I found out a friend, who wrote her first screenplay and entered the Cinequest Screenwriting competition, was picked as one of 37 semi-finalists out of a field of 271.

She received feedback on her screenplay, and is now busily rewriting her movie.

I need to think about entering my screenplay in some competition.

There was another friend of mine who entered his screenplay into another contest last year, and was picked as one of 45 first round finalists out of 550 submittted. His screenplay wasn't even that great, and he got picked.