WeScreenplay Short Script Lab
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WeScreenplay Short Script Lab
Winter 2017
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Active Since 2017
6 writers will be selected for a multi-day virtual Shorts Lab! Plus, free feedback for all entries.
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About
The WeScreenplay Shorts Screenwriting Competition's mission is to provide talented writers and filmmakers the financial means to turn their amazing short scripts into short films. The large budget of the contest will be used to cover the budget of the short film as determined by the creators of the film, not by the contest.
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2024 Winners on Coverfly
Top 3%
Short
· Drama
· 10 Pages
A group of messy lifelong friends must work out their issues at a bachelorette party before the clock ticks down to Armageddon.
Los Angeles, California
Growing up in small-town Virginia, Laura Hunter Drago was a shy child who found her voice through storytelling. An alumna of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Drago writes fantasies and thrillers that center women and is a 2025 Film Independent Project Involve Writing Fellow. She won the Austin Film Festival Fiction Podcast Award for h...
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Top 1%
Short
· Historical
· 18 Pages
1944, Heart Mountain internment camp. When a young Japanese American man finds out his best friend evaded the draft, he must rethink his loyalty to his country or risk being left behind.
Portland, OR
Julia is a writer/producer/actor based in Portland and Los Angeles. Produced credits include "Dragonfly" (animated short film), "JesusCat (or How I Accidentally Joined a Cult)" (feature film), "Sin & Lyle" (short film), "Twenty-Two" (play), and "American Comedy Horror Story" (fiction podcast). Julia is also a freelance script analyst, the Short Film...
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Top 2%
Short
· Drama
· 13 Pages
In 1950s Taiwan, the rebellious daughter of a military family escapes an arranged marriage to an American man, discovering her path to freedom from an ancient tigress.
Los Angeles, California
Abigail Bloom and Laura Huie are an LA-based screenwriting duo who’ve been inseparable since they were cast as conjoined twins in a hilariously bad high school play. Now, they channel their tongue-in-cheek humor and decade-long female friendship into witty, genre-bending shorts and features—the kind of stories teen Abigail and Laura would’ve been ob...
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Announcements
Mar 20th
Quarterfinalists
Apr 20th
Semifinalists
May 16th
Finalists
Jun 20th
Winners