The Finish Line Story

Founder & CEO, Jenny Frankfurt

The Finish Line Script Competition was founded in 2016 after 20+ years working in the world of literary management. I started assisting the Head of the Theater Department at The William Morris Agency (now WME) in NYC, then moved to ICM (now merged with CAA) in Los Angeles and honed my skills working with writers, filmmakers and actors at the highest levels.

After leaving the agency business I began to work in management, eventually becoming Head of the Literary Department at Handprint Entertainment. At Handprint I sold pitches, spec scripts, staffed writers, and worked on breaking emerging writers from the UK and Australia into Hollywood. In working diligently with writers, one of my strongest skills was giving notes and working with writers on improving their material. This is a necessary skill of any good manager.

After leaving the management world for a change of pace, I founded the competition based on the observations I had of the material I read as a script consultant for various top competitions, agencies and TV and film producers. I consistently read scripts that were thisclose to being good and would clearly improve with someone guiding the writer through necessary stages of a rewrite which could then be submitted for consideration by contests, agents or producers. Finish Line provides extensive actionable notes and free resubmissions throughout the contest schedule.

Bringing together my knowledge of story, character and structure, how the industry works and my long list of high level, old and new colleagues from my days of management has made Finish Line a uniquely successful international competition. If you want to break into the industry with a tightly written script while having access to the best Film & TV mentors in the business looking for new material - Finish Line is the competition to enter. Our Mentors are committed to reading and meeting our winners and various semi-finalists. Guaranteed.

Top notch script notes, mentorship along the way, and committed industry professionals looking to work with our winners. Your writing career will change when you rewrite to win.

This is Finish Line.