Submit a script, web series or short film today to the Fade In Awards True Story/Biopic Competition.
Early Deadline
October 31, 2025
Regular Deadline
November 30, 2025
Final Deadline
December 20, 2025
Winners
January 1, 2026
First Prize
Matthew Curtis Fleischer
ZEALOT
Grand Prize
Jennifer Beaver
OVER MY DEAD BODY
Second Prize
Josh Miller
TOAD BEACH
- +20 Greenlightmymovie submissions*
- *$750 value
- Meet with
- 200 A-list Hollywood Buyers + Reps
- *+ $1,000 Cash, Next-Level Scribe Mentor Session, Expert Script Analysis, Project Marketed to Buyers & Reps
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- +15 Greenlightmymovie submissions*
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Our Winners Work!
Welcome to the 30th Annual Fade In Awards. We’ve created nine distinct contests for you to enter, specifically tailored to the genre or format of your project. Submit a script, web series or short film to the Fade In Awards True Story/Biopic Contest. With 30 years experience discovering, mentoring and promoting emerging screenwriters and filmmakers to vital industry contacts, our winners have gone on to sign with major Hollywood talent agencies Gersh, Paradigm, UTA, IPG, CAA & WME; write/direct hit feature films and television shows (e.g., The Marksman (2020), Your Honor, The Blacklist, Cold Pursuit (2019), Blades of Glory, Adam, Office Christmas Party, If Only) and; be nominated for Academy Awards (Culture).
“After winning [the Fade In Awards], we optioned [our award-winning] script to a prominent producer who had made one of the Speed films. The award gave us motivation and encouragement, which has huge value when starting out.” – Danny Kravitz, The Marksman
“The most important moment in my career.” – The Blacklist Executive Producer/Creator Jon Bokenkamp
“When CBS Studios producer Todd Nelson encouraged me to submit, my inclination was to say, ‘No.’ I remember thinking there was no way I could afford it. But my script Preston Tylk won and got me an [CAA] agent. It was huge for me.” Bokenkamp went on to work with Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry on Taking Lives and Perfect Stranger, respectively.
The Fade In Awards deliver by working closely with Grand Prize winners to make sure their contest submission gives them the best chance at launching their filmmaking career. That’s why Hollywood’s A-list buyers and reps call the Fade In Awards one of the best screenplay contests and short film competitions in the world. What’s more, we don’t use third-party readers!
“I owe my success to Fade In. These guys don’t just promise access – they deliver it!” – Frank Baldwin, Your Honor, Cold Pursuit
The Fade In Awards True Story/Biopic Competition is open to aspiring screenwriters and TV writers of screenplays and teleplays based on true stories, and filmmakers of web series and short films based on true stories. Judges are looking for award-worthy, prestige material featuring amazing minds doing amazing things, perhaps even misunderstood by society (e.g., The Imitation Game), and ironic stories about extraordinary lives (good and bad).
