Canadian Short Screenplay Competition (CSSC)

The Canadian Short Screenplay Competition (CSSC) was established in 2008 by International Emmy Award-nominated Producer, Screenwriter and Showrunner, David Cormican. The festival is frequently considered the top destination script contest for short film screenplays and produced five winning screenplays into short films which went on to premiere at festivals such as Cannes, Worldwide Short Film Festival, among countless others up until the last awarded edition of the competition in 2013. The CSSC re-launched in 2025 for it’s 6th edition to award the next winner of the Writers’ Block Crystal Top Prize in partnership with the Yorkton Film Festival.

The CSSC is the single-most competitive, prestigious, short screenplay festival in Canada, a champion for screenwriters everywhere, a financier and producer of short form content, founder of the #WriterWednesday hashtag on X (formerly Twitter) and serves as a launching pad for writers’ professional careers.