AoBFF Comedy TV & Shorts Contest |
Fall 2024
FUNNY PEOPLE: Enter your comedy TV and short film scripts to the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival's new COMEDY SHORTS contest!
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Winners
Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
Struggling to fit in at school, a desperate teen engages in a toxic relationship when she agrees to help a teenage vampire kill the heir of Van Helsing.
New York, NY
Jackie is a writer-director from Phoenix, Arizona. A recent graduate of the London Film School's screenwriting program, Jackie previously worked as an advertising specialist for BuzzFeed and MediaStorm LLC. She's had the pleasure of co-writing with Gonzalo Maza (Gloria, Una Mujer Fantástica), and is a Sundance feature development track second rounde...
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Honorable Mentions
Honorable Mention
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
A tech-fearing nostalgic and his no-nonsense wife are dealing with the usual: hopes, dreams, and the fact that Alicia is about to fuse her brain with an AI.
Mariana Garcia is a screenwriter who has been writing comedy and entertainment shows for portuguese television for the last 14 years. Though she adores her little corner of the world, she's ready to share her stories globally. How do I know this? Because I am her, narrating my own bio in the third person. Screenwriters are quirky like that.
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Honorable Mention
Short
· Comedy
· 23 Pages
An elder millennial shares unsettling news with her infantilizing family: she's actually ready to leave home.
New York, NY
Sharon Spell is an award-winning writer, comedian and former docent living in NYC. Her credits include Breakout Artist at Carolines and is a Moth StorySLAM winner. She's appeared on Adam Ruins Everything and in productions with the UCB Theatre NY. Though no longer a docent, she still has that air about her and folks often ask her which aisle things ...
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Honorable Mention
Short
· Comedy
· 18 Pages
Two sisters bicker, make up, bicker again, laugh, and cry over the course of 15 years as they grow up together, all set against the backdrop of their family's Jewish traditions.
New York, NY
Lily Davis is the Writers’ Assistant for season 2 of Apple TV+’s SEVERANCE.
Slum Lords
Private
Honorable Mention
Short
· Comedy
· 20 Pages
No logline available.
Maria Alej Alva
No bio available.
Honorable Mention
Short
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
A bold yet bumbling ninja strives to prove his worth to the people of a peaceful domain.
Ofallon, IL
In five years of entering contests, I've won accolade after accolade non-stop, even accumulating multiple Top 1% ratings. My specialty is works with the perfect blend of comedy, drama, and heart to bring out the best in mankind. With every contest I enter, I grow smarter and more mature as a writer.
Honorable Mention
TV Script
· Comedy
· 26 Pages
Two darling lawyer brothers attempt to get their unscrupulous clients off, no matter the crime, using nothing but grit, wit, and morally questionable schemes to exploit an entirely absurd, chaotic and farcical legal system.
Los Angeles, CA
August Gladstone is a Los Angeles based Writer, Poet, Clown and Troubadour. He’s used his theatrical upbringing (on Broadway at age six) to craft absurd comedies, placing in numerous screenwriting competitions and performing across the country under manifold mediums including an appearance in the 2024 Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival. An award-winn...
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Finalists
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A motley crew of disabled residents at an accessible apartment complex cast themselves in an old-school freakshow in an effort to outmaneuver a devastating rent increase.
Nipomo, California
Brian Koukol is an award-winning screenwriter, prose writer, and poet. A lifelong battle with muscular dystrophy has informed the majority of the darkly comedic stories he favors, which are written with the aid of voice recognition and eye gaze technology out of physical necessity. And because keyboards are for suckers.
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A group of incompetent college police officers must start solving cases on campus after their newly appointed chief informs them that the board is considering shutting them down and turning their jurisdiction over to the equally narcissistic, but more annoying city police.
Born in a rural farm town near Iowa, screenwriting and filmmaking just seemed like the obvious life choice. Well, maybe not obvious...or acceptable, but they're the only thing I enjoy doing in life. All I do is write comedies and do improv. Now, I'd like to do that for money. I can't promise I'm going to change the entertainment landscape, but I wr...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
In this parody of 1940s noir, rogue Detective Johnny Paine must team up with his new by-the-book partner, Jean Taylor, to bring down the notorious gangster Dutch Angle, with the help of stoolies such as Gumbumps.
Los Angeles, CA
Growing up on a rabbit farm in rural Texas, Davis wondered if there was more to life than prank calling from the local phone booth or pelting his friends with golf balls. Davis found his safe haven at the cinema where he developed a taste for crime (movies), and it wasn’t long before he started writing them. His writing philosophy, whether it’s a co...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 37 Pages
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER meets HITCH -- After being divorced by his high school sweetheart, Charlie is hopelessly thrown into the dating world for the first time in his life, where he meets Sam, a young woman with relationship flaws of her own, who decides to help teach him how to date. (Pitch Deck/Bible Available Upon Request)
Los Angeles, CA
Sean Wathen grew up in Louisville, Kentucky before heading to Hollywood to work on hit tv shows like "Heroes," "24," and "House." After being a Writer's Assistant for Michael Mann, Sean became a full time screenwriter. Previously named on Tracking Board’s 'Young & Hungry List,' Sean co-wrote the Lionsgate project "Escape the Field" with Jordan Clai...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
A washed-up actress and single mom, jaded by years of Hollywood ageism and misogyny, cashes in on her Golden Globe-winning childhood role to gouge the Jesus crowd on the convention circuit and transform herself into a multimillion-dollar Christian lifestyle brand.
New York, NY
Frederik Ehrhardt is a writer & producer based in the US & Germany. He got his industry start as an associate producer for four-time Independent Spirit Award nominee Darren Dean. Most recently, Frederik produced the screen adaptation of Markus Potter’s Outer Critics Circle nominated Off-Broadway play STALKING THE BOGEYMAN starring Tony winner Santin...
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Out of Balance
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
Two unstable individuals in their late-20s at their breaking point connect over their misery and develop a saving bond, only to witness the equilibrium become askew around them as their torment is somehow strangely transferred to others.
No bio available.
Soup
Private
Finalist
Short
· Comedy
· 6 Pages
A complaining, single woman scores a date, but is challenged to keep her mouth shut when the date takes an amusing turn.
Helena, Montana
A former addictions counselor and director of programs, Christa left prison to pursue her passion of 20+ years, screenwriting. A former Development Associate for Open Road Productions and writer’s assistant back in the day, its Christa’s turn, and with five screenplays, multiple shorts, and a novella to turn, she’s ready to put in the hard work to m...
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Short
· Comedy
· 19 Pages
At a new TV program called "Spitball News," Sophie Straight, a bad-ass 20s News Anchor, shreds her two male reporters with caustic shade on their fragile egos and interview subjects. As the show ends, the GM bursts onto the set to fire Sophie for losing advertisers. Yet as Sophie explains she got the best ratings ever, she convinces her GM to save t...
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Burbank, CA
Co-author ......... "Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul" (500,000+ copies sold)
Author ................ "Be A Global Force Of One!"
Journalist .............. 500+ Mag. & Newsp. Articles, Blogs & Op-eds
Sit-com Writer .... Staff writer on "Out of the Blue" @ Paramount Studios
Donor ..................... 1...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
When LA’s most feared food critic watches his career implode from a Crohn’s disease diagnosis, he turns to the brilliant but unstable ex his reviews once publicly destroyed to salvage his dream and chase redemption in the city that chews you up and shits you out.
Los Angeles, CA
Drew McInturff was raised by two political operatives in love in Washington, D.C. After being diagnosed with Crohn's disease at a young age he learned that steroids are the best medicine and laughter is a close second. Graduating from FSU's MFA Screenwriting program in 2022, Drew moved to Los Angeles to pursue stand up comedy and screenwriting full ...
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Semifinalist
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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Semifinalist
Short
· Comedy
· 17 Pages
A fourteen-year-old and her girlfriend run away from home after fears their relationship has been discovered.
As a screenwriter, Scott has worked for companies in LA, Montreal, Germany, Helsinki, New York, and Boston. He adapted the novel, ADELE, by Peter Ronnov-Jensen (optioned 3x), and was hired to write a TV pilot for Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman. His adaptation of the memoir “Black Dog of Fate”, by Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian, wa...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Comedy
· 13 Pages
Set at the funeral, an immature young man must decide whether he wants to accept custody of his recent girlfriend's daughter.
Born in a rural farm town near Iowa, screenwriting and filmmaking just seemed like the obvious life choice. Well, maybe not obvious...or acceptable, but they're the only thing I enjoy doing in life. All I do is write comedies and do improv. Now, I'd like to do that for money. I can't promise I'm going to change the entertainment landscape, but I wr...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
Dodd and Ollie think they've hit the jackpot when they inherit a strip club, but they soon find out it just might be the worst place on Earth.
My It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia spec, "The Gang Catches Predators," was a top 5 finalist for the Nickelodeon Fellowship Writing Program. My sci-fi comedy feature MISS UNIVERSE was a finalist in the Scriptshadow 250, and my superhero comedy OUR HERO was a semifinalist in the 2022 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition. Oh, and once I saw a b...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
After her mother is blown to bits in a freak strimming explosion, Hannah reluctantly inherits the family gardening business. But what looks like an accident soon stinks of sabotage, leading Hannah down a twisted garden path of secrets and betrayal.
Glasgow, Stirlingshire, GB
I tend to write dark comedy. Might have something to do with surviving terminal cancer which certainly creates a unique perspective on life.
I've written features, TV pilots and have produced numerous shorts. I was also a director on the record breaking feature film, THE IMPACT, which premiered in London in 2022.
I have never been nominated ...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
Battle lines are drawn. Allies are formed. It’s not war, but rather life at the office as uptight Robin and her oddball coworkers combat their tyrannical ruler for survival at an unusual nonprofit.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalists
(Pilot) Wildflower of the Valley: Carnal Bloom
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
After the body of the city manager is found, local hitwoman, Layla Osman, decides to claim his bounty as hers despite not murdering him.
Fremont, California
Currently I'm trying to break into the writer's rooms for television series with an angle toward comedies. I'd consider comedy to be by far my strongest genre, however, I'm also attempting to branch out. The works I'm proudest of are works that have been inspired by comedies I find the funniest, and I would love to learn more about that part of the ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
To settle his debts, a casino executive with a gambling addiction must wrestle control of his struggling fantasy-themed casino... so he can continue stealing from it.
Rochester, NY
Jamison crafted a Bet-A-Verse of films and TV to atone for his work in sports and gambling marketing. His Top 3% comedy casino TV show 'Bet.' His toxic-patriarch-driven feature, 'Our Father, The Future.' And the TV show he's written the full first season of for, with, and inspired by former ESPN legend Kenny Mayne, 'Mid-Famous.' Welcome to The Bet-A...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
An agnostic Indian-American inherits his grandmother’s Tarot shop in a small town and reluctantly starts treating people through psychology and modern medicine under the guise of fortune telling.
Minneapolis, MN
Tapan "like Japan with a T" Sharma. I was called tampon in middle school but I'm super absorbent; so, compliment.
Genre-driven satirist in service of creative social justice. Adam McKay meets Greta Gerwig meets Jordan Peele. Those aren’t comps; I just want to be a fly on that wall.
Canada born, Minnesota raised; dropped out of med school to be...
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Quarterfinalist
Short
· Comedy
· 19 Pages
A disillusioned young man is about to end it all, but this Friday night in Tokyo has other plans.
Zaza /
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
When an autistic up-and-coming Black swimmer is unexpectedly named captain of the co-ed US National Swim Team by the passionate new coach, she must find a way to get her unruly teammates to respect her if she hopes to propel the team to new heights.
Los Angeles, CA
Recently a Disruptors’ Fellow, simultaneously having worked as a researcher in a mini-room for the CBS reboot of @Midnight; Kai was previously employed at Funny Or Die in two separate assistant positions, and before that was a Showrunner’s Assistant at Marvel Studios. Kai writes dark comedy because she believes that pulling from comedic and dramatic...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
Hadriel, an angel who has been demoted from her high status, wants nothing more than to get away from humans– a difficult feat seeing as she is the angel who processes human souls after their deaths. After finishing her tenure down in Soul Intake, she is forced back into her job when the nuclear holocaust occurs and four billion humans arrive at her...
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Macon, Georgia
In 2021, Alex completed her Master's degree in the Writing for Script and Screen program at Falmouth University. Currently, she is on the Shortlist for The Script Department. Her specialties include both speculative and dark comedy. She has a keen interest in dialogue and character development in her screenplays.
Quarterfinalist
Short
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
A flamboyant Las Vegas-bound drag queen hypnotist gets lost in a small New York town and befriends a family whose teenage daughter is an aspiring hypnotist.
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Dexter is an award-winning screenwriter who has written screenplays in a variety of genres. He has written twenty feature film scripts and forty short film scripts. He has earned over 100 accolades and has won 33 awards for his features and shorts.
Name Drop
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 37 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
A mockumentary follows a group of raucous teen girls who sling parfaits and confront evangelicals at a small town ice cream shop.
LaForce is a writer and performer.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 27 Pages
While filming the hit TV show “Broadway Babes,” utter chaos ensues for the stage manager, Bobby. With it all falling on her shoulders, she tries her best to keep production running smoothly and make a name for herself.
Brooklyn, New York
Originally from Colorado, I grew up acting and received a Bachelor's Degree in Acting, but always had a passion for writing. In whatever I write, there will be comedy and there will be heart.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
A talented but completely hapless stoner writer with one fantastic screenplay is guaranteed a greenlight if he adapts the Devil's autobiography for the big screen.
Scottsdale, AZ
Josh is a Therapist by trade, the "now let's unpack your childhood baggage" kind. If you'd like to sit on a couch and talk about your parents, he's your guy.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 39 Pages
Before going mysteriously missing in the mountains outside Dollywood in 2024, a lovin' coven of self-proclaimed witches from a Beaverlick, Kentucky trailer park start filming their daily lives in an attempt to get their own reality show.
Cincinnati, OH
*Cue WKRP In Cincinnati theme song*
“BABY/
If you ever wondered/
Wondered/
Whatever became of me/
I’m livin’ on the air in Cincinnati!/
Cincinnati, WKRP!/“
Streamy and Webby Award Winner for Best Writing in a Comedy Series for my work on the YouTube series, Honest Trailers.
Casting producer for unscripted TV; associate producer on C...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
This fly-on-the-wall mockumentary documents the day-to-day struggles of the faculty of the prestigious Ackley Academy of Sorcery and Sortilege, a school dedicated to teaching the next generation of magical teens to be responsible wizards – if they can keep their pants on long enough to learn a f**king spell.
Lauren Hovey
No bio available.
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