Before you enter the Golden Future International Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition, please review these rules and guidelines. Any submission that does not comply with contest rules may be disqualified.

All writers of submitted material must be 18 years of age or older on the date of submission, and each writer or writing team may not have earned more than $50,000 or the foreign equivalent (jointly or individually) for work as a screenwriter and/or fictional television writer.

Writers who reside in countries other than the United States are welcome to enter the contest; however, all scripts must be submitted in English, and entry fees must be paid in U.S. dollars. Entry into the competition is void where prohibited by law.

Judges, sponsors, administrators, and independent contractors who work with or for the Golden Future International Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition or Production Arts Group are not eligible to enter the competition, nor are their spouses or other immediate family members.

Scripts must be the original work of the author(s) and, on the date of submission, must be wholly owned and controlled by the author(s). If a script has been sold, is currently under option, is being produced, or is in any other way encumbered by a third party on the date of submission, the script is not eligible for an award. If a script is optioned, sold, or produced after it has been entered, it will remain eligible for this year’s contest.

Only original screenplays and teleplays are eligible for awards. Novels, short stories, stage plays, treatments, synopses, reality show concepts, and spec scripts for existing TV series are not eligible. Scripts that have previously won a Grand, Gold, Silver, or Bronze Prize in the Golden Future International Film Festival and Screenwriting competition are also ineligible.

Adaptations of books, plays, or other source material written by another author are not eligible under any circumstances. A script that has been adapted from your own book, play, or other source material is eligible, provided that you have retained all film and television rights to the property.

Submissions and entry fees must be postmarked or transmitted electronically on or before 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on the Early, Regular, Late, or Last Minute Entry deadline in order to qualify for those entry rates. Any script submitted after the Final Entry Deadline will be disqualified.

Judges, sponsors, administrators, and independent contractors who work with or for the Golden Future International Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition or Production Arts Group are not eligible to enter the competition, nor are their spouses or other immediate family members.

Once a script has been entered into the competition, under no circumstances will we accept substitutions of new drafts or corrected pages. If you wish to submit a revised screenplay draft, you must enter it as a new submission and pay the appropriate entry fee. (PLEASE NOTE: As a special courtesy, writers who advance to the Semi-Final Round of competition will be invited to send us the latest draft of their script for the final two rounds of judging free of charge.)

The decisions of the Judges are final and may not be disputed. Our Judges are instructed and agree to evaluate scripts based on our standard Judging Procedure; however, the Golden Future contest and its administrators may not be held responsible for any errors or omissions on the part of the Judges.