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List of Top Scriptwriting Scholarships

These scriptwriting scholarships will pair you with the best scriptwriters to guide you to a well-polished script.

Scriptwriting Scholarships

BlueCat Screenplay Competition

Competition for Screenwriters

BlueCat accepts both feature length and short screenplays, every screenplay will receive one written analysis, with our best screenplays receiving over $40,000 in cash prizes.

Berlinale Talents Lab

Talent Development Program in Berlin

Berlinale Talents is aimed at emerging film actors, audience designers, composers, cinematographers, directors, distributors, editors, film critics, producers, production designers, sales agents, screenwriters, sound designers and digital set designers with an existing portfolio of work.

Hubert Bals Fund

Develop Funding for European Filmmakers

Filmmakers with a project in early development can apply for Script and Project Development Support.

BBC Open Call

Script Development for UK Filmmakers

You could be new to writing or new to the BBC but equally, you may be a playwright looking to write for TV, or you’ve written for radio drama and would like to try your hand at writing for BBC.

Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition

Screenwriting Competition

Scriptaplooza Screenwriting Competition has become one of few most relevant screenwriting competitions in the industry, and has maintained its early days goal of helping as many writers as possible every year.