Amazon Studios, the creative home for filmmakers, writers and all movie enthusiasts, is inviting artists to design a poster for one of 17 award-winning film projects in development. Artists should read the story premises in 'About the Projects' below and choose a script that they're most excited about. The winner will be selected by Amazon Studios and two guest judges: Arthur Cohen, former President of Worldwide Marketing for Paramount Pictures and Sanjay Sood, Associate Professor of Marketing at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
About the Projects
Award-Winning Scripts
Animal Heads: When the man who allegedly killed his brother returns to town unexpectedly, 17-year-old Leo gets the chance to avenge his brother's death.
Children Of Others: Skylar, on the run from government agents, discovers that the child she carries may not be fully human.
Darkest Before Dawn: For years, the LAPD employed a vampire to terrorize the underworld until one night, that creature rebels to wreak a havoc all his own.
In the Silences: A teenage girl finds a special device that allows her to escape a reclusive life in a Manhattan high-rise and get out from under her father's obsessive control by freezing time.
Mathilde: A female assassin discovers her life is a lie as she is just one of many experimental clones grown to create the perfect killer.
My Father's House: A gifted architect takes a job refurbishing a mansion, but this house has many strange rooms and one terrible secret.
Touching Blue: A teenage girl tracks down a killer who targets Screamers like her: gifted beings who can’t be touched without enduring a terrible pain.
Villain: A supervillain faces an even eviler enemy and has to team up with the good guys to save the world
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Award-Winning Test Movies
12 Princesses: A young farm boy goes on a musical quest to find where the fairytale kingdom's 12 princesses disappear to each night.
Black Hat: Set in a post-apocalyptic Wild West, a drifter with a haunted past finds redemption by helping an old sheriff defend the town against a gang of outlaws.
The Break-Up Artists: After suffering a broken heart, a run-down man joins a club dedicated to the pursuit of short-term relationships.
Dead Forever: When a man sees his wife’s murder precisely re-createdin a bad B-movie, he stops at nothing to learn how the filmmakers knew so much.
Evolver: A gang of thieves hole up in an abandoned military lab after a robbery, only to face a creature that grows more formidable with each kill.
Memory: A retired detective plagued with a photographic memory so strong his past blurs with his present must stop a serial killer who targets local psychics.
Myth of a Modern Man: A sophisticated man poses as a couples therapist to save his friend's relationship, but his baser instincts emerge when he falls for his friend's girl.
Reminded: After losing his wife and his memory in a skydiving accident, a man seeks answers in Italy. He loses a friend, finds new love and learns that nothing is what it seems – except betrayal.
The Umpire: A hot-headed baseball player is sentenced to community service as an umpire.
Amazon Studios's Choice
One winner will have their design featured as the official poster for one of seventeen award-winning scripts or test movies in development. The winner will receive $1,000 and global exposure by having their poster promoted on Amazon Studios' official website and across their social media channels.
Two runners-up (as selected by Amazon Studios, Arthur Cohen and Sanjay Sood) will each have their submissions featured on Amazon Studios' website.
People's Choice
- One highest voted artist will have their submission featured on Amazon Studios' website.
Get Involved
Submit by: January 4, 2012
Vote: January 5, 2012 - January 11, 2012
Winner(s) Announced: January 25, 2012
Click 'Get Started' to review the guidelines and submit your work.