The Canadian Short Screenplay Competition (CSSC) is an annual script

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, established in 2008, that seeks to celebrate excellence in

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History

The CSSC, founded in 2008 by producer David Cormican, is administered by Year of the Skunk Productions. The competition's partners in 2008 included

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, Meridian Artists, InkTip.com, The Spoke Club and

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. In August 2009, the competition started the now popular #WW (Writer(s) Wednesday)

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on social networking site Twitter.com. In 2010, the competition partnered with the

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, allowing the CSSC to announce the winner of the competition as part of the Golden Sheaf Awards gala. The first winner announced in this fashion on May 29, 2010 in Yorkton, SK, was British writer Neil Graham. Mr. Graham (and his winning script "Something Pointless"), was the very first recipient of the Writers Block Crystal, introduced to the competition in 2010 as a take-away award for the winning screenwriter. In June 2010, the CSSC announced two-time competition finalist Carolynne Ciceri, as the inaugural #WW Writers Wednesday Laureate. Ms. Ciceri's duties as #WW Laureate consist of a year-long position posting a weekly blog communication on the subjects of writing, filmmaking and short films. On January 1, 2011, the CSSC's THE Blog was announced as a winner of the ''2010 Canadian Weblog Awards'' in the category of 'Writing and Literature'.

#WW Writers Wednesday

The CSSC maintains that they conceptualized and posted the very first weekly

#WW (popularly used and known amongst writing circles as Writer(s) Wednesday) on popular social media networking site Twitter.com. Writers and users of the site may nominate writers on Twitter that others using the social networking site should follow by using the #WW hashtag (similar to #ff or #followfriday) within a tweet on the site. The original #WW Writers Wednesday tweet was made using TweetDeck on August 5, 2009.

2010/11 Winners

1- "Elijah the Prophet", Jesse & Zachary Herrmann
2- "Strange Music", Ira Henderson
3- "13", Sundae Jahant-Osborn

2009/10 Winners

1- "Something Pointless", Neil Graham
2- "Minus Lara", Surita Parmar
3- "The Kicker", Jag Dhadli The Canadian Short Screenplay Competition filmed "Minus Lara" starring

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in Regina, Saskatchewan and "Rusted Pyre" starring

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and

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in Havelock, Saskatchewan in the month of November, 2010.

2008 Winners

2008 Best in Fest Recipient: ''Seeing In The Dark'' written by Gordon Pengillyhttps://calgaryherald.com/life/relationships/Daily%20Dish/1755311/story.html
2008 Golden Cinema Recipient: ''No Man’s Land'' written by David Carey
2008 Silver Screen Recipient: ''Rusted Pyre'' written by Daniel Audet

References

External links

Official Competition Website
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