Table Read My Screenplay - Park City |
2024
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Grand Prize Winners
Grand Prize Winner
Feature
· Drama
· 101 Pages
A queer half-Mexican teen grappling with his identity in a dead-end Texas border town helps two migrants survive the ICE facility run by his estranged father.
San Mateo, CA
Always cutting, often dark, not afraid to get mean: Steve Coy is an award-winning writer of (mostly) comedy TV and features depicting complicated families, con artists, and class conflict. 10+ years in linear, digital, and branded content, inc. feature doc Vince Carter: Legacy, which sold to Crackle in 2021. Off the page: former professional chef, ...
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Finalists
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 102 Pages
In a deadly game of defiance, an Iranian metal band risks it all to break the silence.
Los Angeles, California
Farbod Ardebili is an Iranian director/writer residing in the US since 2014. He is a recipient of Sundance's Film Intensive Fellowship, whose work has won awards and nominations at renowned festivals, including Fantastic Fest and Fantasia. His scripts have also been placed in premier competitions, such as ScreenCraft (Finalist), Launchpad (Finalist)...
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Hiss
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 90 Pages
A young woman's chance encounter with the occult threatens her older sister's wedding weekend and their entire relationship.
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Historical
· 91 Pages
In 1917, using her husband’s political connections to further her suffrage agenda, a renowned stage actress and the National Woman’s Party are unlawfully incarcerated and tortured in their fight to win the women’s right to vote.
Pasadena, CA
Tamara is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright based in Los Angeles and New York. She is a Rhodium Award winner in the WRPN Women’s International Film Festival; a Finalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, The California Women’s Film Festival, the Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards, Table Read My Screenplay, Scri...
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Nightingale's Bloom
Finalist
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
Frank Lloyd Wright leaves his wife and children for feminist author and translator, Mamah Cheney, resulting in a nationwide scandal with fatal consequences for Mamah, her children, and four workmen in what is still one of the most brutal crimes in Wisconsin history.
Mars Hill, NC
Denise Meyers was recently named to The Grey List, a curated list of writers over forty with production ready scripts. A 2021 ISA Network Fast Track Fellow, the inaugural recipient of a Sloan Foundation Development Grant, and her short film THE DARK OF NIGHT (directed by Robin Wright and which stars Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb), had its red carpe...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
The owner of a small promotion and her wrestlers desperately fight to save their close-knit and chaotic company from internal and external threats as the wrestling landscape is thrown in disarray during the early 80s.
No bio available.
The Bechdel Test
Finalist
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Finalist
Feature
· Historical
· 103 Pages
When a down-on-his-luck radio producer returns from World War II, he must wrangle a shabby team of oddballs to launch an unpromising new medium—television.
Los Angeles, CA
Tobiah Black is an Emmy Award-winning documentary producer and Signal Award-winning history podcaster. His fiction has appeared in Roanoke Review, Tilted House Review, MORIA and others. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter and cat. www.tobiahblack.com
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
In the heart of the Deep South during the Civil Rights Movement, a determined black girl enrolls in a desegregated high school to challenge injustice. But when she faces public humiliation at her current school, she'll see attending the integrated school as an opportunity to escape her struggles with self-esteem, colorism, and boys.
Florida
I am an American writer with deep roots in Southern African American culture, enriched by Geechee heritage on my father’s side and a connection to Creek heritage on my mother’s side—though I’m still on a journey to learn more about both. Born in Texas, I grew up as the daughter of a federal warden, living next to prisons and moving to a new state ev...
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 112 Pages
Two immigrant women, one Chinese and the other Irish, contend with a frontier town’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the 19th Century American West. Based on real events.
Tacoma, Washington
Retired community college professor (English for immigrants and refugees) and mental health therapist. Urban farmer. First time screenwriter.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 117 Pages
Striving to restore the epic film NAPOLEON, an obsessed English film-maker sacrifices all - money, personal life, career - to his idol: the delusional genius director of the mutilated masterpiece, who sabotages the restoration. Based on a true story.
Berkeley, California, Berlin, DE
Multinational polyglot. Professor of mathematics with numerous publications and research awards. Classical musician. Int'l ballroom dancer. Director of an award-winning short THE ZAHIR. Stowe Story Labs & Rocaberti alumna. Titan Awards Category Winner. RIFF Grand Jury Prize. Olga writes about follies of genius, elusiveness of belonging, and ironie...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Horror
· 56 Pages
A retired witch fights demons in Florida. It’s the dry diagnostic humor of HOUSE MD meets the dark supernatural of STRANGER THINGS.
Los Angeles, Orlando, CA
Autumn Cavender (Wahpetunwan Dakota) is a midwife, artist, writer, and storyteller. She began screenwriting in 2023, developing her craft through the Native American Media Alliance’s Screenwriter Labs and mentorships with friends who are *checks notes* funnier, more-better-looking, and spiritually better people than she is.
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A Visit From My Teenage Self
Semifinalist
Unknown
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 98 Pages
A disgraced therapist making ends meet as a rideshare driver gets more than she bargained for when she is hired by a troubled teen on graduation night. A revenge thriller in the vein of COLLATERAL meets PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN.
Clinton Township, NJ
Michael is an attorney who traded in the horrors of brief writing for screenwriting. Michael won the 2022 Final Draft Grand Prize and Page Awards Gold Prize with ABOUT MCKENNA, a female-driven revenge thriller in the vein of COLLATERAL. While Michael writes all types of scary films, he's drawn to using deeply flawed characters to dig into complex s...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 109 Pages
After an attack on her home village leaves her stranded, a young girl sets out to find her mother while civil war tears Congo apart.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 115 Pages
A community at war with itself reaches its boiling point in New York’s Lower East Side, culminating in the 1988 Tompkins Square Park riots
Ottawa, ON, CA
Kristen McNaule (she/they) is a writer and filmmaker who tells revolutionary stories set in gritty landscapes with a bit of sparkle. Her interest in International Development led her to Sierra Leone to make a documentary about post-conflict development. She founded the production company Element 109 to make films that shed light on mental illness, c...
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An American Camelot
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
In an alternate history where the United States established a monarchy upon its independence, the newly elected prime minister comes into conflict with King George II over the continued existence of this line of rule.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 89 Pages
When a devoted, life-affirming student of a dissipated existential ethics professor interrupts his meticulously orchestrated suicide, she vows to rekindle his desire to live - or, to help him do it right.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
As a former English and creative writing teacher, I started out writing stage plays, two of which I produced and staged in Toronto, Canada. Since taking up screenwriting, I have completed five features and a few short scripts, several of which have won or placed in competitions or seen development by a production company or script lab. I am presentl...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 98 Pages
A man comes to CIA headquarters claiming to be from the future
and tells them why it was necessary for John Kennedy to be assassinated.
Torrance, CA
I am an award-winning and optioned screenwriter. I am also a published author: two detective novels by Black Rose Writing; another two by Touch Point Press.
Assistance in Dying
Semifinalist
Unknown
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 112 Pages
As a determined geneticist investigates Australia’s most infamous female serial killer—a mother convicted of murdering her four babies—and uncovers evidence of a potential genetic mutation in her, she becomes entangled in a high-stakes battle that challenges both the limits of science and her own personal convictions.
New York, NY
Franck Benayoun is a French-born writer living in New York.
Storytelling has been his passion from an early age, first expressed through his ambition to become a comic artist, then explored through photography, and later brought to life in his children's book, Molly and The Damaged Books. This creative journey led him to screenwriting, a craft h...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 108 Pages
'Billy & Ray' is the incredible true story of how Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler wrote the screenplay for DOUBLE INDEMNITY, battled the censors, invented film noir and nearly killed each other in the process.
Astoria, NY
Mike Bencivenga is an award winning writer/director/producer in theater, film and TV. He wrote and directed two feature films, LOSERS IN LOVE and HAPPY HOUR, both of which had theatrical releases. He's a produced playwright having written 10 full length plays. His comedy, BILLY & RAY, was directed by the legendary Garry Marshall. In TV Mike has won ...
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Black Sands
Semifinalist
Unknown
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Blackness of Space, Whiteness of Bones
Semifinalist
Unknown
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Blood Innocent
Semifinalist
Unknown
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 114 Pages
In 1976, 26 school children and their bus driver are abducted and held for ransom by dimwitted trust fund babies. But the kidnappers are no match for the determined children and their kindly old bus driver, Joe, in this true story about the largest mass kidnapping in America.
San Francisco, CA
Jane is a dramatic feature and TV screenwriter who loves to mine real-life stories of strong people who have been overlooked. She is a champion storyteller on the NPR Moth radio hour, and a public relations professional who has spun corporate stories into icon-making media profiles for leaders like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
Deliver Us From Evil
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 62 Pages
When a police detective, hunting a serial killer, gets too close, the killer murders his family sending him into a downward spiral of alcohol, suicide, and a near-death experience. Convinced he has heard the word of God, he decides to become a priest and serve the church, until years later the serial killer reappears... in his confessional.
Ueberlingen, Baden Wurttemberg, DE
Jeffrey, an old fart and award-winning filmmaker, has lived 35 years in Germany where he served in Army intelligence on the East German border. He became a documentary filmmaker whose films have been broadcast on PBS, USA Network, and German TV. He also writes and directs narrative films. His latest film, ALL MY TOMORROWS, has won at Austin, Houst...
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Semifinalist
Pitch
· Drama
· 1 Pages
When a TV anchorwoman wins a sexual harassment lawsuit, she quickly learns no other station will hire her - except for a low-budget, independent station in the middle of nowhere.
Oakland, CA
A former professional musician, I spent fifteen years in broadcasting as an award-winning newscast producer and reporter. I recently retired as the award-winning Chief of the Public Information Office for the California Department of Transportation in the San Francisco Bay district. My non-fiction has appeared in "Flight Journal" magazine and nume...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 95 Pages
When human touch suddenly becomes fatal, a reclusive singer fights for survival against the crazed, dying infected, but is a world without touch even worth fighting for?
San Francisco, CA
Ervin had a pretty crappy childhood. Bad stuff happened. But he survived and turned his personal darkness into stories. His work is often genre-bending, usually sci-fi, horror and/or comedy. Ervin's horror comedy, WHEN HORROR MET SALLY, made the Bloodlist and is a Blacklist Recommended script. He's had several scripts optioned, and plans to direct h...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 109 Pages
A Mexican-American in his late twenties tries to overcome his ADHD and finally get his driver's license with the help of a woman he just met through Tinder while also coping with his mother's death.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
James Barnes is a writer of Mexican descent who specializes in writing stories that are wacky-unique adventures which revolve around social issues that mirror conflicts in our society today. He’s currently fulfilling a military obligation but is still eagerly pursuing his dream as a storyteller. He is actively trying to get representation to help hi...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 102 Pages
Ex-con Ruby Abernathy is looking for a fresh start when she takes over the family bar but quickly discovers that her father's dark history of murder and corruption threatens her new way of life.
Los Angeles, CA
Daniel Corey is a Philip K. Dick Film Festival Award-winning writer and content producer.
Daniel's projects include the graphic novels MORIARTY and RED CITY, which he published through Image Comics. Additionally, his screenplays have won over 50 first-place awards from film festivals all over the world, and he was recently awarded Best Director for...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 119 Pages
After inadvertently killing his best friend, a self-destructive luchador flees the fragile family wrestling business in order to pursue his long lost love through music, but his vengeful brother and ambitious step-mother pursue him relentlessly in order to force him back into the ring.
El Paso, Texas
Austin Savage received his MFA in Writing for Film and Television from Emerson College in 2021. Since receiving his MFA he has received numerous accolades including winning The Black List x Hornitos "Take Your Shot" Competition.
He has a long history of collaboration including working at The Kennedy Center alongside writers such as Samuel D. Hunte...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 112 Pages
When a journalist desperate for a story gets a tip about a thirty-year-old cold case involving her daughter's favorite movie, the two of them must solve the mystery -- before they end up in the crosshairs themselves.
Los Angeles, CA
Tobiah Black is an Emmy Award-winning documentary producer and Signal Award-winning history podcaster. His fiction has appeared in Roanoke Review, Tilted House Review, MORIA and others. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter and cat. www.tobiahblack.com
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Musical
· 67 Pages
In the heart of 1973 Los Angeles, a gifted Chicano family band transforms their struggles into groundbreaking rock music, battling barrio dangers, racism, and industry prejudice as their unique sound ignites a generation and tests their family bond.
Burbank, CA
An award-winning filmmaker of Mexican American descent and a self-described "Renegade Lens," David writes powerful stories informed by his journey growing up in an inner-city housing project. Transcending his challenging origin, he has become an acclaimed writer-director with over 80 script accolades and two dozen production awards, weaving celebrat...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 38 Pages
Set in a ramshackle Queens, NY nursing home, "Essie Rosenbaum Must Die” is a twisted comedy about Vilma Velazquez, the third oldest woman alive who unleashes a sophisticated and deadly plot to murder her way into becoming number one.
- Verified WGA Member
Astoria, NY
Miles has written, produced and directed hundreds of episodes of television, multiple TV specials, commercials, music videos and short films. He is the recipient of an Emmy award, two WGA Awards, three Peabodys and numerous other nominations. He was the Executive Producer for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and a Senior Producer for The Daily Show wi...
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F-86
Semifinalist
Unknown
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
Despite their forty-year age gap, and the cancer treatment confining them to their small Texas town, two gay men embark on a road trip to San Francisco to grant themselves the Make-A-Wish they're too old to receive.
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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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 136 Pages
Biopic of the 1950s film noir starlet Barbara Payton. The dazzlingly beautiful and talented Payton quickly ascended to leading roles in Hollywood. But her wild partying, alcoholism, and scandalous romances brought her career crashing down to prostitution.
Scotts Valley, CA
Linda wrote the feature "Fashion Victim" about the cross-country murder spree of serial killer Andrew Cunanan, who assassinated Gianni Versace. Reviewed in the NY Times and LA Times.
Linda's medical sci-fi thriller, Twisted Fate, about a prion pandemic in the U.S. was published in 2022. The novel was showcased pre-publication in the magazine ...
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Fly Girls
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FML
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 50 Pages
A young man gets a job at ‘60s Motown and ascends from janitor to session musician, finding love, drama, and mystery along the way.
Los Angeles-pompano, Ca-fl
J. Phillip Wilkins is a composer, screenwriter, and the author of several unfinished books, including 'Desert Witch', 'The Girl From Yuma', and 'Laughter, Far Away'. His tenure as one-third of indie pop outfit The Postmarks was followed by a move to the West Coast demimonde. Often called 'the poorman's Doc Savage' (SPY magazine), mixes genres like C...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 102 Pages
Finding herself homeless and unemployed, a short-tempered jockey teams up with a gambling trainer to compete at the Kentucky Derby, only to find that the real prize can’t be won on the turf.
Alana is a Swiss-Australian citizen with a background in financial crime compliance who specializes in writing feature film scripts in the genres of crime, action, comedy, and romance. Her original stories are driven by complex yet relatable characters and current themes, and she has gained recognition in multiple screenwriting competitions.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 102 Pages
An underachieving bachelor helps his painfully shy nephew approach his first big crush.
San Francisco, Ca
Been writing since sixth grade. Been reading since seventh. Been trying to be funny since right about now.
The first thing people usually notice about me is the ATF agents chasing me around the airport. I go out of my way to step on crunchy leaves. I’ve written five screenplays on my phone. You should try it. People in line at Safeway think you’re...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 104 Pages
RAMBO meets GHOST BUSTERS when a military badass discovers his fists have the supernatural ability to PUNCH GHOSTS. Now he must fight the military agency that has developed ghostly super soldiers.
Los Angeles, CA
Brett was raised in Nashville and Memphis by parents deeply ingrained in the country music community. He spent 16 years alongside country music singer Kenny Chesney and at YouTube Music as a "Country Music Expert."
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 90 Pages
A recently widowed man allows himself to become possessed in order to go to Hell to seek revenge on his wife’s killer and the plunge through the depths is a damn funny one.
Los Angeles, CA
BENJAMIN FONT is an up-and-coming writer/director whose film career began as the co-writer of Robert Schwartzman’s Dreamland, which premiered at Tribeca and was released by Orion Pictures. He made his feature directorial debut soon after with Madness, Farewell, a dark holiday comedy that he also wrote, produced, and starred in as the co-lead. His ne...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 85 Pages
Decades after the loss of her husband, an elderly woman begins to feel young again when her granddaughter starts dating, only to get too attached to a high school fling.
(THELMA meets ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET.)
Brooklyn, New York
Jake is an NYC-based screenwriter and avid movie poster collector. He's loved writing his entire life, dating back to co-writing his first novel during 4th-grade recess (it's not as sad as it sounds!!)
After winning Best Horror in the 2023 Shore Scripts Feature Competition with BABY TEETH he co-directed a proof of concept for it, which was picked...
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Grit N' Glitter
Semifinalist
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