Chicago Prizes
Grand Prize Winner Goes to an International Film Festival!
• 1 FEATURE/PILOT GRAND PRIZE WINNER • 1 SHORT GRAND PRIZE WINNER
• 1 ISA LOCAL WRITER AWARD WINNER
PRIZE PACKAGE INCLUDES:
- $1000 Cash Prize
- Flight & Accommodations to Chicago, IL during the 2017 Chicago International Film Festival in October, 2017.
- A Director will workshop scenes from your screenplay with Professional Actors to be performed at the TRMS Showcase Presented by the ISA in Chicago.
- 4 Days of Film Events, Networking and Parties.
- Special Invitation into the ISA Development Program and ISA Spotlight.
Plus:
- You’ll receive a Script OR Career Consultation with a Professional Screenwriting Coach for up to 120 pages from Jacob Krueger Studio ($1000 value).
- You’ll be announced on The Tracking Board with a dedicated write-up and submitted to over 1,700 Industry Professionals for review.
- Listed on the ISA website and The Tracking Board as Official ISA Spotlight Selection.
- All prizes in the Top 10 and Semi-Finalist Categories.
GRAND PRIZE SHORT WINNER:
- $500 CASH PRIZE
- You’ll receive a Table Read recording of your Winning Screenplay by Professional Actors.
- You’ll receive a Script OR Career Consultation with a Professional Screenwriting Coach for up to 120 pages from Jacob Krueger Studio ($1000 value)
- You’ll be announced on The Tracking Board with a dedicated write-up and submitted to over 1,700 Industry Professionals for review.
- Listed on the ISA website and The Tracking Board as Official ISA Spotlight Selection.
- All prizes in the Top 10 Category and Semi-Finalist Categories.
INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITERS’ ASSOCIATION CHICAGO WRITER AWARD
TRMS would like to award a special honor in celebration of the local talent. This accolade will be offered to a writer whose hometown and residence is in the city we visit, on this occasion – Chicago.
- Professional Actors will perform scenes from your screenplay at the TRMS Showcase Presented by the ISA in Chicago.
- Special Invitation into the ISA Development Program and ISA Spotlight.
- 1 Year ISA CONNECT Membership ($100 Value)
- Plus prizes from the Semi-Finalist Categories.
TOP 10 WINNERS
- 1 Year ISA CONNECT Membership ($100 Value)
- Write Your Screenplay Class with Jacob Krueger in NYC or Online. ($350 Value)
- Write Your Screenplay Class includes One-on-One Consultation
TOP 100 OVERALL
American Beauty: Seven Act Structure ($150 value)
w/ Award-Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger
This seminar not only breaks down the seven acts of this classic but delves into the motivations of writer Alan Ball; both when he set out to pen this film and upon revising it. Award-Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger discusses the various motivations of the characters in order to show how their organic growth changed the structure of the story we as an audience are told.
EVERYONE WHO ENTERS RECEIVES:
Getting Past the Gatekeepers: How To Get Producers, Managers, and Agents on the Phone with Award-Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger