Scriptapalooza Fellowship

California City, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/07/2015 -- The Scriptapalooza Fellowship program was developed to honor dedicated writers and to help accommodate their creative process and skills. Creativity has many interruptions; most of them legitimate reasons, such as dealing with life. Isolating yourself from all of your demands is not an easy task. "This new fellowship will give its recipient the opportunity to focus solely on his/her writing by removing the writer from his/her daily commitments and providing a supportive environment," says Mark Andrushko, founder of Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition, which has been promoting and discovering writers since 1998.

The Scriptapalooza Fellowship recipient will be awarded a five-day screenwriting retreat in Costa Rica with Award-Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger. The retreat takes place June 10-14, 2016 in Samara, Costa Rica, in a private hotel reserved exclusively for the fellowship recipient and twelve other talented writers. The winning fellowship recipient will enjoy a full curriculum of writing classes, discussions, workshops and feedback sessions taught by Jacob Krueger and senior members of the JK Studio Staff. Each retreat will offer a unique program created specifically for the needs of the writers attending.

The Scriptapalooza Fellowship recipient will receive six months of mentoring from one of our vastly talented industry mentors. The list includes Janet Jeffries of Lawrence Bender Productions, Amanda Marshall of Cold Iron Pictures, Alexia Melocchi of Little Studio Films, Rob Margolies of Different Duck Films, Katrina Nahikian of Bullet Heart, and Breven Warren of Angaelica.

Five additional writers will receive an online writing course, $1000, and a three-month mentorship from one of the above industry professionals. Everyone who applies will receive four to five pages of feedback.

Fellowship applications will only be available from Sept. 1, 2015 to Oct 31, 2015.

For more information, visit http://www.scriptapalooza.com/fellowship/

About Scriptapalooza
Helping as many writers as possible has always been the foundation and heart of Scriptapalooza, and this mission will be furthered with the Fellowship.

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California City, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/20/2014 -- A man enters a screenplay to a competition, snags an agent, then turns that script into a novel. Another man enters same competition, submits his screenplay, lands an agent and creates Latino 101, which is the highest rated show on NuVoTV (an English language network targeted at Latinos).

This is just a couple of the many success stories from the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Turning a script into a novel has actually happened before, former 1st place Scriptapalooza winner, Chris Carlyle, whose script "The Trial of Alex Lord" was turned into a novel.

Mark Andrushko the founder of the Scriptapalooza, in its 16th year, promotes and pushes as many writers as he can, however he can. It is not uncommon to have production companies to contact Mark and request certain genres. "I get calls throughout the year from companies looking for material, it doesn't matter if the contest is closed, I try to help as many writers as possible!"

This competition started as a small grass roots effort and has become an industry powerhouse. Mark is also not threatened by the dozens of overnight competitions that pop up all the time. "Scriptapalooza has remained true to its basic core belief of creating opportunities". This heartfelt commitment to the undiscovered writer is the reason Scriptapalooza is still around, and why the other competitions usually fade into oblivion just as quickly as they sprouted.

Writers will be able to submit their screenplays through www.scriptapalooza.com. Participants will have their individual entries read by more than 75 producers. This year they are awarding over $50,000 in prizes.

A winding road indeed, but if One's end result is to be a paid writer than submitting to Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition is a great start. Screenwriters who enter the competition may not win the grand prize but rest assured that they have a man in the corner pushing them through the proverbial Hollywood door.

The final deadline to enter screenplay is April 21, 2014.

About www.scriptapalooza.com
The Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition was founded in 1998 with the goal of discovering and promoting writers and creating opportunities for them in a fiercely competitive entertainment industry.

Contact: Mark Andrushko
310.801.5366
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