![]() ![]() "And then there’s all of these other contests that seem to make far more in entry fees than they give out in prizes. "There are lots and lots of screenwriting contests, and many are top tier and have real value within the industry - like the Nicholl Fellowship or the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project, which is no more," said Rodman, who said he was unfamiliar with the details of the Fade In Awards. Howard Rodman, a professor of screenwriting at USC who advises the Sundance Screenwriting Labs, said the plethora of contests in Hollywood can make it difficult to decipher which are legitimate opportunities for those looking to break into the entertainment industry. "We are not a sponsor," Apple representative Kristin Huguet told TheWrap.īut other contest winners have clashed with Kelly and complain that the Fade In Awards lure aspiring writers with promises that it does not keep. ![]() ![]() When contacted, both companies denied their involvement. Apple Computers and Waterman are listed as sponsors of the competition. Other aspects of the competition also seem misleading. On Friday, after TheWrap inquired about it, an asterisk was added below the list of the Advisory Board on the website that reads: "Not the competition’s judges." Moreover, no one on the Advisory Board contacted by TheWrap said that they have given notes to winning screenwriters or were otherwise involved with the contest. They say they only have given permission for their names to be used on an Advisory Board. Others say that the contest gives a false impression that it will promote them in Hollywood and give them access to top screenwriters, including Eric Roth, James Gray and Scott Rosenberg - who are listed among 10 members of the Fade In Advisory Board on the contest’s web page and in the magazine’s house ad for the contest.īut Roth, Gray and Rosenberg told TheWrap they do nothing for the magazine - or, specifically, for the contest, despite their appearance on the contest Web page and ad. They settled in November 2008, but while Williams finally got her money, she still hasn’t seen the promised ad. In July 2008, a full year after the original call, Williams got tired of waiting. "She took that as an attack, that I was demanding the money, writing, ‘You’ll get it when all of the other winners get it.’" "I contacted Audrey and said, ‘It would be really nice if you were able to send out the award money as promised,’" Williams recalled. She would be receiving $750, script coverage by a WGA-affiliated writer, a subscription to Fade In and a Waterman pen.Īnd most important, Williams said she was promised her screenplay would be introduced and promoted to producers and agents and her win would be announced in an ad in Variety or the Hollywood Reporter.īut six months passed, and Williams had yet to receive her cash prize or see an ad in the trades. Williams had won first place in the magazine’s screenwriting competition, in the "Thriller" category, she was told. In the summer of 2007, Patrice Williams said she received a call from Audrey Kelly, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Fade In Magazine. ![]()
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