The Abernathy Screenwriting Competition is an annual contest hosted by the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Academy for Creative Media (ACM). This competition provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to write an original screenplay and offers monetary funding for the production of their winning screenplays into films. The contest is supported by the Grace Abernethy Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation. Submissions are judged on criteria such as originality, creativity, structure, and thematic meaning.