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This summer, NUTV encourages all post-secondary students living in Alberta to enter the 2025 NUTV Student Screenplay Contest! You will be assigned a genre, prop and line of dialogue to include in your screenplay and all writing must occur during the allotted period! There will be a $500 cash prize for Audience Choice and a $1000 cash prize for the Jury Award. The top 5 screenplays will be produced by NUTV as short read-through videos with local actors and will be shared online to determine the audience choice award winner.
To enter, please register using the following link and more information will be sent to you at the start of the contest. Once you have a completed script, send your final copy to scripts@nutv.ca before the submission deadline.
· Applicant must be a post-secondary student in Alberta
· Submitted screenplays must be no longer that 10 pages long and should follow standard screenplay format
· You will own all rights to your screenplay but by entering give permission to NUTV to record your screenplay as a video read-through if you are selected for the Top 5
· Only the Top 5 screenplays will be eligible for the audience choice and jury awards
· All writing must take place in the allotted time and must include your assigned genre, prop and line of dialogue
Registration deadline: Sunday, June 1st
Prompts sent: Monday, June 2
Screenplay submission deadline: Friday, July 11
Top 5 decisions: Monday, July 21
Online voting for audience choice: August 18-29
Winners announced: Monday, September 1
New University Television is one of the oldest university television societies in Canada. In 1983 we started as a club on-campus and since then we have now grown into a full-fledged, non-profit organization. NUTV explores media arts through learning, creativity and fun, capturing stories for the University of Calgary campus community