March 2011
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Meet Our January Script Winners: Paging Liam...
The two winners of our January Best Script Contest are both action movies, and it’s fun to imagine Liam Neeson starring in them. That’s about where the similarities end. Of course, the writers now have a new thing in common—a $20,000 Amazon Studios award for their work. Here are their stories:
Jason Ungate Somewhere, a history teacher is...
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Meet Our First Table Read Winners: "A Perfect Fit"
Christian Davis (pictured at left) didn’t meet Alex Greenfield until after he read Greenfield’s script, Memory, on the Amazon Studios site. “I read through a lot of scripts before I found his and it seemed like a perfect fit to my style and sensibilities.” Davis was inspired to create a table read, featuring some talented friends (it’s nice to have friends who can act). He shot it in...
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Meet Our First $100,000 Award Winner: The One-Man...
Amazon Studios’ first $100,000 test movie award-winner, Robert Hosking, has not been to film school, going instead the route of living a cinematic life. “I wrote poetry, played guitar and harmonica, wrote songs and lyrics, and worked on a zillion different crazy ideas growing up. Nothing I ever did lived up to the enjoyment I got from being in a band. But I had a lot of interests beside music...
February 2011
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And the January Winners Are ...
Amazon Studios today announced $150,000 in January awards, including its first $100,000 Best Test Movie Award and $10,000 Best Table Read Award, as well as two $20,000 Best Script Awards. One of those script awards is going to the first Amazon Studios winner from outside the United States: Dan Hall of London. The winners are:
Reminded ($100,000 Best Test Movie), written and directed by...
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Schoolmates and Friends Reconnect as Amazon...
Marlboro is a tiny college in Vermont, a place with just a few hundred students and a very liberal arts approach to education, meaning that students spend their last two years there working on a self-directed “Plan of Concentration” that distills all they’ve learned into a single project. And now Marlboro has a claim to Amazon Studios fame: Two alums have been chosen as finalists in...
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Congratulations, January Finalists
Amazon Studios is proud to announce its first-ever test movie and table read finalists, as well as script finalists for January 2011 awards totaling $150,000. Winners will be announced Feb. 28. Most of the test movie and table read finalists are based on scripts that have done well at Amazon Studios. Villain (Mark’s Table Read) is a visualization of one of last month’s winning...
Test Movies and Table Reads – A Writer and a...
As some people have noticed, there’s significant overlap in the test movie and table read semifinalists for January. That’s because table reads are a flavor of test movie. It’s not unlike the Academy Awards, where a movie can be nominated in both the Best Animated Feature and Best Picture categories. But obviously test movies at Amazon Studios are significantly different from the...
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Contest Update: January Script, Movie and Table...
Amazon Studios is pleased to announce the semifinalists for our January contests, offering a total of $150,000 in awards to the best test movie, the best table read and the two best scripts. More than 2,500 projects submitted by filmmakers and writers all over the world have become a part of the Amazon Studios development process since our November 2010 launch, and our semifinalists...
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Amazon Studios Announces $195,000 in New Contests
Amazon Studios today announced five new contests with awards totaling $195,000 for filmmakers and writers as well as guest judges including: Oscar-winning producer Ed Saxon (The Silence of the Lambs), former CAA agent Michael Menchel, former Disney Feature Animation president David Stainton, actress and Oscar nominee Kathleen Bird York and professor Michael Taylor of the USC School of...
