AWARDS
& PRIZES
The GS
SCREEN Awards:
Category:
Short Film (up to 25
minutes)
Award*: Best
Short Film
Category:
Feature Film (65
minutes and longer)
Awards*:
- Best Feature (fiction)
- Best Documentary (non-fiction)
- Best
Photography
- Best Actress
- Best Actor
- Audience
Award
Category:
Screenplay
Awards*:
- Best Drama
- Best Comedy
- Best Horror
- Best Thriller/Suspense
- Best Family
- Best Adventure
- Best Romantic Comedy
- Grand
Prize, Best Screenplay: This year introduces the GS Screenwriting Award for Best Screenplay – a cash
prize of $2,500. Excerpts from the winning screenplay(s) will be performed live
at a staged reading during the festival.
The winning
screenplay will be selected from the finalists by a panel of experts.
Semi-Finalists,
Finalists and Winners of each category will be announced via press-releases, mailings
and on the website, and winning scripts and loglines will be made
available to interested production companies, producers and agents upon
If you are a
production company, producer or agent, and would like to be included in our
mailing list, please send us an email.
*NOTE: Non-cash awards in certain categories may not be
awarded, if the number or
quality of submissions in a particular category is deemed insufficient - to
be decided at the sole discretion of GOTHAM SCREEN. This does not include the
Cash Grand Prize of $2,500, which will be awarded and paid out in any case,
regardless.