Creative Screenwriting Feature Competition |
2023
Got a feature script ready to break out? Submit to win $2750 in cash plus get in front of agents, managers, and producers actively seeking new voices.
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Finalists
Finalist
Feature
· Western
· 106 Pages
When a notorious Black gunslinger is wrongly arrested, a headstrong young woman must team up with him to defend her oppressive town from bandits seeking revenge.
Mead, CO
Tim's drama Rough Surface was a finalist in the 2018 Big Break Contest, and a Top 10 Finalist in the 2023 Table Read My Screenplay Competition. His western A Bullet for Merri was a finalist in the 2023 Creative Screenwriting Feature Competition. He's a fan of projects that blend genre thrills and social commentary. Tim is also a film critic for www....
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 94 Pages
After falling from the sky into the Amazon Rainforest, a bewildered man seeks to reclaim his vanished life.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
Laura produced over forty projects, winning several awards, including an International Emmy, before focusing on writing. After writing on several tv shows, she developed her original voice on features. Exploring many genres including comedy, drama, science fiction, mystery and a family Christmas story, Laura's goal is to write entertaining features...
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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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Lucky 13
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 113 Pages
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Mars Hill, NC
Denise Meyers was recently named to The Grey List, a curated list of writers over forty with production ready scripts. A 2021 ISA Network Fast Track Fellow, the inaugural recipient of a Sloan Foundation Development Grant, and her short film THE DARK OF NIGHT (directed by Robin Wright and which stars Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb), had its red carpe...
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Semifinalists
A Boy with a Gun
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Unknown
· 90 Pages
Our surroundings consist of council estate tower blocks, neighbouring houses and the type of gritty pubs where most people wouldn't want to stay too long. Jason is a twelve-year old boy who lives with his loser mum and dad. His father is in trouble, trapped in a rot by scum who owe him money and won't let him break free. One day, instead of going to...
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No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 117 Pages
Striving to restore the epic film NAPOLEON, an obsessed English film-maker sacrifices all - money, personal life, career - to his idol: the delusional genius director of the mutilated masterpiece, who sabotages the restoration. Based on a true story.
Berkeley, California, Berlin, DE
Multinational polyglot. Professor of mathematics with numerous publications and research awards. Classical musician. Int'l ballroom dancer. Director of an award-winning short THE ZAHIR. Stowe Story Labs & Rocaberti alumna. Titan Awards Category Winner. RIFF Grand Jury Prize. Olga writes about follies of genius, elusiveness of belonging, and ironie...
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A Place in the Road
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 115 Pages
When the wrong Marine's body is returned for burial from Afghanistan, his young wife embarks on a journey to find him, even if it means going to the very valley where he was last seen.
Sausalito, CA
A Place in the Road, Finalist, Austin Screenplay Competition
The Blue Lantern, Semi-Finalist, Table Read My Screenplay
Echoes of a Promise, Semi-Finalist, International Story Pro
Astrid, 2nd Round, PAGE Screenplay Competition
Her Own, Quarter-finalist, Austin Screenplay Competition
The Sea House, Special Mention, Hawaii International Film Festival...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 115 Pages
The first annual Poddy Awards celebrating new media (podcasters, YouTube streamers, social media influencers, etc.) descends into chaos when the quirky nominees find themselves stalked by a serial killer in this Scream meets Knives Out horror-comedy.
Omaha, Nebraska
Filmmaker, radio host/podcaster, author, and voiceover artist.
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Adam and Eve: Serpent Slayers
Semifinalist
Feature
No logline available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 113 Pages
When a lonely old man with no family, fearful of dying alone, puts himself up for adoption, it gets the attention of Ziggy, a skateboarding free spirit who has discovered he won’t receive his inheritance unless he starts behaving like an “adult.” By adopting this old man, Ziggy and his girlfriend hope they can prove their maturity without giving up...
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- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
Thomas Thonson’s brand is about bold storytelling that challenges the status quo––subversive, full of ideas, darkly funny, and deeply human––across multiple genres. Numerous options to studio and independent producers. His scripts have been awarded 28 times in screenplay competitions, including a Genre Winner and 6 finalist placements. He is also a...
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American Patriot
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 116 Pages
Reeling from the violence and racism that followed the Pearl Harbor attack on his home, Japanese-American Daniel Inouye enters the war to fight for his family’s honor, to prove his patriotism to his country, and his belief that he can advocate change in the minds of the American People through his actions.
Toda, Saitama, JP
Shintaro Ogai is a screenwriter who was born in Japan and is currently based in Tokyo. For the past 15 years, he’s been involved with many film and television projects as an Assistant Writer in Japan. His film ‘Solo Contest’ was released theatrically in 2008. He studied screenwriting at Nihon University, College of Art and worked as an Assistant in ...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 112 Pages
As a determined geneticist investigates Australia’s most infamous female serial killer—a mother convicted of murdering her four babies—and uncovers evidence of a potential genetic mutation in her, she becomes entangled in a high-stakes battle that challenges both the limits of science and her own personal convictions.
New York, NY
Franck Benayoun is a French-born writer living in New York.
Storytelling has been his passion from an early age, first expressed through his ambition to become a comic artist, then explored through photography, and later brought to life in his children's book, Molly and The Damaged Books. This creative journey led him to screenwriting, a craft h...
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Atomic Nights
Semifinalist
Feature
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Battlefields
Semifinalist
Feature
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 115 Pages
After receiving his draft notice at the height of the Vietnam War, a high school senior decides to do one great thing before he's inducted and sets off on a quixotic quest to meet his hero Bob Dylan, only to find his journey complicated by his brilliant, but emotionally unstable, girlfriend.
Pittsburgh, PA
WGA Story Credit, Snakes On A Plane
Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 97 Pages
As the sun sets on the American Old West, a young priest and a grizzled bounty hunter must work together to save a small frontier town under siege by vampires.
Gig Harbor, Washington
Brad M. Johnson is a writer and filmmaker based in the Pacific Northwest specializing in genre stories about broken people, redemption, and the power of family. His scripts have been recognized by Final Draft, The Black List, the Walt Disney Company, and MGM among others.
Brad's first directorial effort, CHAT — is an award-winning short film cur...
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Blowhole
Semifinalist
Feature
No logline available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Other
· 99 Pages
A weekend before heading off to college, a young dreamer gets a dose of reality and begins to see his hood in a fantastical and comforting new light.
Los Angeles, CA
Sam Buckner III is an African-American writer with strong southern ties growing up in Sanford, FL & Winston Salem, NC. Sam earned duo MFA's in both film & screenwriting from New York Film Academy and FullSail University. As a former division 1 basketball recruit in the southern region Sam loves to tell stories that reflect his culture, community, ex...
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Bunny, Godmother of Title IX
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
In 1969, an ordinary academic "Bunny" takes extraordinary risks to combat sex discrimination - putting her dream job and her marriage on the line for a chance to change the world. Based on a true story.
Rora Brodwin
No bio available.
Crossroaders
Semifinalist
Feature
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Cyn & Izzy
Semifinalist
Feature
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 121 Pages
World War II in the sticky swamplands of Louisiana, Black soldiers hopeful at fighting overseas train at a camp stationed side-by-side with Nazi prisoners-of-war. When an ambitious Black soldier spies on German prisoners planning an escape attempt, he must face the racial prejudices of his commanding officers and his country as he tries to stop it.....
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San Francisco, California
A scribe and comics writer as well as cartoonist based in San Francisco, Craig holds an MFA in writing from California College of the Arts and BA in film from SFSU. He published the indie comic Curse of El Cucuy vol. 1. Craig won the Hollywood Scriptwriters Contest and was a National Merit Scholarship winner for Teleplay. He also writes and produces...
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Death
Semifinalist
Feature
No logline available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 86 Pages
Trapped thirty metres below the earth’s surface in the watery recess of an abandoned deepwater well, an absentee father must find a way out before he and his estranged daughter drown.
Perth, Western Australia, AU
Jesse is a screenwriter whose feature screenplays have placed in multiple contest finals. He was shortlisted for the AWG Monte Miller’s in 2021 before being awarded funding for Screenwest's Elevate+ (short form) and Scripted Development Funding (feature) for his project, Raising Thunder. Jesse freelances as a script consultant, providing services fo...
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Deep Within
Semifinalist
Feature
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 93 Pages
A curious 10-year-old empath, who lives in her grandma’s haunted Alabama home, experiences horrible visions involving a local, evil-hearted murderer who’s intertwined with every aspect of her life.
Amy Hutchins
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 120 Pages
After suffering a crisis of conscience while working on the most ambitious film of his career, “Titanic”, Nazi propaganda film director Herbert Selpin puts his life on the line in an attempt to use the production to undermine the Nazi war effort.
Dan Southard is a twice optioned screenwriter; two-time Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist, three time quarter-finalist; Emerging Screenwriters top ten finalist; and American Zoetrope Screenwriting Contest top ten finalist whose work has been featured on the Script Shadow website.
Down with the Devil
Semifinalist
Feature
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Dragons' Chosen
Semifinalist
Feature
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Family
· 107 Pages
While hiding out in a North Carolina town working as a carpenter, Fin, a disgruntled elf, meets his match in Hope, a little girl with Autism. Their unlikely friendship leads to Fin’s redemption and to his understanding the true meaning of Christmas.
Tampa, Fl
I started my career as a copywriter in NYC and spent six years at a Madison Avenue based Ad agency as a writer then producer. A storyteller at heart, I’ve written half a dozen screenplays and have two options. I’ve also had three novels published, as well as a linked collection of short fiction. E.L.Fin is my newest script. .
Semifinalist
Feature
· Family
· 107 Pages
Four misfit whiz kids find themselves transported to four separate worlds: outer space, inner space, the prehistoric past, and the not-too-distant future. Now, they must find a way to find each other, while battling killer robots, aliens, dinosaurs, and an overactive bloodstream, in a cosmic quest through space and time to help each other Escape fro...
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Copley, OH
No bio available.
Escape From Nowhereland
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 103 Pages
In the summer of 1980, Jane, a lonely, single mother, obsessed with the glamorous lives of the Ewing family from her favourite TV show, 'Dallas', is convinced she's destined for something better, than her suffocating small-town life. She impulsively decides moving to Texas is the answer to her freedom. While Jane schemes for money and navigates the...
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Victoria, BC, CA
My passion for screenwriting started around 2001 while working for a film producer who encouraged me to turn my love for storytelling into scripts.
In 2009, one of those spec scripts got me accepted into the 29th annual Summer Institute of Film and Television Program in Ottawa, Canada where I honed my screenwriting skills with instructor and scree...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Family
· 100 Pages
Over a magical Christmas holiday, a culinary-inept teen and her mischievous ghostly aunt must create a tantalizing feast to reconnect her family and save their crumbling French castle from demolition by a greedy mayor.
Vancouver, BC, CA
Helen Rose Roberts is from Gander, Newfoundland. She holds a Bachelor of Media Arts from Emily Carr University. Her children’s book "Adamas of Hickorytick Forest” is published by Short on Time Books under the pen name Iggy Snit. She has placed in Page Awards, Table Read Genre Competition, Emerging Screenwriter's top 100 and Final Draft's Big Break C...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 106 Pages
When his sister's remains are unearthed years after she disappeared, a dogged Los Angeles cop returns to his small Southern hometown to investigate the mystery of her murder.
Somerset, NJ
I have written five screenplays and am also a published songwriter.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 122 Pages
When a celebrity obsessed introvert loses her job, she sets out to meet the man of her dreams to win it back. But after crossing paths with a handsome stranger, she’s forced to face the dark reality she’s been running from.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
After wandering the world and spending years in strange occupations, Rissa settled in Michigan and began converting her wild experiences into genre-bending screenplays. Her debut dramedy pilot, MISSISSIPPI MACE, won Script Summit 2021 and has placed in several other competitions.
Fight or Play Basketball
Semifinalist
Feature
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Godfor
Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 97 Pages
During the Battle of Gettysburg, an amoral grave robber finds his loyalties and ethics tested by a series of chance encounters as he balances the need to survive versus pursuing the better angels of his nature.
Cambridge, MA
No bio available.
I'm Not into Golden Showers!
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 105 Pages
To save his family, a former British spy must search for a rumored pee pee tape after he's sued by the 45th President of the United States.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
John Brown's battle to end slavery.
Los Angeles, CA
After graduating in Film and TV from the University of Westminster, Simon produced at BBC World Service Television, Channel 4, The World Bank and produced multiple shows for ABC, PBS, Discovery, Vh1, Oxygen, Bravo, and Friends of the Earth. He has written numerous award-winning screenplays and plays and is currently developing several full-length pl...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 120 Pages
A gay Syrian refugee in Istanbul, while juggling dangerous smuggling operations for both the CIA and Islamic State, falls in love with, and must decide between, two men who offer him very different futures.
Nice, Alpes-maritimess, FR
From a young age, Timothy Jay Smith developed a wanderlust that’s taken him around the world many times. En route, he found the characters that people his work. Polish cops and Greek fishermen, mercenaries and arms dealers, prostitutes and terrorists: he hung with them all in an unparalleled international career that saw him smuggle banned plays fro...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 91 Pages
A struggling man desperate for a fresh start makes a deal with a charming but sinister stranger, unleashing a series of horrifying events that force him to confront the darkness within.
Los Angeles, CA
Ryan Shovey is a horror writer/director crafting tales where outcasts must embrace their darkness to overcome their demons. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Tim Burton, and John Carpenter, his work blends poetic dread with visceral thrills. His latest short screened at San Diego Comic-Con 2023, and his films Sloppy Seconds and Mirrored are featured in P...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Family
· 110 Pages
When a chaotic, grieving writer fosters a boy who thinks he's a dragon, they must embrace their imaginary worlds to form an unlikely family with her muse, Keanu Reeves. Based on a true story.
Top 25 Screenwriters To Watch - Network ISA. Single foster mom, UN aid worker, chaos specialist. Phoenix writes genre-benders about adventure, identity, racism and loss. Her social dramas, blended with whatever the muse brings, are told from her perspective as a woman of color with a disability. Phoenix is inspired by a son, who thinks he is a ...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 87 Pages
When Max is invited to a tropical weekend retreat by a former client and one of the guests is killed on the first day, Max soon learns that like him, all of the guests are contract killers and they must uncover why they were invited there and by who before the hunters become the hunted.
Somerset, PA
My name is Michael/Mie, and I’m a dedicated screenwriter with over 30 completed scripts spanning action, thriller, young adult, horror, and more. My work has been recognized as a semi-finalist and quarter-finalist in seven competitions—but I’m just getting started.
I’m actively seeking opportunities to bring fresh stories to life, whether through...
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Ludlow
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 111 Pages
A beleaguered Greek miner draws a reluctant strike instigator into the throes of a Colorado mining revolt, sparking a labor dispute with horrifying consequences. Based on a true story. Multiple Awards. Award-winning produced screenwriter.
Dallas, Texas
Sarah left a career as an executive speech writer and communications strategist for a Fortune 5 company to stay home with children and care for elderly parents. She feels there are important stories that need to be told and that cinema is the ultimate canvas.
Semifinalist
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· Western
· 86 Pages
With a murderous band of outlaws sweeping towards her land, a defiant widow refuses to flee her home and abandon a badly wounded US Marshal to a certain death. She must defend her land and her new friend from wave after wave of attacks with just a few weapons... and an unconquerable spirit.
Worcester, GB
Ian’s journey into professional writing began during his first job, when a colleague (an investigative reporter) was kidnapped and held in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Witnessing first-hand the power of storytelling, he began his journey as a screenwriter and author. Ian is a multi-contest winning, optioned screenwriter who has successfully comple...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 91 Pages
A struggling Black church cleaner, grappling with a custody battle, plots to rob a Texas megachurch for a shot at a better future with her daughter. Kramer Vs Kramer meets Emily the Criminal.
West Coast, Usa
Derek Quick is a Native American/ Hispanic Writer, Director & U.S. Coast Guard Veteran. He has screenplays on the 2023 Blacklist -Top list. Graduate of the NBC Universal sponsored- Native American Media Alliance Feature writers program. The 2023 Writers Guild Veteran program. RespectAbility lab 2024
His film Kommando 1944 won 165 awards & Screened...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 93 Pages
A gritty astronaut is stranded on a hostile alien planet.
Alone.
Terrified.
Pregnant.
S. Portland, ME
12 published books, including an international bestseller. 2nd place finish in FADE IN's annual screenplay competition, in the drama category, with The Pitcher. Top Ten finalist, 2023, in Emerging Screenwriters annual sci fi and fantasy script contest, with MAROONED. Semifinalist, top 30, in FADE IN's 2023 script contest, with BOY FROM EARTH.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Action
· 100 Pages
A meet-cute turns cut-throat when a young couple are pursued by vicious European criminals gunning to shorten their romance to retrieve stolen cash. It’s 'When Harry met Sally met Taken'.
No bio available.