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Filmmaking Contest Judged By Peter Jackson

If you like doing filmmaking, here’s a contest you’ll want to consider.  I’m going to cut and paste some of the info from the website here:

If you dream of being a great filmmaker, this could be your big break. Capture the spirit of 100% Pure New Zealand in a 3 minute short film and win the attention of Academy Award winning director Peter Jackson.

To enter simply download the brief, write your screenplay, submit your form by the 15th of January 2010…

Five finalists will be flown to New Zealand in January 2010 to shoot their short films with the help of Academy Award ® winning producer Barrie Osborne. The winning film will be selected by Peter Jackson.

Go to Your Big Break website to enter.  Good luck if you enter!

Nathan Bransford, Literary Agent and Blogger

I like to visit Nathan Bransford’s blog to keep tabs on the publishing industry (he does a helpful post on Fridays of the important publishing news of the week). Plus, he’s written long blogs on the business aspects of writing–such as query letters, writing a synopsis, manuscript formatting, et cetera.

He runs a writing contest at least once a year. He just finished a “first paragraphs” contest, with 6 finalists chosen from over 1300 entries. He wrote a long post about how he came about choosing the finalists. In reading his post (December 15, 2008), one can get a quick and dirty education on how literary agents think as they’re wading through submissions.

I also enjoy his sense of humor.