Challenge Submissions

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Don’t look back, script read submit.

Jeremy symborski

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UNKNOWN

Lyric Coleman

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The Message

Leslie Trotter

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Mystery Sender Challenge

ND Johnson

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Don't Swipe Right

KaTerra Smith

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What is Spam?

Devonte Sanchez

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I'm Here

Jamie Effros

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Im Here

Janie Sloan

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Chasing the heat

Albert Sampach

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Falsified

Ethan

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Don't Look Back!

John Lagerholm

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The Eurydice Voyage

Evanna Meehan White

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The Savior or The Victim

Edgar Ribon

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Unlocked

Mitchell Gant

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I'm Here

Amanda Blanchard

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FLOP

Madison Raé

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AMERICAN JUNGLE

Quincy Jermaine Lucas

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Mystery Sender

Blair Main

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HELL AND BACK

Shaula Evans

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Back Booth. Yellow Sweater.

Camille Mankumah

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Hit

Jessica Hobbs

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You Were Once Here

Marly Hernandez

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Always With You

Femi Olasupo

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Doomsday Code

Solna Blanchard

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THE POWER OF LOVE

Stephanie Mark

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Not the News

Tara Grover Smith

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Running from Time

Kara Moulter

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It Was Written In The Stars

Jill Marie McMurray

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MAISON'S SECRET

Ash

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Virtually Blind

E'an Verdugo

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Watch The Tithes

Terry Johnson

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The Ruinion

Abdulla Al Mahmood

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Engrossed

Dionne Walker

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Remember Me?

Tanya Upshur

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Midnight Run

LCT

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Rachel? Yeah.

Colby Barrios

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Greyout

Lisa Gonzalez

Greyout

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The Conversion

KVW

The Conversion

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Winner

What is Spam?

Devonte Sanchez

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LL: After his family gifts him a new phone for his birthday, an old widower perceives a series of mysterious texts as communication with his deceased wife.

This is the first draft of a script I wrote specifically for this challenge. I don't have any intention of expanding this into a feature or a series or anything like that. This is merely practice and an exercise in storytelling. I like it as a short and wrote it with the intention of fitting within the 10 page limit stated in the Guidelines.

I wrote this story earlier this week after I found out about the site. I didn't intend on rushing it but I realize the longer I wait to submit a screenplay, less feedback it is open to receive. And that's all I really want. Just someone to read my writing and share their critically-thought observations.

Thanks,
Dev

Create a character and show us their response to receiving a text message from an unknown sender that includes one of the following prompts: "I'm here" / "Remember me" / "Your time is up" / "Don't look back". Select a genre for your submission (horror, sci-fi, thriller, comedy). Write a scene/sequence or shoot a video and include the prompt that inspired your work.


SUBMISSION LIMITS

Your written work cannot exceed 10 pages and short films should be under 8 minutes.

Deadline to submit: July 31, 2019 at 5PM PT


CHALLENGE RULES

Our monthly challenges are open to everyone in the Sundance Co//ab community. One entry per person, per challenge. All submissions will be viewable to the community. Each person who participates will receive a completed feedback form on the work they submit by one of our Sundance judges. All submissions will be given equal consideration and the final winner will be determined by the consensus of the designated Sundance judges.  


Only those submissions that meet the criteria outlined in the submission guidelines will be able to be selected as the winner. 


The challenge closes on July 31, 2019 at 5PM PT.


PRIZE

The winner will receive a Sundance Co//ab subscription for one year, a one-on-one mentoring session with a Sundance Advisor, a free master class, and will be featured prominently on the site.

Tanuj Chopra
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Tanuj Chopra is writer/director/producer and television showrunner from Northern California with 5 feature films to his name. His first feature film PUNCHING AT THE SUN about South Asian teenagers coming of age in post 9/11 Queens premiered at the 2006 Sundance and Tribeca film festivals + won the grand jury prize at the San Francisco International Asian American Film festival. Tanuj's most recent award winning feature STAYCATION won the grand jury prize at the 2018 LA film festival in the Muse section. He’s currently showrunning and executive producing season 2 of DELHI CRIME for Netflix. more...
ManSee Kong
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ManSee is a filmmaker and cultural worker born and raised in NYC. She is a co-founder of cultural collective Chinatown Art Brigade, and a co-founding member of Gòngmíng Collective for Language Justice. more...
Marta Effinger-Crichlow
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Marta Effinger-Crichlow is an interdisciplinary artist whose body of work reflects her mission to fuse social issues, culture, and history. She has worked as a freelance dramaturg in cities like Chicago, Louisville, Pittsburgh, and New York. more...
Ann Kaneko
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Independent filmmaker Ann Kaneko is known for her personal films that weave her intimate aesthetic with the complex intricacies of political reality. Often involving subjects in other parts of the world, Kaneko poetically probes the intersection where power impacts the personal. She has screened internationally and been commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Getty Center. more...
Bebe Nodjomi
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Bebe Nodjomi currently works as an Admissions Administrative Aide at NYU’s Tisch Special Programs. She manages all incoming applications, interviews, auditions, and inquiries for a variety of programs including study abroad, summer high school, online programming, and more. more...
Myles Connell
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Myles Connell has worked as a screenwriter, director, script doctor, and musician. His first film IN UNCLE ROBERT'S FOOTSTEPS – a 24 minute short - premiered at New Directors New Films at the Museum of Modern Art and subsequently played at Sundance. He wrote and directed THE OPPORTUNISTS – an independent feature starring Christopher Walken, Vera Farmiga, and Cyndi Lauper - which premiered at Sundance and was theatrically released in the USA, France, and Italy. He has worked as both a screenwriter and director for the BBC and Independent Television in the UK, and for NBC in the USA. He has taught screenwriting and directing, and is a Screenwriting and Directing Fellow of The Sundance Institute and a member of the Director’s Guild of America. more...
Submission Guidelines

One entry per person, per monthly challenge. The limits for monthly challenge submissions are the following: scripts – 10 page limit; video – 8 minute limit; audio/podcast– 8 minute limit

Technical Details

Videos: Accepted video file formats: AVI , FLV, MOV, MP4 or MPEG-2. Note: If you choose to upload a .MOV file make sure that it is not using the Apple ProRes compression. We do not support reading Apple ProRes files or raw camera formats like ARRI and RED at this time.


Scripts: PDF format only, please


Other: If your file format fits outside of the video, pdf, audio file category, please contact us and we will see if we can accommodate it.


(Please do not use copyrighted material without permission as part of this monthly challenge.)

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