We are delighted to announce the launch of the British Short Screenplay Competition 2009!

The early postmark deadline will be March 20th 2009, and the final deadline May 8th.

For more information and an entry form see the BSSC rules page.

Good luck!

The following screenplays have made it through to the last round of judging.

As usual our congratulations go to the writers.

• Because It Is Written
• De Profundis
• Devil’s Claw
• Flawed Conception
• Moonshine and Whiskey
• Punctum
• Rigor Mortis
• Scars Of A Soldier
• Soul Heir
• The Bedwetter
• The Cube
• The Doorway
• The Hallucination
• Waiting For Dawn

Our congratulations go to the writers of the following screenplays which have made it through the fourth round of judging.

• 2040 Dinner Date
• A Matter of Copyright
• A Moral Tail: Or, How Life’s A Lottery
• Attention to Detail
• Because It Is Written
• Better Late Than Never
• Bonfire
• Broken Dreams
• De Profundis
• Dead Man’s Hill
• Devil’s Claw
• Do You Want To Know A Secret?
• Flawed Conception
• Grandmother’s Footsteps
• Into the Grist
• L’air du Love
• Meet the Target
• Mike’s Last Day
• Moonshine and Whiskey
• Mozart’s Requiem
• Needs
• Parker Knoll
• Photo Op
• Precognition
• Punctum
• Q&A
• Rigor Mortis
• Scars Of A Soldier
• Sidney Heads
• Soul Heir
• Stranger
• The Allowable Hours of Hanky-Pank
• The Bedwetter
• The Café
• The Cube
• The Doorway
• The Final Guardian
• The Hallucination
• The Sideboard
• The Tree-House
• The Wind Jar
• Waiting For Dawn
• Write What You Know

The following screenplays have made it through to the third round of BSSC 2008.

Our congratulations to the writers.

• 2040 Dinner Date
• A Matter of Copyright
• A Moral Tail: Or, How Life’s A Lottery
• A Widow In seven Days
• Attention to Detail
• Because It Is Written
• Better Late Than Never
• Bonfire
• Broken Dreams
• Burt’s Used Cars
• De Profundis
• Dead Man’s Hill
• Death & Devotion
• Deceit
• Devil’s Claw
• Dig
• Do You Want To Know A Secret?
• Eldred Tudor - England’s Forgotten Princess
• Fire and Steel
• First Born
• Flawed Conception
• Fool’s Paradise
• Frosty
• Gangsta No More
• Grandmother’s Footsteps
• Hell’s Kitchen
• Into the Grist
• It’s a Big Top World
• Josie, Nathan and the Angels
• L’air du Love
• Leave To Remain
• Life On Nepu
• Living Life Over Again
• Marvin the Indian
• Meet the Target
• Mike’s Last Day
• Moonshine and Whiskey
• Mozart’s Requiem
• Mr. Hartman
• Needs
• Paper
• Paradise Plaza
• Parker Knoll
• Photo Op
• Precognition
• Prying Eye
• Punctum
• Q&A
• Real Close
• Reprieve
• Reunion
• Rigor Mortis
• Road Kill
• Scars Of A Soldier
• Sidney Ashton’s Voyage
• Sidney Heads
• Snap
• Soul Heir
• Stig Martin
• Stranger
• Strangers
• The Allowable Hours of Hanky-Pank
• The Bedwetter
• The Bet
• The Café
• The Creative
• The Cube
• The Doorway
• The Editor
• The Final Guardian
• The Flowers Fall Away
• The Grenadier
• The Hallucination
• The Kiss
• The Möbius Tape
• The Sideboard
• The Tie Man
• The Tree-House
• The Uncertainty Principle
• The Vigil
• The Ward
• The Watcher
• The Wind Jar
• Tom’s Surprise
• Trimming Pablo
• Triple Twenty Vision
• Vindaloo
• Waiting For Dawn
• Whether you like it or not
• Write What You Know
• Zero Point Range

Congratulations to the writers of the following screenplays which have been selected for the second round of BSSC 2008.

• 15 Minutes
• 2040 Dinner Date
• 5 Days of How To
• A Cold-Blooded Winter Night
• A Distant Light
• A Dream Film
• A Hit Reunited
• A Love Story
• A Matter of Copyright
• A Moral Tail: Or, How Life’s A Lottery
• A Night for Three
• A Night In The City
• A Thousand Words
• A Widow In seven Days
• Academia Unveiled
• All Tomorrows’ Party
• Amadika And Lady Limbley
• Ark
• As Long As You Want
• Attention to Detail
• Audrey Gets Her Calendar Autographed
• Baby Doll
• Banana Boy Christopher
• Beata Beatrix
• Because It Is Written
• Bedtime
• Bee and Bus
• Belief In God
• Bess
• Better Late Than Never
• Big Break
• Bleeders
• Blind Ambition And Other Tragedies
• Blood On The Tracks
• Bonfire
• Book Covers
• Breathe Easy
• Broken Dreams
• Burt’s Used Cars
• Choices
• Choke
• Cleaning Up
• Comedy Saved My Life
• Crash
• Crossing Many Waters
• Dad, It’s Me
• De Profundis
• Dead Man’s Hill
• Dead Men Talking
• Death & Devotion
• Death Becomes You
• Deceit
• Devil’s Claw
• Different Shapes And Sizes
• Dig
• Distorted Eyes
• Divine Intervention
• Do ya luv a ?!
• Do You Want To Know A Secret?
• Drop Dead
• Easy Made Hard
• Eldred Tudor - England’s Forgotten Princess
• Eleanor’s Last Goodbye
• Elimination
• Encoded
• Eunuchs
• Every time I go to Stanten Island something bad happens…
• Fade To Black
• Fading Numbers
• Fear Of Flying
• Fire and Steel
• First Born
• Flawed Conception
• Flip Book
• Fool’s Paradise
• Formula For One
• Frosty
• Gangsta No More
• Germ Warfare
• Girls’ Night In
• GIT
• Gnome
• Grandmother’s Footsteps
• Gull
• Happy
• Happy Slap
• Having a Heart
• Hell’s Kitchen
• Henry
• Hit And Run
• I Am A Superhero or, A Guide To Making …
• I Came Here for the Lights
• Ice-Cream
• In The Walls
• Into the Grist
• Isn’t Life Wonderful?
• It’s a Big Top World
• John’s Day Off
• Josie, Nathan and the Angels
• Journey’s End
• Jumper
• Lady M
• L’air du Love
• L’Amore e’ Morto
• Last Call
• Leave To Remain
• Life in Show Business
• Life On Nepu
• Living Life Over Again
• Lost
• Lost And Found
• Lost and Found
• Magnify My Love
• Man’s Best Friend
• Marvin the Indian
• Meet the Target
• Mike’s Last Day
• Mirror, Mirror
• Mohammad And Mr. Stein
• Moonshine and Whiskey
• Move Like Violence
• Moving House
• Mozart’s Requiem
• Mr X
• Mr. Hartman
• Musafir
• Needs
• Nick O’Time
• Ninth
• No Vacancies
• Ohh La La
• One Day in Nairobi
• Paper
• Paper Man
• Paradise Plaza
• Parker Knoll
• Past Times
• Peer Gynt
• Photo Op
• Picture Perfect
• Pizza Face
• Placenta
• Plan B
• Portait of the Furies
• Portrayal
• Precognition
• Prying Eye
• Punctum
• Pupil.Teacher.Patient.Lover
• Q&A
• Rant
• Rather a Widower
• Reach For The Stars
• Real Close
• Reprieve
• Reunion
• Rigor Mortis
• Road Kill
• Scarred For Life
• Scars Of A Soldier
• Sea of Tranquillity
• Shitty Game
• Sidney Ashton’s Voyage
• Sidney Heads
• Six Inch Gold Blade
• Snakes & Ladders
• Snap
• Snowfall in Oswiecim
• Somewhere Near You
• Soul Heir
• Spy Night
• Stig Martin
• Stranger
• Strangers
• Sunny Side Up
• Sunny Side Up
• Super-Sub
• Thanatos
• The Allowable Hours of Hanky-Pank
• The Anniversary
• The Beauty of Venice
• The Bedwetter
• The Bet
• The Block
• The Boy Who Fell To Earth
• The Butterfly Tree
• The Café
• The Carriage
• The Celtic Harp
• The Clown Jewels
• The Creative
• The Cube
• The Damned
• The Deliverer
• The Doorway
• The Editor
• The Final Guardian
• The Flowers Fall Away
• The Good Magician
• The Graverobber
• The Grenadier
• The Gym
• The Hallucination
• The Home Inspection
• The Ink Is Dry
• The Kiss
• The Land of the Living
• The Last Breath
• the Last Man on Earth
• The Look of Love
• The Möbius Tape
• The Nature of Loss is Life
• The Painted Woman
• The Pilot and The Skier
• The Project
• The Right Thing
• The Rosarian
• The Safe House
• The Sideboard
• The Skateboard challenge
• The Square
• The Tie Man
• The Tree-House
• The Uncertainty Principle
• The Victim
• The Vigil
• The Ward
• The Watcher
• The Wind Jar
• This Will Work
• Through The Cracks
• To Be Seen Is To Exist
• To the Waters and the Wild
• Tom’s Surprise
• Tongue In Cheek
• Trimming Pablo
• Triple Twenty Vision
• Turbulence
• Uncertain Turns
• Unholy Encounter
• Unturned Pages
• Ups And Downs
• Vindaloo
• Vista Street
• Waiting For Dawn
• Walk On By
• We All Fall Down
• We Can Be Heroes (just for one day)
• Wedding Wager
• Welcome
• What Alteration Binds
• Whether you like it or not
• White Knight
• Who’s The Daddy?
• WomKey
• Write What You Know
• Zero Point Range

Kaos Films is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2003 British Short Screenplay Competition THE STARS DON’T TWINKLE IN OUTER SPACE by Hank Issac is to be screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival!

We would like to thank every one who entered the British Short Screenplay Competition this year. The contest received nearly 1500 entries this year. Below is the list of all those who qualified for round one of the BSSC 2008.

Congratulations and well done.

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• 15 Minutes
• 2040 Dinner Date
• 3Rd Row 1ST Seat
• 5 Days of How To
• A Cold-Blooded Winter Night
• A Conversation
• A Dark State
• A Day, without Numbers?
• A Distant Light
• A Dream Film
• A Friend for George
• A Hit Reunited
• A Love Story
• A Magical Song
• A Man, in Uniform
• A Matter of Copyright
• A Meal to Kill Time
• A Moral Tail: Or, How Life’s A Lottery
• A Night for Three
• A Night In The City
• A Thousand Words
• A Widow In seven Days
• Academia Unveiled
• All Change
• All Tomorrows’ Party
• Amadika And Lady Limbley
• An Answered Prayer
• An Eye for an Eye
• And Breathe
• Angels in the Architecture
• Ark
• As Long As You Want
• At the End of the Day
• Attention to Detail
• Audrey Gets Her Calendar Autographed
• Baby Blues
• Baby Doll
• Baby Snatchers
• Bags
• Balti Blues
• Banana Boy Christopher
• Beata Beatrix
• Because It Is Written
• Bedtime
• Bedtime Stories
• Bee and Bus
• Bees Knees
• Belief In God
• Bess
• Better Late Than Never
• Big Break
• Bleeders
• Blind Ambition And Other Tragedies
• Blood On The Tracks
• Blues Man
• Bonfire
• Book Covers
• Breathe Easy
• Broken Dreams
• Burt’s Used Cars
• Caesar’s Lament
• Catch It To Your Heart
• Chicken
• Chinese Whispers
• Choices
• Choke
• Christmas with the Williams
• Citylink
• Classic
• Cleaning Up
• Close of Play
• Clouded Rainbows
• Clutter
• Comedy Saved My Life
• Community Careless
• Crash
• Crossing Many Waters
• Cutting Edge
• Dad, It’s Me
• Day Out
• De Profundis
• Dead Man’s Hill
• Dead Men Talking
• Death & Devotion
• Death Becomes You
• Debbie’s Kiss
• Deceit
• Demons
• Designing Olly
• Detained
• Devil’s Claw
• Dic Dic Alley
• Different Shapes And Sizes
• Dig
• Distorted Eyes
• Divine Intervention
• Do Something
• Do ya luv a ?!
• Do You Want To Know A Secret?
• Don’t Look Back
• Doormat Thieves
• Drop Dead
• Dynamite
• Easy Made Hard
• Edinburgh’s Disgrace
• Eldred Tudor - England’s Forgotten Princess
• Eleanor’s Last Goodbye
• Elimination
• Embracing Fate
• En Passant
• Encoded
• Eternity Bores Me
• Eunuchs
• Every time I go to Stanten Island something bad happens…
• Fade To Black
• Fading Numbers
• Fat Chance
• Fate as Foe
• Father Christmas Wants You Dead
• Fear Of Flying
• Finger Painting
• Fire and Steel
• First Born
• First Sign
• Flawed Conception
• Flip Book
• Flood Damage
• Flower of Innocence
• Fool’s Paradise
• Formula For One
• Frosty
• Gangsta No More
• Germ Warfare
• Girls’ Night In
• GIT
• Gnome
• Go Grimly
• Godfather of the Bride
• Grandmother’s Footsteps
• Great White
• Guilty Drinking
• Gull
• Hangnail
• Happy
• Happy Slap
• Having a Heart
• Hell’s Kitchen
• Henry
• Hide-and-Seek
• Hit And Run
• I Am A Superhero or, A Guide To Making …
• I Am…
• I Came Here for the Lights
• Ice-Cream
• Identity Crisis
• I’m Arthur
• Immortality
• In The Walls
• Into the Grist
• Invisible
• Isn’t Life Wonderful?
• It’s a Big Top World
• Jackpot
• Jimmy
• Johnny be Dead
• John’s Day Off
• Jon’s Big Issue
• Josie, Nathan and the Angels
• Journeyman
• Journey’s End
• Jumper
• Keyboard Road
• King Knobbly Knees
• Knives And Forks
• Lady M
• L’air du Love
• L’Amore e’ Morto
• Last Call
• Last Days Of Exodus
• Leave To Remain
• Less is More
• Life As We Know It?
• Life in Show Business
• Life On Nepu
• Limb by Limb
• Living Life Over Again
• London 2008
• Look
• Lookie Likie
• Loss
• Lost
• Lost And Found
• Lost and Found
• Love Machines
• Lovescenes
• M.A.T.A.T
• Magnify My Love
• Man’s Best Friend
• Marvin the Indian
• Meet the Target
• Memoir
• Mendacity
• Mike’s Last Day
• Mirror, Mirror
• Missing In Action
• Mistaken Identity
• Mohammad And Mr. Stein
• Moonlight
• Moonshine and Whiskey
• Move Like Violence
• Moving House
• Mozart’s Requiem
• Mr X
• Mr. Hartman
• Musafir
• My Best Mate Colin
• My Big Day Out
• My Perfect Lunchbreak
• Needs
• Nice Marker
• Nick O’Time
• Nightshift
• Ninth
• No Good Deed
• No Vacancies
• North by Northeast
• Oh Dear!
• Ohh La La
• Ondine’s Curse
• One Day in Nairobi
• One into Seven
• Out of Time
• Pale Blue Eyes
• Panic Attack
• Paper
• Paper Man
• Parable of the Flower
• Paradise Plaza
• Parched
• Parched
• Parker Knoll
• Past Lives
• Past Times
• Paul’s House
• Pay As You Go
• Peer Gynt
• Photo Op
• Picture Perfect
• Pizza Face
• Placenta
• Plan B
• Play Dead
• Portait of the Furies
• Portrayal
• Precipitation
• Precognition
• Prying Eye
• Punctum
• Pupil.Teacher.Patient.Lover
• Q&A
• Race-ism
• Rant
• Rather a Widower
• Reach For The Stars
• Real Close
• Reality In Limbo
• Red Squirrel Was Here
• Redcar
• Reprieve
• Return to Sender
• Reunion
• Revenge - A dish best served old
• Righteous Indigestion
• Rigor Mortis
• Ripe
• Ritual For The Living
• Road Kill
• Rodeo
• Root
• Saint Bernard
• Scarred For Life
• Scars Of A Soldier
• Sea of Tranquillity
• Seven
• Shades of Purple
• ShakeSpirits
• She Just Happened
• Shitty Game
• ShortMetrage
• Sidney Ashton’s Voyage
• Sidney Heads
• Sign Out
• Sinners
• Six Inch Gold Blade
• Slap Happy
• Small Gifts
• Snakes & Ladders
• Snap
• Snowfall in Oswiecim
• Soap, and other symptoms
• Somewhere Near You
• Sonocide
• Soul Heir
• Spinning
• Spy Night
• Stealing the Saint
• Steel Bars
• Stig Martin
• Still Life
• Stranger
• Strangers
• Sunday Brunch
• Sunny Side Up
• Sunny Side Up
• Super-Sub
• Talking her Down
• Tatties
• Thanatos
• The Abstract Concept of Love
• The Allowable Hours of Hanky-Pank
• The Anniversary
• The Audition
• The Baby Snatcher
• The Battle
• The Beauty of Venice
• The Bedwetter
• The Bet
• The Block
• The Bogey Monster of Ravensbreath Castle
• The Boy Who Fell To Earth
• The Butterfly Tree
• The Café
• The Carriage
• The Celtic Harp
• The Cliffs
• The Clown Jewels
• The Combination
• The Conversation Thief
• The Creative
• The Cube
• The Damned
• The Deliverer
• The Doorway
• The Editor
• The Excursion
• The Eyes of the Beholder
• The Final Countdown
• The Final Guardian
• The Fixer Upper
• The Flowers Fall Away
• The Good Life
• The Good Magician
• The Graverobber
• The Grenadier
• The Gym
• The Hallucination
• The Hidden Animals
• The Home Inspection
• The Importance of Being Good At Tennis
• The Ink Is Dry
• The Kiss
• The Land of the Living
• The Last Breath
• The Last Day
• the Last Man on Earth
• The Last Pilgrimage
• The Look of Love
• The Man Who Fled Through Checkpoint Charlie
• The Master List
• The Möbius Tape
• The Monsters
• The Nastyhood Family
• The Nature of Loss is Life
• The Painted Woman
• The Perfect Match
• The Pilot and The Skier
• The Plastic Jobbie
• The Princess Ball
• The Project
• The Rendez-Vous
• The Right Thing
• The Rolls Royce of Dream
• The Room
• The Rosarian
• The Rules
• The Safe House
• The Scent of Peonies
• The Second Coming
• The Secret List
• The Sexologist
• The Sideboard
• The Skateboard challenge
• The Sound Bite
• The Square
• The Stalker
• The Starving Island
• The Stolen Baby
• The Sutherland King
• The Tale of Reverand James
• The Teddy Bear
• The Third Degree
• The Tie Man
• The Treasure of the Sierra LX
• The Tree-House
• The Tumbledryer of Doom
• The Twitterers
• The Uncertainty Principle
• The Victim
• The Vigil
• The Virgin Myth
• The Ward
• The Watcher
• The Wedding Speech
• The Wheelchair
• The Whispering Slime
• The White Arcades
• The Wind Jar
• The Wooden Pear
• Thinking Outside the Flatpack
• This Is Not The Nerd You’re Looking For
• This Will Work
• Through The Cracks
• Timetables
• To Be Seen Is To Exist
• To the Waters and the Wild
• Tom’s Surprise
• Tonight
• Tongue In Cheek
• Touring Companions
• Transfer
• Trimming Pablo
• Triple Twenty Vision
• Trophies
• Turbulence
• Uncertain Turns
• Unfinished Business
• Unholy Encounter
• Unturned Pages
• Ups And Downs
• Vindaloo
• Vista Street
• Waiting For Dawn
• Waiting For Drogba
• Walk On By
• Water Power
• We All Fall Down
• We Can Be Heroes (just for one day)
• We have no time to stand and stare
• Wedding Wager
• Welcome
• What Alteration Binds
• Where is Wilbur
• Whether you like it or not
• White Knight
• Who’s Been Sleeping in my Bed?
• Who’s The Daddy?
• Wings of Paper
• Without Him
• Wolf
• WomKey
• Woof
• Would You If You Weren’t?
• Write What You Know
• Ying and Yang
• You Fill my Heart with Love
• Zero Point Range

The BSSC is delighted to welcome Producer Natascha Wharton back to the panel of judges.

Natascha has worked on such great British titles such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Billy Elliot and Hot Fuzz.

We’re also very pleased to announce the addition of Avid to our roster of sponsors.

This year the competition is being split into two new competitions: BSSC Live Action and BSSC Animation. The Live Action competition is accepting submissions now, and the deadlines on the rules page apply to this.

The BSSC 2008 Animation competition deadlines will be announced soon. We’ll also be announcing some new changes to the website so please join our mailing list or subscribe via RSS to keep in touch!