Like most contests, ours offers multiple categories to compete in.
However, for obvious reasons, categories can't run on and on indefinitely - you couldn't have 50, for example!
So our categories take in the so-called "big ones" that all the so-called sub-genres are naturally woven in to.
The feature film categories you can compete in are:
- Action & Thriller
- Comedy
- Drama
- Family & Animation
- Horror
- Lo-Budget
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy
But what if you've written a Musical Biopic? Or a Dramedy? Or an Action-Comedy?
Well, nobody knows your project better than you.
You have to decide, based on a balancing exercise, which "main" genre the sub-genre your project's operating in, should slot in to.
For this balancing exercise you might ask yourself questions such as:
- Does the non-comedy in my script overpower the comedy? Which is more prevalent?
- Broadly speaking, what is the history of my sub-genre? ie if I've written a musical biopic, well, the history of these films is that they're largely dramas, primarily.
- What is the best category for my project to compete in? ie. if it's really low-budget and it's an Action or Thriller piece, it might be smart to compete in the Low-budget category where competition - simply by definition - is lower.
- Further to this, what is your script's super-strength? Is it the drama, or the comedy? Be ruthless with yourself: what has this script got over all the others.
- Ultimately try and be impartial, maybe like a judge or jury. Look calmly at all the evidence for, all the evidence against, and then make your decision.
Ultimately we can't really assist further than this: we don't know your project as well as you do, only you can decide which "core" genre it slots in to.