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Winners
Winner
Short
· Drama
· 7 Pages
Based on a True Story: A young American woman has an unexpected and haunting encounter when she and her fellow sightseers stop at a roadside snack stand next to a small remote village in India.
Minneapolis, MN
Kelly Lamphear-Dash is an award-winning screenwriter and producer of both documentaries and narrative short films. Her work has been featured in over 100 film festivals worldwide. Founding member of Ladies Who Crew. On the Board for Screenwriters' Workshop. Member of Film North, Gotham, Film Independent, Women in Film and TV MN, Stage32, ISA and a...
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Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 67 Pages
The lives of two estranged brothers collide, when one brother, accused of a brutal murder, seeks to overturn his conviction.
Toronto, CA
Véra is an award-winning Toronto based scribe obsessed with writing character-driven stories that explore the human condition in a nuanced and meaningful way. Though genre agnostic, Véra focuses instead on using her quill to craft words, create worlds and weave together emotionally impactful tales that help make sense of our current realities and d...
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Winner
Feature
· Action
· 110 Pages
When skyrocketing crime and moral decay threaten to wipe their tiny boomtown from the map, a pair of kinfolk cops resort to desperate, unorthodox measures to save it.
Austin, Texas
Duane Graves has produced work showcased at Sundance, SXSW, Slamdance, & Tribeca. He co-wrote/directed THE WILD MAN OF THE NAVIDAD, released by IFC. Graves also co-wrote/directed the Western KILL OR BE KILLED, released by RLJE. Named by Coverfly as one of the best up and coming screenwriters, he is currently developing EDELWEISS with Kim Henkel, co-...
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Finalists
Just Ahead of Home
Private
Finalist
Short
· Family
· 18 Pages
An Alien at the door gives a retired forest ranger a reason to get dressed.
Burlington, Ontario, CA
Recently, I was blindsided by Early Onset Invisibility and the accompanying loss of opinions and relevance. Current treatments include frequent shots to the face plus endless surgeries or going gently into your fate with gardening tools and birding apps. Being ornery, I said no to that shit, put on a little lipstick and ran headlong in another...
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Finalist
Short
· Drama
· 5 Pages
A 10-year-old boy acts out in school while vying for his parents' attention at home.
Ulaanbaatar, MN
Came of age in Michigan, now writing from Mongolia.
Finalist
Feature
· Adventure
· 120 Pages
In order to save his brother from a dangerous gang, a brash and selfish conman living in fairy tale land is forced to put together a team of notorious characters to attempt to pull off his most daring heist yet – to steal the Evil Queen’s magic mirror.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
Former Canadian diplomat, and apparently a glutton for punishment, who decided that postings in difficult places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Venezuela weren't tough enough, so has embraced the much greater challenge of sitting at his desk and trying to make it as a writer. Completed a Master's in Screenwriting, and previously interned at Voltage...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 97 Pages
A Greek immigrant leaves her family to study ballet in 1950s Melbourne where she fights to keep her head above water in the face of rampant prejudice and her father’s ailing health back at home.
Queensland, AU
Criss Gidas is a Greek-Australian writer/director whose imagination never takes a day off. By day, she weaves action-packed narratives with heart and fearless female heroes. By night, she brings cinematic dreams to life as a cinema projectionist.
Hero of Hyrule? Check. Pokémaster in search of the next great character? Absolutely. Criss is always ...
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Finalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 97 Pages
When his wife is kidnapped, a desperate social media influencer is forced into an absurd treasure hunt for new followers to save her.
Berlin, Berlin, DE
Stefan is a German citizen, a long-time film critic and an advertising executive with 20 years' experience in writing tv commercials.
He is working on 12 scripts, 7 of which have already been completed. All of them have received awards. First scripts are already sold or optioned.
All his stories have a humanistic message because he believes ...
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Finalist
Short
· Drama
· 5 Pages
A young boy discovers a haunting occurrence while visiting a military installation.
Santa Cruz, CA
Welcome if you will, an introduction to Robert Ward, who does a wicked impersonation of his favorite writer, Rod Serling. Conjured from creativity deep within, Robert’s latest screenplay FLAT PENNIES ignited as a Semifinalist in the 2024 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (a Top 25 Drama from 1,782 drama scripts out of 8,753 entries). Robert, a...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 33 Pages
A widower is caught off guard when his precocious 8-year-old daughter makes a wish to become a vampire so that she will never die. But when her wish comes true, their lives are changed forever, and the pair find the bounds of unconditional love tested to the fullest.
New York City, NY
Nelson is a screenwriter and lighting designer based in NYC. His scripts have advanced to later rounds in screenwriting programs and contests including Sundance, ScreenCraft, Roadmap Writers, AFF, Page, BlueCat, ISA and Final Draft’s Big Break. Nelson has multiple projects on The Red List, in their respective genres. He recently finished an MFA in ...
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Short
· Drama
· 15 Pages
An unexpected loss forces a military widow who took over her husband's knifemaking business to revisit her grief.
St. Louis, MO
Jeffrey Howe lives (and when necessary, works) in the scenic Black Creek Bottoms area near St. Louis, Missouri. Since June 2015, his screenplays have won 48 competitions and been finalists in 80-plus more. His shorts have won awards at the Toronto Independent and Austin Revolution Film Festivals.
Favorite themes in his work include second chance...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Fantasy
· 10 Pages
A grieving widower gets a booster shot of life when his dead wife's spirit cheers him up by grooming his biblical facial hair into exotic trims.
Irvine, CA
Shiva Ramanathan discovered the magic of storytelling when an egg hit him squarely during his stage debut. It kickstarted an adventure even Indiana Jones would admire. From a degree in Communication to community theater, Shiva discovered a companion in writing through life’s exhilarating highs and soul-crushing lows.
While his screenplays have garn...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Drama
· 25 Pages
Two aces on opposite sides of the Pacific Theater in World War II engage in a dogfight for the ages during the Battle of Okinawa.
O'fallon, O'fallon
In four years of entering contests, I've won accolade after accolade non-stop, even accumulating multiple Top 1% ratings. My specialty is works with the perfect blend of comedy, drama, and heart to bring out the best in mankind. With every contest I enter, I grow smarter and more mature as a writer.
Semifinalist
Short
· Horror
· 12 Pages
When she was a little girl, Meredith Jones had a monster under her bed. She returns home as an adult to find the monster's still there. And it's hungry.
Kansas City, KS
Jamie Campbell thrives by finding ways to laugh in the midst of darkness. It’s a survival mechanism for a guy who is lucky to still be alive. When he was eleven years-old, he was kidnapped by one of his parents who took him on the run for six months before police caught up to them. As a teenager, he was beaten at gunpoint at a keg party after accide...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Drama
· 12 Pages
An old man sits in a diner remembering the past but due to his sickness he believes he is time traveling
CA
Dr. Mike Biocchi completed his PhD and has received his Masters of Science as well as his Bachelor of Computer Science. Mike is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
He has taken his knowledge of computer science, computer security, and technology to create a fictional world where crime never stops. Multiple novels a...
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Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 48 Pages
After landing her dream job, a young actress quickly discovers that nothing is what it seems on America's favorite children's program, Apple Basket Alley.
Brooklyn, New York
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Action
· 71 Pages
In 1750 London, sisters Mary and Bella Roberts are accidental stowaways on a pirate ship, which sets them on a path towards a life of crime.
Burbank, CA
Danielle loves creating original genre-bending stories featuring female leaders - particularly adventure thrillers.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 109 Pages
A scaredy cat teams up with an inept monster hunter after vampires unleash hell on their city, and together, must find a way to stop them.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Yes, it's true, James Yantko is bald...but he makes up for his lack of hair by being really funny! His original features, "Did You Say Blood?" and "Christopher Pan" have recently been featured on Coverfly's Red List. Currently, James continues to improve and build upon his diverse body of work, and soon hopes to tell his mom that he has finally beco...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 97 Pages
In a parched rugged wilderness, a young woman flees a pair of sadistic Border Patrol Officers, until an encounter with a troubled drug smuggler convinces her that to survive she must set a lethal trap.
Adelaide, AU
Adele writes thrillers, often with migration and borders in the mix. She focuses on grounded stories, full of suspense and threat, with characters that have real dirt under their nails and secrets to keep.
She is a 2024 Academy Nicholl finalist with her second feature, NO GHOSTS TONIGHT.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 63 Pages
Logline: A Forensic Pathologist turns to Family Ancestry and DNA to solve crimes and other mysteries.
Season 1: In her final quarter at college in California, Forensic Pathologist, Dr. Kemah Cross was raped and left for dead. Two decades later she is involved in the investigation of a rapist on the campus of a Chicago University that is similar t...
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Flossmoor, IL
A family physician, I met my husband, a surgeon, in med-school in Toledo. Raised in Chicago, I now live in one of its suburbs, Flossmoor. I'm obsessed with , DNA, family trees, and generations. As a pre-med student at Stanford, while studying blood type, a fellow student having misunderstood the information, believed I was adopted. My anxiety over ...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 120 Pages
When a vindictive enemy hijacks her transport ship in deep space to seek revenge and enslave her passengers, a cynical NASA pilot, under harrowing conditions, must rise above her inner demons to free her captive crew and deliver humanity from the brink of extinction.
Raised in a small New England town, encouraged by his father, Matthew wrote science fiction and painted a Star Wars battle mural on his bedroom wall. In time, his love of well-told action and sci-fi stories for film led to an optioned spec script, an action/adventure in the spirit of Indiana Jones, before moving on in his profession as a veterinary ...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 112 Pages
A lovesick dispensary worker, seeking to fund an engagement ring, unwittingly becomes a pawn in a game of corporate espionage when he agrees to become a paid informant for the DEA and spy on a gifted botanist trying to safeguard her revolutionary strain from a greedy pharma-bro.
Los Angeles, CA
Keegan grew up in a mundane California town where his brand of humor was quickly recognized, earning him the prestigious award of “most detentions” in high school. Luckily, he stumbled into a film class where he learned to use his comedy constructively, and thrust him on a journey which now includes recognition in Oscar-qualifying film festivals an...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 120 Pages
A 85-time worldwide nominee, the story of a forbidden love between an Indian girl and an American philosophy student that is tragically interrupted after an unspeakable hate crime.
Chicago, IL
2024 NICHOLL NOMINEE:
In the last 4 years, Austin's screenplays Car Heroin Train, Her Seventh Death, William the II, Taming Holden Caulfield, Diners & Devils, Who Let the Wallflowers Out? (2024 Nicholl Nominated) and Maddie and Frannie have combined for over 250 nominations in film fests across 5 continents. When not writing, Austin's a lead e...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 95 Pages
When a global pandemic forces an elderly Korean shaman to care for his grandchild, he must rekindle the ancient magic from his childhood to save his estranged family.
https://vimeo.com/762477215
A story about the complexity of human relationships, the majesty of death, and the capacity for hope in the face of human suffering. A poignant look at the Covid crisis in NYC that's deeply dark but also beautiful.
Emily's Recommendation
Coverfly Story Analyst
Brooklyn, NY
Storm Choi’s scripts have won the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Competition, the CAPE New Writers Award, the screenplay competition at the International Asian American Film Festival, and an Emerging Narrative Fellowship from the IFP.
In 2023, 2022, and 2020, he was nominated for Emmy Awards for Outstanding Editing as the Supervising Editor on the ...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Family
· 101 Pages
In Earth’s first floating city, a lonely girl grieving her grandma discovers a shapeshifting Octopus boy who needs her help to stop a corrupt leader from destroying the Barrier Reef — before marine life rises up in retaliation.
Bowling Green, KY
www.ErikaKathryn.com | ERIKA KATHRYN is a published Author and Award-Winning Screenwriter. Her grandparents were super Swedish, so she infuses the unique Swedish culture and folklore into many of her stories. While she went to East Carolina University to study Serial Killers and Interned as a U.S. Marshal, she fell in love with Writing there. So nat...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 61 Pages
Anthology Series w/ Self-Contained Episodes: (Pilot) When a desperate college professor resorts to experimental sleep therapy to cure his nightmares, he loses his grip on reality and finds himself ruthlessly hunted down by a sadistic teenager in both the dream world and waking life.
Denver, CO
Steve Brown, a graduate of the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting, holds dual degrees in Journalism and English from the University of Arizona. In 2023, he transitioned from corporate copywriting (for popular brands such as Nintendo and Kaplan Test Prep) to pursue his passion for film and TV. Today, he dedicates his time entirely to screenwr...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
When a struggling couple returns to the husband's small-town Minnesota roots, they launch a podcast inspired by a popular TV show, using it as a creative outlet to confront their personal demons and cultural clashes.
West Hills, CA
I'm a TV writer with a dad bod, a teacher, and a former high school basketball player who once averaged 2.4 blocks a game. I'm a proud Iron Range, Minnesota native, husband to a badass Korean-American woman, and girl dad of two angels. My writing tackles 2020s America with diverse characters and sharp wit that starts some serious conversations. So s...
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Lobby
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Faith
· 83 Pages
Stuck in the waiting room between life and what comes next, one young man is left to reflect on his lifelong search for meaning in a world that often felt absent of it.
Abby Louise Cameron
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 57 Pages
When the runaway, teenage son of a slain gang pariah investigates his family's connections to the city's underworld, his sister Maria races against time to prevent him from succumbing to the same fate as their father.
Studio City, CA
Born on an abandoned stretch of Route 66 to a teen mother, Caledonia's experiences as an adopted, disabled, queer, indigenous individual pathed the way for them to write David vs Goliath like stories that reflect on socially relevant themes where their David-like characters don’t always get what they want, but they always get what they need, even if...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Western
· 113 Pages
When an ex-confederate soldier and runaway slave woman are forced to head west to try their luck as settlers, they must contend with the wild dangers of the frontier: racists, prowling wolves, and their own broken pasts while trying to grow the scarcest crop of them all on their new land—their forbidden love.
Los Angeles, CA
Kayla Hardy is black woman of Louisiana creole descent, a topic she focused on during her time at Binghamton University where she earned her PhD in African American lit.
Kayla's work focuses on black female led genre-driven screenplays and novels. Her fantasy novel THE QUARTER QUEEN is the winner of the Launch Pad Prose Competition.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
When a stunt woman and an LAPD cop are forced to question their careers because of internal corruption in their fields of work, the two try to fight for their rightful places, but the very systems they're mired in want to silence them at all costs, forcing them to break bad.
San Diego, California
Annique Arredondo is an outspoken Latinx screenwriter, filmmaker, and social activist who grew up along the border of San Diego. Her goal: to convey a fresh perspective on what it means to be bicultural, female, and “the other'' in contemporary American society, crafting characters who, with a slight twist of humor, exist on a razor’s edge of traged...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
Haunted by both a past transgression and the unsolved murder of his hero-cop father, a biracial Philadelphia detective with a reputation for losing his cool sets out on a quest to take down a criminal kingpin, but as the investigation unfolds, he realizes he might not be prepared for what he uncovers or the sacrifices he has to make.
Shamong, NJ
No bio available.
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Swamp Boys
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Fantasy
· 115 Pages
An introverted teenage girl visits her estranged aunt in the swampy town of Castor, Louisiana, and is turned into the creature that has tormented her nightmares, forcing her into the sinister side of a world filled with folk magic and Biblical monsters.
Los Angeles, CA
Shaped by her unique upbringing in Ethiopia and the diverse and rich stories that it offered, Yayabell fiercely believes in widening the scope of stories told about black women in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre. After her time at Pepperdine University studying Theatrical Arts and Screenwriting, she now works as a writer’s PA and set PA.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 118 Pages
A bisexual man switches places with an alternate version of himself to find out which has the better life – the version who ended up with his high school girlfriend or his college boyfriend – only to discover that who he married isn’t as important as who loves him.
Dallas, Texas
Larry Collins is a drama / dramedy writer who is also a television news reporter with 8 EMMY awards. He wrote, directed, and narrated a news docuseries on Peacock TV. He is a former MTV intern from the TRL glory days – which has birthed an undeniable musicality to his projects. Larry writes about beautifully flawed people learning to finally live.
Quarterfinalist
Short
· Horror
· 10 Pages
Two old friends find a solution to that age old problem ; what on earth to do with the cash and the body!
GB
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Adventure
· 60 Pages
An archeologist joins up with a lawyer and an anthropologist to fight universities, museums, governments, tomb robbers, and thieves to restore valuable antiquities to their rightful owners.
Valley Glen, CA
After graduating from UC Berkeley, Andrea moved to LA to dance for a living, which went over with the family about as well as you'd expect. Somehow that eventually segued into a career pulling all-nighters cutting post-production sound, although these days she works below-the-line delivering on-set graphics for TV shows. She prefers her humor dry, w...
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While Black
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 40 Pages
A coming of age story about a group of teenagers navigating their way through the underfunded city they call home with humor and charm.
No bio available.
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