Massify announced the contest on its Web site last October, and in five weeks it drew more than 500 script submissions.
Previously, Amazon accepted script submissions for feature films, primetime comedy series for adults, and series for children aged 2 to 14, but this is the first time that Amazon will now consider drama series submissions as well.
Admission to the Westport Artists Workshop is by audition, script submission or by a substantial body of recognized professional work.
Because the Amazon Studios script submission program was meant to attract newcomers, dabblers and others who are not yet established in the world of scriptwriting, it makes sense that Amazon would eventually roll out its own software to enable screenwriters to more easily craft their scripts.
The killer, a Dutch-born Muslim of Moroccan origin, shot and then tried to decapitate Van Gogh, before pinning a note to the corpse threatening Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch Muslim who co-wrote the script of "Submission".The killings shattered the Netherlands.
The script, "Art of Submission," sought to combine the virtues of traditional kung fu cinema with the street-savvy sensibilities of mixed martial arts, or M.M.A., as it's widely known.
Multiple chains are run on independent threads, or on independent processors in a cluster computing environment (for which a torque job submission script is also available).
THE idea, on paper, sounds like the kind of reality show only Hollywood insiders would love: choose a script from thousands of submissions, give the writer a guarantee that a studio will make his movie, and then turn him loose, wide-eyed and overwhelmed, to direct it.
The prize invites submissions of scripts that have not previously been performed or produced.
Columbia's script analysts considered all three submissions "essentially the same story".
The conference, which includes development time and resources for the writers as well as staged readings open to the public, will include seven other scripts chosen from nearly 1,000 submissions.
