Submissions are currently open.

Submission window for Issue 01: 1 July 2026 - 20 August 2026

Avenir Cinéma accepts submissions on a rolling basis, with open windows published here as they’re announced. The best way to stay informed about future issues is to subscribe to our newsletter - and actually open our emails. (Skim the headlines, at least.)

We pair exceptional, unmade scripts with original artwork from real, human illustrators and photographers. We review narrative features, episodic content, short film scripts, and stage plays. All submissions must be made through our online form; please read this guide carefully before submitting your work.

What does Avenir Cinéma publish?

When we accept a script, we feature your title, logline, synopsis, and select scenes, alongside a fully realized world built through curated playlists, influences, and exclusive writer Q&As.

We bring featured scripts to life by shaping a visual identity with original artwork created by real contributing artists.

For standout projects, we fund, cast, and produce a professional table read of selected scenes with your creative input.

Our process is meticulous and long, but our ambition is to bring out the best of your story without giving it all away. We want to build an audience for your script, and ultimately, see it get made.

What do I need to submit?

• Use our form to give us the background, mood, and details of your story. More detail helps us see what you see.

• A PDF of the complete screenplay or stage play. Your full work is kept confidential and will never be shared or published.

• A PDF of 5–15 pages representing your strongest scenes.

We require a complete screenplay or stage play to be submitted for consideration. Reading the full work is how we evaluate the story and decide whether to feature it. We do not accept standalone excerpts.

Note: We may propose alternate scene selections upon acceptance.

Why should I?

You are a writer, an identity contingent upon a big dream. You chose a famously non-linear path full of gatekeepers and antiquated ideas, one where you will likely lose count of the rejections just to get a fraction of your words onto a screen. Success, as defined by a finished film and a favourable distribution deal, can take years of waiting. Great things don't happen all at once, and great films take twice as long.

The best thing you've ever seen started with one step on one day.

This is a step. Being featured here won't greenlight your project, but it does put your story in front of the kind of people who might.

Eligibility

• We accept work from writers at all levels, regardless of representation status or guild affiliation.

• Scripts are not eligible if they have been sold, produced, or are currently under option to any third party.

• Screenplays in production, pre-production, or active development are not eligible.

• Adaptations are not eligible unless the source material was written by the screenwriter of the submission or the material is in the public domain. Writers are responsible for ensuring that no underlying rights are restricted.

• Spec scripts and fan fiction for existing film or television series are not eligible.

• Scripts with prior coverage, competition placements, or a history on platforms like The Black List are eligible.

• All submitted work must be your original creation, free from any third-party claims or rights restrictions. Material generated in whole or in part by artificial intelligence or machine learning software, including but not limited to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or similar tools is not eligible.

Categories & Format Requirements

Feature Screenplay
Any narrative work of fiction with 60 pages or more. In order to qualify, the submitted project must be either fiction or a fictionalized telling of real events. We are not currently considering scripts that exceed 150 pages.

Teleplays/Episodic Content (60 minutes or less)
Any project intended to be presented in a multi-episode format, with a total expected running time of 60 minutes or less. This includes scripted fiction or nonfiction, and may be submitted in the form of a pilot episode or a multi-episode series. Submissions may consist of single or multiple episodes, but the total length must not exceed 60 pages. All submissions must be delivered as a single PDF.

Teleplays/Episodic Content (over 60 minutes)
Any project intended to be presented in a multi-episode format, with a total expected running time of more than 60 minutes. This includes scripted fiction or nonfiction, and may be submitted in the form of a pilot episode or a multi-episode series. Submitted projects may consist of single or multiple episodes, with no restriction regarding length. All submissions must be delivered as a single PDF.

Short Film Script
Any project with 60 pages or less. This includes scripted fiction, nonfiction, experimental, animation, or any other short-form film project.

Stage Play
Any full-length or one-act play intended for live performance. This includes dramatic works, comedies, musicals (book only), and experimental theatre. There is no page minimum or maximum. Scripts are not eligible if they have been produced in a full professional production. Workshop productions, staged readings, and academic productions do not affect eligibility.

For all submissions:

• PDFs only.

• Standard screenplay, teleplay, or stage play formatting required.
  
  

Submission Terms

By submitting your work to Avenir Cinéma, you agree to the following guidelines and terms:

• You retain 100% of the ownership, copyright, and rights to your work. Submitting to us never affects your ability to sell, option, or develop your project. We want your script to get made.

• Your full script is read strictly by our editorial team. It is never shared with third parties, never published, and never made public. If your work is accepted, we will only publish the title, logline, synopsis, and a short excerpt. Everything that goes to print is approved by you in advance.

• You warrant that you are the sole author of the submitted work, that you have the legal right to submit it, and that it does not infringe on anyone else's copyright.

• The cost: there isn't one. The investment in original artwork, photography, and table reads is fully funded by us. If featured, you will receive a contributor’s copy of the issue in print and digital.

• If your script is optioned, sold, or enters production while we are reviewing it, please notify us promptly. If you want to submit a major rewrite of a past submission, please withdraw the original first.

• We aim to respond to all submissions within three weeks. Because of the volume of scripts we read, we cannot provide individual feedback for projects we decline. If you are resubmitting a previously declined script that has been heavily revised, just let us know what changed in your submission form.

Note: If your script is selected for publication, you will be asked to sign a formal, non-exclusive licensing agreement covering the specific excerpt(s), promotional use for the issue, and a standard 90-day print exclusivity window for those specific pages.

Last updated 23 June, 2026