Script Pipeline discovers new screenwriters for industry and helps long-term with development, mentorship, and industry circulation.
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Winners
The Motherfuckin' Ruckus
Winner
Feature
No logline available.
Visitation
Private
Winner
Feature
· Horror
· 111 Pages
At an isolated, castle convent for pregnant girls, a murderously obsessed nun—desperate for the Blessed Virgin Mother to appear to her—becomes convinced that an innocent, young newcomer has conceived without sin.
No bio available.
Finalists
America Online
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 89 Pages
A lonely teen influencer with 500,000 Instagram followers is uploaded into the Internet by her picture-perfect social media persona, who plots to trap her on the web and steal her identity in the real world.
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 96 Pages
When a young and contemptuous huntswoman in the Ozarks falls for a free-thinking Sikh girl, she must set against her white supremacist, PTSD-stricken father to start a new life in San Francisco.
Los Angeles, California
Milena Korolczuk grew up in Poland’s most impoverished rural region under the last years of Communism which inevitably made her want to write stories that deal with social justice. She loves writing intimate, character-driven dramas, occasionally humorous dramas. Her feature screenplay, "Animal" was a finalist in the 2019 Script Pipeline competitio...
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Finalist
Feature
· Fantasy
· 112 Pages
When a past-his-prime knight is asked by his estranged daughter to find a fabled sword, his quest leads him to his two worst enemies: the evil woman who nearly killed him and his own ego.
Los Angeles, CA
I've gone from playing loud rock music in NYC to making movies in LA.
Wrote, directed, and produced the 18x winning horror feature, SHERYL. Dread Central called it a "stylish examination of gender dynamics in today’s image-obsessed society."
Nicholl QF.
Writer for the VR game, THE LIVING REMAIN, called “the BEST VR campaign since Resident...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 102 Pages
A grieving inventor creates an innovative virtual reality technology in the hopes of reuniting with his deceased four year old daughter.
Glendale, Arizona
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 104 Pages
In the wake of a murdered prominent attorney, the widow and her naive assistant give conflicting versions of the "truth" surrounding the crime. As the detective assigned to the case uncovers the widow's long history of forgery and stolen identities, revelations of greed, sadomasochistic lesbianism, and horse tranquilizer unfold. Based on true events...
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Glendale, CA
I come from a family of storytellers, and I learned early on that it is about turning the ordinary into something extraordinary that makes for a good tale. After graduating with a degree in Drama from the University of Georgia, I moved to LA to pursue screenwriting. So far my scripts have been a finalist in ScriptPipeline, First Look Project, and Sc...
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Song of Myself
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Fantasy
· 114 Pages
This logline was hidden by the writer.
West Hollywood, CA
Warner James Wood was raised in the Appalachian Mountains before receiving his undergraduate degree in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University. After, he took an MFA in poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, worked on Wall Street as a structured derivatives trader, and finally moved to Los Angeles to complete a graduate screenwritin...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 111 Pages
Years after a free-spirited young woman leaves a lovestruck cowboy in Montana, she returns, now broke and broken, to find that her inherited ranch is sought by a mining conglomerate and that the fate of her ex’s town rests in her hands.
Santa Barbara, CA
Debbie's a mother, wife, daughter, sister--but when she's not, she's a broken-down mailman, a teenage pianist, a loud-mouthed plumber, a lovelorn cowboy, or a philosophy student with wanderlust. She writes grounded features focused on characters and relationships, and loves exploring this complicated world on the page with thematically-driven stor...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 117 Pages
Set in Nebraska in 1998, a high school rodeo prodigy secretly visits a holistic healer in hopes of repairing her injured shoulder before the national finals, but amid her father's burgeoning psychosis and her parents' looming divorce, she finds herself in need of healing beyond the physical.
Kearney, Nebraska
Darcy is a graduate of the Johnny Carson School of Film and Television at the University of Nebraska and the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA.
When not at her writing desk, she is the steward of a Little Free Library, a contributor to various group chats, and a mother of two.
Darcy resides in Kearney, Nebraska with her husban...
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 105 Pages
An ambitious barrister jeopardizes his career and morals as he battles to discern fact from fiction in order to prosecute a group of shipwrecked sailors accused of cannibalism in the trial that would forever change the laws of maritime crime. Inspired by true events.
Flowery Branch, GA
Amanda is a screenwriter and professor who focuses on morally-conflicted protagonists whose internal struggles prove nearly as insurmountable as the external forces they face. She's passionate about period pieces and literary adaptations. Amanda received her MFA in Writing for the Screen from Loyola Marymount University and is a member of the Produc...
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A Season to Laugh
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 107 Pages
A disenchanted small town priest begins to find creative inspiration after writing his parish's sins into sitcoms. His life and career become more complicated when a large Hollywood studio shows interest in his work.
Gavin Fields
No bio available.
After A Fifty-One Fifty
Semifinalist
Feature
No logline available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 101 Pages
"A desperate mission to colonize Mars goes horribly wrong after a freak accident involving freakish mutants leaves only two sole survivors: a pair of moronic reality show contestants who are going through the world's worst break-up."
Perth, WA, AU
AWGIE nominated writer known for his short film: “Perished” (2012 SXSW - 11.1M views online), and viral web shorts: “It’s a Snap!” (3.8M views), “Set Yourself Free” (20.2M views) & new webseries “Hug the Sun”.
Aaron also co-wrote and co-directed two feature films: “Top Knot Detective” (2017) & "KOKO: A Red Dog Story" (2019) & has written for the 2n...
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Bitterroot
Semifinalist
Feature
No logline available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 92 Pages
When his estranged, meth-addict brother is held for ransom because of a drug debt, a reclusive fly-fishing guide in Montana sets out on a violent journey to bring him home.
Los Angeles, CA
jwmckillop94@gmail.com
CEMETERY GIRL
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 110 Pages
While trysting in a cemetery, a self-destructive 21-year-old dropout and her pick-up encounter a vengeful ghost. When he ends up dead, the woman joins forces with a crime-obsessed teen boy to clear her name and prove that the “Cemetery Girl” was the true killer.
Jeff York
No bio available.
Choose Your Own Love Story
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 96 Pages
An on-again/off-again couple is about to call things off for good – until an enigmatic narrator leads a back and forth tour through their past to figure out if they should finally break up or choose their own love story.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 126 Pages
When the livelihood of her family is threatened by a Detroit real estate entrepreneur, a stumbling art student finds herself in the most unlikely industry for a woman of color to make a name for herself -- the world of craft beer.
No bio available.
Deadhead
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 101 Pages
Stanley is under house arrest at his remote lakeside cabin. But when old friends from the Grateful Dead days visit, they soon suspect Stanley isn’t telling the truth about his criminal past, his estranged wife or his role in her mysterious disappearance.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 116 Pages
A film school dropout with a talent for producing AI-generated “deepfake” videos is caught in a global conspiracy when he receives a disturbing commission from a mysterious online stranger.
New York, NY
Alex's thriller feature DEEPFAKE was the overall winner of the 2019 Tracking Board Launch Pad. He's a 2-time AFF semi-finalist. He attended the Odyssey Workshop (2020) and Clarion West (2021), the premier workshops for speculative fiction. Before turning to writing, Alex worked in tech, helping to launch well-known companies like Twitter. He's co-pr...
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Disabused
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 106 Pages
A psychologist specialised in false memory discredits a victim's testimony in court, and becomes the target of a vendetta designed to destroy her faith in her own memories.
London, London, GB
Recently one of 12 participants in The Writers Lab by NYWIFT, Charlotte is fascinated by complex female characters and heroes who bring traditionally 'feminine' qualities to the fight, creating new takes on genre setups.
Her scripts have been recognized by the PAGE Awards, Austin Film Festival, Zoetrope, and Shore Scripts, in which she was a wi...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 91 Pages
A city couple’s retreat to a remote, uninhabited forest is hijacked by a charismatic ex-con and an alien object that crash-lands nearby that same night.
London, London, GB
Nicola is an English-Australian film maker living in London. She wrote, directed and produced TREASURE for the BBC. She is in a co-pro with StoryFirst for her TV series COMBUSTIONE. She has been commissioned to write THE DAM with Lord Michael Dobbs (House Of cards). Her script DISC has been top 10 on The Red List. She is a script consultant, on the ...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 99 Pages
Jane, a Communication Sciences & Disorders (CSD) student, struggles to come to terms with being date raped after failing her final college class.
Los Angeles, California
Anna hails from the Michigan mitten and is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, and TV development consultant. She was selected as one of the Austin Film Festival's 25 Screenwriters to Watch 2024. She has a passion for heartwarming and heartbreaking coming of age stories.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 108 Pages
In a send-up of revenge action movies, Ellen Flood is the story of one action hero’s girlfriend who dares to survive an incredibly un-woke attempt on her life. Unsure of her super-spy boyfriend’s fate, Ellen must embark on a mission to stop a moderately-international political assassination and discover the true motivation behind her would-be killer...
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Los Angeles, CA
Ever since high school, Kevin Burke would drag his friends to midnight showings of movies and adamantly call them premieres. Now, basically like a real adult, Kevin splits his time between writing, and producing several unscripted series. Kevin’s favorite things are baking, dogs, and, always and forever, going to the movies.
Figment
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 101 Pages
A recently windowed mother must help her troubled teenage son, who claims to be at the mercy of a sinister voice inside his head.
Los Angeles, CA
Kelly Luu is a Vietnamese American writer based in Los Angeles. Inspired by his parents' harrowing journey to America, as well as his upbringing in an underserved, predominantly non-Asian community, Kelly is drawn to stories about identity and overcoming trauma in extraordinary ways. He graduated from USC’s MFA film program and is repped by Redefine...
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Finding Yesterday
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 123 Pages
Having lived in denial about her father’s murder, an estranged sister returns home and comes face to face with the sister she’d abandoned, the girlfriend she’d left, and the three women embark on an adventure into their father’s past which helps them rediscover the magic of childhood that they thought died along with him.
Los Angeles, CA
Christie Conochalla is a writer/director in Los Angeles, Ca who is passionate about creating complex stories about queer women for a mainstream audience.
Her dramatic short film "August in the City" has gained awards and acclaim from various contests and festivals and her romantic comedy short "Once Upon A Zipper" has had a vibrant streaming life...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 101 Pages
Emma is in her third trimester when she gets into a car wreck that leaves her husband Scott in a coma. Under the care of her wealthy in-laws, she senses her unborn child is in danger...
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
A graduate of NYU Tisch, Tyler Savage worked as a Story Editor at Warner Bros before going on to work for Terrence Malick on four back-to-back features. Savage's first feature (Inheritance, 2017) was lauded by genre critics after premiering at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. His second feature (Stalker, 2020) premiered at Fright Fest, won the Dark Ma...
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Forty-Second Boyd
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Other
· 103 Pages
Colonel John Boyd, an acclaimed fighter pilot, fabled aircraft designer and venerated military theorist, battles the Air Force and the Pentagon in a lifelong crusade to revolutionize the way America's armed forces wage war.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 119 Pages
A slightly true story based on the severely corrupt New Rome, Ohio and one man's crusade to bring the small town to justice—by any means necessary—for his excessive parking tickets.
Columbus, OH
Erik started out at DC Comics as an Art Director and studied at Second City Chicago, performing improv and writing sketch comedy. He has written sketch comedy, pilots, and features and has a loosely based on a true story satire feature script in the top 6% of the Nicholls Fellowship. He was mentored at The Onion and currently writes for McSweeney's ...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 98 Pages
In 1991, the ghost of a murdered cheerleader guilts a punk rock girl into tracking down her mystery killer who's targeting prom queen nominees at their obnoxiously preppy high school.
Princeton, NJ
A former ballerina, Devi's a proud alumnus of AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, the Fox Filmmaker Program and the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer’s Workshop. Her darkly comedic screenplays have won high honors in the Nicholl Fellowships, Slamdance and PAGE Awards, and her films have screened at numerous festivals worldwide, garnering awar...
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Going Away Party
Semifinalist
Feature
No logline available.
Hackneyed
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 111 Pages
A madman traps ten strangers in a bunker, determined to kill them in the most clichéd, low budget way possible.
Ariel Ehrlich
No bio available.
HEEL
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 111 Pages
An insecure Middle Eastern professional wrestler who dreams of becoming immortalized as a hero, discovers he must embrace his unwanted dark side as the villain or "heel," a role that turns him against everyone inside and outside of the ring, including his mother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
No bio available.
Her Weight On Me
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 101 Pages
When a sexually stunted Chinese-American girl pressured by her mom’s over caring love and her dad’s strict rules first tastes the freedom, it sends her on a journey of breaking free that descends into a living nightmare.
Rebecca Shuhan Lou
No bio available.
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His Name is Vincent
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 100 Pages
Taking place during the collapse of the American auto industry in a racially divided Oak Park, Michigan, 1982, this story follows the last 48 hours of Vincent Chin, a man whose death lead to the first ever Asian American civil rights movement.
Los Angeles, CA
Kelly Luu is a Vietnamese American writer based in Los Angeles. Inspired by his parents' harrowing journey to America, as well as his upbringing in an underserved, predominantly non-Asian community, Kelly is drawn to stories about identity and overcoming trauma in extraordinary ways. He graduated from USC’s MFA film program and is repped by Redefine...
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Hollow Code
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
No logline available.
No bio available.
In Blood
Private
Semifinalist
· Horror
· 100 Pages
A remote getaway turns deadly when six life-weary friends discover the darkness within themselves while being ruthlessly hunted.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 117 Pages
30 years after the murders of the most prolific screenwriting duo of the 1980’s, their final screenplay has finally been brought to life -- ‘In Too Deep’ is the story of a disgraced college swimmer returning to the pool at age 40 looking for a shot at redemption.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 114 Pages
After Orion's Belt is destroyed in the night sky, an emotionally unstable teenager attempts to prove to a lonesome astronomer that the event was caused by his ability to move objects in outer space.
North Hollywood, CA
David is a former Brooklynite-turned-Angeleno who’s been writing screenplays since working at Blockbuster centuries ago. Latino/Black, former pro gamer and D1 athlete -- David specializes in galactic concepts that are grounded in the real world with real people, as well as thrillers that leave you with a heart condition.
It's a Christmas Miracle, Charlie Brown
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Family
· 104 Pages
A down-on-his-luck documentarian, a colorful animation director, and the most influential cartoonist of all time create "A Charlie Brown Christmas" against grueling time constraints, commercialism, and doubt.
Los Angeles, California
Tom Radovich loves creating popcorn entertainment like his influences Mel Brooks, Sam Raimi, and Shane Black. A veteran of working the front lines of video stores, Tom graduated Loyola Marymount University with an MFA in Writing for the Screen and worked as an Office PA for Blumhouse Productions. He made a proof of concept short “The Graveyard Shif...
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Jake and Bethany: A Story of Incest
Semifinalist
Feature
No logline available.
JYOTI
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 102 Pages
A world record analyst befriends Jyoti Amge, the world's smallest woman, and their unlikely friendship changes both of their lives.
Brooklyn, NY
No bio available.
Keep The Car Running
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 119 Pages
"A young girl is taken against her will and forms a strange bond with her kidnapper."
Matthew Fantaci
No bio available.
Kill or Cure
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 110 Pages
During the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, a British aid agency doctor is kidnapped with her team – by jihadists demanding a rumored Ebola antidote as ransom. Forced to treat their captors’ Ebola-stricken fighters under impossible conditions, the team battle to stay alive, and to escape.
London, London, GB
Recently one of 12 participants in The Writers Lab by NYWIFT, Charlotte is fascinated by complex female characters and heroes who bring traditionally 'feminine' qualities to the fight, creating new takes on genre setups.
Her scripts have been recognized by the PAGE Awards, Austin Film Festival, Zoetrope, and Shore Scripts, in which she was a wi...
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Konigsberg – A Love Story
Semifinalist
Feature
No logline available.
Lady Lazarus
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Action
· 108 Pages
Some might say Aubrey Baxter has the emotional strength of a Forever 21 shirt — one tug on a thread and she falls apart. Luckily, she has her three best friends by her side when they moonlight as Lazarus: Cat-mask wearing vigilantes who use Instagram to kidnap and force men to confess their #MeToo crimes in an attempt to serve the justice the courts...
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No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 102 Pages
LEGACY is a buddy comedy about a pompous white legacy, third on Harvard’s waitlist, who schemes to keep three accepted students from attending.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 97 Pages
Haunted by the death of her sister, a woman confronts her reclusive brother but finds he's built a machine to speak with the dead.
Burbank, CA
Deprived the TV and fantasy books Gabriel desperately wanted in his youth, he found teenage rebellion in binging Battlestar Galactica and rereading all 14 Wheel of Time novels, unlocking his passion for writing science-fiction and fantasy.
Currently, Gabriel relies more on science than fiction as a writer on Dick Wolf’s NBC drama Chicago Med.