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Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition |
2025
We have teamed up with several creative partners looking for Features and TV Pilots with unique voices and original stories. $10,000 in cash prizes.
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Genre
Format
Representation Status
Grand Prize Winners
Grand Prize Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 53 Pages
A struggling Afghan War vet finds new life as a shotgun doctor on the streets of Los Angeles seeing patients who can’t afford — or risk — treatment in the city’s failing health system. COMPS: HOUSE meets REACHER.
Los Angeles, CA
Roger Corman recruited me out of USC film school to direct low-budget wonders around the world. I learned the hard way that every great film starts with an even better script. As a stay-at-home dad, I write everyman Hitchcockian thrillers between flipping pancakes and mending hearts/knees on the gridiron that is grammar school.
Finalists
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
Kelly Hudson navigates the trials and tribulations of being the first male and femme First Lady of Texas while trying to get his husband re-elected.
Dallas, TX
Jason June (it's a two-name first name like Mary-Kate without the hyphen or the Olsen twin) is a campy as hell writer from Dallas, TX. He watches and writes fast-paced comedies, especially those that have queer sensibilities. When not getting style inspiration from Laura Dern, Jason June writes very gay novels, like the New York Times best-selling O...
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Semifinalists
"Gunplay"
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Ken
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 94 Pages
When a young woman with self-destructive tendencies loses her terminally ill, adoptive father prematurely under the care of his younger wife, it sends her on a time-crunched journey of self-discovery that is necessary for her to deliver an act of proper revenge.
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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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 60 Pages
A neurobiologist related to Victor Frankenstein must protect her family and community from adversaries vying for her reanimation secrets.
Burbank, CA
Marni’s writing career started with music journalism and branched into academia. She graduated from USC with degrees in anthropology and neuroscience, followed by a graduate fellowship in neurobiology. Her background landed her script consulting gigs for science-based stories. Marni is a Stowe Story fellowship recipient, ISA Grand Prize winner and r...
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Animal Hearts
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Unknown
No logline available.
Joe Becker
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 55 Pages
When a criminology student's DNA is found at the murder scenes of a serial killer, he's forced to enlist the aid of his ethically challenged professor to help clear his name -- only to discover that he, she and the real killer are all inextricably linked.
- Verified WGA Member
West Hills, CA
Peter Hunziker is a multi-award-winning filmmaker. Among his wins are the Coca Cola Refreshing Filmmaker award (his film showed on 14,000 screens nationwide), Project Greenlight Top 10 Director, WGA TV Writer Access Project for his pilot script, Invisible, and his pilot script, Blood Brothers, is a Sundance Episodic Story Lab and Austin Film Festiva...
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BLOODY NOSES
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Matilda Corley Schulman
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 96 Pages
When a desperate sci-fi filmmaker reluctantly accepts a job on a made-for-TV Christmas movie, she must learn about life, love, and teamwork from the curmudgeonly, alcoholic director and oddball cast and crew, as she faces the unscrupulous producer threatening to end her career for good... If SCHITT'S CREEK was a HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE.
Madison, WI
MOLLY BANDT and CELIA RAMSEY are a mother/daughter writing team who share a fascination with the cheeky underbelly of midwest nice. Molly is a public interest lawyer and children’s book author/illustrator living in Madison, Wisconsin. Celia works as an Executive Coordinator and Associate Producer for a production company in LA. Like the family they ...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Unknown
· 96 Pages
Taken hostage during a bank robbery, a fame-hungry vlogger sees the perfect opportunity: livestream the escape, go viral, and finally make it big — if she lives long enough to enjoy it.
No bio available.
Covert Township
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Unknown
No logline available.
John Jackson
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 62 Pages
In the late 1860s, factions of businessmen, wildcatters, and tycoons fight to dominate the new oil industry and through it the future.
Los Angeles, CA
Brady’s dad once rented a movie for his kids so he could take his mom out on a date. The movie was the James Cameron classic Aliens. Brady was five. Somewhere around the traumatizing scene where a woman begs to be killed with a flamethrower while an alien bursts out of her chest, Brady realized two things. One, he was going to have nightmares for a ...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
In this offbeat workplace comedy, a failing journalist is hired to work for America's Favorite Talk Show, where she must shed her preconceptions in order to keep up with the surprising demands of working in the so-called "trash TV" industry.
Studio City, CA
Simone Gerber is a queer, Jewish writer who loves to explore complex social issues through heartfelt comedy and thoughtful, high concept narratives.
Thanks to a psychology degree and an obsessive need to create, she possesses a rare talent for crafting characters that are both refreshingly unique and recognizably human. Readers fall in love with...
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DEATH IS NO OPTION
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 112 Pages
A post-Roe tech school student seeks an abortion out-of-state after a serial rapist’s assault results in a life-threatening pregnancy.
No bio 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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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
A feisty young man with Down syndrome is determined to get to the Grand Canyon in spite of his scatterbrained brother, a tenacious lawman, an escaped convict, a runaway bride and Elvis Presley. “No Country for Old Men” meets "Little Miss Sunshine” and parties with “The Peanut Butter Falcon”!
Sierra Vista, AZ
Over 25 years in film, including directing the photography on more than two dozen Feature Films have given me a thorough working knowledge of production. I’ve also written, produced, directed and edited several features and shorts and most recently won numerous awards for “Learning to Drive” and my screenplay “Elephant In a Safeway Bag”!
FLUKE
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 109 Pages
An Indian American examines her and her sister’s coming of age amidst bullying and abuse in the era of growing violence that was the early 1990’s. She discovers her need for her found family in surviving all the ups and downs of becoming who they really are.
Portland, OR
As an Indian American girl growing up in small-town Colorado, writer-director Shilpa Sunthankar learned everything she knows from a steady diet of eighties Hollywood, Hindi musicals, and a hefty side of world cinema.
The features Shilpa is currently developing include coming of age dramedy Generation Loss; and Continental Divide, a dynamic outdoo...
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Girlfriend
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Unknown
No logline available.
New York City, New York
No bio available.
God and The Termite
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Unknown
No logline available.
No bio available.
Hawa
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Unknown
No logline available.
Kyiv, UA
https://www.atasov-film-travel.com/oleg-bazylewicz/
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 120 Pages
A high-powered New York ad executive, bets her career on an Influencer - driven marketing campaign, only to watch it spiral into chaos. Stranded in Malta with a sinking reputation, she stumbles upon an old-school, tech-averse restaurateur who challenges her views on authenticity, connection, and what truly matters in life.
Dana Barnaby is a successful Writer, Director and Cinematographer. Graduating from film school, Dana worked his way up through the industry ranks to now flourish as a Director and an award winning Cameraman. Some of his most recent accomplishments include: DP/Director for CBS, NBC, Lifetime & Hallmark TV Movies: DP for Nickelodeon, Disney +, Warner...
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Husky
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Qaseem
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 54 Pages
A newly-minted ICE agent, stripped from her undocumented family during an ICE raid more than twenty years ago, secretly uses the agency’s resources to try and find her relatives before her senior agent boss discovers her plan and while a new White House administration ramps up ICE raids nationwide.
Los Angeles, California
A veteran journalist, Cheryl Gray is now a screenwriter with projects that include a script on the murder of George Floyd and the global outcry that followed.
Her writing reflects her years of experience covering world events such as Nelson Mandela's arrival to the United States within hours of his release from prison in South Africa, the Space...
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IMAGE IS EVERYTHING
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Unknown
No logline available.
No bio available.
Imagination Fort
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Animated
· 19 Pages
This logline was hidden by the writer.
Vancouver, BC, CA
Aiko Hilkinger is an award-winning, queer, screenwriter of color from Colombia. Her fantasy animated pilots have placed in numerous contests, most notably ScreenCraft, Filmmatic, and Fast Track Fellowship. They were also named one of Network ISA's 'Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch' in 2021.
Hilkinger writes magical stories, blending the past and fut...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 111 Pages
When an outspoken defense attorney loses her sister’s wedding dress just days before the ceremony, she has no choice but to hitch a ride across the country with a charming ex-criminal to get it back.
Napier, Hawkes Bay, NZ
Kate is an award-winning writer from Napier, New Zealand, the self-proclaimed Art Deco Capital of the world. In 2018, she studied screenwriting at the New York Film Academy, where she was inspired to pursue her passion for storytelling. She thrives on crafting fun, diverse narratives, often featuring strong female leads.
In 2024, she won Best Com...
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L.A. Woof Story
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Family
· 102 Pages
Boy (dog) -- a streetwise, back-alley mutt from the wrong side of the tracks -- meets girl (dog), a pampered pure-bred. Boy (dog) loses girl (dog). With a woof and a prayer, and a lot of luck, they find true doggie love. A tale with bite.
No bio available.
LAFAYETTE - "Freedom Fighter", Ep.1
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Hi,
Please go to my website www.marshallferrin.com for more about me and my work.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 104 Pages
In rationalising his role in the death of one of his refugee students, a Vietnam veteran turned art teacher confronts the circumstances of his own son’s tragic death, and dedicates his talents to their memory.
Prospect, SA, AU
Jeff developed a penchant for comedy after a course with the late Barry Took, partner of the late Marty Feldman. He has several comedies on the market; one of which, 'New Deli', placed second in the 2017 NY Metro Screenplay Comp. Another two have placed semi-finalists in other comps. His latest, ‘The Legend of Willie Telberg and Son’, received posi...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 96 Pages
A feisty college student tracks down her widowed father at a desert motel that’s the site of recent UFO sightings, but she must connect with him – and the other quirky UFO misfits drawn to the site – before she can bring him home.
New York, New York
My first produced screenplay THE SORCERER BEAST stars Corey Feldman and Jeffrey Combs, and is streaming on Amazon. The sequel comes out next year.
My comedy UNEXPLAINABLE made a top-3 finish in Final Draft's Big Break. It's in the top 1% of all projects on Coverfly, and is on the Red List.
I've also written and produced content for Discovery C...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 124 Pages
At the height of Josip Tito's killing spree against dissidents in the West, two idealistic lovers wage a campaign to expose the truth about the dictator's tyranny against his own people.
Portland, Oregon
Mary is a writer, an award-winning Producer, and a former Entertainment Executive whose producing credits include the Academy Award nominated CORALINE and the Emmy Award winning prime-time series, THE PJs. In 2014, Mary founded The Sandlot LLC, an independent production company dedicated to the development and production of distinctive, thought-pro...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 98 Pages
Genre: Drama/Triller-R
2010-Port Au Prince Haiti, post Hurricane Hugo.
A dance protege sold to to pay her mother’s debt, escapes only to arrive in Oakland as human cargo where she meets an unlikely escort. Her journey back to Haiti to dance for the famed Aykodans is bitter sweet-a journey she must make alone.
Genre: Drama/Triller-R
San Francisco, California
Selected by Nostos, Donna to attend residency fall 2022
Mission: tell stories via diverse characters - race, gender, LBGTQ, age
Scripts optioned by actors: SHOOT/Delroy Lindo; Details are Done/Jesse Williams
Recent Awards
2019 Aging Out, series, Oaxaca IFF Industry Partners;
Madeline, finalist Amsterdam IFF
2021 Homero, 1/4 finalist Creative...
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Me and My Great Great Great Grandad's Gay Skeleton
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 47 Pages
When 18 year old Ben spends his summer on a study abroad trip to France, he makes sure to visit the grave of his French great great great grandad... aaaand accidentally awakens the reanimated skeleton of said grandad, sending them on a whirlwind journey to find Ben's true purpose so Grandad can finally cross over into Heaven! And did I mention the s...
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Liv Shoup
No bio available.
Minus One
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Unknown
No logline available.
Michelle WILKER
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 115 Pages
A disgraced lawyer is given a chance at redemption when he decides to defend an astronaut accused of killing a fellow astronaut while in transit to the moon.
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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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 106 Pages
After the naive youngest son of a Viet American refugee family crosses the wrong gang member, they must come together to raise $250k to clear his head. Sure, they’re dysfunctional and amateurs, but family helps family, and if they can survive war and immigration, they can survive this too.
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE meets QUIZ LADY
Fairfax, VA
Kathy Nguyen Li is an Asian American screenwriter based in the Washington, DC metro area. She writes authentic and heartfelt dramedies about exquisite and messy people and relationships. She'll make you cry and laugh at the same time, informed by her 30+ years as a therapist, swimming in soul-crushing pain and despair with clients and somehow not dr...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 106 Pages
A sociology professor pledges a cult in order to rescue a seven-year-old boy they are holding captive. FIGHT CLUB meets FARGO.
Los Angeles, California
As a Turkish immigrant, Odin spent his childhood between the snowy suburbs of Detroit camping and BBQing, and the crystal blue Aegean Sea eating fresh caught seafood and wandering bazaars. His heart is half-burger, half-kebab. Odin channels cultural fluidity to tell entertaining and accessible genre stories about characters too often unexplored. Pro...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Family
· 43 Pages
Against an ever-increasing set of seemingly insurmountable situations, a little girl struggles to build and run a tiny cargo-carrying railroad to try to save her town from economic ruin and in the process learns a trainload of life lessons.ss learns a trainload of life lessons.
Ocean Shores, WA
Writer, filmmaker, designer, engineer, scientist, adventurer, explorer, builder, inventor, teacher, student, mentor, humanist, futurist, sailor, aviator, painter, photographer, artist, merchant, disc jockey, amateur chef, husband, father, and a former U.S. Naval officer. He lived on a boat with his family for a dozen years and helped raise a genius...
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Olympic Heart
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Unknown
No logline available.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, a single mother must relive her traumatic memories of Japanese Internment after a racial slur targeting her daughter is burned onto their front lawn.
Reseda, CA
Alli is a queer, mixed race Japanese writer from a John Hughes-like suburb of Chicago, IL. A sickly child Alli spent a lot of time out of school watching TV and writing stories which inspired her to get a degree in screenwriting at Columbia College Chicago. She loves to tell coming-of-age stories that tackle tougher topics with grace, humor, and h...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 90 Pages
A gay man whose family gets ravaged by a stroke gets a second chance at life and love when he helps a queer youth group rebuild their Pride Float after skinheads destroy it just days before the parade.
Vancouver, BC, CA
A queer single parent who seamlessly blends his real life and fiction to create deeply flawed characters in exceptional situations in vividly described worlds.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 55 Pages
As a legendary 41-year-old quarterback struggles to keep his career alive, an ambitious female executive convinces him to mentor his troubled successor, while they both seek the approval of the powerful owner of the team, a surrogate father to him--and an actual father to her.
Comps: Succession, Winning Time, The Morning Show.
San Francisco, CA
Michael Weinreb is an award-winning journalist specializing in sports, culture and history, who writes scripts set within the world of sports--and far outside of it--that are inspired by true events.
He's written for The Atlantic, ESPN, Rolling Stone and more, and has authored four books, including Game of Kings, about a championship Brooklyn ch...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 114 Pages
A disgraced Vietnam combat medic joins forces with a transgender WWII veteran to launch an underground vigilante street clinic to serve New York's LGBTQ homeless community in the 1960s
Ottawa, ON, CA
Kristen McNaule (she/they) is a writer and filmmaker who tells revolutionary stories set in gritty landscapes with a bit of sparkle. Her interest in International Development led her to Sierra Leone to make a documentary about post-conflict development. She founded the production company Element 109 to make films that shed light on mental illness, c...
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RHYTHM GIRLS
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 53 Pages
The adventures of an all-girl band, from the backroads of Mississippi to the top of the music world.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 104 Pages
When a string of murders threatens San Francisco’s underground queer community, a defiant trans woman teams up with a conflicted cop to uncover the truth, leading to an explosive moment of rebellion that history tried to erase.
Austin, TX
Mehul Shah is a South Asian writer-director based in Austin, crafting stories that spotlight underrepresented voices—often with a Bollywood-inspired flair.
A Black List recommended writer and Page Award winner, his work sparks conversations, challenges stereotypes, and sometimes makes people cry (in a good way).
When not creating, he’s overa...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 110 Pages
A rookie FBI agent in Austin, Texas goes undercover with a local roller derby team she suspects are behind a string of murders in the city.
Los Angeles, CA
Jordan London is a filmmaker coming out of America’s finest city, San Diego. Very much influenced by the colorful community who frequented the beaches where he grew up, Jordan’s stories are often feature simple plots with complex characters. When not writing Jordan spends his time working on set, and has held jobs on shows for Blumhouse, Atomic Mo...
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Room With A Cruel View
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 102 Pages
No logline available.
Philadelphia, PA
I am a prolific writer with a distinct voice. I'm an African American minister who grew up in the inner city of Philadelphia. My stories typically involve disparate characters who are forced to depend on each other to resolve a conflict.
I've written and produced 15 shorts, one featuring, Elizabeth Banks.
I co-wrote the documentary, The Birth ...
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Ruses are Red
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 67 Pages
No logline available.
Ellen `Greenberg
No bio available.
Second Chance In Seoul
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
No bio available.