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Finalists
Finalist
Feature
· Historical
· 125 Pages
Imprisoned since childhood at Henry Riggs’ notorious turpentine camp in the trackless wilderness of northern Florida, Martha LongFoot has to decide whether to give up a tenuous reprieve from assault and depredation to engineer an escape for a recently imprisoned couple with whom she has no cultural bond or sympathy.
- Verified WGA Member
Austin, Texas
For credits, publications, awards and a highly-sanitized bio, see darrylwimberley.com
Finalist
Feature
· Historical
· 9 Pages
An inspirational story of love and war based on the true account of Makorongo, an African serviceman who became a POW to the Japanese but was rescued by his boyhood friend Hans-Werner before America bombed Tokyo in WWII and returned to the girl he left behind.
Lymington, Hants, GB
A multi-award winning British writer, Sophie became well known for starring as Titty in the EMI movie SWALLOWS & AMAZONS. She has a degree in Anthropology and a background in TV production. After producing an INSET series and writing her own docu-dramas for BBC TV she set up wildlife films in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. Her WWII screenplay s...
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 122 Pages
Boris, a Soviet army veteran sentenced to the gulag by Stalin, transforms from a tortured prisoner to a guard in gulag camp when he causes a train wreck and steals a guard’s identity. His true identity and plan to escape to Finland are endangered by the scheming of a malevolent gulag officer and when his fellow camp members become his family and he ...
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No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 96 Pages
The true story of a young woman who shelters and aids the escape of the fugitive Scottish prince.
Los Angeles, California
Known for her work as the STAR TREK franchise's official science advisor, Erin Macdonald is a tattooed astrophysicist who finally found her calling in storytelling. In 2019 she was hired as the first woman science advisor for the STAR TREK franchise and spends time in all of the writers rooms for each show, working closely with the showrunners and w...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 101 Pages
Based on actual events. When a famous radio personality is found dead in the seaside resort of Venice Of America, a private detective’s world is turned upside down when the victim shows up alive the day after her funeral and forces him to confront his own childhood demons.
Madison, WI
I got my first job in Hollywood because of an earthquake. I got my second job in Hollywood because of a klutz move at a salad bar. I’m now a member of the DGA, a produced screenwriter, won an Emmy, was named a “Top 25 screenwriter” by the ISA and have two Top 1% scripts on Coverfly's Red List.
I’m still prone to occasional klutz moves, but am gra...
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Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 60 Pages
A 3 year old Irish immigrant left behind on the docks of Ireland during the Famine, builds a scrap metal empire, dealing with survival, identity, the weight of family legacy and difficulty of passing on his deal-making talent to his sons.
Lakewood, Colorado
I am an award-winning screenwriter from Brooklyn New York and a published author with 5 books on Amazon. I've recently completed a feature script for "40 Shades of Green: The Junkman of Brooklyn" based on my book. I've also won awards for the limited series version of the story as well:
"Best Television Pilot/Adapted from Another Medium" at t...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 118 Pages
Based on the true story of the iconic Romantic-era composer, Franz Liszt desires to marry the woman of his heart, but when the consequences of the past overtake him, he must choose between true love and death.
Meridian, Idaho
Allison Betts is an artist from Meridian, Idaho, a suburb of Boise. She has a passion for telling stories that will have a lasting impact on this generation and the next. Her latest script, The Revolution of 1956, is a historical drama that recounts the events of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 through the eyes of a Soviet operative. Additionally, al...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 136 Pages
Adapted historical novel, the story of Northern Cheyenne great chief, Morning Star and his grandson, Ted Rising Sun. Visionaries, warriors and inspiring leaders, their lives interwoven in a saga of the late nineteenth century to recent days unfolding across the central plains from Oklahoma, Nebraska and Montana to culminate in Washington, D.C. Impo...
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- Verified WGA Member
Marina Del Rey, CA
John A Kuri, author, film, television producer, writer, director, and art director. IMDB lists over 100 of his credits. He is Creator of the ABC/Warner Brothers series "Ohara," produced the classic western "Conagher" receiving the Western Heritage Award, wrote and produced Disney's "One More Mountain" receiving the "Christopher." Member of the Acad...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 105 Pages
1969, 89 Indians Of All Tribes took over Alcatraz demanding self-determination.
Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 90 Pages
The strange son of a Lakota holy man grows from loner to leader as the entire Sioux Nation struggles to survive in the face of the encroaching United States.
Los Angeles, California
Academy Nicholl Quarter-Finalist & The next 100, 8X Best Screenplay Winner, 6X Finalist at Story Pros, 4X TOP 10 Finalist @ Table Read My Screenplay, Top 10 Finalist at Emerging Screenwriters & ScreenCraft. 20X Screenplay Finalist, 35X Semifinalist, Second Rounder at Austin, Blue Cat, ISA Fast Track X2. Top 1,1,2,3,3,3 &5% on Coverfly, 12Xon the R...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 115 Pages
Anguillian golden boy Ronald Webster leads his people in a rebellion to free his nation from the tyranny of the British government.
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 116 Pages
The First Mrs. Tabor is a true story of a woman who had been lost to history, Augusta Tabor, a pioneer who helped build Denver during the silver rush. When her husband Haw Tabor, the Silver King, decides to run for Senate, he dumps his wife of twenty years in a scandalous divorce, forcing Augusta to fight for what is rightly hers and rebuild her ind...
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Montclair, NJ
Melissa grew up in Denver and earned her BA in Philosophy from CU Boulder, graduating cum laude. She went on to earn her MA in Philosophy from UC San Diego, and then moved to New York City. A few of Melissa's essays can be found online.
Mjelbaum@gmail.com
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 112 Pages
In medieval West Africa, the faith of an empire clutches onto the fate of the largest pilgrimage to Mecca Earth has ever witnessed, led by a Black Muslim king, the wealthiest person to have ever lived. Based on a true story.
Rome, IT
Francesco Capussela is an Italian writer, actor, and producer. As an award-winning writer, he has garnered over 150 accolades in film festivals and screenwriting competitions worldwide including Austin Film Festival, Final Draft Big Break, HollyShorts, and Atlanta Film Festival. Spanning film and TV, he enjoys writing in many genres, such as epic ad...
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Quarterfinalist
Short
· Historical
· 14 Pages
Set in 1895 and based on a true story, New York City Police Commissioner THEODORE ROOSEVELT must provide protection to German diplomat and orator HERMANN AHLWARDT. Under the law, Roosevelt must safeguard free speech, yet somehow find a way to avoid alienating the Jewish community, who already distrust the police.
- Verified WGA Member
Rancho Mirage, CA
Known as an imaginative "world-builder," Josh works across multiple genres including comedy, science fiction, thrillers, procedurals and true stories. After graduating with a BA from the University of Alberta, Josh earned an MFA in film production from NYU and then attended the AFI as a screenwriting fellow. He has created, written and show-run scri...
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