FAQ

1. What is greenlight?
   
   
2. What are the "Official Rules"?
   
   
3. What is the Contest Timeline? When are the deadlines?
   
   
4. How do I become a "MEMBER" of the site?
   
   
5. How do I become a "REVIEWER"?
   
   
6. How do I become a "CONTESTANT"?
   
   
7. What is the "TEAM" scenario? How do I enter as such?
   
   
8. My writing partner and I wrote a screenplay together -- like Matt and Ben. Can we all enter together?
   
   
9. On the "Team" scenario, it says that Contestants can designate someone to serve as the "CREATIVE PRODUCER"? What does that mean?
   
   
10. Can I enter more than one screenplay?
    
    
11. Why is the contest only open to U.S. residents?
    
    
12. Why do CONTESTANTS have to be 18?
    
    
13. Why do REVIEWERS have to be 18?
    
    
14. Why do the screenplays have to be written in English?
    
    
15. Contestants must be "amateurs", what exactly does that mean?
    
    
16. Why do I have to register my screenplay with the WGA and U.S. Copyright?
    
    
17. What is "Industry Standard" Screenplay Format? Why 90-130 pages?
    
    
18. Can I submit my stage play, sitcom script, short film screenplay or novel?
    
    
19. As a Contestant, why do I have to read THREE screenplays?
    
    
20. On a "Team", will each team member have to read THREE screenplays?
    
    
21. As a Contestant, how will I upload my screenplay to the site?
    
    
22. How will screenplays be "scored"? Will my review count?
    
    
23. Is greenlight going to read ALL the submitted screenplays?
    
    
24. I realize that the budget of the greenlight movie will be around one million dollars. Does that mean that my 80-million-dollar-science-fiction-period-action-adventure-revolutionary-war-epic might have a lesser chance to win than say, a "smaller" film?
    
    
25. What's a "log-line"?
    
    
26. I read that the "TOP 250" will have to shoot a short BIO VIDEO and mail it in on VHS videotape. What if I don't have access to a video camera?
    
    
27. Why the "TOP 250" BIO VIDEOS? Why the "TOP 10" VIDEO SCENES?
    
    
28. "Will I get to read my reviews?"
    
    
29. "As a Reviewer or Contestant reviewing screenplays, will the submitting Contestant(s) be able to read my review(s)?
    
    
30. What if I don't like the reviews that I receive?
    
    
31. But, what if another Contestant blatantly "trashes" my screenplay in their review?
    
    
32. When will the HBO television series air?
    
    
33. When will Miramax release the feature film?
    
    
34. Will Matt and/or Ben act in the greenlight movie?
    
    
35. What is LivePlanet?
    
    
36. What is the meaning of life?