My screenplay has received 4 award wins, 2 finalist, 2 semi finalist, 1 quarter finalist, and 4 Official Selections. Need a literary manager...
Screenwriting : Won Awards! Does it really matter? by Marco Ruggio
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It could help you get more reads which is always the first step.
Yeah, helps more than hurts! =) Some script calls only ask for award-winning scripts. Congrats.
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Congrats on your results! A nickel's worth of advice from my experience:
1. If your script is winning awards in top screenwriting competitions, a manager will seek you out, at first.
2. Managers are only useful if you have a portfolio of work that they think is worth trying to sell or develop. While you're doing that with them, they might send out some of your top-notch samples to help you apply for writing assignments.
3. If you currently only have the one script, start writing your next one. While you're doing that, try to find a producer that's a good match for your award-winning script.
Best of luck!
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Sounds like you got a hot property; expose it. Hungry Agents and Managers are always on the prowl.
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Basically what Phil said above.
If you are winning or even placing in the five or six contests that matter, Managers and Agents and Producers will find you.
If you are winning any of the hundreds of contests that don't matter as far as the business is concerned, agents and managers won't really care.
But you don't really need an agent or manager to get a script out there and sell it or get an assignment. If you are winning contests you probably have scripts that will get good coverage, so you just need to get them into the hands of managers and production companies. Query and use those contests to help you network and look for the couple of management companies that have a way to submit. All of this takes some research.