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HOLLYWOOD GATEWAY SCREENWRITING CONTEST ANNOUNCES GRAND PRIZE WINNER – SUSAN EMSHWILLER TO TAKE TOP HONORS WITH
THE FURNACE



The competition was fierce this year, but one script could really stand the heat. The Furnace is a gritty thriller set against the desolation of the blistering Nevada desert. This tight, suspense filled script is sure to be a hit with producers and the audiences they want to reach!

Susan Emshwiller, the daughter of a novelist mother and an avant-garde filmmaker father has always been surrounded by creativity. Instead of waiting for Hollywood to come knocking on her door, Susan has wrote and directed a body of work that illustrates both her talent and drive to succeed. From co-writing the acclaimed script Pollock to writing and directing her film festival darling In the Land of Milk and Money, Susan keeps busy in and around the film industry. She encourages other writers to “Do it! Write the best script you can and make it! Don’t waste years of your life waiting when you can be out there, creating and doing what you love!”


We’d like to thank all the writers who entered the 2005 Hollywood Gateway Contest. If you didn’t win this year, it’s time to get back to the drawing board and start hammering out a new draft. The Hollywood Gateway Screenwriting contest will begin accepting entries for the 2006 competition in early January! We’ve got the same great prizes as this year, plus some new surprises as well. So polish up your script and surf on over to www.hollywoodgateway.com to enter your masterpiece. Maybe next year you’ll be in our winner’s circle!

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The 2005 Finalists

HOLLYWOOD GATEWAY SCREENWRITING CONTEST ANNOUNCES SIX FINALISTS FROM AN INCREDIBLE FIELD OF ENTRIES

Los Angeles, California - August 13th, 2005 - The Hollywood Gateway Screenwriting Contest today announced the six finalists of their third annual international screenwriting competition.

A panel of judges comprised of industry experts is currently working to select the finalist from a group of six wonderfully creative scripts. The winning screenplay is poised to receive a cash prize of $5,000 against a potential purchase price for the screenplay of up to $100,000.

“Hollywood can be a really insular business,” says Brent Armitage, co-founder of The Hollywood Gateway Screenwriting Competition. “If you don’t have connections in the industry, it can be hard to get your script noticed, let alone read by a studio. That’s where we come in. Hollywood Gateway knows that there are great writers out there waiting to burst on to the scene, and the finalists this year prove it in spades.” Armitage is a writer and producer with such credits as Grosse Pointe Blank, The Feather Men, and The Big Bounce starring Owen Wilson.

The following finalists will receive the best-selling screenplay writing software Final Draft 7, detailed script analysis service by an experienced, accomplished development executive and exposure to top writers’ agents and film and television producers.

The titles of the six fabulous scripts selected by Hollywood Gateway are listed below, with the names of their talented writers:

Love, in Reality written by Gideon Raff
Elephant and Castle written by Wilmer Lin
Bind written by Stephen Dudycha
Jokerman written by Foley North
The Furnace written by Susan Emshwiller
Rainbow Sticker written by Stephen Foster, Chuck Pelletier & Joe Howard

This year's winner will receive a $5,000 cash prize, 12-month option agreement against a potential $100,000 purchase price, one on one coaching on how to pitch their script, meetings with top Hollywood Agents and Producers, Transportation and accommodations to Hollywood and more.

Our competition is unique in its ability to provide every writer with the opportunity to have her or his screenplay judged by a Hollywood development executive <More information>

2004 Contest Winner

Hollywood Gateway Screenwriting Contest Announces its 2004 Grand Prize Winner

Los Angeles, California - October 27th, 2004 – The Hollywood Gateway Screenwriting Contest is always flooded with great material, but this year’s winner was lengths ahead of the competition. Kipp Koenig’s Lost in His Prime is an inventive script that puts a comedic twist on the idea that artists are only appreciated after their death. Sure to be adored by producers and actors looking for a rich leading role, Lost in His Prime has the potential to be a comedic blockbuster.