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Thank you so much for submitting your script  to the 2025 Athena List.

We regret to inform you that after careful review by our team, your script will not be advanced to the next stage. We know how hard pushing that “submit” button can be, and we deeply appreciate your sharing your work.

Please do not consider this a judgment on your writing skills and abilities. There were many scripts we liked that we weren’t able to include in the program. So please, keep writing!

Thank you again! We hope to see your work in the future.

Best,
The Athena Film Festival Team

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What other contests are you submitting to?

Have you ever posted a script on the Black List website?

Nichol and Page are the only ones now. Possibly Austin. There's also a free one i can't remember the name of TSG maybe. I can find it if you're interested. Most if not all are a huge scam. I've had good results in Page before so I submit when I've got something written. This was a free comp focused on screenplays with female leads so i threw in an old screenplay that fitted the criteria but actually isn't my best work. Pretty much expected it to not get selected but I figured why not? Nichol is the benchmark but they've always overlooked me. It's the only way I've got to get work noticed so i plug away anyway but yeah with the one I've just written it'll be nichol and page.