Ivy Film Festival Screenplay Competition

Greetings from the Ivy Film Festival at Brown University!

In seven short years, the Ivy Film Festival has set itself apart from its peers by providing a unique forum for student filmmakers to exhibit their creative efforts. Completely student-run since its inception, the Ivy Film Festival was created by students for students, exhibiting the works of young filmmakers from around the globe as well as guest speakers, panels, and workshops by industry professionals. Past guests include Oliver Stone, Tim Robbins, Adrian Brody, Martin Scorsese, and Jack Nicholson. Attracting crowds of thousands to Brown University's campus, the Festival has emerged as the largest student-run film festival in the country.

We would like to invite your students to submit to our screenplay competition. While films are the focus of the Ivy Film Festival, we recognize screenwriting as an integral part of the filmmaking process. We have a myriad of events for screenwriters this year that will hopefully encourage many young writers, even those who have never submitted their work to a judged competition, to participate.

Students can electronically submit their screenplays for consideration in the 2010 screenplay competition until our final deadline of February 22nd, 2010, through Withoutabox.com. A link to our Withoutabox.com account can be found on the Ivy Film Festival website www.ivyfilmfestival.com. The screenplay competition is currently accepting both short-form (under 30 pages) and feature-length screenplays from undergraduate and graduate students. Submissions may be in any genre, and the winners will receive a cash prize. Additionally, outstanding work in Comedy, Drama, and other genres will be recognized.

During the festival (April 13th-18th) there will be a reading of the winning screenplays and we will be hosting forums with screenwriters currently working in the industry. All finalists will be notified and invited as VIP guests to the festival. We will provide them with housing, meals, tickets to film screenings, and passes to special networking events, panels and parties. We hope that screenwriting students will be able to attend the festival, and that these events will help make screenwriting one of the more visible and exciting aspects of the Ivy Film Festival this year and in the years to come.

Please do not hesitate to contact myself or our Screenplay Coordinator, Lisa Weisdorf, with further questions or concerns at IFFScreenplay@gmail.com.

Best regards,

Alex Hare

Screenplay Staff Member

Ivy Film Festival 2010