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The $50,000 John Templeton Foundation Kairos Prize
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The $50,000 John Templeton
Foundation Kairos Prize |
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Deadline |
Entry
Fee |
November 03, 2006
(early)
December 15, 2006
(late) |
$50
(by 11/03/2006)
$75
(by 12/15/2006) |
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Award:
$25,000 + additional considerations |
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Other
Awards/Prizes:
1st Runner Up: $15,000 + additional considerations.
2nd Runner Up: $10,000 + additional considerations |
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Created by Dr. Ted Baehr, founder, publisher and executive
producer of MOVIEGUIDE® and founder and chairman of the Christian
Film & Television Commission™, and Dr. Jack Templeton, the primary
purpose of the prize is to further the influence of moral and
spiritual values within the film and television industries.
Seeking to promote a spiritually uplifting, redemptive worldview,
MOVIEGUIDE® announces the Kairos Prize that will help inspire
first-time screenwriters to produce compelling, entertaining,
spiritually uplifting scripts that result in a greater increase in
either man’s love or understanding of the one true Triune Creator
God whose divine Son came in the flesh and gave his life and was
resurrected to save all mankind. |
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Notification
Date: February 2007 |
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Eligibility:
Please see entry rules. |
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Rules:
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Entrants must submit (per entry):
A) One fully completed Official Entry
Form.
B) One (1) complete hard copy of the submitted entry.
C) One (1) complete ELECTRONIC .pdf copy of the submitted entry must
be emailed to: submissions@kairosprize.com
D) A five hundred word synopsis/treatment.
E) Applicable entry fee. Checks should be made out to Movieguide.
Entrants must provide all the information requested on the
Official Entry Form or risk disqualification. No submitted
scripts will be returned. Acknowledgment of each submission will be
sent to the email address that you provide. Once submission has been
received, no alterations of the submission is permissible.
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Entrants must not have earned money or
other consideration as a screenwriter for theatrical films or
television, or for the sale of, or sale of an option to, any
original story, treatment, screenplay, or teleplay.
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Entrants must be 18 years or older to
enter the contest. Misrepresentation of age, upon discovery, will
forfeit entry and fees to the contest.
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Submissions must be in US Motion Picture
industry standard screenplay format and approximately 87-130 pages
in length. Submissions with a page length greater than 150 pages
will be disqualified. Work must be in English. With regard to the
printed hard copy of the submitted script - it should be printed
single- or double-sided on 3-hole white paper with pages numbered.
Script should be fastened with 2-3 brads and blank card stock covers
with the title, name of writer(s) and contact information on the
title page. Font must be 12-point Courier, Courier New or Courier
Final Draft.
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All entries must be the original, and
unpublished, un-produced, un-optioned work of the entrant. The
entrant ensures that he or she is the sole author of the work and
that it does not infringe on any existing copyright. Additionally
the rights to the submitted screenplay must not have been previously
optioned or sold.
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All entrants shall retain the rights to
their submitted scripts. With regard to the three winners (i.e. -
Grand Prize Winner, 1st Runner Up & 2nd Runner Up) - MOVIEGUIDE®
will own a one-year option on these scripts commencing on the date
of the official winners announcement. Should MOVIEGUIDE® succeed in
procuring a sale on these scripts, the writer of said script will be
compensated at no less than the Writers Guild minimum.
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Entries must be spiritually uplifting. A
detailed definition of this is located within the GUIDELINES and
CRITERIA, but simply put, entries must refer implicitly and/or
explicitly to biblical principles, values and virtues, and/or refer
specifically to the Bible. Preference, however (especially regarding
the final decision of the judges), will be given to works that are
explicitly biblical in some important way.
(www.KairosPrize.com).
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Collaborative work is accepted. One of
the writing partners should be selected as the prime contact.
Writing partners selected as winners will divide the award equally.
Entrants must read, understand and accept all items on the RELEASE
STATEMENT posted on the web site (www.kairosprize.com). It is
implicitly understood that the receipt of entrant’s submission
signifies such understanding and acceptance.
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Entrants are prohibited from contacting
the judges during the competition. Any entrant who attempts to
contact a judge will be disqualified and their entry fee forfeited.
The decision of the judges is final.
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Movieguide® Magazine and The John
Templeton Foundation accept no liability whatsoever for any claims
of damages, real or perceived, by any entrant(s) as a result of
their participation in this contest.
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Entry fees will not be returned under
any circumstances.
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All winners are responsible for their
own U.S. income tax withholding.
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Employees and contractors of Movieguide®
Magazine and The John Templeton Foundation and their families are
prohibited from entering this contest. Judges, family members, and
coworkers of the judges are also prohibited.
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Web
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http://www.kairosprize.com |
Contact
& E-mail: |
Michael Trent |
Contact
Title: |
Competition Director |
Organization: |
Movieguide
1041 North Formosa Avenue
Formosa Bldg., Ste 217
West Hollywood, CA 90046
United States
Phone: 323-650-4674 |
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