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Winners
Winner
Feature
· Thriller
· 107 Pages
Faced with permanent separation from her addict mother, a determined high schooler works at a gang-run cannabis grow house in order to save money for a plush rehab facility.
Brooklyn, NY
Alex Murawski is a screenwriter and director inspired by the hidden wounds of being human. His short films KISS, ARI and SNOW have screened at nearly 100 film festivals, including at TIFF and Berlinale and have 7 million views online. He is mentored by Academy Award nominee Bruce Beresford. His script WALKING IN IOWA has garnered numerous accolades ...
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Winner
Short
· Comedy
· 20 Pages
Fed up with her inability to orgasm, twenty-something Fran seeks out local porn star Bernardo Bolsa hoping he'll finally get her rocks off. The only problem is...he's gay. However, Bernardo's will to help leads Fran to finally discover pleasure in the most unexpected of places.
Los Angeles, CA
- Writer, producer, actor, & director based in LA
- Co-founder GINGER TITS PRODUCTIONS with Mack Breeden
- Written & sold over seven scripts to MarVista, Tubi, Lifetime, and Hallmark
- USC Film Alum
- Proud redhead
Winner
TV Script
· Thriller
· 54 Pages
A gifted programmer hired to oversee the killswitch of an advanced medical AI must match wits with the all-powerful machine to uncover its high-stakes hidden agenda.
Multi-season anthology series with interlinking characters and storylines. A hopeful BLACK MIRROR meets THE CHOSEN, inspired by the adventures of INDIANA JONES.
Irvine, CA
Coverfly Top 1%, #1 all-time in genre/format, Top 20 shorts all-time. Crafting emotionally rich stories, I delve into the human experience by portraying complex, intelligent, flawed characters. Their journeys unfold amid high-stakes moral quandaries set against the backdrop of humanity's crowning accomplishments and greatest existential threats.
Winner
Short
· Thriller
· 10 Pages
In the midst of a brutal revolution, an Iranian woman taken to an otherworldly prison with only her dismembered eye as a method of sight transforms into a symbol of hope and resistance against a totalitarian regime in a harrowing journey of defiance.
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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Finalists
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 113 Pages
Released from prison early due to a terminal illness, an old man finds meaning after developing an unexpected friendship with a young girl in a forgotten neighborhood in Detroit, MI.
Patterson is a filmmaker with a passion for visual storytelling and a strong collaborative spirit. As part of a writing team with Catherine Miller, he creates compelling, character-driven narratives that explore diverse perspectives.
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Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 126 Pages
When an unromantic hotshot lawyer returns to her rural hometown for her sister’s wedding, she gets sucked into defending her grandpa’s new girlfriend— the town squatter— in a murder trial. Worst of all, the prosecutor fighting against her is the ex-boyfriend who broke her heart.
No bio available.
Finalist
Short
· Drama
· 13 Pages
In a secluded mountain cabin, Alma must confront the haunting echoes of her past to find hope and escape grief, unaware that her journey to salvation will end in fire.
Venice, Veneto, IT
No bio available.
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ARTiFAKT
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Finalist
Feature
· Adventure
· 123 Pages
A daring South African YouTuber teams up with a street-smart Nigerian thief to steal the famous Benin Bronzes back from the British Museum.
She’s a privileged diplomat’s daughter, accustomed to wealth and influence, he’s a quick-witted Londoner with a knack for bending the rules. And together, their mischievous quest for justice will challenge c...
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Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA
Tim Greene is known for writing and directing the features BOY CALLED TWIST (2004) and SKEEM (2011), and his latest feature THE FURY (2022) is exclusive on Amazon Prime worldwide.
Based in Cape Town, he works internationally, most recently with MTV Staying Alive (London), Discovery Learning Alliance (Washington, D.C.) and with AMC International ...
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Baazu Baarish
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Finalist
Short
· Drama
· 20 Pages
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Prague, CZ
An Indian-born filmmaker and editor currently studying at FAMU in Prague. With a background in theatre, sound design, film production, direction and script development. I enjoy exploring themes of connection, resilience, and the intricacies of relationships through my work.
Beyond filmmaking, I find inspiration in music. My journey is driven by a...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 92 Pages
An Iranian transwoman living in Berlin must confront her past as a gay teenager in Tehran, reliving the trauma of a forced gender reassignment surgery and the heartbreak of losing her best friend and first love.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Michael Amir Bina grew up with immigrant parents from Iran who loved taking him to the movies. Seeking to explore this interest further, he pursued an internship during his senior year of high school at Women In Film, where he witnessed the profound effects that film could have on people, especially in highlighting th...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 37 Pages
A preternaturally confident couples therapist uses highly unorthodox methods to help her clients solve their marital problems.
Far Hills, NJ
Joy moved to LA after college and got a masters in Screenwriting from USC Film School. Subsequently, she was a creative executive at 20th Century Fox, where she worked on Titanic, Great Expectations, Hope Floats and other films. Joy loves to challenge assumptions about relationships in her writing. Her characters subvert expectations, often to comi...
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Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 119 Pages
Comedy, Romance. "Moonstruck" meets "Step Brothers." When their estranged uncle in Southern Italy falls ill, two Italian-American brothers race to Calabria to battle for control over his estate. There, both brothers unexpectedly find love and new lives – and uncover a shocking family secret.
New York, New York
Tim Young is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright.
Tim’s most recent feature film script, "Crazy Honey," has won fourteen film industry awards. His new TV pilots, "Northlight" and "Deadeye Daisy," have picked up top honors in eleven and nine television script festivals, respectively. Tim’s stage play, "Okefenokee," won best new play of ...
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Disintegration
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 71 Pages
When the Wainwright family lose swimming champion son, Michael, in a tragic accident, surviving daughter, Mellie decides to 'become' Mike, to almost replace her dead brother. Can they help each other to deal with so much heartbreak?
No bio available.
EVAC
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Finalist
Short
· Thriller
· 16 Pages
In the confines of his cell, a man's sanity hangs by a thread as he navigates the treacherous landscape of his fractured mind, torn between the possibility of being a rebel leader and the harrowing truth of his confinement.
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 60 Pages
A murder in the backwoods of the Ozarks draws Detective Theo Freeman to modern day Mt. Olympus, hidden from sight and filled with Greek gods willing to murder to stay hidden.
Los Angeles, CA
Daniel Pappas writes detective stories about mysterious cults in small towns. Often set in the American South his work centers on ancient myths, magical realism, flawed fathers, and religious fanatics. He spent years translating interrogations and jail cell interviews for criminal lawyers. Now he freelances as a journalist, submissions reader, and s...
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Fertile
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 97 Pages
At a secluded fertility retreat, Julie and her husband Michael seek a cure for their infertility, only to uncover a web of deception and deadly secrets surrounding the eccentric founder and his controversial methods.
Watrous, NM
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 97 Pages
A musician’s all-deaf rock band (yeah, that’s right) is set to compete in the Battle of the Bands on Saturday, but when a family emergency collides with his big night, his music-hating brother forces him to choose between family and the chance to play for a hearing audience for the very first time.
Los Angeles, California
Bob is the drummer in Beethoven's Nightmare, the only all-deaf rock band in the world. His screenplay based on that experience, “Grateful Deaf,” has received 3 accolades, and was recently a Top 10 Finalist in the Kinolime Script-to-Screen Competition. His other current script, a Family Feature titled “Fly Boy Fly,” has already garnered 10 accolades...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 99 Pages
A woman, whose companions are a lifejacket and plastic candy cane, falls into a cave and encounters a string of underground dwellers as she fights through her past to escape.
Greenwood, IN
From unshowered rock bands to traveling the country training surgeons with cadavers, Gabe’s writing is inspired by real life and death. His character-driven stories entertain and normalize mental illness and LGBTQIA+ relationships. Gabe has been hired for multiple writing assignments with films produced.
Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 110 Pages
After receiving an anonymous letter in which the author threatens to commit suicide in three days, Callum Taylor tricks his two best friends and older sister into embarking on a cross country trip to save this stranger.
Los Angeles, California
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Horror
· 55 Pages
A scavenger in an infinite maze of rooms finds a young man whom he believes to be the prophesied chosen one that will deliver everyone from the maze and must bring him to safety.
Glendale, CA
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 100 Pages
Drawing inspiration from real events a hardened young man faces the demands of life, heart and humanity on a rural Oklahoma cattle ranch and the ensuing fusion of the Vietnam war.
David began writing novels many years ago but decided to dedicate his writing exclusively to Scripts. He writes mostly Sci-fi but has completed a Period Drama which is being submitted in several competitions in 2025.
Marcus Cartwright Just Wants to Die
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 57 Pages
A suicidal man is forced to face his life when a hitman he hires online to kill him turns out to be an old childhood friend.
Hatfield, GB
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 99 Pages
A Moon-mining student struggles with readjusting to Earth while grieving the loss of her mother.
Wappingers Falls, New York
Ryan is a screenwriter, TV writer and playwright. Studio Nowhere, a half hour comedy series he created, was optioned by 24 FPS Pictures which led Ryan to sign with his first agent. More recently he sold a one hour drama entitled The Four Mothers to Hirsch Pictures. The pilot is shot and currently the package for the series is being shopped. Film dir...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 58 Pages
A society of humans live underground to survive the now dangerous moon above, and a brave teenage girl introduces a seemingly helpful stranger to her struggling community.
Los Angeles, CA
Blue Daniels developed a love for storytelling at a young age. She loved reading about new worlds so much, that it wasn't long before she began creating worlds of her own. While attending SCAD for her undergraduate studies, Blue wrote and directed her first short film, "Butterfly," which received numerous awards and accolades. Now, a recent Master'...
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Finalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 116 Pages
"A troubled young actor must confront the darkness of his past when he lands the lead role in a new play opposite Anthony Macallan - an icon of the British stage - a man with a troubling reputation for his dangerous commitment to the method."
London, London, GB
Born in the Middle East, Oliver Silver is a published author and screenwriter. With a focus on character-driven dramas and thrillers, Oliver's scripts have been honoured by numerous competitions including Austin, LaunchPad, BlueCat, The PAGE Awards and ScreenCraft and has had several projects under option.
PETROSINO
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
The real "Godfather" saga, from the POV of legendary NYPD detective Joseph Petrosino, who almost destroyed the American Mafia in its infancy. At 23, the smart, tough shoeshine boy is drafted into the NYPD to battle crime in the Italian neighborhoods that threatens the entire city. He reinvents police work, creates the NYPD Bomb Squad and first "U...
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No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 89 Pages
Buckle up for the apology tour no one asked for.
A failed actress embarks on a misguided quest to get an apology out of everyone who has wronged her and whom she blames for her car-crash of a life.
London, GB
Athena is an award-winning filmmaker and a Lecturer in Film Practice at QMUL. Her feature film script XENOS won best script at Cyprus IFF 2018, selected onto the Torino Film Lab 2019 and shortlisted for Sundance Screenwriters Lab 2021. Her two short films (DAUGHTER and LOSING GRACE) in 2021 have played at over 60 festivals and won over 20 awards. L...
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Finalist
Short
· Drama
· 14 Pages
A determined musician wins the role of leading violinist in a dance production of Saint-Saëns' famous piece Danse Macabre, but his obsession with perfection drags him into a dark spiral, threatening to drive him insane.
Internationally published author in Mexico, Latin America, and Spain, currently working with the script development team at Caledonia Productions, the U.S. extension of Eon Productions, producers of James Bond.
In 2021, I produced my first short film and attended the Cannes Film Festival through the Three Days in Cannes program. In 2024, my book...
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Talent Wars
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Finalist
TV Script
· Unknown
· 36 Pages
A fight over a top marketing talent leads a recruitment executive back to her ex and a divide between her inherited family.
No bio available.
TEARS OF THE TIGER
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 113 Pages
An online journalist joins a dementia-laden inspector to investigate a series of macabre murders, inspired by myths about Diyu (Chinese Hell). Things turn treacherous as the journalist grows more obsessed and becomes ensnared in the killer's murderous machinations.
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, HK
Roy Tan is an award-winning Screenwriter who writes entertaining and thought-provoking stories. His most notable accolades include winning the '2021 Page International Gold Award (Drama)'; being a Finalist in both '2020 Final Draft Big Break (Sci-Fi)' and the '2021 New York International Screenplay Awards'; and winning '2018 Best Screenplay at Other...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 60 Pages
In a near-future world where thoughts shape reality, a compassionate scientist and a group of extraordinary empaths must fight a covert, militarized faction bent on controlling humanity's consciousness.
Think INCEPTION meets BLADE RUNNER 2049.
Denver, CO
Steve Brown, a graduate of the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting, holds dual degrees in Journalism and English from the University of Arizona. In 2023, he transitioned from corporate copywriting (for popular brands such as Nintendo and Kaplan Test Prep) to pursue his passion for film and TV. Today, he dedicates his time entirely to screenwr...
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Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 98 Pages
After her father’s sudden death, a true crime producer returns to her childhood home and discovers a sealed blue drum in the basement containing a mummified body. Trapped by a relentless storm, she and her mother experience terrifying phenomena that suggest the past isn’t done with them. The Blue Drum is a psychological and supernatural horror film ...
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No bio available.
The Candle Maker
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 107 Pages
A gifted candle maker finds a permanent home and family when she befriends a distressed, adolescent boy and accepts the mental illness of her mother.
Columbus, NE
With poems in her pockets, columns around her collar, and a winning screenplay under her belt, Jeanne fancies herself a figure skater of words.
She mastered the educational Salchow of teaching high school English and spun camels in corporate communications before toe-looping her way into freelance work. She routinely performs her writing repertoi...
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Finalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 112 Pages
In this deconstruction of neo-noir thrillers--Jude Turner, a suicidal young man living with Cerebral Palsy, embarks on a brutal quest for revenge against the people who stole his cat.
Los Angeles, California
Duncan Novak is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter specializing in action and dramedy. His work often blends high-concept tension with grounded character drama, exploring themes of identity, power, and family under pressure. With a background in journalism and a strong narrative instinct, Duncan crafts stories that balance emotional depth with sharp, ...
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Finalist
Feature
· Historical
· 120 Pages
In Nazi Germany, a queer painter living a double life — as a celebrated classical artist and a subversive avant-garde provocateur — risks exposure, betrayal, and death when his satirical portraits of Nazi leaders, hidden within state-sponsored Degenerate Art exhibitions, attract the attention of a ruthless investigator.
Singapore, Singapore, SG
Irish writer of 2025 Golden Script-placing screenplay The Degenerate. His previous screenplay, The Three Paddies, which won bronze in the Thriller/Horror category of the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards 2023 , is now in development with Boy Wonder Productions.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 116 Pages
After the death of a US Senator, his apolitical wife reluctantly accepts a temporary appointment to his seat, but finds herself compelled to run for the rest of his term in order to thwart a scheme from her political rivals.
Nashville, TN
Ben Parsons is an independent filmmaker born in Auburn, AL and currently working out of Nashville, TN. He graduated Watkins College of Art with a BFA in Film in 2017. His work is known for its unique characters and frequent use of fast-paced dialogue.
Finalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 60 Pages
As the Ottoman Empire disintegrates around them, Christian Greeks and Armenians living in Asia Minor try to escape the wrath of the Turks while a charismatic politician fights for their survival.
Bentleigh, Vic, AU
Evlampia developed a passion for writing started as a teenager in an attempt to process her difficult childhood, but her creativity took a back seat to a career in the law, and stopped when she had to care for her terminally ill mother. She rediscovered her passion years later, and her focus now is on writing diverse stories of forbidden love and th...
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Finalist
Feature
· Fantasy
· 125 Pages
A young mother trapped in a hostile world seeks escape for herself and her son... but is it for him or really for herself?
Cheadle, Cheshire, GB
Fell into investigative journalism through screenwriting. Previously helped produce the BAFTA-winning FOUR LIONS (2010), the Emmy/BAFTA-winning doc, LEAVING NEVERLAND (2019), as well as THE DAY SHALL COME (2019) and IN THE SHADOW OF 9/11 (2021).
I also work as a researcher for documentaries and dramas such as HBO's SUCCESSION (2015), Netflix's T...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 62 Pages
A humble TV reporter who unintentionally incites protests during the election of a misogynistic Presidential Candidate, accidentally transports and switches places with her alternate universe self, in a Matriarchy, where SHE is the President of the United States. Both protagonists realize the answers to their society’s crises can be found in each o...
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No bio available.
Finalist
Short
· Animated
· 10 Pages
An elderly man's lonely life gets upended when a mystical anti-snoring nose ring triggers a high-pitched whistle... only audible to the stray dogs roaming his small town. (UP meets PAPERMAN)
Los Angeles, California
Ben Hirschhorn is an award winning actor, writer, and director. He most recently starred in the Off-Broadway world premiere of ROOM 1214, and was previously nominated for an “LA Drama Critic Circle Award” for his performance in the West Coast premiere of TRAYF at the Geffen Playhouse. Additionally he received the “Best Actor Award” at the Los Angele...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 120 Pages
In the picturesque setting of South West England, a bereaved man films his local river from its source to the sea; a gifted teenager gives it a voice under the watchful eye of his struggling mother.
Bath, GB
Jon’s greatest writing achievement is to write at all. An MS sufferer, he has no movement below the neck; on the upside, his sleepwalking misdemeanours have been resolved. A blend of 21st-century technology and a little extra effort gets the words on the page; his stories are evocative, funny and poignant, designed to tease a chuckle and a tear in t...
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Finalist
Feature
· Action
· 117 Pages
After the fall of Cardinal Richelieu, an ambitious blacksmith's daughter teams up with a wandering musketeer in the middle of an existential crisis to overthrow a powerful duke in 17th-century France.
Dublin, California
Dustin writes action/adventure screenplays that focus on fish-out-of-water characters. He is passionate about creating original stories that showcase younger generations' perspectives while invoking discussion on what it means to be human and staying true to yourself.
Finalist
Short
· Drama
· 18 Pages
When a prissy woman steals a cleaning lady’s seat on the tram, Cleaning Lady’s anger spurs her to exact her vengeance on Miss Prissy and unravel the baggage in her own sorry life.
San Francisco, CA
I’ve published science and flamenco articles, but fiction is my calling and I’m eager to spill my motley life onto the page. I experienced Spain’s transition to democracy, been a racetrack jockey and a field, lab and computational scientist. Raised between the US and Spain, I’ve lived in Madrid, Navarra, Alaska, Georgia, and California. I’m a mother...
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Finalist
Short
· Family
· 10 Pages
When his grandfather falls ill, a young boy, desperate to play violin, must make his first performance his greatest.
Sydney, Nsw, AU
Joanne Bellew is an Australian multi-award-winning mother of two who writes in the drama, comedy, and romantic comedy space. She believes there is an unlikely or untapped hero in everyone and enjoys writing everyday stories of characters working through their brave and sometimes comedic paths to enlightenment.
Her Coverfly Top 1% Rom Com feature ...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 120 Pages
In a small mining town, a group of teenage paper delivery roundies form a union to fight for their rights against the local newsagents, leading to a clash of ideologies and a struggle for community solidarity.
Grantham, Lincolnshire, GB
Have you heard the one about the teacher who became a screenwriter?
Yes, that's Me!
I was a classroom warrior, did 17 years of duty, feeding hungry minds, facing abuse and teenage tantrums of 11-18 year-olds. Teaching them creative writing, media and film studies, film analysis and criticism, film production techniques from idea to script, pre-pro...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
After beginning his transition, a transgender male high school student is forced to examine his history of gender-based violence while navigating the complexities of being a man during the #MeToo movement.
Philadelphia, PA
Profoundly shaped by their Alabama upbringing as a student activist and community organizer during the first Trump administration, Alex Marsha Sylvia is a black and transmasculine writer who uses their art to explore the intersections of young people, trauma, and politics.
Finalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 50 Pages
After her four-year-old daughter is cruelly snatched from her home in broad daylight, a devastated mother fuelled by rage must find the strength to overcome her grief and embark on a journey across a multi-verse to prevent alternate versions of herself from experiencing the same heart-wrenching fate.
BC, CA
Kelly is a British-Canadian screenwriter and novelist, who changed her career trajectory when inspired by a character in her first novel 'Fake It 'til You Make It'.
Kelly has a profound love of storytelling and appreciates beautifully crafted sentences. She absorbs stories enthusiastically, and strives to entertain others with her carefully sele...
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Semifinalists
"THE REAL MCCOY"
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Adventure
· 58 Pages
Alison McCoy, the world’s greatest cat burglar (who ever got caught) is promised her freedom by the Vatican if she can nab – and quietly replace with fakes – the stolen true relics of the Church in a globe-spanning crime spree. On the opposing team: her father, Miles McCoy, the world's greatest cat burglar who never got caught.
No bio available.