Bigfoot Script Challenge |
2022
The Bigfoot Script Challenge, in collaboration with Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin, offers grants & industry access to emerging screenwriters.
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Winners
Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 48 Pages
When a pair of true-crime podcasters become entangled with a doctor acquitted of his wife’s murder, they’re pulled into an investigation that changes their lives forever.
Signal Mountain, TN
With her writing partner, Matthew Davis, Hillary Stringer crafts darkly comedic character driven stories about criminals, cults, and con artists — both in the present and in our dystopian future.
Raised by scientists, Hillary wrote a whodunit play starring her stuffed rabbit at age nine. Thirty years later, she’s spent a decade teaching college...
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Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 28 Pages
When their band’s transgender frontwoman is wrongfully incarcerated in a men’s prison facility, three rockstar drag performers put their careers on the line and take justice into their own impeccably-manicured hands.
Los Angeles, CA
Jacqueline Fossett is a writer and immersive storyteller based in Los Angeles. Her work centers queer and trans characters who are unafraid to defy expectation, break rules, and blur genre lines.
Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
Jamel, an aspiring young bull rider from Brooklyn, must test himself on the Black rodeo circuit, while navigating life back in East New York.
Brooklyn, NY
Tyler Rivenbark's work has been recognized by the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, Final Draft, the Orchard Project Episodic Lab, National Playwrights Conference, Poetry Society of America, the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and more. He's adapted the Pulitzer prize-winning book THOMAS & BEULA by Rita Dove and the award-winning THE BARRACKS THIEF by Tobia...
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Short
· Horror
· 7 Pages
A grocery store worker is stalked by a supernatural green mist.
New York, New York
Sarah Kennedy is an aspiring independent director and screenwriter. She got her start in Portland, Maine and moved to NYC in 2017.
"Miss Blueberry Beauty Pageant" was her directorial and writer debut. And over the course of its festival run, has won several comedic awards.
Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 29 Pages
The members of an anti-patriarchy cycling group navigate the intricacies of their eccentric queer community while juggling their individual romantic pursuits, internal traumas, and ambitions.
Savannah is a queer Brooklyn-based writer and producer with experience in a variety of production roles, including writer, director, and producer. She strives to promote authentic representation of the LGBTQIA+ community through three-dimensional characters whose existence in narratives isn't tokenized.
Finalists
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 93 Pages
After his estranged father's passing, a young musician immerses himself in Seattle's perilous homeless camps, driven by a desire to continue his father's compassionate legacy. Amidst personal struggles, he endeavors to rescue a threatened local homeless shelter from an unyielding real estate developer.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Alec Whittle is an award-winning screenwriter known for intimate, character-driven stories set against surreal or heightened landscapes. His work— including Asteroid and Comet—explores themes of survival, grief, and the absurdity of ambition through the lens of music, sport, and human connection. Drawing from a career producing live events and film,...
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Bear Dogs
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Family
· 110 Pages
A pair of Karelian Bear Dogs begrudingly team up with their sworn enemy to save their human partners from a reckless gang of timber thieves.
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
A comedy set in San Francisco about a successful black angel investor who becomes frustrated with the lack of diversity in the online dating world, so he decides to make his own app with the help of his friends.
Comps: Silicon Valley meets Atlanta
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
2021 Humanitas New Voices Winner and 2022 NBC Launch TV Writer Semi-Finalist is unapologetically Black and gay.
John graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2007. He worked for Paris Hilton, Heidi Klum and Kim Kardashian before getting staffed on Netflix’s Virgin River in April of 2022.
He writes dark comedies and soaps with themes of ...
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Buckhorn Academy
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 28 Pages
Two siblings get accepted to a prestigious boarding school deep in the Appalachian mountains, only to realize upon arrival that it’s actually a school for cryptids.
Tayler Carter
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 119 Pages
In 1991, a chubby, pre-adolescent metalhead and his pregnant mother change their identities and go on the run from the men who refuse to let them go.
Kansas City, KS
Jamie Campbell thrives by finding ways to laugh in the midst of darkness. It’s a survival mechanism for a guy who is lucky to still be alive. When he was eleven years-old, he was kidnapped by one of his parents who took him on the run for six months before police caught up to them. As a teenager, he was beaten at gunpoint at a keg party after accide...
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Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 92 Pages
When struggling author Valerie becomes convinced her musician boyfriend has made a deal with a devil, sacrificing her to his own ambitions, she makes a deal of her own for everything she'd ever wanted...at a price. Babadook meets Gaslight steeped in the magic of New Orleans.
North Hollywood, California
Goldie Jones is a nonbinary, Wyoming born writer/director, aerialist, and author with 20 years of production experience and a passion for circus arts. Their gritty genre stories center characters across the gender spectrum finding the glimmers of hope in the darker places in the world. They're a Universal Writers Program Finalist, Stowe Story Lab...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
A former popular stand up comedian tries to navigate the entertainment industry while dealing with a mental health condition.
Kirkland, WA
Mike Devore is a Stand-Up Comedian, Writer, and animator based out of Seattle, WA. As a stand-up, Mike placed in the top-10 of the 2019 Seattle International Comedy Competition. As a writer, Mike created the award winning animated web series "MAX AND FRIENDS!". Mike was recently selected for the 2022 Netflix Animation Foundations program and was...
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Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 94 Pages
When a high school bus crashes in a dense forest on the edge of nowhere, a reclusive horror buff must come out of her shell to save her troubled classmates from a giant mythological creature— that is, if they don’t kill each other first
Los Angeles, CA
Long before I could even read, I was curious about horror stories. It's funny to think that as a kid, I knew The Exorcist inside out while I was scared of the dark. After working for years as a creative director in advertising, I've finally followed my true passion: horror films. My goal is to thrill audiences with the most hair-raising stories and ...
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ForHire
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 57 Pages
After working as a Contractor on the front lines in Iraq, Charli Cooper is trying to rebuild her life but is forced to confront her PTSD when she is dragged into a high profile kidnapping, she must face her dark past and find the girl before she is trafficked into the sex trade.
Westlake Village, CA
GIOVANILAMPASSI is a Writer, Director and Cinematographer who has worked in the Film and TV industry since 1994 and has an extensive resume with over 24 TV series. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the International Cinematographers Guild.
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
A neurodiverse late bloomer emerges from the confines of their mom’s basement, and enters neurotypical society, ready or not.
Vancouver, BC, CA
Sam Macneil is a non-binary, autistic writer living in Vancouver, BC who is passionate about writing transformative LGBTQIA stories. With a love of drama with comedy, one of the greatest compliments Sam received while studying at Vancouver Film School was the ability to make someone laugh and cry on the same page, and they would truly love to contin...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 93 Pages
A transgender party girl finds the courage to transition when she falls for a widower with two children.
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 111 Pages
A daughter desperately searching for her birth father uncovers his tragic story aboard an infamous Japanese Hell Ship and in the process is liberated from her own heartbreaking past.
Bonney Lake, WA
Chad Hutson worked for several Washington State daily newspapers before becoming a Mar/Com executive. After 30-plus years in this profession, he is now taking his life's work as a storyteller in the direction of screenwriting. His work can be seen at chadhutson.com
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 38 Pages
LONG SHOT (Workplace Comedy), When a struggling local community centre is on the brink of being sold, a disgraced Olympic medalist returns to save it and rediscover his love of the game.
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Mand is an eccentric multi-platform artist and writer. Her early career in the music industry garnered her small success in Canada and positioned her for a future in filmmaking. After attending NYU Tisch she began developing multiple story concepts for TV, FILM and STAGE.
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Feature
· Adventure
· 117 Pages
To keep his white masters alive in 1500s America, a black slave named Esteban must forge his own path, transforming into a revered hero of the native tribes and explorer of the legendary cities of gold.
Seattle, Washington
My name is Travis Baechler and I am a screenwriter and editor from Washington state. As a marketing professional with over 15 years experience, I studied Fine Arts, Dramatic Writing, and Screenwriting at Western Washington University. I write genre specs scripts, both original and adaptation.
Finalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 65 Pages
A novice ice specialist holding onto a devastating secret arrives at a scientific outpost in the harsh environment of the Mars South Pole; instead of a warm welcome, she’s met with a crabby crew and a crisis of survival.
Los Angeles, California
Sarah Granger crafts narratives that explore how harnessing pain can spur innovation, reshape worlds, and transform lives. She is the recipient of the 2023 Loreen Arbus Fellowship award through the Athena Writers Lab and winner of the 2022 SFFILM Rainin Filmmakers with Disabilities Grant. Her scripts have been on The Black List’s Disability List and...
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Finalist
Short
· Comedy
· 18 Pages
Desperate for money, a man takes a job as a "private janitor" and unexpectedly is thrown into a world of organized crime, revenge, and dead bodies galore.
Saddle Brook, NJ
When making my transition from musician to filmmaker, I knew that storytelling was always flowing through his veins. With degrees in both business management and video production, he has spent years learning the business, writing screenplays, and creating short films.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 111 Pages
An emotionally stunted tech bro is recruited to launch a product based on his late brother's work: a wearable helmet that livestreams the subconscious. It's a chance to get his career going again and win back his ex girlfriend, but he'll have to deal with more insight than he ever imagined.
Brooklyn, NY
David’s sci-fi feature, Marcel, won grand prize in the 2022 Coverfly/Script Lab free screenplay competition out of over 10,000 submissions. As a Creative Director he's made commercials and brand films for Democrats and progressive causes, including in the last four Presidential campaigns, as well as major financial and retail brands. He’s a MacDowel...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 61 Pages
A female and Native led hour-long sci-fi/fantasy series that blends medical procedural and serialized drama with supernatural thriller elements. Comp: House M.D. meets The X-Files
Northridge, CA
Hilary Van Hoose writes optimistic genre stories about fish-out-of-water and found families for all ages and audiences. She recently wrapped as a writer on an unannounced series at Nick Jr. Digital. Growing up a multi-heritage PWD and homeschooled kid in Hawaii and California, she won 160+ awards as a for baking and studio arts. Hilary studied cinem...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Family
· 58 Pages
LES STONE is the youngest member of a famous Texas cattle and livestock ranch but when he announces he has become vegan and wants them to convert too, all hell breaks loose. Convincing diehard carnivores to swap meats for beets might just tear apart this close-knit family, especially after Les opens an animal sanctuary and vegan restaurant across fr...
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Los Angeles, CA
Carl is a lifelong advertising and comms professional who has worked as a copywriter, marketing exec, animator, journalist and now screenwriter. Since completing the UCLA TV Writing program, he has won or placed in dozens of screenwriting contests. Now, his main focus in life is to sell a feature script or TV pilot. Carl splits his time between Aust...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
Two Mormon missionaries, a bright-eyed newbie and a seasoned rebel, try to convert people to a religion no one wants to be part of.
Los Angeles, CA
Lily Gwyer-Miller is the Seattle-born child of two hippies whose career in entertainment began in the role of Janet at midnight screenings of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Lily and her writing partner, Janna Taylor, have been featured on the Blacklist Disability List, The Grey List, as American Zoetrope Screenplay Finalists and, most recently, as Harv...
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Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 94 Pages
It's 'Saw' meets 'A Christmas Carol ' when a group of self-absorbed frenemies are trapped by a puritanical psychopath on Christmas Eve and forced to open deadly presents.
Portland, OR
After finishing his playwriting MFA at Columbia University with Charles Mee and Richard Greenberg (and disappearing in the Andes to throw off the debt collectors) Sander honed his theatrical dazzle writing plays, web series, and for Yiddish-language improv groups. He now lives in Portland with his wife and their fearless Chihuahua Sadie.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 124 Pages
Based on a true story, a small-town lawyer faces an unthinkable moral dilemma when his client confesses to the murder of a missing girl—forcing him to choose between protecting the attorney-client privilege or giving closure to a grieving family still searching for their daughter.
Los Angeles, CA
Paul Frank is an editor and writer/director obsessed with honesty—much to his wife's chagrin. Whether editing an outrageous comedy, adapting a true crime courtroom drama or writing a psychological body horror, he grounds every story in reality and draws from his own personal (and often embarrassing) experiences.
He received the Telefilm Canada Ne...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Adventure
· 57 Pages
When sixteen-year-old Peter discovers a clue that could lead to his long-lost father, he and his friends set out to find some answers, only to have their journey pit them against drunk monsters, ancient demons, and, scariest of all, New Jersey itself.
New York, NY
Born in Scotland, raised in Florida, and currently surviving in New York City. Mix that with a love for stand-up, comic books, and TV binge-watching, Matt is a playwright with eyes on TV, film, and comics. He is interested in grounded narratives in unexpected situations, character driven stories, and finding universal themes we can all identify wit...
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Finalist
Short
· Drama
· 17 Pages
A young first-gen immigrant is pushed to extreme lengths hustling for a black-market pharmaceuticals dealer in order to afford his mother's medication.
Los Angeles, CA
Anjini Taneja Azhar is a director and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. She began as an actor in 2011, with roles in films such as JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness and TV such as HBO’s The Brink. She has written and directed multiple award-winning shorts, a feature commissioned by Zum Media, and produced for Fortune 500 companies. Anjini has been...
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Finalist
Feature
· Family
· 90 Pages
Diana and Sydney have been ballroom partners since they were 10 years old, dancing as a "same sex" pairing in local competitions. As they age out of the teen division, they must come to terms with their complex relationship and find their new rhythm, together or apart.
Los Angeles, California
Lulenoxx (they/them) is a queer filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Their work focuses mainly on the liberation of queer characters and the celebration of all things strange, while spanning the genres of comedy, young audiences and drama. As someone who grew up with a severe lack of queer representation in the media, they write the stories they didn’t h...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
A dark comedy about an aspiring crime journalist who goes undercover to expose a secret cult led by a psychotic former Disney Channel star.
No bio available.
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TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
When a terrified woman finds her husband murdered in an Ireland where policing has been privatised, her futile quest for justice is thwarted at every turn by a system that is at all times, at least part, sales pitch.
Cork, Ireland, IE
Born on the north-side of Cork City, the second youngest of ten, Brendan grew up happy but without much by way of frills. An origin story that has served him well in his, largely fruitless, pursuit of writing success. After some initial early promise in short films, he sold out to write marketing bumph, eventually redeeming himself with an award win...
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Rick and Roll
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Finalist
Short
· Comedy
· 7 Pages
In a world where vicious aliens are destroying humanity, only one man can save the planet, and he does it with music.
Seattle, WA
Heather has written, produced and directed several award-winning films, and just produced the documentary The River. She was an associate producer for the documentary Gold Balls, which screened at 16 festivals and aired on PBS television. Current writing projects include teleplays Crack the Whip and 38 Minutes. She co-leads The Green Room and teache...
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TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
The true story of Stormé DeLarverie, a badass Black lesbian security guard who protected members of the gay nightlife community from the mafia who owned every Manhattan gay bar in the 1960s.
Comps: Boardwalk Empire meets Pose
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
2021 Humanitas New Voices Winner and 2022 NBC Launch TV Writer Semi-Finalist is unapologetically Black and gay.
John graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2007. He worked for Paris Hilton, Heidi Klum and Kim Kardashian before getting staffed on Netflix’s Virgin River in April of 2022.
He writes dark comedies and soaps with themes of ...
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TV Script
· Drama
· 10 Pages
1924. Rural Texas. After Miss Dara’s forbidden, queer love is discovered, she is forced to work in a savage men's prison where she meets the soon-to-be-famous blue singer, Lead Belly, who sings his way to freedom (true story!) and inspires her to break free of her prisons—any way she can. All set to a backdrop of blues, secrets, and mercy killing.
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Los Feliz, ca
Award winning writer, tammy creates gritty, redeeming, queer-centric stories where "every character is so alive, you swear you hear them breathing." Her novel, SUGAR LAND, won an IPPY, was shortlisted for the Crook's Corner Prize, and an Amazon #1 Bestseller, among other bits. The adapted pilot was a Finalist for the Portland, Atlanta, New York, an...
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Finalist
Feature
· Adventure
· 110 Pages
After a disaster traps a scientist alone at the South Pole, the ghosts of four Antarctic explorers help her prepare for and then make the thousand-mile trek across the ice to safety.
St. Louis, MO
Jeffrey Howe lives (and when necessary, works) in the scenic Black Creek Bottoms area near St. Louis, Missouri. Since June 2015, his screenplays have won 48 competitions and been finalists in 80-plus more. His shorts have won awards at the Toronto Independent and Austin Revolution Film Festivals.
Favorite themes in his work include second chance...
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Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 98 Pages
Existing in a world made up entirely of children, a 14 year old career vault robber rounds up his old team for one last score: robbing The Neverland, one of Las Vegas’s biggest casinos, on the night of the prestigious World Series of Go Fish.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
WGA screenwriter. Primarily features. Mostly comedy, although lately I've been writing kids/family fare. First thing I optioned was a rock paper scissors sports comedy called RIZZLE PIZZLE SIZZLE way back in 2005. Repped by Zach Tann, Jennie Frisbee and Bob Sobhani at Authentic.
Finalist
Feature
· Historical
· 112 Pages
Aspiring poet Pauli Murray wrestles with gender dysphoria in the 1930s, as an attempt to desegregate the University of North Carolina spirals into a lifetime of obsessive activism and the search for love in Jane Crow America.
Los Angeles, CA
Sean is a writer/director; films “Empire Gypsy” and “Man at the Door” (available on Amazon and Tubi) as well as the award-winning documentaries “Target: St. Louis”, “Target: Philadelphia” & “Scarf Face”. Born in the UK and raised in Oakland, CA, Sean holds an MA in Ed. Theater from NYU and currently lives in Los Angeles.
Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 120 Pages
Jaws meets Aliens. A pack of intelligent and terrifying aquatic predators target a flooded city. Now families and first responders must fight to save their loved ones from this fierce, and seemingly unstoppable, new horror.
Hughesville, MD
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 106 Pages
After the sudden death of his older sister, a trans teenager uncovers family secrets rivalling his own.
Vancouver, BC, CA
Sam Macneil is a non-binary, autistic writer living in Vancouver, BC who is passionate about writing transformative LGBTQIA stories. With a love of drama with comedy, one of the greatest compliments Sam received while studying at Vancouver Film School was the ability to make someone laugh and cry on the same page, and they would truly love to contin...
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Finalist
Short
· Comedy
· 23 Pages
Struggling with the horror of growing past his prime, a twink is cursed to age backward in this romantic meta-comedy.
Atlanta, Georgia
Jason Klein is a filmmaker and screenwriter based out of Atlanta. Whether writing a dark drama, or an absurd comedy, his work often focuses on mental illness and queer/Jewish identity. His scripts have been in the finals of the Bigfoot Script Challenge. In addition, he was a quarterfinalist in the HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition and the WeScre...
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