ScreenCraft Feature Competition |
This year's Grand Prize Mentors include Oscar-winner David Rabinowitz (BLACKKKLANSMAN), Rose Gilroy (PROJECT ARTEMIS), Hugh Welchman (LOVING VINCENT) and Lauren Hynek & Elizabeth Martin (MULAN).
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Feature  · Drama  · 93 Pages
In New York City, the friendship between two violinists at an elite high school conservatory turns vicious when a life-changing competition is announced.
Los Angeles, CA
Arden Earnest is the recipient of the Slamdance Screenplay Award, a ScreenCraft Grand Prize Winner, and was recently awarded AFI's Writers Room Ready distinction. An alum of the AFI Conservatory and USC School of Cinematic Arts, she is currently in post-production on a short film she wrote and directed, inspired by her award-winning feature script C...
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Feature  · Drama  · 116 Pages
A young single mother struggling to make ends meet embarks on a dangerous road trip to deliver a large illegal shipment with her three-year-old daughter. Tensions boil and treacherous conflicts arise, with her fortitude as a mother tested to the breaking point.
New York, NY
Mira is an Asian & Arab American writer-director from Cleveland, Ohio with a BFA in Film & TV from NYU Tisch. Most recently, her script “Equinox” earned the Grand Prize in ScreenCraft’s 2024 Feature Competition, allowing her to become an endorsed writer on Coverfly. Additionally, when “Equinox” was featured on Deadline Hollywood as a script develo...
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Feature  · Comedy  · 107 Pages
When her long time unrequited love Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy returns to London society with his new bride Lizzie Bennett, wealthy socialite Prudence Priestley decides it's up to her to prove his new wife is not worthy of him. (This is set in Jane Austen universe).
New York, NY
Fran Ervin is an award-winning writer, director and producer whose most notable accolades include winning the 2024 Screencraft Feature Competition's Grand Prize, alumni of the 2024 Stowe September Writer's Retreat, and recipient of a first look deal with Universal Pictures Fran's debut feature film has garnered nearly 2 million views on YouTube ...
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Feature  · Historical  · 115 Pages
In 1978, Vice President Walter Mondale battles political roadblocks and global indifference to save millions of refugees in Southeast Asia. Based on a true story.
Los Angeles, CA
Writer and film obsessive. Immigration & human rights advocate, book nerd, Californian, NYT crossword addict. Hopelessly optimistic.
Finalists
Finalist
Feature  · Drama  · 115 Pages
Former bull-rider Archer Bloom has already lost his family ranch, and he's about to lose his father to illness. Now, to get back at the one percenters who built a casino on their land, Archer cooks up a plan to steal a truckload of the world's most expensive beef.
Los Angeles, CA
Sam has a degree in Neuroscience, has been a summer camp director, and worked for three years as an assistant to a criminal defense attorney in rural Texas. Sam writes science fiction and crime stories, often exploring positive masculinity and what a lack of it does to young men.
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Feature  · Historical  · 120 Pages
On the eve of Hollywood’s most glamorous night, Hattie McDaniel, the acclaimed actress from Gone with the Wind, encounters two Black domestic workers in a bar. This unexpected meeting will alter her path and challenge her understanding of fame, identity, and legacy, just hours before the Academy Awards.
Los Angeles, California
From Helena, Alabama, LaDarrion Williams is a self-taught playwright, filmmaker, author, and screenwriter redefining Black fantasy. His acclaimed plays include "Coco Queens," which premiered at Playhouse on the Square in July 2024, and the Jeff Award-nominated "Boulevard of Bold Dreams," with national productions planned for 2024-2025. LaDarrion h...
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Feature  · Comedy  · 103 Pages
A heartbroken teen reporter teams up with the school’s star baseball player when his Editor-in-Chief (and the star’s big sister) steals away his childhood crush. Their mission: breaking them up.
Los Angeles, CA
Raised in Hialeah by extremely Filipino parents who moved to America with just $50, Eljohn decided to "blow it" and not become a doctor. To make things worse, he's a screenwriter now. He's placed in the Next 100 for 2020's Nicholl Fellowship and many others. He writes grounded & high-concept comedies usually centered around the Asian American identi...
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Feature  · Action  · 86 Pages
After cutting an illegal fishing line, an estranged father and son are chased across the sea by a vengeful ship.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature  · Historical  · 112 Pages
When Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, the biggest movie star in the world, is accused of unspeakable sex crimes, his ambitious young assistant investigates the accusers with the goal of discrediting them - uncovering a far deeper conspiracy hidden beneath the surface of 1920s Hollywood.
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New York, NY
A playwright as well as a screenwriter, Josh writes period pieces and political thrillers, believing strongly in the value of older stories that speak to today's world. He also writes a lot about the art world, allowing him to spend large amounts of time strolling through museums without feeling guilty. A longtime New Yorker and former Angelino, m...
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Feature  · Horror  · 96 Pages
Locked at school at night, a quiet kid escapes from his bullies while also trying to evade the “Confetti Killer” who’s already killed two victims in town.
Paula Gleeson is an award-winning filmmaker, traditionally published author, screenwriting finalist, and nominated non-fiction writer. Her debut thriller novel, ORIGINAL TWIN, is out now and her second thriller, BONEY CREEK, is out June 2025. She lives just outside of Melbourne, Australia and is often found in her pj’s, drinking tea (wine), and wat...
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature  · Historical  · 120 Pages
WWII. While on the run from the Nazis, a young Jewish housewife on a desperate search for her kidnapped child finds herself falling passionately in love for the first time-- with a woman from the Polish resistance. Based on the book by Alex Rosenberg, inspired by true events. Afterglow Pictures and Two Jacks Productions attached; seeking co-produce...
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Mount Vernon, NY
I get hired by film /TV producers to adapt IP or true stories, biopix, history. "Saving Mark Twain", original spec feature script: PAGE Awards Bronze Prize. Now adapting best-selling author Louis Sachar's THE CARDTURNER into a script for Afterglow. Sachar's previous novel, HOLES, was also a hit movie. "The Girl From Krakow" a WWII drama/LGBTQ Roma...
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Feature  · Thriller  · 81 Pages
A troubled man is pushed to his limit when his beloved car is stolen.
Los Angeles, California
John is an award-winning writer/producer/editor who has spent the past decade building a successful career in entertainment marketing, but now finds himself yearning to make something more substantial than a two minute trailer. His half-hour pilot THUMBS DOWN won Top Comedy in the 2024 Launch Pad Pilot Competition, and his crime thriller feature 07 ...
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Feature  · Adventure  · 116 Pages
In 1942, after crash-landing in the Sahara, a wounded RAF pilot joins a blue-veiled Tuareg nomad and a duplicitous bandit on a perilous quest to rescue a girl sold into slavery. Their path through desert myth and wartime greed leads to ambergris — a fortune born of whales — and a confrontation with the monstrous legacy of colonialism.
West Hollywood, CA
• Signed Multi-award-winning (Screen)Writer: 200+ accolades, and fellowships. • Signed Fashion Model & Actor: 600+ fashion works published in 12+ countries. • Ranked All-Time 1st Coverfly (the largest database of script competition placements) • UCLA: Screenwriting & TV Writing (Graduate studies). • 3 Degrees (Film, Business, Law) in 5 countries...
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Feature  · Drama  · 113 Pages
On a routine patrol, Sgt. Frank Turner’s squad enters a village to find the streets littered with bodies. In one of the homes, a slain family is found. The lone survivor is a small Iraqi girl. Amira stands in the middle of the room with a bomb vest strapped to her bruised and bloody body. A long repressed memory of a mistake Frank made ten years e...
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New York, NY
Bob Celli is an award winning actor/writer/director. Bob recently co-starred on CITY ON A HILL, FBI:MOST WANTED, THE BLACKLIST, and was a guest star on GOTHAM. He appeared in The ONION NEWS NETWORK, As The World Turns, and Going Home. Writing and Directing credits include Going Home, Figs For Italo, Brooklyn In July, The Keeper, My Over There, and B...
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Anne with a Van
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Feature  · Comedy  · 108 Pages
A traveling handywoman arrives in a small provincial town, inadvertently sparking a turf war between her and a nefarious group of local contractors.
New York
Paul Taylor is an award-winning writer & director with a penchant for subverting the norm, toying with audience expectations, walking fine lines, sprinting on hot coals, and pushing boundaries. His feature length screenplay "Anne with a Van" is currently a 2024 ScreenCraft Feature Competition Semifinalist and a 2024 Big Break Quarterfinalist. ...
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Feature  · Comedy  · 97 Pages
A woman who's gone on an endless series of bad dates finds out it was part of a spy testing program, and that she’s passed. She joins a super secret agency, and must protect the world against an oncoming space alien invasion.
New York, NY
Navid is a screenwriter and native New Yorker, even if some claim that Queens doesn’t count (it totally counts). He is a two-time Finalist in the Launch Pad Pilot Competition for his works, PASTOR KAMAL and NICE BRIEFS. His writing has also been recognized by the PAGE Awards and ScreenCraft. Navid’s work often engages with his Iranian-American and L...
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Feature  · Thriller  · 106 Pages
What can turn The Girl Next Door into a terrifying Femme Fatale? A bank manager receives mysterious deposits and exploits her job to launder millions while outmaneuvering the FBI and her mysterious benefactor.
Los Angeles, CA
A career as a producer in reality television has fire-baptized Edward Klau into incorporating network notes while writing economically on a deadline. His specialty is infusing elegant high-concept clockwork thrillers and grounded sci-fi with relatable three-dimensional characters. He's been around the industry and plays very nicely with others.
Semifinalist
Feature  · Drama  · 91 Pages
A teen runaway joins a touring death metal band, only to be trapped in a twisted relationship with the sadistic lead singer, who demands increasingly violent acts for a chance to play in the band.
Los Angeles, CA
Taylor Tejada is a Latine surfer and metalhead turned teacher. Raised on spooky Peruvian and Quechua folklore stories, Taylor witnessed his father's imprisonment and realized that the past is a monster no one can outrun. Now, Taylor writes horror and drama scripts about characters forced to confront their pasts by making the biggest mistake of their...
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Feature  · Horror  · 91 Pages
Vera's joined a startup to get rich. A staff retreat tests what she's willing to do and who she's willing to become in order to obtain wealth.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature  · Drama  · 105 Pages
A family fights for survival by offering daily sacrifices to zombies to safeguard their home – the catch is, the meal is one of their own, racing against time to outsmart both the undead and themselves.
Burbank, CA
Shreyas Ayaluri is an award-winning screenwriter and creative producer based in Los Angeles, with over 30 screenplay awards. His work has earned recognition in top competitions like Final Draft’s Big Break, The Austin Film Festival, Screencraft, Outstanding Screenplays, and WeScreenplay, consistently ranking in the top 3% of unproduced scripts on C...
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Chessboard Rumble
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Feature  · Drama  · 114 Pages
Mired in an existential crisis, a lifelong donkeywork hireling and chess maestro must brave unfamiliar ground. He enters a high-stakes Chess Boxing tournament, driven by the urgent need to win $10,000. His mission: to save his father, battling dementia, from being ousted from his sole refuge—the retirement home.
  • Verified WGA Member
Glendale, CA
Pil's passion for science and humor made sci-fi and comedies a natural fit. He made his feature film debut with "Arizona Seaside," which is currently available on multiple platforms. Pil's screenplay, "The Reconcilers," was published as a graphic novel, and he recently co-wrote a high-concept thriller for a European company. When not writing, Pil f...
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Feature  · Comedy  · 100 Pages
A small-town movie theater manager with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and dreams of making movies falls in love with an easygoing old friend and must decide whether to get help for her illness or let her dreams fall by the wayside.
Los Angeles, California
Jordan Wold is a writer originally from North Dakota who tells funny, sad, and weird stories about people who don't fit in. The tale of a small town movie theater manager with OCD and that time Tippi Hedren and her husband got attacked by lions for a decade are just a couple of his recent features he's developed.
Semifinalist
Feature  · Drama  · 116 Pages
Lost and without her memories intact, an extraordinary twelve-year old African girl leads two itinerant, working-class Brooklyn natives on a journey of discovery by boat, from Coney Island to Block Island.
Huntington Station, NY
Philip Weisman, independent filmmaker, professional film editor and teacher was born and raised within the New York City metropolitan area. He has produced and directed his own series of short films and videos and has worked as a post-production professional on numerous films including Edward Burn’s "She’s the One", Jim Sheridan’s "The Boxer" and ...
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Feature  · Horror  · 110 Pages
In a small suburban town, every high school graduate gets handed a diploma, and a government mandated firearm. Sam, a graduating senior who lost her sister years earlier, attempts to uncover the town's secrets and expose the 'gun law' during their dreaded senior weekend.
New York, New York
Nick Shanman is a writer/director who splits his time between New York City and LA. He is the creator and head writer of I Mostly Blame Myself, an Off-Broadway sketch comedy show with over 1M followers and 500M views online in the past year. IMBM is performing at the Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh this August at The Fringe, and then is back in NYC to f...
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Feature  · Drama  · 113 Pages
A fearsome teenage girl living in the hostile jungles of Vietnam refuses to let her dreams be derailed by the devastating war. Inspired by a true story.
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.
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Feature  · Thriller  · 99 Pages
In a post-pandemic dystopia, Virginia's life has always been defined by her ability to keep her family safe. When her brother is kidnapped, Virginia must rescue him while also confronting her history of violence, and her relationship with the past.
Los Angeles, California
I'm an emerging screenwriter living in Los Angeles. I am focused on telling character-driven stories that add to their genres by remixing or retelling pre-existing tropes. I don't confine myself to one genre or one style. I consider myself to be a versatile writer.
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Feature  · Other  · 97 Pages
A serial dater thinks he can handle anyone’s quirks, until he starts dating a man whose only flaw is that for one hour every night he turns into a giant snake.
Los Angeles, CA
Zach Siegel is an award-winning gay writer, director, and editor. He’s directed shorts that played at film festivals internationally, live plays that have run for multiple years, and edited on many movies, documentaries, and music videos. His poetry book While I Shit Out Your Cum & Other Gay Poems is available at select bookstores. He's also a proud...
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Feature  · Drama  · 95 Pages
A suburban neighborhood decends into paranoia when a child goes missing and a registered sex offender moves in.
San Diego, CA
An aspiring writer from California with a mixed background and perspective.
Good Mother, Lavender Vine
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Feature  · Drama  · 129 Pages
How did a lifetime of love die with a single bullet? White farm owner, Margaret Denney, is haunted by nostalgic memories of her African American upbringing during the civil rights movement in 1968 Memphis, TN. Murders of sanitation workers and MLKJR. Hope promised by the Poor People's Campaign. How can a chance meeting in present day, repair decades...
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Woodinville, WA
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature  · Western  · 105 Pages
A disillusioned Chinese railroad worker must learn to survive with a different moral code after a murder forces him into the middle of a violent struggle between roving bandits and an obsessive bounty hunter.
San Diego, CA
Conor King Devitt’s scripts focus on anarchy and the frontier. He draws from experience working as a journalist in the Caribbean, where he reported extensively on the chaos that emerges in the wake of giant natural disasters. Devitt’s Western feature, Graves of Lesser Men, ranked among the top 50 scripts in the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships. In 2021, he ...
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Feature  · Adventure  · 102 Pages
Grover, a trepidatious young Korean-American boy obsessed with Lewis and Clark, enters a competition retracing their historic expedition in the hopes that the prize money will save his dying father. Like THE AMAZING RACE meets JOJO RABBIT, this darkly humorous action-adventure explores the complexities of life, loss, and growing up. With mature lang...
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Los Angeles, California
Jessica Margaret Trott is a writer, director, and producer whose storytelling seamlessly blends her Korean heritage with her Southern upbringing. Born and raised in Texas, Jessica attended the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with honors in Film & Television.
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Feature  · Comedy  · 102 Pages
When an obsessed royalist gets a job as a cleaner at Buckingham Palace, she soon discovers that the prince of her dreams is an arrogant toad and turns palace insider, selling stories to the press.
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Lyndal Simpson is an Australian screenwriter of highly atmospheric drama/thriller/horror features and TV pilots. Lyndal's scripts THE FARRELL GIRL , THE GRAVEDIGGER, and SUN WOMAN, MOON MAN are all currently under option. Lyndal's writing explores the human experience, with a focus on outcasts, underdogs, and those shadowy figures who often sl...
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Feature  · Drama  · 114 Pages
In the aftermath of a freak accident, a nomadic tower climber is forced to repair the connections he needs most -- With his family.
Philadelohia, PA
Tisha Robinson-Daly is based in Philadelphia. She is a SAGindie honoree, a Sundance Institute and Knight Foundation Fellow, a recipient of two Sundance/Knight Production and Development grants, the recipient of a Stowe Story Labs scholarship, and fellow of the inaugural Stowe Launch Advanced Development Program. A telecom worker herself, Tisha is al...
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Feature  · Historical  · 111 Pages
1945. Hitler's henchmen stand trial for war crimes. Can a US Army chaplain break their arrogance and denial - or will they break him?
Storrington, West Sussex, GB
Andrew is a British journalist and broadcaster who’s written for The Guardian, Observer, and Sunday Telegraph. He has had more than a dozen non-fiction books published by HarperCollins, Heinemann and others. He’s currently putting the finishing touches to his first novel and screenplay, Hitler’s Choirboys. This is based on the true story of a US Arm...
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Feature  · Drama  · 120 Pages
After the death of his aunt, a troubled man leaves his exile to go back to Mumbai, India, to begrudgingly reconnect with his estranged family and the life that he once believed to have left behind.
Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN
Anuraag Asiwal is an aspiring writer/director based in Mumbai, India. He spent most of his life reading, writing, and daydreaming about greener pastures before commencing Law School, and getting his Bachelor’s in Law. Now? He writes screenplays and short stories in the hopes of attending film school and finally making the kind of films and televisio...
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Feature  · Thriller  · 108 Pages
The pastoral town of Glenside is turned upside down when the appearance of a lost new mother and her baby coincides with a string of mysterious, brutal deaths.
Los Angeles, CA
Kylie Eaton is a director and writer with a passion for telling grounded stories about women’s lives through the lens of genre film. She is an alum of WeScreenplays Diverse Voices Lab, Blackmagic Collective’s Feature Initiatives, and Alliance of Women Directors Directing the Actor Lab. Her short films have screened at Oscar-Qualifying festivals ...
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Feature  · Drama  · 85 Pages
A wealthy yet lonely and reclusive art dealer has long been mesmerized by a flashing red light which appears nightly on the other side of the city from his high-rise penthouse, so after he befriends a young woman who often delivers his food they set out on a trek across town to investigate.
Cincinnati, Ohio
In love with film, photography, and telling a good story.
Semifinalist
Feature  · Action  · 114 Pages
A young Filipino-American girl enters a martial arts competition in order to defeat her estranged father and take his championship title.
San Bernardino, California
Nick Duke is a writer specializing in unique, dramatic stories with memorable characters. Nick spent his post college years as a video-on-demand trailer editor for films like MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 5 and TERMINATOR GENYSIS. Since returning to his first love of writing, Nick has become a finalist in the Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship and a Cinestor...
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Living Together
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Feature  · Thriller  · 103 Pages
When two writers seclude themselves to pen a new screenplay, the line between their work and reality begins to blur.
Nashville, Tennessee
Screenwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. BFA graduate of Watkins College of Art, and MFA graduate of Lispcomb University. Writer/Director of two feature films: Quit While We're Behind (2018), and Take the Flesh From My Bones (2022).
Semifinalist
Feature  · Thriller  · 89 Pages
A long-haul trucker’s cross-country trip is derailed when he’s drawn into the world of a mysterious diner waitress and her family’s chain of rest stops from which he inexplicably can’t escape.
Los Angeles, California
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature  · Horror  · 114 Pages
In 19th century Austria, an unfulfilled musical virtuoso becomes enamored with a free-spirited aristocratic lady, only to find himself drawn into an escapade of deviance and murder.
Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, MY
Growing up on a steady diet of Goosebumps and Asian ghost tales featuring long-haired ghouls, Ian Wee is a Malaysian writer with a knack for drama, sci-fi, and all things freakishly terrifying. Hailing from a country few Westerners have heard of, he aspires to infuse his local brand of Asian flavor into Hollywood feature filmmaking, particularly in ...
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Feature  · Thriller  · 110 Pages
A self-hating pedophile is torn between his own desires, a new relationship with an elementary school teacher, and his growing involvement in a vigilante child protection cult.
Los Angeles, CA
I studied improv and comedy in Chicago for 4 years. After realizing all the successful comedians I knew were burgeoning alcoholics, I moved to Los Angeles to write horror movies and dramas.
Semifinalist
Feature  · Adventure  · 115 Pages
1962 Polynesia. After shipwrecking on a reef in the vast Pacific, a group of mismatched Tongan sailors must resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
Los Angeles, California
Christian’s a screenwriter from the humid and sunny beaches of Sydney. Now based in bone-dry, but equally sunny Los Angeles, he's just completed his MFA Degree from Chapman University and has very chapped lips. He's interested in telling stories with complex antiheroes, stemming from his roots in Australia and Polynesia.
Semifinalist
Feature  · Drama  · 101 Pages
Two young Amish men are shunned when discovered showing affection for one another; forced out from their safe Amish community, they now enter the unknown world of “the English.”
Honolulu, Hawaii
Marc Moody is a twice Nichol Fellowship semi-finalist with his screenplay “Union” (Formely titled Land of Lincoln) which also was semi-finalist at the Austin Film Festival. He is a quarterfinalist at Nicholl Fellowship with his screenplay, "Ordung." His screenplay "Victor, the Wild Child of Aveyron – The Musical!" was a finalist at the Richmond Int...
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Feature  · Other  · 108 Pages
A young woman sets out to convince her church elder board to fire their sexually abusive Pastor.
Paul is a writer/director whose short films have played at film festivals around the country. After earning his MFA in Film Production from Chapman University in 2017, he worked at NBCUniversal for four years in Entertainment Labor Relations. Paul is an adjunct film professor and the founder of Irreplaceable Media, which creates video content for sm...
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Feature  · Horror  · 103 Pages
After the spirit of a vengeful sorority girl is unleashed, the sisters of Pi Kappa Pi must protect one another from her ghostly carnage before they all Pi Kappa Die!
Los Angeles, CA
​Ashton Avila (she/her) is a queer Mexican American writer-director who grew up in Los Angeles. She received a BA in Film Media and Gender & Women’s Studies from the University of Rhode Island and her MFA in Directing at Chapman University. Ashton has been mentored by filmmakers David O. Russell, Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, Martha Coolidge, David S....
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Feature  · Action  · 117 Pages
Years after an accident devastated his family, the son of two legendary race car drivers joins the deadly, dystopian racing circuit known as "BASH" and quickly finds himself up against a sinister corporation with designs on world domination.
Los Angeles, CA
When you're the bastard love-child of a southern beauty queen and washed-up soap actor, you've got it all: romance, drama, mystery. Action follows... C.J. writes about families who must transform themselves in order to transform the world. His happy place: tending his ever-growing garden with his wife and son.
Revengia
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Feature  · Thriller  · 98 Pages
When an aging Italian contractor begins getting mysteriously taunting texts, he suspects his girlfriend is cheating on him. Once he confirms his suspicion, his anger gives way to seeking revenge.
Los Angeles, CA
Gianfranco was born in Queens, to a southern-Italian father and Bronx-Italian mother. To manifest his parents’ never-realized American Dream, G “did finance” until he realized screenwriting was (and would always stay) his calling. He wrote melodramas and four quadrant comedies–always exploring the messy joy in humanity–then shifted to TV, a medium b...
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Feature  · Horror  · 100 Pages
On Halloween night, an isolated video editor/streamer is hired to cut together a horror movie made by a masked killer, only to discover that the cinematic "scenes" are real.
Glendale, California
Mitchell Vincent Slan is an award-winning writer/director from Austin, TX, with an undying love for Halloween.
Semifinalist
Feature  · Comedy  · 106 Pages
Per her dying mother's request, Mennonite girl Sarah goes to New York City to bring her uncle – a gay fashion designer – back home. Her mission fades into the background, however, when she becomes a model and finds herself in the middle of New York Fashion Week.
Los Angeles, CA
Before I knew what a screenwriter was, I knew that whatever I chose to do with my life, I wanted to make people laugh the way I did when watching movies like “Mean Girls” and series like “30 Rock”. A soon-to-be graduate of USC’s Writing for Screen and Television major, I can now say with confidence that I want to make people laugh by writing female...
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