ScreenCraft Virtual Pitch |
Spring 2025
Take advantage of a unique opportunity to pitch directly to an A-list jury of industry insiders online. Open to writers worldwide!
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Winners
Chasing Fate - Virtual Pitch
Private
Winner
Pitch
· Thriller
· 1 Pages
After a traumatic kidnapping ten years prior, 32-year-old Charlie is still struggling to process it - his life spiraling downward. When a chance encounter with his abductor puts their lives on a new collision course, Charlie thinks he can write a decades old wrong - only to find out the person he’s truly chasing is himself.
Charlie Eder
No bio available.
Out on a Limb Pitch
Private
Winner
Pitch
· Comedy
· 1 Pages
After losing her arm in an accident, twenty-something Jenni attempts to rebuild her life with the help of her quirky friends and family.
No bio available.
The Tragedy of Fred Carrasco
Private
Winner
Pitch
· Historical
· 1 Pages
No logline available.
Austin, Texas
Howdy y'all, I'm a writer/director and I co-own an award winning creative production house in Austin, Texas.
American painter, Georgia O' Keefe, said of Texas, "I couldn't believe Texas was real... the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are."
Beneath Texas plains, rocks, and dust lie tales of singular people awai...
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Finalists
"Woman (Un)Scorned" Pitch
Private
Finalist
Pitch
· Comedy
· 4 Pages
A tough-as-nails American folk-hero has to babysit a selfish Greek goddess as they go back in time to rewrite classic (and public domain) stories from history so the woman comes out on top.
New Rochelle, NY
I graduated Loyola Marymount University in 2020 and now I'm on a mission to make the world laugh! I have written five sitcom pilots and sold one comedy feature which I cowrote. The theme that shines through in all my scripts is female empowerment and my scripts each feature relatable but unique women facing impossible challenges but using their inne...
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Pen Pals
Private
Finalist
Pitch
· Comedy
· 1 Pages
When Dan, a down-on-his-luck Investment Banking Analyst, reconnects with his elderly former pen pal Edith, he decides to follow the advice she's given in her letters and get his life together - until he begins to question why she’s actually shown back up and if she’s really who she says she is.
Los Angeles, CA
Max Kliman is a writer/producer who works as a Ratings Researcher at Jimmy Kimmel Live. At Kimmel, he works with to strategize ideal guests, bits, segments, and formats based on data from Jimmy Kimmel Live and other late night programs.
Outside of work, he is a writer for the multiple sketch groups and a producer on the short “Everybody Wins.” H...
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Finalist
Pitch
· Drama
· 1 Pages
An adaptation of the life of Olivier Messiaen, a composer who premiered one of the 20th century's greatest Quartets in the midst of a Nazi concentration camp.
Hi, I’m Brett Wolfe, a screenwriter and former award-winning playwright now pursuing an MFA in Screenwriting at USC. My work has been recognized and awarded by the Kennedy Center, Broadway World, and the National Playwriting Program, with critics comparing my style to a “lyrical dance of bodies and words” à la Beckett. I write film and television st...
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REMOVAL
Private
Finalist
Pitch
· Other
· 1 Pages
A blue collar Massachusetts WOMAN's life crumbles when her pregnant teenaged DAUGHTER, cheating husband's MISTRESS and an imminent threat to her family's WAX SALON all converge on her life in the same week. With nothing to lose, she enlists her CATHOLIC PRIEST brother to help her fight dirty in order to keep her business from being destroyed and get...
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Nashville, TN
Kelly Bandas is a screenwriter based in Nashville, TN. She is a graduate of UCB sketch writing and has nearly 200K followers on social media. Her debut collection of essays "Rookie Mistakes" (Thomas Nelson) is available everywhere now.
Finalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 101 Pages
In a near-future where criminals can serve their sentences by aging their bodies, a 53-year-old man chooses to age 24 years for a deadly hit and run that took out a man’s wife and daughter. He must protect his family from the vengeful man with his now frail body.
Burbank, CA
Stan Evans is an Emmy award-winning writer/producer whose had screenplays optioned, sold and placed highly in all the contests you know about. Now he'd like to see one produced! His favorite genres are sci-fi, comedy and horror. He also helped create several reality shows you'd be proud to say you've never seen. Don't hold it against him.
Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Drama
· 1 Pages
In 1980's Britain, Elizabeth, an Oxford Graduate with OCD must infiltrate the women's Peace Camp at Greenham Common Nuclear Airbase. Her assignment is to establish if there are nefarious agencies at work designed to undermine the deployment of Cruise missiles. Coping with police brutality in addition to surviving the filth, grime and chaos of a pe...
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Amsterdam, Noord Holland, NL
Passionate about story telling and the juxtaposition of roles, my stories show classic character arcs albeit in unlikely scenarios. As a visual artist I write how I'd see it on screen. I love the process of writing and the idea of seeing my scenes replayed on screen!
CARMINH
Private
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Drama
· 1 Pages
CARMINH « The track is owned by the bold »
Baixas, Pyrénées Orientales, FR
No bio available.
Code of Silence
Private
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Thriller
· 1 Pages
A detective must team up with an investigative reporter to solve the murder of Simon Constantine, a crypto-billionaire poised to unmask Satoshi Nakamoto - Bitcoin’s mysterious creator.
No bio available.
Diasporado: A Lineage Journey
Private
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Adventure
· 2 Pages
Logline: Americans estranged from their ancestral roots get the opportunity of a lifetime to reconnect with the countries of their parents. Diasporado is a groundbreaking reality TV series that takes diverse groups of people—who share a direct ancestral connection to a country through an immigrant parent—on a beautifully curated trip to explore the ...
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No bio available.
Echoes of Tomorrow
Private
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Sci-fi
· 1 Pages
In a future where memories can be bought and sold, a grieving widower discovers a conspiracy to control humanity by rewriting its past, and must team up with a rogue memory hacker to save his deceased wife's legacy—and humanity's future.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Drama
· 1 Pages
Set during Fascist Italy, Il Fu Italo Matteucci follows the inner journey of a privileged young man who dares to stand against the very regime that raised him. Torn between loyalty and conscience, Italo risks everything—including his relationship with his powerful father—to fight for a freedom he’s only just beginning to understand.
At the moment I...
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Rimini, RN, IT
My name is Lorenzo Viali, I’m 22 years old and I live in Rimini, Italy.
I’m a passionate storyteller and aspiring actor. I write novels, screenplays, and original manga series.
Insight Hell on Earth
Private
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Historical
· 1 Pages
No logline available.
Montebello, CA
I started working in the Entertainment industry as a teenager. Attended Loyola Marymount University as a communications major. Started out producing student productions . Learned how to light scenes and operate the Camera. wrote my first screenplay at age 20. Got interested in Acting, landed a couple of bit parts on two Francis Coppola films. Start...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 115 Pages
Trapped in a violent marriage to a ruthless Santa Claus, a determined woman must risk everything to end his deadly reign of terror before his winter journey begins.
Jeff Barker is a screenwriter. He hosts the weekly podcast: The Screenplay Lab.
Jeff is the GRAND PRIZE Winner of FADE IN's 2025 Screenwriting Competition.
His screenplays have been honored at numerous other film festivals and writing contests, including the Austin Film Festival, Stage 32, FILMMATIC, The Red List, Los Angeles International, N...
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Semifinalist
Pitch
· Comedy
· 1 Pages
A 20-something with no job or prospects answers an online ad for a “no experience necessary zookeeper.” At the failing exotic animal rescue “Real Wild!”She's thrown into the world of animal education alongside a pack of chaotic and underqualified staff.
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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Still Bound
Private
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Drama
· 1 Pages
When a 25-year-old half Pakistani, half American girl shows up to a real estate firm in Virginia and tells its white and wealthy CEO that she’s her long-lost daughter and now needs her money, the CEO contemplates whether she should financially help her and open a pandora’s box to her white conservative husband and two sons, or not help her and risk ...
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Canadian-Pakistani standup comedian and screenwriter with a penchant for family dramas, sci-fi features and stories about people with chronic conditions; i.e chronic pain.
The Final Act
Private
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Action
· 1 Pages
A glamorous drag queen living a double life as a hitman must defy his ruthless family when he falls for his next target, sparking a deadly battle for freedom and redemption.
No bio available.
The Scars I Bear
Private
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Horror
· 1 Pages
In a matter of life and death, the knowledge and faith of a single mother and an atheist psychiatrist are challenged to save a child diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder(DID).
Alloura Malizio
No bio available.
ThinkHeal
Private
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Sci-fi
· 1 Pages
After his wife's sudden death despite a promising recovery from an illness, a cop uses his chronic pain to join the treatment center she had been attending to get some answers, only to realise their methods are far from conventional.
Canadian-Pakistani standup comedian and screenwriter with a penchant for family dramas, sci-fi features and stories about people with chronic conditions; i.e chronic pain.
Semifinalist
Series Bible
· Historical
· 14 Pages
Based on the true story of a Scots-Irish immigrant family and the under-told tragedy of the Shawnee, This Land spans five decades in colonial Virginia, exploring the bloody collision of cultures as white land speculators, traders, settlers and politicians wrest control of the Ohio River Valley from the Indigenous people who call this region home. "...
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Bear Valley Springs, CA
Tim Bennett has a background in sketch comedy, improvisation and theatrical shock rock. He wrote the indie feature Temps, the #1 romantic comedy on iTunes in April 2016. Of late, his magical realism rom-com feature script Let's Be Happy has been placing in competitions, including as a Script Summit and Creative World Awards finalist. He has stood do...
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Semifinalist
Pitch
· Historical
· 1 Pages
Taking place during the Basque Witch Craze of 1609, reports of a witch coven located in a predominantly female isolated town has caused the Spanish authorities to send two lead Inquisitors to dispel the facts from myth.
Long Beach, CA
Joseph Newman is a versatile writer that draws inspiration from everyday occurrences and has a passion for crafting stories that challenge our view of the world.
Recently his interest has been for writing historical fictions that have allowed him to explore complex topics of the past while crafting rich narratives that resonate with modern audien...
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Semifinalist
Pitch
· Horror
· 1 Pages
Historical footage of a weight-loss infomercial that goes horribly wrong.
Burlington, North Carolina
Scott Snair is a writer in Burlington, North Carolina. His books have been published in 10 languages throughout the world by publishers including Penguin Random House, McGraw Hill, and Adventures Unlimited Press. Scott's feature film scripts have received laurels at the Richmond International Film Festival and the GenreBlast Film Festival, and with ...
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WTAF
Private
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Comedy
· 1 Pages
Imagine the characters from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia got dropped into Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom, then that newsroom got dropped into northeast Florida.
WTAF follows the foibles of a team of journalists and jerks trying to bring important, impactful journalism to Tallahassee, Florida.
Stephanie Levy is a writer, standup comic and (if you're lucky) burlesque performer based in Washington, DC. An alumna of Lincoln Lodge's FemCom and writer's programs at Second City Chicago, she has written award-winning TV and film pitches. She writes, produces and acts with Warrior Princess 10000, a DC-based collective of badass women comics maki...
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