[Cwgrad-announcements] This is the uber-screenplay competition -- go for it.

[rrussin at ucr.edu]

Academy's Nicholl Screenwriting Competition Now Underway 

Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences is now accepting entries for the 2008 Don and Gee
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. 

As many as five $30,000 fellowships will be awarded through
the program later this year. 

Application forms may be downloaded from the Academy's Web
site and mailed with the other required materials, or they may
be completed and submitted online. 

Interested parties should go to www.oscars.org/nicholl 

The Nicholl Fellowships competition is open to any individual
who has not earned more than $5,000 from the sale or option of
a screenplay or teleplay or received a fellowship or prize of
more than $5,000 that includes a "first look" clause, an
option, or any other quid pro quo involving the writer's work.
 To enter, writers must submit a completed application form,
one copy of their original screenplay in English, and an entry
fee of US$30.  Entries must be postmarked no later than May 1,
2008. 

Fellowships are awarded with the understanding that the
recipients will each complete a feature-length screenplay
during the fellowship year.  The Academy acquires no rights to
the works of Nicholl fellows and does not involve itself
commercially in any way with their completed scripts. 

Last year's competition drew more than 5,000 entries. Since
the program's inception in 1985, 103 fellowships have been
awarded. 


Robin Russin
Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-2707
(213) 949-1061 cel
robin.russin at ucr.edu

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