ScreenCraft
ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition
2024
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Active Since 2015
Winners and finalists have signed with 3Arts, Management 360, CAA, Verve, Zero Gravity, and more. Plus, ScreenCraft winners have been staffed for shows at Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV+, The CW, ABC, Paramount+ and many more.
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About

Our TV Competition has a history of getting writers signed, staffed, and have helped them land development deals for their own projects. It's one of our most successful competitions, period. Winners and finalists have signed with 3Arts, Management 360, CAA, Verve, Zero Gravity, and more.

GRAND JUROR

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We welcome Emmy-winning writer, creator, showrunner Damon Lindelof (WATCHMEN, THE LEFTOVERS, LOST) as our Grand Juror. Damon will participate in a live question and answer session with all semifinalists of the program.

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Ready to launch your TV writing career? Enter today.

Benefits

JURY
The top pilots are considered by our incredible industry jury.

JOHN BAUMAN
Manager, Bauman Management

After more than a decade as a TV and film literary agent at Gersh, John Bauman started his own management company to represent writers and directors. John Bauman Management is a celebrity talent agency for numerous actors, musicians, sports athletes & more. His clients include Colin Bucksey and writers, directors and producers on the projects: ALL AMERICAN: HOMECOMING, LAW & ORDER, THE BLACKLIST, THE GREAT, THE SINNER.

NELSON COLE
Manager

Nelson Cole worked for Energy Entertainment, Bellevue and 1Community LLC before becoming an independent manager. He has clients with projects with Shondaland, Llewellen, Silkmass and many more. Nelson is excited to develop with new and diverse voices of all kinds.

NATHAN VARNI
Executive Director, ABC Current Programming

Nathan Varni is Executive Director, Current Programming, ABC Entertainment Group. In this position, Mr. Varni oversees all creative and day-to-day management on ABC’s primetime series, Will Trent, The Company You Keep, Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, Alaska Daily, The Conners and General Hospital. In past seasons, Mr. Varni served as the covering executive on Rebel, The Baker and the Beauty, How to Get Away with Murder, Grand Hotel, Once Upon A Time, Scandal, Cristela, The Middle, Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, the revival of Roseanne and also serves as the covering executive on ABC Daytime’s General Hospital, where he has oversaw 3000+ episodes of the long running series, including multiple Daytime Emmy Awards for outstanding daytime drama series.


CHRIS NOLD
Executive, Not a Real Production Company

Chris is an Executive at Not a Real Production Company. Not A Real Production Company has several projects in various stages of development, including a previously announced original rom-com at Netflix that will mark Levy’s feature directorial debut. Levy will also write and star in the untitled film, which he and Zehmer are producing alongside Sister’s Stacey Snider and Kate Fenske.

THE PRIZES

Grand Prize Winner

The overall grand prize winner will be welcomed to the ScreenCraft Writer Development Program and receive personal introductions with one or more top Hollywood literary manager(s), producers, or industry professionals. who are looking for talented emerging Film & TV screenwriters.


ScreenCraft's genre specific relationships include companies like Netflix, HBO Max, AMC, and over 150 other Hollywood managers, agents, producers, and development executives.


ScreenCraft has a proven track record for getting writers signed with managers, agents, and staffed in writing rooms.


They'll receive:

  • • Personal Introduction to top industry professionals
  • • Accepted into the ScreenCraft Development Program
  • • $1,000 cash award
  • • An exclusive invitation to a Finalist only workshop to position yourself and your writing to the industry
  • • Free 6-month membership to The Tracking Board


Category Winners (2)
Half-Hour & Hour Long

  • • $500 cash award
  • • Accepted into the ScreenCraft Development Program
  • • An exclusive invitation to a Finalist only workshop to position yourself and your writing to the industry
  • • Free 6-month membership to The Tracking Board


Finalists

  • • An exclusive invitation to a Finalist only workshop to position yourself and your writing to the industry
  • • Free 6-month membership to The Tracking Board


GUARANTEED SIGNING OPPORTUNITY

with Brian J. Goldberg, Agent with WPA


This optional add-on prize category will identify one winner to sign with Brian Goldberg, agent with WPA.


Brian Goldberg joined WPA’s Television Division during the height of pilot season in March 2014. Previously, Brian was with Paradigm Talent Agency, first in business affairs, then as an assistant, and later an agent in physical production.

Goldberg represents’ top line producers, cinematographers, production designers, costume designers, and editors, as well as the industry’s next generation of emerging talent. With his prior film experience, he also facilitates WPA’s clients’ other passions, such as directing, writing and creative producing, and film and commercial clients with crossing over into television.


This optional add-on prize category will identify one winner to sign with Brian Goldberg, agent with WPA. Only projects submitted to the ScreenCraft TV Competition AND that select this add-on are eligible for consideration in this category. Additionally, all projects that place in the Top 10 of the competition will automatically be considered.

Writer Success

The ScreenCraft team have been really great at continuing to support us after the win –– setting up general meetings with producers, showrunners and studio executives as well as circulating our script to their database of agents and managers.
James King
2021 Winner
ScreenCraft was the very first competition I entered with my very first script and won! Regardless of placement, ScreenCraft champions its writers tirelessly, which is evident with its growing list of success stories.
Nicholas Oktaras
2021 Finalist
This was the first competition I ever entered, and I was pleasantly surprised by the staff's continued support and dedication to me even though I was a finalist but not a winner. They are in the process of building some great networking and career advice channels now that will add extra value going forward.
Alison Weaverdyck
2021 Finalist
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2025 Winners on Coverfly

Top 1%
TV Script  · Drama  · 62 Pages
As the Irish mob muscle into 1920s Harlem, a black vet turned barber must choose between protecting his peace or protecting his people from the man they call ‘The Killer.’ (Inspired by true events) Watchmen meets Peaky Blinders
New York, NY
Raised in Atlanta but blessed to travel the globe, Cam is a 6’6 giraffe, writer, and producer focused on telling stories where characters grapple with identity and belonging. Though he got his start writing and producing on Wild n Out, his interests span several genres including historic dramas, fantasy, sci-fi, and thrillers. Short term goal: hone ...
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Top 1%
TV Script  · Sci-fi  · 63 Pages
In a near future plagued by climate disasters, a cynical doctor manages to secure a job at a local hospital to avoid evacuation and search for her missing wife. But with little help and even fewer supplies, she finds herself forced to work with an ill-mannered, and sometimes violent, medical droid to save lives and keep her new community afloat.
Los Angeles, CA
Anna Vecellio is a queer, southern screenwriter whose work explores our eternal search for connection and goodness through a genre lens. She is the hour-long winner of the 2025 Screencraft Pilot Competition and an alum of the Film Independent Episodic Lab - where she received an Alfred P. Sloan Development Grant. An alumnus of the AFI Screenwriting ...
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Top 1%
TV Script  · Comedy  · 37 Pages
When superfan Lauren notices strange behavior on her favorite 2000s-era pop star’s social media pages, she's convinced that the now-washed up celeb Zoey Starr is in trouble. Her fears are confirmed when Zoey is found dead…(or is she?) Lauren will uncover clues and decode messages in hopes of finding Zoey alive, all while trying to prove to the world...
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Sarah Farnam is a comedy writer and content creator from Detroit, Michigan who tells stories about funny women, pop culture, and the occasional murder.
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Announcements

Nov 22nd
Semifinalists
Jan 10th
Finalists
Jan 31st
Winners