BOOK TO FILM CONTEST 2025

J & J RANCH PRODUCTIONS is proud to announce its second annual ‘Book to Film Contest’. This contest is open to ANY author in ANY country who has a book already published in the English language with an ISBN #.

· The entry deadline is Monday, June 2nd, 2025.

            *winners will be announced in August 2025!

All winners will receive a trophy (shipping fees paid by author if outside the United States) 

All winners will have a review submitted for their book on Amazon & Goodreads, too!

*The first-place winner will be offered a film adaptation script contract from J & J Ranch Productions*.

· Fiction & Nonfiction will all be accepted. However, nothing will be accepted in the genres of erotica, picture book, self-help, poetry, and cookbook.

· You cannot enter a book in the contest that contains AI-generated material.

· Work must be original. Any borrowed ideas or language must be appropriately acknowledged.

· Authors must be willing to have their work adapted to film, via a full feature screenplay, but their credit be written in their own names. No anonymous or pseudonymous adaptations will be accepted.

· Authors can submit several proposals, but each HAS TO BE done as separate submissions.

Prepare your entry or entries as described in these instructions. If you need help or further instructions on how to draft your proposal, tune into our free Webinar on April 26, 2025. 

E-mail Robert@JJRanchProductions.com for the private link!

Incomplete or improperly submitted entries will be rejected. 

Your proposal should include (in order as detailed below):

· A one sentence log line (log lines shorten your entire story into a one-line sales pitch. The best log lines simply say what the character wants, and what they’ll have to do to get it.)

· Your book’s synopsis

· Film comps (minimum of 3) that are similar to what your film would be like 

· Target audiences (ages, gender, interests)

· You, as the Author, must also tell us why you feel your book would make a great film one day.

· 1st 3 chapters of your book (not counted in the 2,000-word length max)

· When you submit your entry form, you verify that the submitted work is original. 

· Save your proposal pages into one pdf file. 

· Submit your entry as a file attachment in an email to Submissions@JJRanchProductions.com. 

· In the subject line, make sure to type: Book to Film Contest

· The entry fee is $125 per entry and payments must be received within 5 days of your proposal submission in order for your entry to be fully accepted. Payments go through VENMO:  

https://www.venmo.com/u/JJRanchProductions

*if you do not use Venmo and would like to make other payment arrangements, email us at Robert@JJRanchProductions.com

· Judges chosen by J & J Ranch Productions will determine first, second, and third place in each category, but only the first-place winner will be offered a film adaptation script contract from J & J Ranch Productions.

· Work will be judged on imaginative insight, sensitivity to language, the stories ability to be visually appealing on screen, and control of formal elements (e.g. point of view, metrics, character arcs, etc.)

· Authors retain the copyright to their submissions. However, authors need to grant J & J Ranch Productions the right to reproduce any submission on its website or any other of these organization’s publications regardless of medium of publications.

*For more information about J & J Ranch Productions, visit the J & J Ranch Productions at WWW.JJRANCHPRODUCTIONS.COM