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Quarterfinalists
"ANCESTORS OF THE LIGHT"
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Fantasy
· 95 Pages
What if someone or a small group of people could help change our world? Raise the vibration, bring back sanity, raise awareness, and help promote love, kindness, and decency. You know what we have presently in this world. Would you try to help?
Bellingham, Ma.
No bio available.
"Baby Lenin"
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 120 Pages
In 1987, a sex, drugs and rock n’ roll music agent searches for the son his dying father left behind in Russia 40 years before, and finds his mirror opposite, an underground rock musician of principle who challenges him to confront everything he thinks he knows about his own life.
New York, New York
No bio available.
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 100 Pages
Following a near-fatal accident, a science-minded teen must rely on faith to come to terms with her strange newfound abilities.
Milford, CT
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 103 Pages
A teenage girl struggling to survive in solitary confinement bonds with a guard conflicted over his role in a system that is ultimately found guilty of her murder. A true story based on the last days of Ashley Smith’s life inside a maximum security prison in Kitchener, Ontario.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
Nadine Pequeneza is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her first fiction based on a true story, 1047 DAYS, was selected for the CFC/Netflix Calling Card Accelerator and the feature script was a finalist for the 2023 Humanitas New Voices Fellowship. In 2023 she completed her second screenplay RARE EARTH working with writing coach Pilar Alessand...
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1237 Canterbury Lane
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
1314 Derby
Private
Quarterfinalist
Short
· Drama
· 35 Pages
A life changing event presents a WWII Navy veteran with the most difficult time of tribulation he has ever had to face.
San Francisco, CA
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 91 Pages
A prosecutor works on the cold case of a woman murdered by her abusive ex while attempting to overcome her own experience with sexual assault.
Columbus, Ohio
Once a criminal prosecutor, I swapped courtroom drama for spending my days wishing I lived in a Wes Anderson movie. Raised on a steady diet of Pee Wee Herman’s quirky antics and Sesame Street’s life lessons, I firmly believe that absurdity exists all around.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 59 Pages
The true story of William Henry Harrison's infamous rise to the pinnacle of 1800s America and the chaos that unfolds when his sudden illness ushers in a divisive new leader.
Los Angeles, CA
A lifelong writer who studied screenwriting at Emerson College. Currently working at a major Hollywood talent management company in the film and television literary department. Previously worked in development at a successful production company.
7 Minutes In Heaven
Private
Quarterfinalist
Short
· Drama
· 8 Pages
No logline available.
Marshall Woodruff
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Short
· Drama
· 11 Pages
A high school boy is perplexed when his teacher keeps teaching wrong, weird information. It's a good thing he's a kid who pays attention.
Pasadena, CA
Lisa Hickey is a TV writer/screenwriter.
She is also the Publisher and CEO of an online magazine with 2 million visitors per month that talks about the changing roles of men in the 21st century. Out of that come deep and provocative discussions about the big social issues of today--sexism, racism, lgbtqia issues, environmental concerns and more. ...
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A Better Future
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Action
· 120 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 106 Pages
In a dispute over a wealthy family's estate, two siblings and their spouses find themselves entangled in a series of unusual incidents, all woven into a web of manipulation, deceit, and hidden agendas. As they pursue power and wealth, their choices lead to asinine and disastrous decisions and consequences.
Union, New Jersey
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Short
· Animated
· 10 Pages
A boy desperately tries to hold onto the memory of his father… and his hair.
Los Angeles, California
Ben Hirschhorn is an award winning actor, writer, and director. He most recently starred in the Off-Broadway world premiere of ROOM 1214, and was previously nominated for an “LA Drama Critic Circle Award” for his performance in the West Coast premiere of TRAYF at the Geffen Playhouse. Additionally he received the “Best Actor Award” at the Los Angele...
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A Flight Of Stairs
Private
Quarterfinalist
Short
· Drama
· 16 Pages
A family quickly unravels after their son confesses to sexually assaulting a woman at a party.
No bio available.
A Gifted Boy
Private
Quarterfinalist
Short
· Horror
· 13 Pages
A rural grandmother attempts to teach her gifted but disturbed teenaged grandson to exercise restraint.
West Hollywood, CA
I'm a Northeast Philadelphia native (yes, I'm “Phil from Philly”)/LA transplant who writes features and pilots with genres spanning from crime thrillers to horror to comedy. My stories often feature LGBTQ+ and women protagonists and explore the thrills and guilty pleasures of genre conventions from a queer perspective. My life's B-plot is a quest to...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 112 Pages
Two childhood friends are reunited and must fight to survive after being held captive in the jungle by a Nigerian terrorist organization. Beast of No Nation meets true events.
Milton, Ontario, CA
No bio available.
A Girl's Guide to Vampirism
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 110 Pages
A college girl and her squad try to help her best friend, who's become a vampire. Can they keep her fed and safe? Can they keep themselves safe?
Semifinalist (Top 15), Write LA
Semifinalist, Shore Scripts Feature Contest
Semifinalist, The Golden Script Fellowship
Semifinalist, Scriptation Showcase
Semifinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Finalist, Plot Point Awards
A Good Daughter
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 102 Pages
No logline available.
Felicia Shively
No bio available.
A Holiday Carol
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 90 Pages
A modern day adaptation of Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol.” Evan Scrooge lives his life as a rich, greedy, bitter, closeted gay man who despises the holidays. Until one Christmas Eve night, when his dead, ex-lover and business partner, Jacob Marley, along with the three spirits of Christmas Present, Past, and Yet to Come, show Scrooge the errors...
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No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 93 Pages
A fabulous small-town boy defies his father to enter a life-changing talent show with the aid of warring businesswomen.
Vancouver
An author of novels and stage and screen projects, Shaun Balbar's work has achieved international recognition, including the play One Last Song, chosen by the Austin Film Festival for a live reading.
In 2025, he completed the Pacific Screenwriting Program's Scripted Series Lab, co-developing and co-writing an original comedy series created by N...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 97 Pages
In the late 2010s, a group of friends spend their last night together in the streets of Philippines before one of them goes abroad.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Adventure
· 102 Pages
When he becomes the newest unwilling explorer in a Utah wilderness program for troubled youth, a rowdy and violent teenager must change the trajectory of his life to repair his fractured relationships and earn his way back home.
Thousand Oaks/kalispell, Ca / Mt
Sent off to a wilderness camp in Escalante, UT (at 13) to learn a different way to live, Stephen later learned to share this experience in his first feature, placing as a Finalist in Script Pipeline's First Look Competition. Stephen writes features and pilots, all rated highly throughout the industry. "Recommended" Features & Pilots multiple times. ...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 94 Pages
A young street doctor who witnessed the murder of his brother as a boy leaves witness protection to fight the LA fentanyl epidemic and seek vengeance on the ruthless drug lord responsible for both.
Goleta, CA
Claudia has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Chico State University and has studied criminology and victimology. She has worked in government for over 30 years in a variety of capacities including Senior Project Manager and Sexual Assault Response Team Coordinator for the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 121 Pages
In a 1980s Western town rife with deceit and corruption, a Lakota Sioux searching for his missing father and an Arapaho seeking his roots, must evade a sinister Sheriff in this mystical/drama.
Irvine, CA
I discovered -- almost by accident -- that I had the ability to write, creating culturally rich stories woven with magic, drama and humor -- like it was part of my soul.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 125 Pages
Imprisoned since childhood at Henry Riggs’ notorious turpentine camp in the trackless wilderness of northern Florida, Martha LongFoot has to decide whether to give up a tenuous reprieve from assault and depredation to engineer an escape for a recently imprisoned couple with whom she has no cultural bond or sympathy.
- Verified WGA Member
Austin, Texas
For credits, publications, awards and a highly-sanitized bio, see darrylwimberley.com
A Spilling of Stars
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 118 Pages
A Spilling of Stars is a coming-of-age story in which grieving seventeen year-old DYLAN POOLE, beset with self-doubt, navigates the darker side of teen culture in pursuit of a rapist hiding in plain sight, discovering in the process that justice, like vengeance, often has unintended consequences.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
Neil, a struggling comic, finds a puppet possessed by a disgraced, late comedian. By using the puppet in his act, he gets to make his comedy dreams come true – at the expense of his relationships and reputation.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
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A Sure Thing
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Faith
· 89 Pages
A married politician, running for elected office in a bible-belt state, thinks he can hide the fact he's gotten a young woman pregnant, but is threatened by an elderly Christina woman who can see through his lies and false religion.
John Cooper
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 98 Pages
Pregnant after a one-night stand with Roman, the local chip shop lothario, teenager Lana determines they will get to know one another 'for the baby's sake.'
I have worked at many things, from checkout packer to lounge girl. But the job I have now, telling lies and making up stories is by far my favourite. I'm not a politician, just a writer. To date I have penned over 20 novels, some winning prizes, some doing well on best seller lists. I have written plays, poetry and done a stint in a newspaper.
A Tempo
Private
Quarterfinalist
Short
· Unknown
· 12 Pages
DOLL, a Vietnamese nursing home employee with an exceptional singing voice unexpectedly helps former opera star GIOVANNI pluck up the courage to see his ailing ex-wife.
Lorelai Jo-hsuan Lin
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Action
· 115 Pages
While enforcing the "no-fly zones" in post war Iraq, two fighter pilot brothers must work together as they find themselves intertwined in a high flying, life or death struggle against a rogue spy who has developed a unique technology that threatens world peace. "Black Ops" meets "Top Gun" in this action packed thriller.
No bio available.
Abel's Baby
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 63 Pages
A convict in the late 18th century discovers she is pregnant while aboard a prisoner transport ship and uses her expert knowledge of 1770s physics and chemistry to save herself and her unborn child.
New York, NY
Hallie began her writing journey at age 7 with a Star Trek comic book chronicling Kirk and Spock's extraplanetary shenanigans. She is now an award-winning screenwriter with a varied portfolio of TV pilots, features and short scripts.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 101 Pages
There's so many ways to say I love you.
Bend, Oregon
No bio available.
Accident
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 90 Pages
An Asian-American woman’s insatiable thirst for adulation leads to the ultimate destruction of her picture-perfect family.
Michigan
A bilingual storyteller in English and Chinese.
Adams Apple
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 56 Pages
A fading Indigenous hockey star who knows zip about his culture, finds himself on thin ice when he ends up in charge of a reserve that just swallowed up the mostly all-white town next door.
Clark Donnelly
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 92 Pages
In Flushing, Queens, Fan Chen, a waiter at a Cantonese restaurant, reunites with his ex-girlfriend Meng Zhang and soon discovers a mysterious mechanical interface on her back that she refuses to discuss, while a wealthy man named Kenneth seems to relate to the secret behind her.
New York, New York
As a filmmaker born and raised in China, Shengtong Yuan came to New York two years ago and started to further his education in the NYU Dramatic Writing MFA program. As a writer and director, his previous works The New York Cycle and Before You Jump Into the East Lake never won any significant awards, but he’s still young and he never gives up. After...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 118 Pages
South Africa 1981. A disillusioned police officer races to save a young boy from a maelstrom of violence. A shocking tale inspired by the true events that woke Afrikanerdom. CRASH meets THE READER in the era of Apartheid.
CA
No bio available.
Al-Michelin
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 64 Pages
A rising star NYC chef returns to Amman, Jordan and pretends to be a hired caregiver for his stubborn Alzheimer’s ridden father who doesn’t recognize him.
Abdul-Rahman Sakr is an Arab American screenwriter, stand up comedian and cult survivor.
Alchemy
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Fantasy
· 119 Pages
When a woman who was cursed into a statue centuries ago miraculously comes back to life for one night, the servant boy of a ruthless sorcerer falls in love with her and risks everything to try and make her permanently human again.
Writer-director Jeremy Haccoun cut his teeth directing action and celebrity commercials, working with Hollywood stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio and John Cena. His shorts 'Paradox' and 'Beyond' have earned him many awards, played at Tribeca and dozens of festivals around the world. Jeremy has developed feature & TV scripts in genres ranging from dram...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 120 Pages
When Ethraxians, imperialistic aliens with invincible force fields, time travel to kill Elvis and Chuck Berry thereby erasing Rock & Roll - the only thing that disrupts their force fields - a Van Halen loving alien and two hard rocking human soldiers are the world's only hope.
No bio available.
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
An awkward teen at a strict, exclusive Catholic girls' school navigates tricky social dynamics and accidentally starts a cult.
Los Angeles, CA
Etta Gray is a Japanese-Swedish-Korean-American writer based in Los Angeles. Born and raised in Tokyo, she grew up watching Hollywood movies and yearning to live in the U.S. one day. Her stories draw on her immigrant experience and deal with themes around identity, belonging, and spirituality.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Family
· 97 Pages
An aspiring filmmaker who needs tuition money learns she’s Hawaiian royalty and reluctantly enters a hula contest, but then gets caught up in the sovereignty movement and discovers her real family and destiny.
Escondido, California
Sandra (Sandi) Cook Jerome is a non-WGA screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for Hijacked, being produced by Helicopter Productions and Autumn Bailey Entertainment (On a Wing and a Prayer.) Sandi graduated from UCLA’s Advanced Screenwriting Program and won the Native American Media Alliance fellowship in 2023. She recently sold her technology compa...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Other
· 53 Pages
After a mysterious event occurs, Tommy, an aspiring chef burnt out by New York's daily grind, finds that he is the only person left in the city as he navigates this surreal reality in search of answers or any signs of life.
Lake Balboa, California
Professional day dreamer who suffers from a napping addiction. In between I have somehow managed to gain over seven years of work experience as a script analyst, consultant and writer.
Alone Together
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 91 Pages
Two rival pre-teens must work together to stay under the radar from child services, and the neighborhood watch, while their mother is admitted to the hospital unexpectedly.
No bio available.
Alpha Girl
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 106 Pages
With her favorite Broadway show returning for the first time in 20 years, Alexis wants to nab the lead role before her pregnancy shows she’s not as fit for the part as she claims.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 123 Pages
Two prideful frontmen from different eras of the same legendary rock band reluctantly put aside bad blood to hit the road together on a cross country tour.
Mission Viejo, CA
Not extraordinary but extra ordinary. Transplant from Iran raised in the eighties\nineties bro culture of suburban Orange County. Took the encouragement of my high school English teacher too seriously and fucked up my chances of ever making any money in this world.
Quarterfinalist
Short
· Sci-fi
· 18 Pages
A woman grieving the loss of her son must decide whether or not to switch lives with another version of herself.
Nyc, NY
Makana Lani is a queer writer based in NYC. She is the current Director of Communications for Moonshot Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating equity for women in film and television.
Her feature script CONTINGENT is part of the Black List's 2022 Latinx List and through this initiative she received a blind script deal with Netf...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
"After the brutal murder of a white teenage girl in an isolated mountain town, two detectives — a grieving mother and a Black man caring for his dying wife — uncover ties to a missing refugee child and a predator long protected by racism, silence, and community denial."
My love for writing began early, crafting plays for elementary school and suspenseful short stories. I graduated in Journalism, which honed my ability to write concisely and tell stories that resonate. In my screenplays, I strive to create engaging narratives with complex characters. I enjoy writing in various genres and have a passion for short fil...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 82 Pages
A serial killer and a cannibal go on a road trip from Chicago to El Paso.
London, England, GB
I'm a 27 year old writer of scripts focused on: social issues, trauma and redemption.
I'm deeply concerned by the state of the world and I believe the role of a storyteller is to champion and influence positive action for the betterment of living things.
I would like to direct my feature scripts and work with fellow screenwriters and industr...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Other
· 107 Pages
When a global incident spirals out of control, a lone wolf doomsday prepper agrees to mentor an unprepared owner of a remote gas station and finds she's not prepared to fall in love.
San Diego, CA
Harry started early growing up with Academy Award-nominated mother, June Squibb. He has directed many projects, the most accomplished being the multi-award-winning short, "Admissions," starring James Cromwell. He is currently concentrating on writing socially conscious horror/SciFi/fantasy with a dramedy tone, sharing that which thrilled and terrifi...
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