Announcing The Finalists For The Second Round of The Inciting Incident Screenplay Challenge!2 min read

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Earlier this year, Sinema Media, a consultancy and project management company focused on film and media initiatives, kickstarted The Inciting Incident, its inaugural screenplay challenge, in partnership with casting agency Hello Group, acting school Method Acting Asia, publishing house Epigram Books and online interactive and fundraising platform Premise.

In March, we concluded the first round of the screenplay competition with a special livestream show announcing the round’s winners and a jury discussion on the importance of good script writing in the different fields of the film industry, from producing to directing and acting. April saw the start of The Inciting Incident’s next round, with its genre being Romance.

 The prizes for this round are:

First Place	$200 cash prize A spot to attend a Fundamentals of Acting workshop by Haque Centre of Acting & Creativity (worth S$100) 300 Silver Coins Package for use on Premise A one-week casting package from Hello Group to go towards the production of the winning entry as a short film, worth S$3000
Second Place	$150 cash prize A spot to attend a Fundamentals of Acting workshop by Haque Centre of Acting & Creativity (worth S$100)
Third Place	$50 cash prize
The Premise Award:	Production of one-minute project pitch video (worth S$417) Creation of digital marketing assets (worth S$278) 100 Gold Coins Package for use on Premise (worth S$139)

Contestants submitted an original screenplay in English for a 3 – 5 minute short film based on the quarterly genre. In total, we received 46 entries for this round.

For this round, our panel of industry professionals are:
Kamil Haque, Founder, Haque Centre of Acting & Creativity
Philothea Liau, Managing Director, Hello Group
Ray Pang, Founder, Premise
Chng Ying Tong, Producer, The Flying Kick Asia

Together, they have narrowed down these entries to ten finalists based on the criteria of form and craft, creativity, and producibility. 

In alphabetical order, our ten finalists are:

A/S/L by Maximilian Liang
Eat Better by Claire Tay
Hard-boiled Hard Luck by Giselle Lin
I Carry Your Heart by Wee Jing Ying Ella
I Wanna Hold Your Hand by Andrew Ngin Chiang Meng
MoJo by Lee Eun Ho
Nice To Meet You by Inah Briones & Ryan Yong
One For One by Hazel Leong
Stay by Chung Ming See
You Look Wonderful Tonight by Andrew Ngin Chiang Meng

The winners will be announced on 18 June – more details to come in the following weeks! 

Follow Sinema.SG’s Facebook page to keep up to date with the details, as well as the announcement of next quarter’s screenplay challenge in the coming months.