Script Pipeline Screenwriting Competition |
2022
Script Pipeline discovers new screenwriters for industry and helps long-term with development, mentorship, and industry circulation.
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Genre
Format
Representation Status
Winners
Winner
Feature
· Drama
· 91 Pages
When a mission goes wrong, a teenage Afghan sniper for a female rebel militia must hunt the Taliban in order to save her grandmother’s soul.
Los Angeles, CA
Peter Haig is a writer/director based in Los Angeles, California, who received his M.F.A. in Film & Television Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.
Runner-ups
Runner-up
Feature
· Comedy
· 114 Pages
In the wake of her mother's death, twenty-something Morgan sets out on a grief-fueled road trip to Los Angeles with her estranged best friend Erica-- with the true intention of freeing Britney Spears from her conservatorship.
Los Angeles, California
Mishki Vaccaro is a film and television writer from Toronto. She has her MFA in screenwriting from USC and has worked in feature development at Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films and in television development/production at Jason Winer’s Small Dog Picture Company. Mishki writes female-centric dark comedy about the deep fears and dilemmas of the human exper...
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Finalists
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 101 Pages
Two broke friends fake their way into the online fetish world of "financial domination," but between rampant fetishes, money and addiction, the consequences quickly take a dark turn.
São José Dos Campos, São Paulo, BR
Anthony Alves is a self-taught writer from Brazil.
All his narratives are character-driven stories with a little touch of genre-bending. He loves to write dramas with sprinkles of thriller, horror, and comedy in-between, often revolving around taboo subjects.
Along with being a Film Pipeline Winner, his most recent recognitions include: Screen...
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Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 96 Pages
At the height of the Cold War, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and American President Ronald Reagan battle it out in Iceland to stop nuclear annihilation.
Los Angeles, CA
Patrick sold his Untitled eSports comedy pitch to Legendary Pictures with Gary Sanchez and Mosaic producing and Will Ferrell attached to star.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 102 Pages
Based on the true story of Zankou Chicken, the son of a dysfunctional Armenian family flees the Lebanese Civil War with his "loved" ones to open a chain of successful chicken restaurants in LA, but ambition, greed, and trauma tear the family apart, leading to betrayal, revenge, and murder.
Los Angeles, CA
The daughter of an Egyptian Muslim immigrant, Nadia is an Academy Nicholls Fellowship semifinalist, Black List Feature Lab alumni, Screencraft Finalist, Script Pipeline Finalist, and Slamdance Finalist, among others. She recently wrote for the animated series Hero Inside on HBO Max, while her pilot and web series Depressed was a Vimeo Staff Pick and...
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SUDDEN DEAD
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 96 Pages
This logline was hidden by the writer.
Montreal, Quebec, CA
Genre lover. Wrestling & Red Sox fan. Nostalgic video game geek. I bleed maple syrup.
I am a 2022 Pipeline Feature Competition finalist (Top 10 out of 5034 entries) and a 2022 Tracking B Feature finalist (Top 8). I once finished 3rd in a chess tournament in middle school, but there were only four players, so.
Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 99 Pages
Four friends, a surprising love triangle, body doubles, one pissed off drug cartel and legendary mountain spirits collide in the Bolivia leading to bloody endings.
Camarillo, CA
Half man, half orange gorilla, half math genius, Red Davis specializes in telling stories about those who live on the fringes. The weirdos, freaks, geeks, fish outta water, the redheads that really suffered after the South Park ginger episode debut. Red uses comedy and historical/ other worldly settings to bring out parables of modern society in his...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 98 Pages
Reeling after her father’s sudden death, 13-year-old Presley is sent to live with her estranged mother, June. But while she navigates through a new home, a new school, and a new life without her dad, Presley discovers June’s dirty little secret… she’s a pornstar.
Los Angeles, CA
Jackie Akiko Cloud is a half-Japanese writer whose high-concept dramedies aim to show that hope can be found in even the darkest of circumstances. She recently graduated from the 2024 WGAE Support Staff Training Program (Writer's Assistant Track) is currently participating in Mentorship Matters and the Story Incubator Lab. Jackie is a proud alumna o...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
Steph, an Ivy League drop-out with a wicked sense of humor, suffers from chronic depression. Jamie overcame humble roots to fast track his way into politics, until he wound up in the hospital. When they meet in their psychiatrist’s office, they are swept into a whirlwind of joy, possibility, and danger.
No bio available.
Devil's Tramping Ground
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 109 Pages
While chasing the American Dream, an undocumented immigrant and his son seek shelter on a widow's farmland which holds an ancient curse.
Christopher Bowen
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 106 Pages
With only 24 hours to prevent a mass shooting from happening, a shy queer women fights for redemption and survival against the community she accidently created: incels.
Los Angeles, CA
KATRINA KUDLICK is a queer LA based, small town fled, multi-hyphenate. Her work as a writer-producer-director embraces provocative topics with a surreal lens, grounded in strong female and/or queer characters. Katrina's collective work has hailed from the industry's top film festivals, such as TIFF, Fantastic Fest, SXSW and Fantasia.
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 99 Pages
When the best friend characters in a rom com realize they’re only there for support, they break free from the cliches of the genre in order to find love - raw and real.
Los Angeles, CA
Heidi is a Los Angeles-based satirist and screenwriter, focusing on witty female-driven comedies.
Heidi’s writing credits include NICKELODEON and the TUBI ORIGINAL CRUSHED (a teen comedy based on Heart of Darkness).
As an online humor writer, she’s been published in REDUCTRESS, MCSWEENEY’S, and more. She’s currently a managing editor of The ...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 85 Pages
A high school sophomore works as a private psychic to her affluent peers, but she gets in over her head when she claims a deceased student- thought to have died accidentally- “told” her he was murdered.
Los Angeles, California
Brendan O. Kelly is from Chicago where he worked for The Second City performing sketch & improv. He has developed TV for MGM/Orion as well as Earwolf. He staffed for 3 years on New Looney Tunes (Cartoon Network).
He sold an original one-hour drama to Indigenous Media & Mark Gordon Co. and was the head writer & narrative designer for an interacti...
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Just Add Betty
Semifinalist
Feature
No logline available.
Pure
Semifinalist
Feature
No logline available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Fantasy
· 108 Pages
When colors start disappearing from the world mere days before Holi, an Indian American boy must unravel a mystery rooted deep in Hindu legend to save the color festival and his town.
Los Angeles, CA
Sebastian is an award-winning screenwriter and commercial director, currently working in digital creative for Mattel. Former Nicholl Finalist and Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 103 Pages
A doormat high school teacher transforms herself into a multi-level marketing tycoon who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. It's GOODFELLAS with suburban soccer moms.
Los Angeles, California
Brendan O. Kelly is from Chicago where he worked for The Second City performing sketch & improv. He has developed TV for MGM/Orion as well as Earwolf. He staffed for 3 years on New Looney Tunes (Cartoon Network).
He sold an original one-hour drama to Indigenous Media & Mark Gordon Co. and was the head writer & narrative designer for an interacti...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 92 Pages
Snack has spent the last 30yrs since the collapse of civilization alone navigating the rapey, desert landscape of the badlands using a trashy 80's sales manual as her bible. Her staunch capitalist ideals are challenged when she falls for a sheltered billionaire bunker socialist. She must change or face being alone forever, or possibly eaten.
Venice, Los Angeles, Ca, Usa
TP went on to study both a Masters in Film from the University of Technology, Sydney, and an Honors in Film Direction from the prestigious Australian Film, Television, Radio School.
Tony made The Pretend One, his debut fictional feature, set on an Australian cotton farm about an Imaginary Friend who falls in love with the girl that created him.
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 107 Pages
After Baseball's first female GM gambles on a trade, a cocky Japanese phenom, and a past his prime Veteran must learn to work together to bring their teams and careers back to their former glory.
Parker, Colorado
A graduate of the Colorado Film School with an AAS in Screenwriting. He works in the IT Department while his free time is dedicated to writing Comedy/Horror/Sci-fi features & pilots. Currently, he's working with a Santa Barbara based producer to write an extreme sports biopic. Anthony's also received a "9" on the Blacklist.com for a sports-comedy pi...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 91 Pages
Tired of dealing with their constant bickering and fighting, a high schooler sets out to break up her parents. A love story.
Los Angeles, California
Brendan O. Kelly is from Chicago where he worked for The Second City performing sketch & improv. He has developed TV for MGM/Orion as well as Earwolf. He staffed for 3 years on New Looney Tunes (Cartoon Network).
He sold an original one-hour drama to Indigenous Media & Mark Gordon Co. and was the head writer & narrative designer for an interacti...
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THE RUNNER
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 100 Pages
A professional marathon runner is forced to face the most grueling run of her life to prevent a bomb from detonating on her treadmill.
Nate is an award-winning screenwriter who specializes in elevated action, sci-fi, horror and thriller scripts. His talent was discovered in 2021 when he was signed by Gravity Squared Entertainment to represent his work. As a full-time writer, Nate is comfortable writing at any budget level and continually works on new and exciting projects with an e...
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Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Adventure
· 118 Pages
When a high school senior with social anxiety disorder goes to her first party, her worst fear is realized when she becomes a viral social media meme. Embarrassed, she leaves the party and accidentally travels back in time to 2006, unknowingly bringing the social media apps, which transform people into monsters and threaten the future as she knows i...
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"You're good at a few things, but definitely not the best at anything."
-- Billy's best friend.
Billy agrees. That's why he writes screenplays with imperfect, hopeful characters yearning for fulfillment in an unforgiving world.
In addition to screenwriting, Billy's made a career out of copywriting. But his most important job is that of dad to ...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 104 Pages
In this coming of age dramedy, a Hawaiian teenage girl runs away from her overbearing mother to follow her dreams of becoming the next fitness face of the 1987 Sparkle Lite National Aerobics Championship.
Washington, DC
Jackie is a Latina nuclear engineer turned writer who loves themes about fitting in and characters who won't take no for an answer. After MIT she joined the Navy, informing her global perspective. She's consulted on SEAL TEAM (CBS) and written for QCODE's Bad Vibes and iHeart Media's Veterans You Should Know hosted by Rob Riggle. Her film BEACHWOR...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 98 Pages
When his friend is sucked into a malevolent painting, a curmudgeonly security guard teams up with a crew of art thieves to rescue her from the painting's depths... before destroying it for good.
Manchester, Greater Manchester, GB
A doctor with degrees in Creative Writing and Medicine, Simon uses his experiences working in frontline NHS medicine to write character-driven, immersive scripts that focus on life, family and trauma.
Horror and comedy with both pathos and a good splash of weird - his pieces aim at small budget with big heart, and maybe a tear or two along the w...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 113 Pages
Silenced by grief, a selectively-mute teenager harnesses the power of music to mend her broken relationship with her popular sister, seeking to heal after the loss of their mother.
New Jersey
I just wanna dance, but don't know how to. So I have to write characters that do.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 82 Pages
Born into a strange world where people only have one day to live, a terrified man will do anything to extend his life even as he struggles not to squander the time he's been given.
Santa Monica, California
Alex's latest feature comedy, That's Funny, was released by Good Deed Entertainment in 2023 and is currently 97% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Muse
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 106 Pages
As a screenwriter struggles to finish her script,
her world begins to spin out of control when she rewrites the
past, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
Carly Hebert
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 100 Pages
A struggling documentarian is tasked by his estranged artist mother to fulfill her final controversial wish: capturing her last week alive before she uses her right to die as her last performance.
Los Angeles, CA
Brandon Tyson is a Filipino-American writer-director. He directs short films, commercials, and documentaries for editorial and brands.
His narrative scripts are centered around complicated relationships with characters and cinematic settings that are rarely portrayed.
With a background in social issue documentaries and PSAs, Tyson continues e...
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OLD-ASS ZOMBIES
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 96 Pages
Infected by a virus that gives super strength to the elderly, an old man and his wannabe girlfriend bust out of assisted living, fleeing for their lives from a nerdy, heavily armed militia.
Waxhaw, NC
Josh Barkey is a Nicholl Finalisting, 2X Page contest winning, Sundance and Tribeca-selected, produced screenwriter who grew up barefoot and wild on his parents' mission in the Amazon jungles of Peru, South America.
www.joshbarkey.com
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Unknown
· 94 Pages
Fed up with getting excluded from the storybook Christmases depicted during the holidays, a street smart kid hijacks Santa's Sleigh to deliver Christmas to the Projects.
- Verified WGA Member
New York, NY
Justin displays creative fearlessness, crafting stories to elevate his culture so marginalized groups see themselves reflected in his work & know that they exist. He honed his edgy, disruptive style working with his mentor, Bill Duke & studying at UCB where he’s written & produced shows.
He’s been selected one of NBC’s Writers On The Verge and a...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 109 Pages
A jaded female filmmaker documents a small town girl’s rebellion against a Christian abstinence program, but becomes increasingly exploitative of her subject in an effort for the story to go viral.
Los Angeles, CA
Kate Hackett is an Emmy winning and ACE Eddie Award winning editor, known for her work on the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary series Cheer and Last Chance U.
Her short film Oleander, which she wrote and directed, stars Emily Robinson (Transparent), Peri Gilpin (Frasier) and Jennifer Lafleur (Room 104).
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 106 Pages
A Latino literature professor seeking tenure to remain in the USA agrees to do a poetry workshop in a prison. But when a Black inmate secretly communicates to him through his poetry that he’s innocent, he sacrifices everything to try and stop the inmate's fast-approaching execution. (Inspired by Actual Events)
Akiva has studied screenwriting under Jacob Krueger (NYC), Scott Myers (Black List Blog), and the Sundance collab program. Rage Against the Night was a Nicholl Fellowship 2020 Semi-finalist and 2023 Quarter-finalist, an Austin Film Festival Screenwriting 2020 second-rounder, and the 2020 winner of the Chicago Social Justice Screenwriting Competiti...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 90 Pages
A grieving teen’s weekend turns into a deadly game of survival when his android babysitter decides to take on the identity of his deceased father.
EX MACHINA meets MISERY
Los Angeles, CA
Have you heard about this video tape that kills you when you watch it?
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Western
· 116 Pages
A degenerate gambler teams up with famed outlaws to rob a luxury riverboat casino owned by the most famous cowboy in America.
No bio available.
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 104 Pages
A group of influencers living in a collab house are locked in their Hollywood mansion and attacked by a vengeful killer. But could the murderer be amongst them?
Los Angeles, CA
Devon Kerr is a screenwriter, crossword constructor, and one of those gays who loves the public library. Devon currently works as a writer’s assistant on “FBI: MOST WANTED," and was recently awarded the 2022-23 Humanitas New Voices Fellowship. He graduated from Northwestern University, where he went (mildly) viral after The Chainsmokers tweeted abou...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 90 Pages
When Sonny, an off-beat neuroscientist, unexpectedly creates the first means of simulating the human mind inside of a digital space… he must face the crazed, unpredictable, and wacky world that wants to exploit his newfound instrument that contains the key to immortality.
Los Angeles, CA
Scott Tinkham is an award-winning Writer & Director from Minnesota. He got into making films when he discovered he could blow up his Mom's minivan using Adobe After Effects. His Mom wasn't thrilled... but eventually understood it was "cool". Since then, Scott finally grew up, moved to Los Angeles, and set out to make his Mom proud.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 103 Pages
Two impoverished brothers are the best baseball players in 1990's Cuba, but when the older brother defects for a life of stardom in the major leagues it sparks a chain reaction of consequences testing their love of family, country, and the game.
Washington, DC
Max comes from a family of DC journalists for whom argument was sport, issues mattered, and having a point of view was the only way into conversation. Before pitching stories he pitched on a baseball scholarship at GW, got an MFA on a Michener Fellowship at UT Austin, then wrote on season one of Netflix's The Chosen One.
The Art of Starving
Quarterfinalist
Feature
No logline available.
The Bone Woman
Quarterfinalist
Feature
No logline available.
THE MURDER (OR POSSIBLE POLITICAL ASSASSINATION) OF SANTA CLAUS
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 120 Pages
The true meaning of Christmas be damned! Santa Claus has been murdered and there is a killer loose in the North Pole.
Kory Orban
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 112 Pages
Aspiring poet Pauli Murray wrestles with gender dysphoria in the 1930s, as an attempt to desegregate the University of North Carolina spirals into a lifetime of obsessive activism and the search for love in Jane Crow America.
Los Angeles, CA
Sean is a writer/director; films “Empire Gypsy” and “Man at the Door” (available on Amazon and Tubi) as well as the award-winning documentaries “Target: St. Louis”, “Target: Philadelphia” & “Scarf Face”. Born in the UK and raised in Oakland, CA, Sean holds an MA in Ed. Theater from NYU and currently lives in Los Angeles.
The Story of You
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 116 Pages
After the death of her father, an Asian-American woman gets spirited back in time and must make the right choices in a Choose-your-own-adventure style quest in order to return to her life.
Los Angeles, California
I'm an actor/writer/director who graduated from NYU Tisch with award-winning short films. My passion is for timeless, classic stories with a unique vision, generally in the genre space but focused on character and grand story design. My short films garnered me a student DGA nomination and have screened all over the world, while my screenplays have w...
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THIRST
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 100 Pages
When gang violence forces a newly widowed Honduran English teacher to flee her country with her two young children, they encounter monsters of all shapes, sizes and species - from corrupt coyotes to white nationalists to ravenous, bloodthirsty creatures from origins unknown.
Los Angeles, CA
Kim Peeler Callaway AKA "Kimmie P" is a 4x Telly-winning director and 2023 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Finalist.
Born in Houston TX, she attended various public arts magnet schools including the prestigious High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Beyonce went there, not to brag or anything.
Kim then spent 7 glorious/notorious...
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