L.A. Screenplay Competition

The 2009 L.A. Comedy Scripts Screenplay Competition is currently accepting submissions for feature-length and short comedy scripts through December 19th. The script contest is run in conjunction with the L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival, which runs March 5-8, 2009 in Hollywood, CA.

If you have a short or feature-length comedy screenplay that is going to make people gut-laugh, we want it.

Why should you submit to the 2009 L.A. Comedy Scripts Screenplay Competition?

• Priceless industry exposure
  The winners of the comedy feature and comedy short script categories will each receive an in-person meeting with a production executive at Benderspink (American Piemovies, The Ring, Monster-In-Law) and an in-person meeting with Generate, a talent management (Janeane Garofalo, Ryan Eggold, Patton Oswalt) and production company (David Alan Grier's Chocolate Newson Comedy Central, Comedians of Comedy).
  
  
• Great prizes
  Over $10,000 in cash and prizes, including travel, accommodations and VIP Festival Passes. Finalists will be honored and the winners announced at the closing night gala festival awards ceremony.
  
  
• Celebrity support
  Because L.A. Comedy Scripts and the L.A. Comedy Shorts film festival is dedicated to supporting independent film and comedy screenwriters like you, they have been endorsed by some of the biggest names in comedy, including Bill Engvall, Kevin Nealon, and Fax Bahr (co-creator ofMADtv). Expect to see additional guest judges and presenters on the red carpet, including SNLalum Laraine Newman, MADtv’s Michael McDonald,  Austin Powers’ Mindy Sterling,Boondocks’ creator Aaron McGruder, Reno 911!'s Wendi McLendon-Covey, Cedric Yarbroughand Carlos Alazraqui, along with other celebrities in the fields of comedy and film.