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Bigfoot Script Challenge |
Fall 2022
The Bigfoot Script Challenge, in collaboration with Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin, offers grants & industry access to emerging screenwriters.
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Winners
CAOINEADH
Private
Winner
Feature
· Drama
· 114 Pages
In the West of Ireland, Brona and Cormac are two lost souls brought together by a terrible accident. Their fated union bonds them with the kind of love only written about, but a series of eerie events plague them...and propel them toward fulfilling their dark destiny.
Los Angeles, CA
A proud graduate of Pitzer College | Claremont Colleges with a BA in Media Studies, Elise's work embodies themes of trauma, trust, truth & transformation. She believes in storytelling as a tool to foster engagement, compassion & meaningful discourse. A fierce advocate for diversity in front of & behind the camera, she pursues projects with iconic ch...
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JOYCE
Private
Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 39 Pages
Faced with poverty, alcoholism, and a perpetual case of the fuck-its, budding novelist James Joyce must make a choice: lead a one-man rebellion against the polarizing 20th century politics of his native Dublin and the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church which rules it, or waste away in artistic obscurity. JOYCE tells the partly true, largely imagined, ...
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New York, Nyc
No bio available.
Winner
Feature
· Adventure
· 112 Pages
A budding archaeologist is going to lose everything unless she heads into the Los Angeles Mountains with one of her students to find the lost city her father disappeared trying to find.
Los Angeles, CA
I had this ideal surf-town childhood until my dad died when I was nineteen. I moved to Paris, fell in love, moved to England, got my heart ripped out, got a degree in philosophy, had a brief career in organ transplantation, a small bout with cancer, then left medicine to pursue a career in make-believe because I realized telling stories was more pe...
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Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 67 Pages
Based on the true life story of Grainne O'Malley, an abused wife and mother who rises up against all odds to become one of the world's first and most infamous female pirates.
Los Angeles, CA
I have been a working actress in the film and TV industry for over twenty years and it's allowed me to read thousands of the best scripts by the best writers. This has inspired me to expand my love of storytelling to become a writer, with the freedom to create not just rich engaging characters but whole new worlds. I'm so excited by how much I disco...
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Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
In ancient Ireland, a young warrior gifted (or cursed) with monstrous powers struggles to find his place in a world of mythological mayhem. Based on the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology.
Los Angeles, CA
Allison Mick is a comedy writer turned horror-comedy writer from the Great Lakes. Allison's writing elevates genre storytelling through an intersectional lens, while retaining what makes genre fun. She draws from her upbringing and personal experiences to address super serious topics like mixed-race identity and gender, as well as fun stuff like fo...
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Finalists
A MURDER OF CROWS
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 55 Pages
The principal of a private girl's school learns that charity begins not at, but with the home when a member of the travelling community wins a diversity scholarship.
No bio available.
Finalist
Short
· Drama
· 10 Pages
When the curator of a community arts centre is forced to give an ominous stranger a private tour, questions around the nature of art, artistry and diversity, lead to an unexpected climax.
Co. Mayo, IE
Cathriona Slammon is a screenwriter from the West of Ireland. Typically writing in the vein of psychological drama, horror and the surreal, Cathriona has particular interest in exploring identity, trauma, family dysfunction and memory in unique and authentic ways. In 2023, her debut feature script won 'Best Unproduced Screenplay' at the Raindance Fi...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Action
· 54 Pages
A civil rights organization recruits a unique teenager in the fight against a government manufactured virus which turns people into vampires.
Boston, MA
After graduating from the University of Tampa with a bachelor's degree in writing and a minor in film, I went on to teach English in South Korea for the past four years. Throughout my journey, I continued to work on my passion which is screenwriting. I see each completed screenplay as a stepping stone into becoming a better screenwriter.
Finalist
Feature
· Adventure
· 116 Pages
In 1942, after crash-landing in the Sahara, an RAF pilot joins a Tuareg nomad and a bandit on a perilous quest to rescue a girl sold into slavery — a journey through desert myth leads to ambergris — a fortune born of whales — and the monstrous legacy of colonialism.
West Hollywood, CA
• Signed Multi-award-winning Writer: 200+ accolades.
• Signed Fashion Model & Actor: 600+ works in 12+ countries.
• Ranked All-Time 1st Coverfly (the largest database of script competition placements)
• UCLA: Screenwriting, MSMU Film Production (Graduate).
• 3 Degrees (Film, Business, Law) in 5 countries (Spain, Italy, India, Thailand, USA).
• ...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 107 Pages
Set in 1979, an aspiring young playwright runs from an abusive home in the Irish countryside to join the underground art scene in Dublin only to land amidst the mystery of two murders where facts are fiction, art is truth, and identities are not always what they seem to be -
- YENTLE meets the documentaries: A MURDER AT THE COTTAGE & A MURDER IN...
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Manchester, NJ
Born on the full moon, Kay Kestner is a neurodiverse screenwriter, poet, playwright, and prose writer. She works as a script reader in both the competition and small company arenas. She is the founder & editor of the international literary journal POETRY BREAKFAST. She's an internationally published poet & fiction writer. Her screenplays have placed...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 60 Pages
A trauma surgeon and her psychiatrist husband discover the irreversible side effects of a wildly-popular alertness drug and must save themselves and their children from the population going insane from a total inability to sleep.
Moraga, California
Stuart is a native of the San Francisco East Bay and attended UC Berkeley. Growing up with The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits shaped his love of horror and science fiction, and raising three children gave him an appreciation of fantasy.
Finalist
Short
· Horror
· 8 Pages
A single father tries to help his daughter get to sleep, but everything is not as it seems.
London, GB
Multi-award-winning scriptwriter described as "having a dark and twisted flair", "mastering the sense of unease", and "making the implausible a creepy reality".
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
A rock climber with OCD struggles to meet the standards of a ruthlessly demanding gym boss.
Farmers Branch, TX
Daniel has begun his ascent of the screenwriter’s mountain. He's earned a Bachelor's Degree in film studies from Seattle University, worked as Head Assistant at a production studio and, most importantly, knows how to cook a perfect sauce for any pasta dish. You can verify his recipes and writing abilities by emailing him at projectwindwhitsler@gmail...
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Finalist
Feature
· Adventure
· 101 Pages
In 1940 Romania, a 100-year-old strogoi lives a meager yet happy existence, but when an aristocrat murders her adoptive family, she must get her revenge before her ailing body gives out.
Seattle, WA
No bio available.
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Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 84 Pages
Upon learning of her estranged sister's disappearance, a woman struggling with mental illness journeys to her brother-in-law's remote mansion where she battles demons both real and imagined to uncover the truth.
Hollywood, CA
Raised in LA, Madison loved acting out death scenes with ketchup. Once she realized she could get paid for that, a screenwriter/actor was born. Her scripts have won various competitions and placed in PAGE, Scriptapalooza, Launchpad, Roadmap, and more. Mixing heavy themes with a dose of irreverent humor, her work highlights the continuing struggles d...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 61 Pages
While cleaning out his deceased father's Cape Cod saltbox, a journalist fights his own descent into madness as he becomes entangled in a murder that mirrors a 25 year old cold case. Could father and son both be killers?
New York, New Jersey
An NYU Tisch Film & TV graduate and recipient of the David Chase Scholarship for Screenwriting, Jonathan worked as producer before heading to law school.
Since, Jonathan's become an HR leader and law school professor. Like Eminem in the late aughts, Jonathan's working on a come back.
Finalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 114 Pages
After returning to her hometown, a fire captain with PTSD must investigate a series of mysterious arsons that force her to confront her childhood trauma.
Poulsbo, Washington
Laura was a professional firefighter for almost twenty-two years, and at one point got her writing fix crafting and revising fire department training manuals. Eventually, the terrors and triumphs of the job inspired her to attempt something that makes running into burning buildings look easy – crafting decent fiction.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 32 Pages
Desperate to find her footing in the world of journalism, a recent college graduate returns to her hometown – the self-proclaimed psychic capital of the world – to exploit their unusual traditions, but a more pressing story finds her first: her ex-boyfriend’s suicide.
TWIN PEAKS meets TRUE DETECTIVE
Portland, OR
Dee Mick -- let’s hear it for her, the first woman in her family not to become a teen mom. A true fact, but hardly the most interesting thing about her.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Dee is a multifaceted creative with a passion for character-driven storytelling that lingers in your mind long after the page is turned. Writing has always been more t...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 27 Pages
Every small-town has big secrets. Caroline Hurley will get to the bottom of them, if her past…and her interfering mother don’t trip her up.
Dublin, Dublin, IE
From Spain to the UK to Ireland, Leticia first directed theatre. After studying Film Production, her nose - and nosiness – led her to documentaries. In between, she wrote and built up confidence in her adoptive language. Her feature scripts have won awards internationally and also development funds by Screen Ireland. She belongs to Ireland's Screen ...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 42 Pages
In the rigid society of the 18th century, a low-ranking nobleman is game for anything to marry the woman he loves. Even changing gender... based on the true story of the Chevalier d'Eon, famous spy and cross-dresser.
Marine is a bilingual (English/French) screenwriter with a keen ability to craft stories that are at the same time funny, emotionally engaging, and thought-provoking. She is a fervent believer that entertainment, art and culture are in no way mutually exclusive and has a particular interest in blending these aspects in her projects. Holder of a mas...
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Erebus Manor
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 115 Pages
A highwayman on the run must investigate a secluded, hostile town and strange manor house after the disappearance of his brother and his wife.
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 42 Pages
If Mel eats the end of a hotdog, her grandma will die... at least that’s what her OCD is telling her. When her first week of exposure therapy is a surprise success, an overworked PR exec with OCD believes she is cured, only to discover that recovery is not a linear process.
Brooklyn, NY
Michelle Aldridge is a Chicago-trained comedian, actor, & writer specializing in comedic dialogue… and awkward moments. This queer Michigander has been honing her improv, sketch, writing, & stand-up skills for nearly a decade at comedy theaters (and basements) in Chicago, Tokyo, and DC.
Michelle is always writing, sometimes funny, and never awkwa...
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Finalist
Short
· Animated
· 5 Pages
A frog awakens to find itself trapped underneath the Colombian rain forest with no memory. In its search for a way out, the frog forms an unexpected friendship with a large tarantula.
Brooklyn, NY
Within a playwrighting I class in a tiny conference room at UNC: Greensboro, Martin developed an interest in storytelling. From there, his interest diverted into screenwriting, and has now an LGBTQA+ short film he co-wrote/executive produced on four streaming platforms. He is currently in post-production on his directorial short debut which he will ...
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Finalist
Feature
· Fantasy
· 102 Pages
LEPER KHAN is a romantic action/fantasy feature re-imagining Irish mythology about a Celtic prince banished to our modern world who must choose between the woman he loves and saving his clan from his treacherous brother and an evil Celtic king.
Madison, WI
I got my first job in Hollywood because of an earthquake. I got my second job in Hollywood because of a klutz move at a salad bar. I’m now a member of the DGA, a produced screenwriter, won an Emmy, was named a “Top 25 screenwriter” by the ISA and have two Top 1% scripts on Coverfly's Red List.
I’m still prone to occasional klutz moves, but am gra...
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Finalist
Short
· Drama
· 15 Pages
A bereaving first generation Nigerian man struggling to cope with the loss of his brother, maneuvers through a chaotic house as he attempts to balance the traditions of his culture with his own way of coping with grief.
Los Angeles, CA
Chigozie Onyeaka is a Nigerian-American writer/director that brings a new voice to diverse stories focused on accessible issues. With experience on feature and short film making, he went on to write and develop his own personal story in "Boy of Straw". With this only comes a plethora of more relatable stories in his future, waiting to be put onto ...
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Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 104 Pages
Gifted OCD composer Mike loses his orchestra's funding and trust, he recruits ADHD fiddler Aisling, an erratic tour-de-force. She can't read music, he can't read people. Can they ever be in harmony?
Edinburgh, Scotland, GB
My foray into writing started as a bet; after I said comedy was easy to stage.
I lost, but wrote a play which won Best Comedy in a fringe festival.
My years of frantic eavesdropping finally paid off as I realised that I love to write dialogue and have since written six plays and two features centering whipsmart women over 35 to redress the lack of...
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Finalist
Short
· Family
· 10 Pages
A hassled young mum’s constant rush to meet deadlines is hampered by her dreamer son’s endless questions.
Co Dublin, Dublin, IE
Irish novelist and PAGE-Award-winning screenwriter. Tackles issues of loss and injustice through a prism of light and humour. Writes for Ireland's serial drama. Three features and two TV series in development with Irish, UK and Finnish producers. Infectious laugh. Sadly.
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
A recently single man struggles to begin dating after his fiancee is arrested for being a serial killer.
NY, NY
No bio available.
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Remote Country
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Action
· 135 Pages
An Australian Commando decides to take matters into his own hands when he discovers his hometown has become overrun with dangerous criminals.
PUNISHER meets MAD MAX
Brisbane, Queensland, AU
Born in New Jersey, childhood in Texas, grew up in Brisbane, Australia. Studied Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount's School of Film and Television. For years I've lived with a stutter that's limited my ability to socialize, leading to a lot of my work being about Personal Identity.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
As he struggles to make amens with his estranged daughter, a taxi driver with PTSD meets a mysterious priest who warns of the Devil’s machinations.
(Genre: Dramedy. Set in Northern Ireland)
County Down, GB
Lover of words. Observer of humans. Connoisseur of weirdness. Changing the world one slang silver bullet at a time. Notable accolades: Winner with 'Sleeper' (Film Pittsburgh 2023 and Screenwriters Network 2022), Shortlist with 'Road To Hell' (Page Turner 2023). Born and raised on the fair emerald isle. Not a fan of jokes about leprechauns, sh...
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Signature Photo
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 100 Pages
Held captive by ISIS rebels in 2014, a photojournalist struggles to come to terms with her career and the controversial photograph that made her famous.
No bio available.
Finalist
Graphic Novel
· Action
· 202 Pages
A motivated young boxer’s life is changed for ever when forces beyond his control put him in the crosshairs of the unstoppable Seattle Mob who are on the verge of acquiring a game changing piece of equipment that will help them rule the city. Can he live up to his potential and obtain his life long goal of trying to become a pro boxer, all while le...
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No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 97 Pages
When his wife is kidnapped, a desperate social media influencer is forced into an absurd treasure hunt for new followers to save her.
Berlin, Berlin, DE
Stefan is a German storyteller and restless pioneer who turns bold visions into tangible experiences. Powered by an eclectic academic mix—history, political science, computer science, and geography—he tackles every brief with a 360-degree perspective that fuses strategy and imagination. He runs a boundary-pushing communication firm whose campaigns s...
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Finalist
Short
· Horror
· 14 Pages
A group of teenage ghost hunters get more than they bargained for when investigating a haunted Scottish forest.
Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, GB
Mark is a published author and multi-award winning screenwriter. His genre tastes are broad featuring, horror, comedy, fantasy and drama.
Finalist
Feature
· Action
· 99 Pages
Inspired by his childhood hero, The Black Knight, a humble blacksmith becomes a symbol of hope and courage for his community as he transforms himself into a modern-day knight on horseback and takes on a secret group burning down homes of black families in the deep south.
Dublin, Dublin, IE
Award-winning author, screenwriter and playwright. His scripts have been optioned and he has been commissioned to write feature films. He has had plays produced in Dublin, Boston and Los Angeles. He has won multiple awards including the Somerset Award for literature and the O.Z. Whitehead Playwriting Award. He is also a film script story consultant ...
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Finalist
Short
· Drama
· 37 Pages
When a widowed bookseller wages war with his callous brother over the sale of the family's priceless Kandinsky, he discovers that his enduring love for his brother's alcoholic wife may be the only thing in his life that's truly priceless. FINALIST, AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL.
Brooklyn, NY
A Stowe Story Labs/PAGE Awards Fellowship Winner, Suzanne creates darkly romantic dramas centered in female agency and ambition, whose fierce, witty protagonists risk everything to reinvent their lives and defy expectations. Advocating for her learning-disabled son has further fueled Suzanne’s passion for narratives that empower marginalized voice...
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Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 120 Pages
A group of scientists journey to the remote Alaskan wilderness in search of the Tree of Knowledge, while an unknown entity stalks them along the way.
Irvine, California
I'm a filmmaker and screenwriter. I'm looking to innovate in the field of filmmaking by creating new ways in which special effects can be shot. My first feature film, KARMA BUMS is making the festival circuit now.
Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 111 Pages
A young Catholic priest and a Jewish girl form an unlikely friendship.
Atlanta, GA
Ann is a Raindance Fellow and Nicholl Quarterfinalist who blends hopeful themes with a dash of funny—focusing on the human experience and what connects us. She specializes in stories with witty banter, romantic chemistry, and occasional soul-searching. Ann's style was shaped by adventures to literary sights in the U.K. and a love of classic movies. ...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 86 Pages
After being sent away to a harsh, Nigerian catholic school, Ruth becomes enamored with the unpredictable Naomi, as she fights for survival every day.
Atlanta, GA
A Nigerian-American actress, writer & practiced daydreamer
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