ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition
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ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition
2017
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Active Since 2016
ScreenCraft's industry leading Family-friendly Screenplay Competition has led to winners signing with literary managers and optioning their scripts.
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Calling all family-friendly feature film screenplays! Whether you have a family drama, comedy, animation, or action-adventure film, we want to read your script.
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2025 Winners on Coverfly
Top 2%
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
A conceited teenager must learn to think outside of herself when her parent’s divorce plucks her out of her old money world and throws her into a poor small town with her newfound family.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
Mattie Bayne is a comedy writer and director from Baltimore, Maryland.
Most recently, she was a story editor on the second season of ABC’s NOT DEAD YET. Previously, she was a staff writer on Disney Channel's RAVEN'S HOME and a program writer in the Disney General Entertainment 2022 Writing Program.
Mattie is a graduate of the University of...
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Top 2%
Feature
· Comedy
· 120 Pages
The most under-appreciated single mom in the world helps humorously inept aliens from outer space save Earth from takeover by sinister aliens.
Washington, DC
Hunter Ridgway is Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor to Congressman Matt Cartwright (PA-08), member of the House Appropriations Committee and Democratic Leadership team. Prior to that, Hunter served on the staffs of four other members of the House and Senate, as well as the House Appropriations Committee and Budget Committee. Hunter is also ...
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Top 2%
Feature
· Adventure
· 110 Pages
A biologist searches Madagascar for the long-extinct dodo bird, while an animal trader hunts the same prize. His mission becomes a dangerous rescue when his daughter unexpectedly joins and gets lost in the wild.
Halifax, NS, CA
Man Long "Norman" Ho is an award-winning writer and director from Nova Scotia, Canada. His debut short film, Spud Island? (2022), was nominated for Best Documentary (Social/Political) at the Yorkton Film Festival. He received acclaim for his short story I Beg Your Pardon, which won the IRSA Newcomers to Canada Award at the 2022 Island Literary Award...
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Announcements
Feb 5th
Quarterfinalists
Mar 1st
Semifinalists
Apr 10th
Finalists