actor to help get them some extra mileage in the UK, which is a very pro-Ozzie market. The two independent movie industries feed off each other, ripping off the latest success of the other to great effect. But as ever, local markets cannot compete head on with the big special effect high concept movie of the US and so fill in the gaps with culturally specific comedies and low budget gangster movies... it's the same in Australia as it is in the UK as it is in Hong Kong and Japan. The film commissions all pay lip service to encouraging writers to write genre based material that can (and I quote the UK Film Council) "attract audiences the world over." I.E. compete with America. Fat chance. Especially when UK talent simply flies into LA and goes native, sort of... eg Jonathan Lynn. An essentially English writer of essentially English sitcoms who has transformed himself into the maker of low budget regionally based US comedies for the American market. He brings a British sense of humour to America, but only just. That's mostly how Brits compete with the American market and the Ozzies aint that different.
Which leaves the local film makers doing what America cannot do, comedies about their societies, quirky crime stories dealing with local style criminality, cheapo grant financed issue dramas with TV as the main market, and the odd cheapo grant financed art house piece that the writer director would probably make no matter whether there is any market or not... Just grab a camcorder if you can't get any backing and just do it.
There are no rules. You can always find the exception. But they are the exception.
Lawrence
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From: Gloria Stanley
To: WriteM-@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: [WriteMovies] US screenplay competitions
Gael,
What it does is show that YOU wrote the material and leaves open to sue anyone who steps in your way.
I too register all my work.
Gloria
Gael Allan <gall-@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Hello all,
It's Gael here, I'm an aspiring screenwriter in Australia for those of you who haven't seen my posts before. I'm thinking about entering some of the American screenplay competitions that are open to people from other countries and want to know, do any of you know the types of films that tend to win them, like any particular genre/style etc? I tend to write low budget drama or comedy films because well, that's the only way you'll get anything made in Australia so I wouldn't even know how to write stunts, high concept films etc.
Also, any thoughts on posting your screenplays on the net? Do any of you do it & do you feel OK about it in terms of copyright etc? I register everything I write with the Aust. Writers guild but don't know if this really protects you....
Cheers,
Gael
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