Does prize money from a screenwriting competition count towards the $5,000 limit?
Usually, it does not. So long as the prize money does not secure any rights to the writer’s script or story, it would not affect the writer’s eligibility for the Nicholl competition. However, if accepting the prize money attached a film company or producer to the script, then the prize money would count toward the writer’s earnings limit and make the writer ineligible if the total exceeded $5,000. For example, if a company hosting the competition awarded $10,000 to the winning writer and planned to develop the script for production, then that writer would not be eligible for the Nicholl competition.
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