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VISIONFEST

Welcome to the

SCREENWRITING COMPETITION

Annual competitive forum for authors of

feature length and short subject screenplays

in any genre

Celebrating 25 Years and Counting

Please note that several areas of this website are still undergoing digital construction and may therefore be showing incomplete content and/or pertinent links that may require additional editing.

 

We thank you for your patience during this ongoing process.  

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Call for Entries

Submissions for the 2025 competition are now closed.

The Call for Entries for our 2026 Screenwriting Competition will open February 1, 2026

Judging Criteria

Submitted screenplays must be unproduced projects written in English and in Industry Standard Format. (please check our RESOURCES page for links to various information sources on Industry Standard Format guidelines and other screenwriting tips designed to compel your reader to read your work to the page marked THE END).  

Our script readers and, ultimately our judges, rate each script based on originality, execution of story and thematic elements, character development, structure, and proper screenplay formatting, including grammar and spelling.​ Having your script presented in the proper format and with care and attention given to preventing typos and finessing  the smaller details will go a long way.  

Our readers and judges receive their reading assignments without cover pages to ensure that the author's name and any hints to gender remain anonymous, thus removing any potential bias that may arise based on author familiarity from prior submissions or from multiple submissions from the same author within a given competition year.  Only the script title and an accompanying logline (when available) are passed on to the readers/jidges, along with the script, of course. 

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VISIONFEST
is partnered with
North Country Live
events

Please see below for upcoming events schedule:

Upcoming Events

  • Frostbite Rocknite
    Frostbite Rocknite
    Sat, Dec 20
    Sackets Harbor
    Chasing Skyward Lights and Undefeated will co-headline at 8pm, with doors opening at 6pm for an acoustic pre-show performance by cover artists Kasidee and Bill. NBC TV Watertown will be taping the event and airing it.

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Contact us via email at:

info@visionfest.com

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