To submit:

Manuscripts must be in screenplay format

Submit a PDF or Word Doc 

All script genres welcome

Page count: minimum 80, maximum 150

Courier 12 font or similar

Standard format spacing

Our prizes:

We will select two grand prize winners: one APMFF Drama Feature Film Screenplay Winner and one APMFF Genre Feature Film Screenplay Winner. Each of the two winners will be awarded $1,000, two event tickets and a personal meeting with one of our experts on site at APMFF 2015. We will select four finalists as well, who will receive two event passes each to APMFF. Event passes include all music and film events as well as all screenwriting events including our agent panel.
Our contest process:

All screenplay entries will be read and selected by The Writer’s Hotel and The New Guard Editors before proceeding on to our judges. APMFF 2015 Judges are Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue. Final judging is blind.

We are presently accepting online submissions only, via this submission manager. We are accepting submissions for this contest only. We will be accepting the first 200 submissions only, up to the March 20th deadline, whichever comes first. 

Judge biographies:

Micah and Noah are writers and producers on Golden Globe winning series, “Transparent.” Together, they wrote “The Motel Life” with Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsch and Kris Kristofferson. The film won Best Screenplay at the Rome Film Festival. They are currenly writing a feature about Mister Rogers for directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine), and a feature called “IPO Man” for Fox Searchlight, with Jason Bateman attached to star and direct.
http://noahharpster.com/ and
http://http//www.roicommunity.org/users/micah-fitzerman-blue

The Writer’s Hotel is an annual writing conference held in Midtown Manhattan each June. The Writer’s Hotel is the editorial and teaching arm of The New Guard literary review. Editors are Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven. www.newguardreview.com 

Shanna McNair: is Founder and Director of The Writer’s Hotel and Founding Editor and Publisher of The New Guard. She writes fiction, poetry, scripts and articles and has a novel and a collection of short stories forthcoming. 

Scott Wolven: is a TWH & TNG Editor. He is the author of the short story collection, “Controlled Burn.” The film, “Hepburn” by Tommy Davis, a work based on Scott’s short story, “Hammerlock,” was featured at The New York Film Festival, 2014. Scott’s stories have appeared seven years in a row in The Best American Mystery Stories Series. The title story (“Controlled Burn”) appeared in Best American Noir of the Century. 

Please note we do not provide winners or finalists with travel, lodging or food vouchers. Should our grand prize winners be unable to attend the festival, we will connect our winners with our experts via phone or virtual meeting. We will also connect our winners with potential agents via email.

More on the Asbury Park Music in Film Festival:

APMFF 2015 runs from April 10-12, 2015 in Asbury Park, NJ at various venues 

The first annual Asbury Park Music in Film Festival will be held the weekend of April 10-12, 2015. The three-day festival fuses the rich musical heritage of Asbury Park with filmmakers and industry leaders from around the world. The APMFF schedule will include many local businesses and historic venues, and will serve to showcase the unparalleled local talent that makes Asbury Park such an iconic destination. The Screenplay Competition is a special component of APMFF 2015. Workshops and panels run by film industry professionals are the cornerstone of this portion of APMFF programming.

Please refer all questions about the APMFF Screenplay Competition 2015 to: screenplay@apmff.com 

All general inquiries about APMFF: info@apmff.com