My black sci-fi script won an award, anyone want to read it?
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Drew Wonder
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Two other scripts. This is the only one I’ve written that’s gotten any type of recognition though
MurderToCassette
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Congratulations breh, I'd love to give this a read if you have time to send a PM.
Big ups
Big ups
Drew Wonder
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Congratulations breh, I'd love to give this a read if you have time to send a PM.
Big ups
Appreciate it bruh. And yup I got you
neat congrats, what got this recognition? did you promote it more or...?
Yinny
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Wonderful, congrats. Is it a movie or tv script-any plans to film a short screen to market it? I’d watch, not a script person.
Drew Wonder
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Think it was a mixture of timing and finding the right contest. The Philly setting is a big part of the script so Set in Philly was a good contest for me to submit it to. Also, the judges read the script around the same time Mike Bloomberg entered the presidential race and the Stop and Frisk policy was on a lot of people's minds. The script deals with racial profiling so it made it more timely than it initially was.
I use a website called coverfly to submit my scripts to different contests. If your script places well in a contest it boosts its coverfly score. So when that happens industry readers affiliated with the website start to notice. So winning SIP boosted its score and a producer reached out to me. Unfortunately that didn't work out (DM me if you want to hear that story lol). What I've been trying to do now is network more, going on other forums (Facebook Screenwriting group, reddit screenwriting) and meeting other writers
I'm also trying to use the connections I've made after winning the contest since it's sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Film Office. Unfortunately all the shutdowns really delayed all that. I was supposed to go to an award ceremony for the competition where I'd be able to meet more people but it got canceled. But I've still been maintaining contact with them
But yeah, getting a script sold is like winning the lottery and even if you're lucky enough to do that once you sell it they can change everything. So it's a long, slow grind. Only reason I do it is because I have a genuine passion for it.
Drew Wonder
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Thanks bruh. Feature film script. I'm just a writer not a director and it would require a decent-sized budget to film. So right now I'm just trying to use it as a way to make some connections and hopefully sell it. As I mentioned before, it's a long-shot though
Congrats breh 
DamienWayne
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Definitely, congrats breh ! Please PM
I love seeing stuff like this on here.
Sunalmighty
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Or that one fool from Dr. PHIL
Drew Wonder
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Will check out. Remember when you had the thread a few years ago to peer review scripts