The Raindance Script Competition is a contest dedicated to supporting and championing independent screenwriters.
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A motley crew of disabled residents at an accessible apartment complex cast themselves in an old-school freakshow in an effort to outmaneuver a devastating rent increase.
Nipomo, California
Brian Koukol is an award-winning screenwriter, prose writer, and poet. A lifelong battle with muscular dystrophy has informed the majority of the darkly comedic stories he favors, which are written with the aid of voice recognition and eye gaze technology out of physical necessity. And because keyboards are for suckers.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 57 Pages
When a mentally unstable Scouser seeks cold-blooded vengeance for his childhood abuse, a London-based paedophile hunter group must foster his passion to save him from self-destruction and protect the innocent.
London, London, GB
Curtis Blair is a London based writer-director of Nigerian heritage from Liverpool. After spending much of the 2010's working as a fashion photographer and documentary filmmaker, his attention has since been turned to the fiction and commercial worlds.
Semifinalist
Short
· Sci-fi
· 34 Pages
In a future where teleportation enables instantaneous travel, a stressed workaholic rushes across the globe to end a dragging relationship before her big meeting. However, a teleport glitch leaves her duplicated, and now she must confront the terrifying prospect of her own erasure.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 36 Pages
Matilda, a messy party girl and 280 years old vampire, finds God on an empty London street one quiet morning and from then on everything changes. After a long life of chasing all the wrong things, Matilda finally has a purpose. And she will do whatever it takes to fulfill it. Talk about zeal of the convert.
London, Greater London, GB
Rachel Benaissa is a French actress and writer, based in London. Rachel’s writing is often blending drama with dark humour and finding the comedy in the absurdity and challenge of everyday life. She writes unabashed about mental health challenges, identity and the conflict of multi-heritage labels with a fresh, vibrant humour and contemporary releva...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
After wearing a watch counting down to the moment he dies, a lonely photographer forms an unlikely bond with a grieving young woman before his clock hits zero - in just 10 days.
Oxon Hill, Maryland
Don Macanlalay is a Filipino-American social media creative director, unit stills photographer and screenwriter.
Professionally, he has 12 years of experience directing social media led creative projects, producing content and launching the social media channels for industry leading entertainment brands: Amazon Studios with Prime Video and Fox S...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 109 Pages
A bookish millennial and her cautious husband venture into the world of BDSM and kink where pleasure, power and self discovery threaten to upend their carefully built life.
Brooklyn, Ny
Phoebe Dunn is a NY-based actor and filmmaker. She has appeared on network television shows such as The Looming Tower, FBI: Most Wanted, New Amsterdam, and Dead Ringers. She’s produced numerous short projects including Hollow, Lullaby: An Alicia Drayton Music Video, Fractal, and Mamita. Her first short film RED, which she wrote, produced, and starre...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 44 Pages
A hapless schmuck on his last legs in the Big Apple must turn things around in Manhattan's weirdest leasing office, with his conniving uncle and an enigmatic real estate financier looking to sabotage him at every turn, or else he must suffer a fate worse than death: moving back in with his parents in Bettendorf, Iowa.
It is unclear at time of creating this bio whether Keach has finished more scripts or lived in more postal codes. And he has, in fact, finished a few scripts. It is probably also unclear at time of reading in which of those postal codes he may or may not reside. This rambling writer found a love for theatre in Orange County, CA, had work produced on...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Drama
· 13 Pages
Inspired by her senior rescue dog, an apathetic divorcée takes another shot at the life she thought she’d left behind.
San Francisco, CA
Xin Liu began her storytelling journey as aTV journalist in China. In 2016, she moved to the U.S. to pursue her passion for cinematic storytelling. Since then, she has directed numerous award-winning short films and documentaries, often delving into social issues through the lens of everyday life. With a distinctive blend of dark humor and imaginati...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 57 Pages
After completing his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy misinterprets what it means to become a "man" and gets a job at a Fortune 500 company.
Los Angeles, California
Arthur Goldbart is an Emmy Award Wanting filmmaker, focused on writing and directing. Specializing in absurd sketch comedy, as well as dramedy realism, Arthur’s work aims to find silliness in the bleak. Born and raised in London, England, and a recent graduate of USC SCA in Los Angeles, his writing is as stupid as it is smart, as dry as it is explos...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 98 Pages
A young widower moves back to his small hometown to care for his dying uncle and rediscover himself through his dream of being a dancer. The only snag, in a town this small he has no choice but to join classes meant for kids.
Los Angeles, CA
Will Sterling is a queer writer and actor living in New York. His feature directorial debut, the meta comedy "A Cell Phone Movie," is making the festival rounds in 2025. His follow up feature, "That Friend," starring Harvey Guillen, Josh Brener, and Billie Lourd, is in post production.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Adventure
· 107 Pages
Lost, stranded and given up for dead: After a combative meeting, two teens, a female Māori maths whiz and a male seat-of-the-pants sailor from Norway, must learn to work together to survive and make their way to safety.
Friday Harbor, Washington
In addition to his screenwriting projects, Klaus Brauer has published two novels, Tūpuna Rock (2024) and Major Smith’s Box (2001), and authored more than 100 published nonfiction articles.
A former Air Force officer, Brauer is a dedicated student of traditional Polynesian navigation. He holds degrees from the Stanford Creative Writing Program and ...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 28 Pages
A formidable big city doctor risks her career to save her legacy by turning around her cousin’s quirky, backwater Caribbean medical school.
Los Angeles, CA
My brand is underdog adventure.
Former NYC principal and teacher, I dodged a pandemic sized bullet moving to LA in January 2020.
An avid international traveler who studied abroad in Australia, I opened a scuba diving shop in Belize, and co-founded 2 startups.
A dreamer who gets things done, I'm passionate about telling wildly creative a...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Other
· 29 Pages
A struggling comic nursing a newborn, and her husband, an Iraq war veteran suffering from panic disorder, fight to keep their family from falling into homelessness in this dramedy about family, resilience, and modern America.
Los Angeles, CA
Oscar-nominated, filmmaker-actor, former guest host for Larry King.
Cooke has an A-list audience for his docu-essays (over 250M views) and his award-winning comedy series "White Mirror," co-starring wife April Bowlby (Two And a Half Men).
His 5-star rated "American Origin Stories" was a Top 30 Apple Podcast. His sci-fi writing has been develo...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 95 Pages
A liberal mother's beliefs are challenged when she learns her trans-daughter and fiancee are transitioning into the each other's former identities.
Fenton E. Queens is a trans nonbinary writer escaping from the red, theocratic state of Utah. An amateur Beatles historian and child of multiple divorces, they love the messiness of life and use their stories to pull apart complex relationship dynamics. Finding comfort in discomfort, Fenton’s films tackle socially taboo topics, including internalize...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 99 Pages
A disabled man sets his eyes on a regional chess tournament in pursuit of self-worth, but the trans woman he meets along the way might just turn his ambitions from check to mate.
Nipomo, California
Brian Koukol is an award-winning screenwriter, prose writer, and poet. A lifelong battle with muscular dystrophy has informed the majority of the darkly comedic stories he favors, which are written with the aid of voice recognition and eye gaze technology out of physical necessity. And because keyboards are for suckers.
Stationary
Private
Semifinalist
Short
· Drama
· 24 Pages
After 50 years service, Alys has five days left before her Lost Property office is closed. With her boss’ awkward son, Alfie, she must pack a lifetime's worth of forgotten things before the door's locked for the final time. Stuck where things are lost, these two find a connection that will travel beyond the station.
Kathryn Robinson is an emerging screenwriting with a Masters and some solid festival wins.
An insatiable dreamer, she's (likely) knees deep in a mid-life crisis, spending her days writing 'unlikeable' women who break the mold of what we see on screen. Black comedy is her poison but with a side of emotional depth and heart (yum).
When not gl...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Drama
· 14 Pages
After finishing chemotherapy, Èric retreats to a holiday home with his boyfriend Max, where they must navigate new dynamics in their relationship, challenged by Èric's loss of libido—a lingering side effect of his treatment.
London, GB
I am a writer-director working across music videos and short films.
Born in Barcelona, I was fascinated by fantasy and horror films during my childhood and I was a regular audience member at the Sitges Film Festival during my teenage years.
My music video work as a director includes 'Miénteme' (740k views) and 'Me Vienes Así' (300k views) for ...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 60 Pages
In a kleptocratic privatized future, a convicted cop must offer herself as a mail-order bride to infiltrate lucrative alien DNA mining rackets on Mars where women are few, far between, and worth their weight in mold.
S Lake Tahoe, CA
From Sunset Boulevard to Off-Broadway, Brian Murphy has enlightened students, cracked-up audiences and honed his skills in over 10,000 hours of teaching, writing, and performing with the likes of The Groundlings, M.I.C.E., and The L.A. Connection, as well as teaching at CSUN, Chico State, and Lake Tahoe Community College.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 57 Pages
A hapless and stressed-out emergency doctor is dragged into a game of cat and mouse with psychopath assassins determined to kill her mysterious patient.
Melbourne, AU
As a medic by day and writer by night, many of my screenplays have been influenced by my weird and wonderful experiences in healthcare over twenty years.
My screenplays have gone on to claim finalist accolades in over forty competitions including Cinestory, Finish Line, Hollyshorts and Austin Film Festival to name a few.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 25 Pages
An aging and eccentric mogul sets out to prove the existence of time travel by hosting a party one week before he plans to send out long-term, worldwide invitations. Chaos abounds when people begin showing up.
Raleigh, NC
Anderson "Drew" Boyd is an award-winning writer, director, producer, and editor with 20 years of filmmaking experience, from Winter's Bone to his Netflix-released directorial debut, Well Wishes. His screenplay Mescalero badged as the #1 Western on Coverfly's Red List and finished Top 50 in the 2022 Nicholl Fellowship. A PGA and ACE affiliate member,...
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Transference
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 34 Pages
This logline was hidden by the writer.
Los Angeles, CA
Cecilia is an Argentine-American, bilingual screenwriter. The daughter of a psychoanalyst and a law professor, she’s especially interested in stories about modern women reconciling their own desires with societal expectations.
She recently received her Masters in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in LA, where she wrote three feature...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 56 Pages
When forced to confront his buried past, a former Japanese Imperial Army soldier grapples with his guilt and seeks absolution for his war atrocities.
Brooklyn
Kim J.Y. Han is a writer-director that tells stories about the complexities of human nature through an intersectional, anthropological lens. Han was a development executive at NBCUniversal and a creative executive fellow with Film Independent Project Involve, where she produced three short films and won awards at Berlinale and SXSW. Her directorial ...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Thriller
· 14 Pages
A young woman, eager to change her life, becomes increasingly captivated by the onscreen world of a Youtube star.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
Former Canadian diplomat, and apparently a glutton for punishment, who decided that postings in difficult places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Venezuela weren't tough enough, so has embraced the much greater challenge of sitting at his desk and trying to make it as a writer. Completed a Master's in Screenwriting, and previously interned at Voltage...
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Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
Amid the civil unrest of the late 1960s, a determined Filipina doctor with an eidetic memory emigrates from the Philippines and fights for respect while navigating the chaos of an understaffed Detroit hospital.
New York, NY
Veronica Reyes-How is an award winning writer/director/producer. Her project Mother, May I Have a Kidney? that she created, wrote and Executive Produced will have its world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. A Sesame Street Writers Room Fellow, her other projects have been a finalist in the Screencraft Fellowship, the Orchard Project Lab,...
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Quarterfinalist
Short
· Sci-fi
· 9 Pages
A food delivery driver forces her way atop the roof of a stranger's house to prevent him from committing suicide but finds something unexpected.
Los Angeles, CA
David Herman is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His films have been featured in various festivals (Camera Image, London Film Awards, LA Shorts Fest, Ibiza Cine Fest, etc.). In 2010, he won a student BAFTA AWARD for his film, DELAYED. WILL WILSON won the 2017 Emerging Cinematography Award. David directed and executive produced GHOST, a film promo...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 108 Pages
A young man's life begins to unravel after he inadvertently invents a machine with a world-changing ability.
danielkayam@gmail.com
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
A ragtag group of spooky weirdos work at a year-round haunted house that’s struggling — because no one wants to go to a year-round haunted house — so they fight to stay open by hosting events.
Brooklyn, NY
Graduating cum laude in neuroscience from Princeton University might seem like a strange way to start a career as a screenwriter and actor, but it was all part of my master plan. Utilizing my specific knowledge of human behavior, I write dark comedies that explore the nuanced, funny, weird motivations that drive each character.
Goldfish
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 105 Pages
With nothing but music and an existential crisis, a young woman races to rebuild her car, herself and the pieces of her past before her memory laps itself.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 101 Pages
In a story told in reverse, Tony retraces the steps of a chaotic year — confronting past demons and overwhelming emotions — to uncover whether peace can be found in the aftermath of heartbreak, or if some wounds are destined to linger forever.
Long Beach, CA
I am an artist from the South Side of Chicago, specializing in film production. I hold a BA in Film and Africana Studies from Connecticut College and an MFA from Chapman University. My filmmaking journey has taken me around the world, where I have worked in the camera department on a wide range of productions. Beyond traditional film work, I have al...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 52 Pages
A disgraced former policeman is offered a second chance when he is inducted into a secret paranormal investigation department and must overcome the things that go bump in the night in rural England as well as his inept team.
Aspiring writer, current freelance camera operator.
I have been working in the industry since 2009 but the last couple of years I have also been dabbling in a spot of screen writing. My debut TV pilot has currently placed in the Quarter finals of Raindance.
Outside of work I have two beautiful children and enjoy brief moments of silence, kayak...
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St. George's Day
Private
Quarterfinalist
Short
· Comedy
· 9 Pages
A young man groomed by a wannabe nazi faces a tough dilemma
No bio available.
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