Launch Pad Pilot Competition
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Launch Pad Pilot Competition
2015
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Active Since 2014
Featuring a jury of industry professionals from top companies. The Launch Pad Pilot competition has led to dozens of writers staffed on hit shows for Netflix, CBS, NBC and more.
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Writer Success
Because of the program, I was reached out to by multiple managers who had read my work!
brit wigintton
2020 Top 50
Signed with Thomas Carter at Artillery Creative
The Launch Pad Pilot Competition and its diligent team helped "Angels of War" to gain visibility and traction. I am grateful for the opportunities provided to competition winners to meet with various industry reps and producers.
Natalie G. Bergman
2020 Winner
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Top 1%
TV Script
· Thriller
· 60 Pages
Carly just accepted a ride-along to be Sheriff-for-a-Day in Storyville, IA, where not everything is as it seems. After a series of murders, the townsfolk refuse to let their "acting sheriff" leave. She must solve the murders as they happen ... weekly. Carly is stuck in a Small Town Murder-Mystery. A new type of procedural.
North Hollywood, CA
Originally from Iowa, Josh writes stories that blend the fantastical with the working class. That’s it, that’s who he is. Midwestern to his core. He creates tales of the everyman and puts ‘em through a gauntlet of vampires, serial killers, dragons, and aliens. Josh loves to take the ordinary and inject it with something that's never been tried befor...
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Top 1%
TV Script
· Horror
· 38 Pages
Mel's trained to be a Final Girl her entire life-- and she gets her chance when her agnostic preacher father takes her to summer camp. Stakes heat up when they realize their ill-fated family trip is fated to begin the Apocalypse.
Valencia, California
Final Girl fanatic Sophie Mutiara Nova is a queer, half-Indonesian, SLE-diagnosed Writer-Director. (Writing Fellow of the ACEX TV Initiative, Finalist of the Emmy's TV Academy Foundation Directing Program). Their TV series have won the Launchpad Pilot Competition, ScreenCraft Horror Competition, and many others; their film work's screened in festi...
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Top 1%
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
Unable to keep up with caring for her two kids, recently-widowed Sara Rios accepts help from the last person she would ask: her estranged mother.
Columbus, OH
Chris Leyva is a neurodivergent writer who is often called “super nice.” He was raised by Jesus Christ Superstar and Walt Disney. It took him by surprise to find his home in Columbus, Ohio after growing up in Albuquerque, NM in a Mexican/Puerto Rican household. In his comedies, Chris asks big questions in meaningful ways and is driven by a hopefulne...
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