Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge |
2023
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Grand Prize Winners
Grand Prize Winner
TV Script
· Thriller
· 62 Pages
When an idealistic congressional staffer loses her job, she’s forced to take a lobbying position for a ruthless Russian oligarch—only to find herself seduced by the power, wealth, and high-stakes manipulation that come with it. "Like watching a WEST WING character BREAKING BAD," with echoes of SUITS and THE DIPLOMAT.
Los Angeles, California
I cut my teeth telling campfire stories in the mountains of my native Colorado, then decamped for NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, then subsequently to the University of London for an MA. I've worked as a documentary filmmaker in places like Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, and Washington DC, focusing on the systems of power and money that drive ou...
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Grand Prize Winner
Feature
· Historical
· 115 Pages
After escaping an abusive father and arranged marriage, a young Canadian woman embarks on an international journey of self discovery, but when the Civil War erupts, she disguises herself as a man and joins a Union regiment -- only to realize the commander is her childhood love.
Houston, Texas
I'm originally from Louisiana, studied communications at Loyola University in New Orleans. I now live in Houston and I'm active in the Houston film community. I've written a number of dramatic scripts with the hope of pursuing a professional writing career. In addition to my creative talent, I also hold degrees in Electrical Engineering and Busine...
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Top 5
Top 5
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
Rebellious Taylor is sent to a summer camp for psychopathic teenage girls, where she'll have to contend with her fellow campers, the overbearing staff, and a deeper conspiracy that spans decades.
Glendale, CA
Danny grew up attending Orthodox Jewish school by day, writing gay Star Wars fan fiction by night. Thankfully, Danny learned to drop the queer Sith Lords, and now writes about monsters, freaks, and weirds looking for a friend.
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Top 5
TV Script
· Historical
· 65 Pages
During the height of the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th Century, a seasoned captain of an esteemed ‘gallowglass’ warrior clan makes the radical yet crucial decision to ally with Scotland, leaving his band of mercenaries divided and his family in peril.
No bio available.
Top 5
Feature
· Drama
· 111 Pages
An emotionally stunted tech bro is recruited to launch a product based on his late brother's work: a wearable helmet that livestreams the subconscious. It's a chance to get his career going again and win back his ex girlfriend, but he'll have to deal with more insight than he ever imagined.
Brooklyn, NY
David’s sci-fi feature, Marcel, won grand prize in the 2022 Coverfly/Script Lab free screenplay competition out of over 10,000 submissions. As a Creative Director he's made commercials and brand films for Democrats and progressive causes, including in the last four Presidential campaigns, as well as major financial and retail brands. He’s a MacDowel...
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Top 5
TV Script
· Thriller
· 54 Pages
While investigating a string of abductions, a Midwest detective discovers that the plot runs deeper than they'd realized.
As a quintessential late-bloomer, Janson began writing crime novels in his 30s. After publishing six books and finding success in various screenwriting contests, his new goal is converting his novels to script format. His screenplay version of THE CHEMIST was set for production pre-Covid but was waylaid by the virus. Undaunted, he presses forward wi...
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Top 5
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 60 Pages
When a coding error makes a VR-addicted AI programmer the only one who can stop his trillionaire boss from harvesting human lives in a bid to keep death at bay, he must leave the digital world of his fantasies and enter the spirit world to face his demons, knowing that to save the world, he has to save himself.
Studio City, CA
Micah Sloat is best known for starring in the micro-budget hit PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. Combining that successful franchise with his degrees in philosophy and psychology, as well as his extensive background in the occult, his most recent project is PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: TRUE TALES OF POSSESSION for Paramount Pictures.
Top 25
Top 25
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 55 Pages
You know how Area 51 got its name? It's because there were 50 other "areas" before it that the military covered up. This is the story of 3 estranged siblings finding them in search of their missing parents.
Culver City, California
No bio available.
Bearheart and Trudeau
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Drama
· 53 Pages
When a nun is found murdered in front of an Indian Boarding School, an FBI Special Agent and Tribal Detective must find the brutal murderer, before they kill again.
She is an award-winning BIPOC filmmaker with an MFA in directing from Columbia University. Her films have screened at SXSW, Chicago Children's Film Festival and Worldfest to name a few. She's won three Austin Addy Awards for her commercials, fourth place at Slamdance for her script, Bill Picket: Bulldogger, and was a semi-finalist for the Academy N...
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Top 25
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
Captain Brightstar is a series which follows DAVE (30’s), a struggling comedian whose dreams have been side-tracked as he begins his first shift at a hospital as a ‘Captain Brightstar’, a children's entertainer. A selfish man in a selfless job, he must confront the damage he's caused in pursuit of his dreams, as he tries to become a better person.
Sydney, Nsw, AU
Tom Armstrong is a comedic writer, actor and stand-up comedian. He has received funding for his comedy writing from Screen Australia, Google, ABC, Channel 9, Screen Canberra and Screen NSW. Tom has gained over 400,000+ followers across his social media and millions of views. In 2019, Tom optioned a TV series called 'Mature' which received developmen...
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Top 25
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 65 Pages
A young woman wielding two swords that are interdimensional keys embarks on a voyage through a world of quantum dragons and technologically advanced empires to stop an ancient evil from returning.
C.K. Alexander’s fiction focuses on the speculative and visionary weaving elements of cli-fi, esoterica, cyberpunk, and neo-noir with a cosmological eye.
Top 25
TV Script
· Horror
· 60 Pages
A team of dysfunctional djinn hunters face the worst night of their lives trying to stop an evil sorceress before she completes a black magic ritual intended to bring about the apocalypse.
New Rochelle, New York
Seti Jakada's debut feature, "Homicide Hillz" has broken The Red List's Top 20 and placed in the finals of Screencraft's 2022 Horror Competition. Seems like skipping therapy and working his issues out through writing horror, crime thrillers with dark comedic edges may be paying off. A trifecta of Black culture, all things geek and truly bad 70s pare...
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Top 25
TV Script
· Thriller
· 59 Pages
When a fake investigator searches for a missing boy in a small community, she uncovers evidence of a sinister presence preying on children.
I believe everyone has a story engine inside them, driving them forward, making life meaningful. I always look for the exotic worlds of history and farthest future so that I might bring them back to share.
Top 25
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 56 Pages
When a wealthy playboy plans to turn a beloved gold mining town into a commercialized tourist attraction, Humboldt County’s preservationist, a homeless medium, and the ghostly residents from the 1860s team up to stop him.
Sylmar, CA
In her youth, Jodie hid her queer and Jewish identities out of fear, but travel and volunteering for a non-profit teaching teens confidence inspired her to open up and write about tolerance. Her genre-blending stories showcase a range of diverse characters exploring social mistrust and power imbalances. Jodie holds an MFA in film, a UCLA TV Writing ...
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How To Steal A Kingdom
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 59 Pages
When a naive girl-next-door suddenly develops forbidden fire magic, she is hunted and her father is killed in the crossfire. To survive and avenge his death, she has to join a group of rebel thieves set on dethroning the evil queen one heist at a time.
No bio available.
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TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 57 Pages
When a plan to avenge her father's death goes horribly wrong, a genius engineer becomes trapped in the body of her billionaire boss. Now she must become everything she loathed about him to get her body back and save his next target, the president.
Berlin, Berlin, DE
I'm an optioned screenwriter with a passion for grounded sci-fi, my stories are daring and caring with a dash of humor.
Awards for my scripts include winner at the Miami International SciFi Film Festival 2021, Finalist at Fantastic Planet Film Festival, 2nd Place at Cannes Screenwriting Contest, winner at Tokyo International Short Film Festival 20...
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Top 25
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
After his sister's death, psychologist Henry learns that his schizophrenic hallucinations are actually ghosts. He uses his new ability to solve the mystery of her death while working with her ghost to bring closure to grieving mental health patients.
Sylmar, CA
In her youth, Jodie hid her queer and Jewish identities out of fear, but travel and volunteering for a non-profit teaching teens confidence inspired her to open up and write about tolerance. Her genre-blending stories showcase a range of diverse characters exploring social mistrust and power imbalances. Jodie holds an MFA in film, a UCLA TV Writing ...
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Top 25
TV Script
· Comedy
· 57 Pages
Two Russian spies – a cheerful analytics nerd and a stone-cold nihilist – road trip across the US posing as influencers, spreading chaos while tearing apart the fabric of American society. Based on the very-insane and very-true story.
Los Angeles, CA
A native New Yorker inspired by big concepts, bold characters, and dark comedy, Matt's won awards at Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes Lions, and Telly Awards, and his scripts have won the Final Draft Big Break TV Award, the Script Pipeline TV Writing Contest, and been highlighted by The Blacklist as "Script of the Month."
In TV, Matt ran two seasons...
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My Digital Life
Private
Top 25
Feature
· Drama
· 119 Pages
A teen girl’s plan to turn the tables on a school bully through social media backfires.
Atlanta, GA
No bio available.
Top 25
Feature
· Drama
· 100 Pages
A closeted college wrestler falls for his shy roommate, but when his teammates bully the roommate and his abusive father resurfaces, he must choose between love and survival.
John Acquaviva has spent an alarming amount of time staring at blank pages, searching for the perfect way to break your heart and put it back together again. An award-winning screenwriter, his work has been recognized for its raw emotional depth and deeply human characters.
Top 25
Feature
· Drama
· 105 Pages
Between the moon walk and Woodstock, a 17 year old aspiring photographer struggles to save her boyfriend from slipping into heroin addiction without destroying herself.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An award winning educator, Marsha's high school students wrote plays which were produced Off Broadway. Ten years ago, she retired from a successful and generative career as a teacher ( Teacher of the Year in Philadelphia 1988 an 2005) to create a new chapter in her life as a writer and film producer. She moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where s...
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Top 25
TV Script
· Western
· 71 Pages
A fatherless, half-Black, half-Irish Cowboy returns from prison to find his mother presumed dead and their ranch stolen. As his quest to regain the land turns to revenge, he learns an eye-for-an-eye will blind everyone in this corrupt town where deep roots, bootlegging gangs and racism run deep.
Louis enjoys exploring character, place, and history through story and photography. His inspirations are the people in rural and urban environments with whom he worked, traveled, and backpacked, as well as his heritage. His writing tends toward historical fiction that provides lessons from the past for today. "Protect the Commons," "What comes aroun...
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TV Script
· Action
· 65 Pages
When a female hitman unknowingly assassinates a key member of a powerful, secret government organization, she's thrust back into the world of her past and toward uncovering the global conspiracy behind the people who tried to kill her.
Greenwood Village, Colorado
I'm an award-winning writer and filmmaker, who graduated Summa Cum Laude from Loyola Marymount University with a BFA majoring in Screenwriting and minoring in Film Studies. I have a huge passion for genre storytelling with characters and worlds that are new and captivating. My stories always feature strong, empowered women who rise above their strug...
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TV Script
· Adventure
· 62 Pages
After a personal tragedy, a boy is uprooted and brought to his father's hometown in rural Louisiana. There he must confront a terrifying supernatural force with ties to his family's past.
LA, CA
Jeremy St. Romain is a screenwriter, director, and founder of Under BQE Productions. He began his career as a middle school teacher in the South Bronx before shifting to film, where he now teaches production and industry courses in Hofstra University’s LA program. His work blends lyrical character studies with immersive, place-based storytelling, sh...
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Top 25
Feature
· Drama
· 108 Pages
When Sarah Miller's environmental activist father is murdered - she relentlessly seeks to find the murderer, save her father's mission, fight powerful local opposition determined to convict her as an eco-terrorist, finish college, and protect herself, family, and friends from a similar fate.
Columbia, MO
Environmental attorney.
The Contract
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
A determined young missionary attempts to destroy a local insurance branch as instructed by his cult leader, soon realizing he has just received a death sentence.
Atlanta, GA
Creating makes life better, and I’m here for that.
Top 25
Feature
· Drama
· 91 Pages
A Michelin star chef must figure out if he is going to make his brother the last meal of his life for killing their parents.
Culver City, California
No bio available.
Top 25
Feature
· Drama
· 91 Pages
After his childhood best friend is killed in a drive-by shooting, college freshman Jae Ford returns home to the inner-city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin to confront all of the people and problems he left behind.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
All my life I have loved to tell stories, and now I hope to share those stories with the world.
Throughout my life, I have experienced an array of changes, some harder to deal with than others. Through my screenplays, I hope to portray realistic situations and outcomes, that prove to viewers that they're not alone, and in-turn move audiences to c...
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Feature
· Adventure
· 103 Pages
In 1868 a former whaleship captain must make amends with a vengeful sea goddess to find the daughter he lost at sea and the strength to save an Alaskan island from his walrus-hunting crew.
Calabasas, California
Evan grew up in New York with a pack of pug dogs, making Super 8 movies. His love of wildlife, coupled with his concern over oil drilling in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), has led him to write The Walrus-Man.
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