Posted by Indie Short Fest is pleased to announce a new partnership with Act Write Here, expanding the festival’s support for independent storytellers through a platform that connects writers and actors for live virtual table reads.
Through this partnership, the Best Short Script winner of each monthly edition receives a complimentary 12-month Standard subscription, offering an opportunity to hear their characters performed, explore their dialogue, and develop their work through collaboration.
From the Page to Performance
Act Write Here brings casting, scheduling, live performance, and digital production into one workflow. Writers can connect with actors suited to their characters and arrange virtual table reads, while actors discover new material and opportunities to exercise their craft.
For screenwriters, hearing a script performed can reveal qualities that are difficult to assess on the page alone: the rhythm of dialogue, the clarity of character intentions, the timing of humor, and the emotional progression of a scene. A table read creates space to explore these elements before moving toward production.
A One-Year Standard Subscription for Monthly Winners
The subscription includes:
- Three hours of matched virtual table reads each month
- Support for scripts of up to 130 pages per project
- Open casting, allowing actors to claim available roles
- Automatic casting to simplify matching and scheduling
- Unused tickets carried over to the following month
Winning writers will receive their redemption instructions directly from Indie Short Fest.
Real People, Real Performances
Act Write Here connects writers with actors for live, collaborative table reads. Every role is performed by a real actor, with no AI-generated voices. The platform uses no artificial intelligence or large language models and does not use uploaded scripts to train AI.
Its focus is on helping creatives connect and bringing scripts to life through real people performing together in real time.
Supporting the Next Stage of Creative Work
Act Write Here joins FilmVault and Dehancer in Indie Short Fest’s growing network of partners. Alongside professional cinema-delivery and color-grading resources for the festival’s top film winners, this new partnership extends practical support to award-winning screenwriters.
The partnership connects screenplay recognition with an opportunity for further development, helping writers move from words on the page toward performance and production.
Act Write Here is now live and free to all users until 2027. The complimentary year awarded to Indie Short Fest’s monthly Best Short Script winners is an additional partner benefit, separate from that introductory access.
Learn more at actwritehere.com.
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