WRITERS CHALLENGE (PUB 365 -Inside TUSCANY CASINO)

About the meetup

Writing Workshop/Writers Challenge-Write a 3 to 5 page short for a maximum of FOUR ACTORS for a dining room setting, a living room setting, a bedroom setting or a kitchen setting. The entire script must be for an interior location. The following genres are recommended: COMEDY, DRAMA, SUPERNATURAL and THRILLER. The best written scripts will be selected from all the submissions. 

Our production team will cast, shoot, edit and post the winner on a dedicated channel for the Las Vegas Screenwriters Group. 

EVERYONE is encouraged to participate.

COLD READINGS will be done for ACCEPTED SUBMISSIONS ONLY. 

Please REMEMBER TO BRING ENOUGH COPIES for all your characters (include a NARRATOR for the scene descriptions and actions) so that we can assign roles quickly! 

COLD READINGS will begin at 6:15 p.m. to allow all scripts to be read and allow FIVE MINUTES for discussion/feedback at the end. 

The suggested premises/main conflicts are as follows:  

***A couple/person is facing a foreclosure.

***A person has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness.

***A person has just committed a hit and run/possible vehicular homicide.

***A witness protection participant's identity is compromised.

***A spouse has to figure out how to tell their significant other that they once witnessed one of the dinner guest commit a murder.

***A spouse defends the actions of their child.

Script must have a BEGINNING, MIDDLE and END.

Scenes requiring martial arts or 'wet' special effects requiring extreme makeup, quibs, gunfire or 'fake blood' STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

Rules:

One submission per writer allowed.

Writers are REQUIRED to register their work at WWW.WRITEVAULT.COM. Work MUST BE REGISTERED as PUBLIC for submission AT LEAST 12 HOURS PRIOR to SUBMISSION. 

EXTENDED: Scripts must be registered by 6 p.m. of JULY 21st, 2017. 

Finalist will be announced JULY 30th, 2017.

CHALLENGE DEADLINE: JULY 21st, 2017 

About the group

Seasoned and new writers looking to join a serious yet supportive screenwriter's group. We welcome enthusiastic, positive and imaginative writers.

We realize that making quality projects is also leveraging the relationships we have with our community, other artists, businesses, actors and supporting one another.

We are growing fast, making movies, and becoming better each day.

Join the train or get left behind in the dust...