{"id":2768,"date":"2012-10-18T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2012-10-18T10:26:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:26:41","slug":"screenplay-contest-focuses-on-spiritually-uplifting-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/10\/screenplay-contest-focuses-on-spiritually-uplifting-content.html","title":{"rendered":"Screenplay contest focuses on spiritually-uplifting content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spiritually-uplifting screenplays sought.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infolist.com\/\">From Infolist.com<\/a>: <em>The Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays is currently open for its 8th incredible season. \u00a0With $50,000 in cash prizes, it is the largest competition of its kind, and we are searching for screenplays that are inspiring and uplifting, and inspire moral and spiritual values.<\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">..<em>In addition to the prize money, Kairos scripts get READ by top execs. \u00a0This year alone &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">two winning scripts have already completed principal photography<\/span> with a third shooting this fall! \u00a0Two others are in development and two are currently completing option deals.<\/em> T<em>he Kairos Prize has nearly a 20% winner to production ratio.<\/em>..<em>Supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and seeking to promote positive change in the motion picture industry, the primary purpose of the KAIROS PRIZE is to further the influence of moral and spiritual values within the entertainment industry as a whole. \u00a0While much attention has been granted those who are &#8220;in&#8221; the industry, the KAIROS PRIZE aims to bring encouragement and hope to new voices that would one day be writing Hollywood&#8217;s blockbusters &#8211; hence the Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> The so-called &#8220;Late Deadline&#8221; (I guess there was an early one) is Friday, November 2nd. There&#8217;s an $80 entry fee but subscribers to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infolist.com\/\">Infolist<\/a> <\/strong>get a 20% discount ($64).\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">For more information about the Kairos Prize go to <strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kairosprize.com\/about.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.kairosprize.com\/about.html<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Spiritually-uplifting screenplays sought.\u00a0From Infolist.com: The Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays is currently open for its 8th incredible season. \u00a0With $50,000 in cash prizes, it is the largest competition of its kind, and we are searching for screenplays that are inspiring and uplifting, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[35,3522,3524,3523],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-matters","category-movies","tag-1-thessalonians-511","tag-infolist-com","tag-john-templeton-foundation","tag-kairos-prize-for-spiritually-uplifting-screenplays"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Screenplay contest focuses on spiritually-uplifting content<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/10\/screenplay-contest-focuses-on-spiritually-uplifting-content.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Screenplay contest focuses on spiritually-uplifting content\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 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