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Shoreline is focused on discovering the best scripts from around the world. Their goal is to get these scripts into the hands of the producers and production companies who have the ability to get them made. They have the highest calibre and most respected industry judges of any screenwriting competitions out there and their judges are Oscar, Cannes & BAFTA winners and nominees.

30th June is the last day to enter your screenplay.

Feature Script – Late Deadline: 2nd June – 30th June 2013 £35 ($56 approx)

Short Script – Late Deadline: 2nd June – 30th June 2013 £25 ($40 approx)

Last years winner sold his screenplay to Christopher Figg, producer of: Hellraiser, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Dog Soldiers & many more.

There’s also over £9000 ($14000 approx.) in prizes to be won!

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To Enter Your Feature: http://www.shorelinescripts.com/shoreline-scripts-screenwriting-competition/feature/

To Enter Your Short: http://www.shorelinescripts.com/shoreline-scripts-short-script-submission/

Judges:

Oscar Nominated Producer, Stephen Woolley – The Crying Game,...

Shoreline Scripts, in partnership with Sound on Sight, is giving emerging independent writers and talented, new voices a chance to have their scripts put into the hands of leading producers and production companies who have the ability to get them made. This is your chance to have your screenplay read by the most respected industry judges of any screenwriting competition across the globe.

Here are the details. Best of luck to our readers who enter.

Shoreline Scripts Screenwriting Competition is offering 1 Free Feature script submission to it’s 2013 competition. www.shorelinescripts.com - How to enter: -

All you have to do is email contact@shorelinescripts.com with your name and ‘Sound on Sight’ in the subject heading. One reader will be chosen at random and notified that they have won by next Wednesday, January 16th.

Shoreline Scripts Screenwriting Competition is focused on discovering the best scripts from around the world.

Irish cinematographer Donal Gilligan passed away on Sunday, 19 September 2010, he was 46. Much loved amongst his friends and colleagues within the Irish film and television industry, the two time Ifta nominee suffered a sudden heart attack on Sunday night. Donal began his career in the industry in the early nineties and worked on dozens of successful Irish projects throughout the years including 'Omagh', 'Dead Bodies', 'Mystics', 'Watermelon', 'John McGahern: A Private World' and 'Raw'. He is survived by his four children and wife Charlotte.

The American Cinematheque is presenting a series highlighting new films from Ireland to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Irish Film Board. The New Irish Cinema series runs from March 14-17 at the Egyptian in Hollywood and includes six feature films and documentaries from new Irish directors as well as a short-film program. The festival leads off with the Aidan Quinn starrer Song for a Raggy Boy, director Aisling Walsh's searing portrait of life in an Irish reform school. Other films featured in the festival include drama The Mapmaker from director Johnny Gogan and the romantic comedy Goldfish Memory from Liz Gill. The series also includes two documentaries: Alan Gilsenan's The Ghost of Roger Casement, examining the case of a knighted Irishman who was executed by the British in 1916 on charges of treason, and Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, an insider's portrait of the recent coup attempt against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Other highlights include a special shorts program and a closing-night St. Patrick Day's Party with the new Irish comedy Mystics from director David Blair.