ScreenCraft
ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition
2019
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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!

Families are the most influential moviegoing audience, yet there’s a surprising lack of high-quality films that appeal to the WHOLE family. This contest avoids the genre-bias of some other contests by seeking exclusively screenplays that are life-affirming stories of faith, courage, hope and love. Whether you have a family drama, comedy, animation, or action-adventure film – we have producers and executives who are hungry for high-quality “four-quadrant” projects to package and produce.

Additionally, this contest also celebrates feature film screenplays that uplift, inspire and authentically portray stories, themes and people of faith.


Will your script win?

Past ScreenCraft winners have signed with literary managers and agents at such companies as 3 Arts Entertainment, Anonymous Content, CAA, WME, UTA, Paradigm, ICM and Bellevue Entertainment, and have sold projects to studios and networks.

Benefits

The top scripts are read by an industry jury. Check out this year's amazing jury:

Michael Zimmer

Director of Development at Lucamar Productions, the company of renowned filmmaker, Rob Marshall, the director of such films as CHICAGO, INTO THE WOODS, MARY POPPINS RETURNS, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES, and the Disney’s upcoming live-action feature THE LITTLE MERMAID.

Heather Overton

Programming and Development Executive at Hallmark Movie Channel and Crown Media, the single largest producer of family-friendly movies and TV series in the English language featuring nearly one hundred new titles every year.

Zanne Devine

Producer at Montana North Media, a Los Angeles-based independent production company (I, TONYA; HALLOWEEN; EASY A). In addition to the company’s overall deal at Disney+ (SECRET SOCIETY OF SECOND BORN ROYALS), Montana North Media strives to develop elevated content for various content creators, including the upcoming EASY A spinoff at Sony Screen Gems, RIDDANCE THE SERIES at Wyolah and Blue Spruce Entertainment, and the independent comedy from award-winning writer Jenny Bicks, GOOD MOM.

Josh Nadler

Director of Development at Sony’s Affirm Films, the studio behind SOUL SURFER, COURAGEOUS, MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN and more successful and acclaimed faith-friendly films!

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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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