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Winners
Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
A food-addict who funds her mother’s medical care by eating on camera for fetishists, faces a dilemma after witnessing an assault - fight for justice, or continue a deadly path of self-destruction.
Co. Mayo, IE
Cathriona Slammon is a screenwriter from the West of Ireland. Typically writing in the vein of psychological drama, horror and the surreal, Cathriona has particular interest in exploring identity, trauma, family dysfunction and memory in unique and authentic ways. In 2023, her debut feature script won 'Best Unproduced Screenplay' at the Raindance Fi...
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Finalists
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
When a UFO crashes on a Colorado farm, the small-town's newly-elected transgender mayor must decide what's more dangerous: the top-secret government agency that's come to cover-up the incident... or the truth.
New York, New York
Jake D Williamson's pilot Majestic 12 just recently placed in the top 5 Finalists at Austin Film Festival's screenplay competition for the AMC hour-long pilot award. He hopes this prestigious accolade will perhaps convince his students to actually LISTEN TO HIM FOR ONCE at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan where he teaches screenwriting to mast...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 54 Pages
Elena Scorfa is a burnt out chef who leaves NYC to start a farm to table restaurant upstate, but when she discovers the pigs she's serving are eating dead bodies, Elena becomes involved in a game of cat and mouse with an elusive serial killer. With the intergenerational mystery of YELLOWJACKETS, juicy horror of HANNIBAL, seductive worldbuilding of T...
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Brooklyn, NY
Jenah Silver is a writer hailing from the Philadelphia suburbs. She moved to New York to pursue a BFA at Tisch's Dramatic Writing program. She has worked across genres at SundanceTV, AMC, USA, & Syfy Networks. She has a passion for action, horror, and strong female characters, and gets weak in the knees when the three are combined. She is repped by ...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Horror
· 54 Pages
An aging prima ballerina, who moonlights as an escort to LA’s elite, confronts her past as she is called upon to audition for the role that catapulted her to stardom. With a company of ruthless, young dancers who embody her own lost youth, she must fight to retain her position, while competing with the prodigy who looks disturbingly like her former ...
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Los Angeles, CA
Talisha is an Australian writer and director. Her short, "The Fears of Young Caroline," won numerous awards including Coup de Coeur at Cannes. Her AFI thesis film, "Some Kind of Paradise," premiered at Tribeca and won the Jury Award at OUTshine. With an 18-year background in dance, Talisha’s creative voice is distinct and compelling, gravitating to...
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 53 Pages
An unassuming Gilded Age socialite embarks on an unexpected journey into the gritty world of bare-knuckle fighting. Now she must navigate the equally treacherous arenas of underground boxing and high society.
Los Angeles, CA
Born and raised in Los Angeles (but please don't hold that against him), Josh Sackheim studied journalism at Emerson College and worked through school as a radio news stringer for NPR and CNN Radio.
Since returning home to L.A. Josh has worked in television for over a decade. He cut his teeth as a Writer’s Assistant on the Sony Pictures Televisio...
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L.O.T.U.S.
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
When a supercomputer predicts an aimless surfer from Santa Cruz will be the next President of the United States, she becomes the target of sleeper agents tasked with her assassination. She must decide whether to warn the others on the computer's ‘kill list’ or leave behind the only country she’s ever known in order to save herself.
Los Angeles, CA
Nathan Patton is an award-winning writer and college dropout from the rural South. After briefly touring the tri-state area with his failed rock band, he went back to school where he received a James Michener Fellowship and an MFA. His script, GREENWOOD, was previously optioned, and he currently has producers attached to three of his recent script...
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Low Country
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 57 Pages
A teenagers aspirations of pursuing a career in wrestling are quickly thrown into jeopardy when his estranged older brother unexpectedly returns home.
Sherman Oaks, CA
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 55 Pages
As a legendary 41-year-old quarterback struggles to keep his career alive, an ambitious female executive convinces him to mentor his troubled successor, while they both seek the approval of the powerful owner of the team, a surrogate father to him--and an actual father to her.
Comps: Succession, Winning Time, The Morning Show.
San Francisco, CA
Michael Weinreb is an award-winning journalist specializing in sports, culture and history, who writes scripts set within the world of sports--and far outside of it--that are inspired by true events.
He's written for The Atlantic, ESPN, Rolling Stone and more, and has authored four books, including Game of Kings, about a championship Brooklyn ch...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 56 Pages
A controversial female evangelist in Jazz-Age Los Angeles combines charismatic faith-healing, Hollywood theatrics and political gamesmanship to build a soul-saving multimedia empire, while navigating chauvinistic rivals, a fickle press, and her own crisis of faith. Inspired by true events.
Los Angeles, CA
Alex Vincent Blumberg is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker. He’s written narration for Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren, optioned an original screenplay, and produced an award-winning narrative podcast based on his TV pilot "Back Fires." In 2025, Alex was named one of the “Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch” by the International Screenwriter...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 60 Pages
A young church-going woman discovers she can see and channel ghosts, and therefore that her ideas of heaven and hell are not what she believed… which means her recently-deceased trans brother did not go to hell after all, but instead has arrived in a chaotic afterlife where angry ghosts are bursting through the boundary between worlds. The two sibli...
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Los Angeles, CA
2024 GLAAD List <3 Singaporean TV writer and USC MFA Screenwriting grad. Story editor on 854-episode English-language soap opera KIN.
USC School of Cinematic Arts' 2023-2024 Jack Nicholson Writing Scholar.
I write “self-help sci-fi/fantasy”, where my characters strive to embrace and express their extraordinary selves.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
After a whistleblower leaks dangerous and unbelievable claims that Earth is five years from obliteration, his small hometown must decide what to do with the time they have left, while the world slowly descends into chaos.
Los Angeles, CA
Kyle’s career began after a battle with cancer showed him life’s too short to NOT do what he loves. He’s since worked tirelessly, making high-impact, high-concept films, using music, comedy, and technology to bend genres and push boundaries. His most recent award-winning short film, Somewhere In Between, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and ...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 61 Pages
inspired by true events, the first female surgeon in America starts her new job at the Immigrant Hospital on Ellis Island the same day the Titanic survivors dock in NYC, changing her life - and that of many others - forever.
West Hollywood, CA
Paola Ferrari is a queer, Italian immigrant from Piacenza, a small town an hour south of Milan. She moved to the States in 2010 to pursue TV writing. Paola is passionate about writing stories that center complex and flawed characters. Her first love is genre, but she is equally at ease writing intimate dramas. She loves dogs, reproductive justice, p...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 62 Pages
When a widower takes a job digging up corpses and selling them to underground anatomy schools, he's drawn deep into the seedy underbelly of 1800s Boston where the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead is razor thin.
Chicago, IL
Before shifting his focus to writing, Nick spent 16 years in the Advertising industry as a Creative Director - conceiving and pitching award-winning creative campaigns for clients that included HBO, FX, NBC, ABC, Fox, Samsung, Espolòn Tequila and Unilever.
These days, he uses his creativity to craft evocative stories that defy the boundaries of...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 59 Pages
THE SEAMSTRESS OF HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD is an hour-long drama about the runaway girls of the 1910s who helped create modern Los Angeles, focusing on Nell, a young fashion savant with a dark secret who flees to the city, working her way up from department store shoppie to top silent film costumier.
Based on the novel by Erin McGraw.
Los Angeles, CA
Charlotte is a USC production grad who writes for young and new adult audiences, blending high and low culture to tell stories about impetuous young women– their obsessive friendships, messy romances, and the moral gray areas in which they operate in pursuit of their dreams.
She worked as the writers' asst on Amazon's CRUEL INTENTIONS, and is curre...
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Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 65 Pages
Awaiting a pending cure for an illness, a young American woman leaves her family behind to go into stasis in Europe for a few years - but when awakened by an automated process, she discovers that not only is she in danger, she slept more than a few years... a lot more.
Los Angeles, CA
Marcus was raised in the Midwest by a pile of sci-fi novels and a drum set. After a sometimes-bizarre stint working for Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, he embarked on an equally sometimes-bizarre odyssey starring in 70+ commercials and ad campaigns for global brands.
Recently Marcus has created and pitched original series to Apple, Netflix, ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 55 Pages
When evil threatens her small town, Keziah Blood must confront the truth about her past and embrace the dark power within her in order to save the people she loves.
Waterbury, CT
After a career in retail, developing film (One Hour Photo terrified her) and seeing more naked people than Larry Flynt, Kate took her boyfriend's advice and wrote 'that book.' A USA Today bestseller and industry award-winner, she's written 50+ books (Yay, adapting practice!) in multiple genres and has 20+ years experience with rewrites. Oh, and ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Western
· 59 Pages
In the Arizona Territory of the 1870s, a widowed Sheriff with a dark past teams with a city slicker Paleontologist to stop supernatural forces from using her young son to fulfill an apocalyptic prophecy heralding the end of days. Think Deadwood meets The Omen.
- Verified WGA Member
Charlotte, NC
John and longtime screenwriting partner Bill Walker met at Temple University where their passion for high-concept family films led them to Hollywood where they’ve written such diverse projects as the Leo Award-winning children’s comedy SPLITTING ADAM for Nickelodeon, Lionsgate’s WWII drama IN ENEMY HANDS, and Blumhouse Television’s limited horror se...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Other
· 34 Pages
An aging death doula and a much younger, queer professional cuddler are brought together by a shared ability to manufacture closeness. Together, they must make sense of their own solitude and mortality while tending to the needs of others.
Colton Childs is a queer writer and cancer survivor who has often been mistaken for a Bed Bath & Beyond employee. He originally hails from a cattle ranch in South Texas and is a graduate of the drama program at Pace University in New York City. His pilot and feature scripts have placed in competitions such as Austin Film Festival, Launch Pad Feature...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 35 Pages
On the trail of her first big case, the rookiest reporter in Las Vegas helps a small-time con man track down the serial killer who murdered his mom: snake-oil televangelist Dick Donovan—who just might be his dad.
Kiefer Lloyd (he/him) writes underdog stories that explore queerness and masculinity. His series pilot FEVER won the WeScreenplay TV Lab and was fast-tracked for development by the International Screenwriters Association. He is a playwriting fellow with Lambda Literary and an alumnus of the Tin House Fiction Workshop.
Kiefer was homeschooled by c...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
When the headmaster of a prestigious dance school is brutally murdered after recital night, a detective must unravel a series of events to determine if the academy's new conservatory class is hiding a murderer.
Los Angeles, CA
Born and raised in Detroit, MI, Ashley credits her passion for storytelling and tenacious personality to the life experiences and stories she has encountered in her upbringing. Ashley aspires to bring about a sense of visibility for diverse audiences and desires to connect people through storytelling.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 62 Pages
In the future, all violent offenders are forced to undergo a procedure that "extracts" the evil out of them and locks it up for life. After a violent prison riot, a special unit is tasked with hunting down the runaway Extracts before they wreak havoc on the city.
Los Angeles, CA
VARTA TOROSSIAN is a multicultural writer/director with roots in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. She traveled the world with a dance company before immigrating to the US. Varta earned two master's degrees in Directing and Screenwriting, the latter from AFI. As an alumna of the NBC TV Writers Program, she sold a couple of scripts and was recentl...
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The Faceless
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
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TV Script
· Comedy
· 39 Pages
A young Hollywood dreamer struggles to keep his family business alive— wrangling monsters for your favorite B-pictures!
Los Angeles, California
I write comedies with a genre twist. My pilot about a Pig that solves mysteries and discovers ancient treasures won the Screencraft Animation Pilot Competition. More than anything, I enjoy writing movies & television that make kids feel like adults and adults feel like kids.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 29 Pages
Four women retire to a sleepy town and inadvertently heal old wounds by solving the crimes no one cares about.
Los Angeles, California
Tulica Singh is a writer director based in LA, with a degree in film Production from USC. In 2021 she was chosen for the Sundance screenwriting lab and Comedy Central grant. She is the creator of the Vimeo staff picked web-series, Croissant Man, one of the first independent series to be distributed through Amazon Prime. Tulica is dedicated to writ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
Inspired by true events: In 1820s Edinburgh, where demand for medical cadavers is high and supply is limited, a prominent doctor makes moves to fund his research by leveraging control of a lucrative cadaver black market. (Boardwalk Empire with cadavers)
LA, CA
Travis J. Opgenorth is an award-winning screenwriter, including the CineStory Feature Fellowship, ISA Fast Track Fellowship, and the Stage 32 Search for New Blood contest. Some of his other accomplishments include having his feature Day of Reckoning produced through ESX Productions and attending a Hollywood mixer where he knew no one. He currently h...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
After winning a prestigious fellowship at Boston Symphony Orchestra, unknown violinist Paco Rosario must learn to navigate the callous and shady world of classical music, where the only way to the top is to trust no one.
Los Angeles, CA
Daniel Hernandez Zapata is a bilingual, Mexican immigrant raised in small-town Missouri. He writes about outsider, code-switching characters and the sacrifices they make in order to achieve their dreams.
His one-hour pilot, The Soloist, was selected for The Black List’s 2024 Latine List, is an Austin Film Festival semi-finalist, and a Nantucket ...
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THE TITAN
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
A controversial wrestling promoter makes a desperate gamble to save his family-owned World Wrestling Federation by jettisoning his top star and becoming an onscreen character, forever blurring the lines between reality and the ring for his audience, his family, and himself.
Andrew Lewis
No bio available.
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