Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge |
2024
All Writers Receive 50 Points of Analysis – AT NO ADDITIONAL COST.
All Writers Receive a Full Read by a Save the Cat! Master Cat Reader.
Feedback is Grounded in Structure—Not Opinion.
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Winners
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Feature
· Horror
· 100 Pages
A former drug addict's limits are tested when a search for her missing ex-husband leads her into the world of a terrifying BDSM cult.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
In 1994, a third-grader named Jason Kaleko put an upturned flashlight under his chin, told a ghost story at a sleepover, and made his friends totally wig out -- and he’s been chasing that high ever since. Since moving to Los Angeles and working through the assistant ranks, Jason has developed several original projects around town with companies such...
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Winner
TV Script
· Thriller
· 52 Pages
After a bad batch of fentanyl kills 13 teenagers, the CIA deploys two top-secret Molotov agents to disrupt and destroy the fentanyl supply chain in Mexico.
COMPS: THE AMERICANS meets THE WIRE.
Los Angeles, CA
Roger Corman recruited me out of USC film school to direct low-budget wonders around the world. I learned the hard way that every great film starts with an even better script. As a stay-at-home dad, I write everyman Hitchcockian thrillers between flipping pancakes and mending hearts/knees on the gridiron that is grammar school.
Top 5
Top 5
Feature
· Comedy
· 109 Pages
Patriarchal f*ckery’s afoot, as three medieval sisters must brew the Greatest Ale Evyr Maide to save brewing as they know it and themselves from burning at the stake.
Stamford, CT
Kim is a writer/producer/director who pens absurd comedy as a balm for These Times. She's the co-founder of Scrappy Cat, an independent production company making features, docs, music videos and shorts. Kim adjuncts at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in Brooklyn and lives in Stamford with her husband and three cat overlords, Howard, Archie and N...
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Top 5
Feature
· Drama
· 108 Pages
In 1973, when an abused, withdrawn boy reaches his breaking point, he sets out to expose the hidden darkness of his town—with a vengeance as calculated as it is quiet.
No bio available.
Top 5
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 99 Pages
In an alternate present-day, all extraterrestrials have fled Earth after their mistreatment by the human race. Zoe, a two-bit thief freshly out of prison, returns to exact revenge on her criminal boss when she finds and releases a young alien being held against its will. Both now needing to leave the state and travel north, Zoe reluctantly joins the...
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Los Angeles, CA
Zach Grossman is from Los Angeles (a rare breed), went to school in Boston, and then left winter behind to settle back in LA. Zach is interested in character driven, grounded stories with fully developed worlds. He likes to explore new ways into stories that immediately separates them from both the expected and the previously existing.
He has mult...
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Top 5
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
After her parents lost their Sonoma winery, an ambitious young woman sets out to create a legacy of her own by working a small island vineyard in the pacific northwest owned by her grandmother, only to discover the land is in ruins and her parents want the estate.
Lopez Island, WA
Author of contemporary romance and Christmas novellas.
Top 5
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
After Rashida Gaines' near-death experience, she's burdened with supernatural gifts that further complicate the relationship with her religious family, puts her life in danger, and forces her to become a vigilante in the army of an Egyptian Goddess.
Los Angeles, CA
Inspired by the crazy, interesting, and sometimes dangerous world of corrections, Tiffany decided to dive into crime dramas and police procedurals. After placing in the We Screenplay TV Pilot lab (2021), Screen Craft Drama (2022), and the Launch Pad Pilot Competition (2023), she decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in screenwriting.
Top 5
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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Feature
· Fantasy
· 118 Pages
When a 39-year-old man-child discovers his gaming group of nearly 30 years wants to hang up the “potions of healing” and get on with their lives, he pleads for one last gaming session -- to win back his “Slayer Club” by playing an infamous game that not only transports them into the world of the game, but threatens the fabric of reality itself.
Carlsbad, ca
When Michael wasn't hosting the Dolphin Show at Sea World -- oh, the stories I could tell -- he was writing screenplays in the back of a laundromat. He's on Adderall now, so he's a lot more productive.
Top 25
Top 25
Feature
· Drama
· 100 Pages
A successful female lawyer gets tricked into an abusive marriage, breaks free to start life anew in another country, discovering obstacles that challenge her very core and determination to rebuild her life.
Collaroy, Nsw, AU
Retired lawyer in Australia, New York USA and the Philippines.
Author of an autobiographic book, "A Pebble That Floats, a Memoir to Inspire “, available on Amazon.
Logline: A very successful female lawyer gets tricked into an abusive marriage, breaks free to start life anew in another country, only to discover relentless discrimination that chal...
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Top 25
TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
Fascist movements are spreading like wildfire in Pre-War Europe, and an exiled princess must decide whether to save Moravia and her family the only way she can: joining the fascists and leading her country as its queen.
Los Angeles, California
Will is a US-based published writer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. His passion for history often finds ways to express itself in his work, and his dramatic writing usually focuses on or alludes to profound and extraordinary historical figures, conflict, and events. When he is not writing, he enjoys traveling, learning languages, and playing piano (poorly...
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Top 25
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 67 Pages
A Jewel Thief posing as a Journalist uncovers a Tech Mogul's secret plan to 'harmonize' Humanity with a mysterious A.I.
Vancouver, BC, CA
An Award Winning Writer and VFS graduate, Brian has numerous screenplays on the market including the recently optioned TV Series "GRANVILLE" and Scriptapalooza Feature Finalist "FREEDOM IN A BULLET" .
Immersed in the Industry for years (P.A. Actor, Art Dept, etc.) these opportunities both on set and in office have proven invaluable in the proces...
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Brave Blossoms
Private
Top 25
Feature
· Drama
· 130 Pages
Brave Blossoms: Inspired by the 1935 United States District Court Criminal Case for the Northern District of California.
Birmingham, AL
Virginia was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, leaving only to study English and Theatre at the University of Alabama and then returning and settling to receive her J.D. from Cumberland School of Law (2008). She passes as an attorney by day, but transforms into writer and historian after dark (i.e., after baseball, soccer, track, dinner and ho...
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Top 25
Feature
· Thriller
· 97 Pages
Convinced his young and attractive wife is cheating on him, a wealthy older man enlists the help of a young man to outsmart the wife in the inevitable divorce payoff. But it quickly becomes unclear who among them is a step ahead of the game.
Vero Beach, Florida
Played baseball at UConn, Army captain in war zone (Bronze Star). I've written 10 feature screenplays and 3 shorts. My most recent 6 features have finished as Semi-Finalist or higher (including 8 first places) in over 40 international screenwriting contests. One of my shorts also won a first place award.
Human
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 59 Pages
An ex-soldier and her friends get separated during a mass alien abduction event, they must all now learn to survive, while trying to hold on to who they were.
Pendle Hill, Nsw, AU
Journeying from film school to marketing was a wild ride and not a path I saw for myself. Still, it's kept me creative and I've been ploughing away at screenplays and ideas in the background, sometimes when I was meant to be working. Now I'm finally at a point where I want to knuckle down, take this super seriously, and make this my full time career...
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In Too Deep
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Thriller
· 62 Pages
A young doctor escapes the big city to a regional town after the devastating loss of her 3 year old son to a genetic terminal condition bearing no trace in her family but for her. She leaves behind her marriage and father to discover and reclaim parts of herself she's lost but finds herself helping strangers reclaim their missing pieces first.
No bio available.
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Top 25
Feature
· Faith
· 96 Pages
A man so pained by the loss of his son that on the one year anniversary of his death from a school shooting, takes his own life only to end up in another place and time where he learns to grieve, and the truest meaning of forgiveness.
Sherman Oaks, CA
No bio available.
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Little Italo
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
Looking for a fresh start far from his country and family, a charismatic journalist-wannabe moves from Italy to New York, only to find himself stuck in the city’s Little Italy with a life-changing family secret to unpack, a dying neighborhood to save and a twisted love that could complicate everything.
No bio available.
New Face
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
In giving an exposé interview, a 30-year-old ex-model relives her seemingly successful career as an underage runway girl, retracing how she descended into the dark world of modelling in the UK and how she learnt a dangerous equation young; the more abuse she’s willing to submit to, the more appreciation and praise will come her way…
GB
Linda & James are an award-winning German/English writing and directing duo based in the UK. As a neurodivergent/autistic directing duo, they are interested in stories about unique perspectives; about characters who don’t fit the convention.
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TV Script
· Drama
· 63 Pages
Seattle art restorer Nikki Trask suspects that her grandfathers have resumed their colorful criminal past. But when Nikki ends up framed for a major heist, she'll need to get seriously creative. When painted into a corner, consult the old masters - criminals, that is.
Seattle, Washington
Raised by wolves in a circus town, Gabi is an award-winning screenwriter and mystery author. By day, she's a tax judge who attended both West Point and trapeze school.
Catnapped and Doggone, the first two books in her Animal Instinct series, were published by Penguin. She's been a finalist for the Debut Dagger, the Ray Bradbury Fellowship and t...
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Top 25
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
The leader of a rebellion spends his last night before his execution a prisoner in his childhood home, causing him to reflect...or escape.
Los Angeles, California
Will is a US-based published writer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. His passion for history often finds ways to express itself in his work, and his dramatic writing usually focuses on or alludes to profound and extraordinary historical figures, conflict, and events. When he is not writing, he enjoys traveling, learning languages, and playing piano (poorly...
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Top 25
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 61 Pages
A young amnesiac peasant with mysterious powers searches for her three-year-old daughter amid vicious religious persecution, rampant disease, and dangers around every corner.
Los Angeles, CA
Polina’s grandmother used to read her Ancient Greek myths and legends when she was little. That sparked a passionate love for history and storytelling. In addition to Screenwriting, she later majored in Philosophy and minored in Classics and Archaeology. She writes across genres: from period pieces based on true events to high-fantasy to romantic co...
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Feature
· Action
· 92 Pages
A group of US inmates are taken deep into the wilderness of upstate New York, as part of the rehabilitation, mindfulness program 'The Scandinavian Way'. When they suddenly find a bag of Canadian money, the unfairly incarcerated inmate Shane must survive the wilderness, a power tripping guard, the crazy Danish hippie leading them, and the other money...
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Copenhagen, DK
Philip is a Danish-Canadian writer-director with a gritty Scandivian genre sensibility, but a large empathetic Canadian heart.
Nominated for both a Danish ACADEMY AWARD (Robert) and EMMY (TV-prisen). Director of the first Danish film on Disney+, Amblin-esque Halloween film 'The Seekers: Thrill Night (Forsvundet til Halloween)', and the Alf-like su...
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