WeScreenplay Feature Lab |
2015
6 winners will be selected to participate in an exclusive virtual lab full of 1:1 meetings and workshops with industry professionals.
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Winners
Giving Up The Ghost
Private
Winner
Feature
· Unknown
No logline available.
New York, NY
MFA from Tisch. Has won a few awards. Had a script optioned by a major production company. Written in every genre, specializing in horror and comedy.
Winner
Feature
· Action
· 109 Pages
When a U.S. Army Ranger is disavowed and left on the run after an unlawful mission fails, his brother and father, both former Rangers themselves, race to find him before a growing number of hostile factions do.
LA, CA
Travis J. Opgenorth is an award-winning screenwriter, including the CineStory Feature Fellowship, ISA Fast Track Fellowship, and the Stage 32 Search for New Blood contest. Some of his other accomplishments include having his feature Day of Reckoning produced through ESX Productions and attending a Hollywood mixer where he knew no one. He currently h...
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Winner
Feature
· Horror
· 104 Pages
A young girl's imaginary friend starts killing her family off, one by one. But how can you stop Death when she wants to play? (This script has won myriad contests, including a couple of Grand Prizes, and was selected for the prestigious BloodList.)
Eagle Rock, CA
Bio.
After surviving a BA from Stanford and an MFA from UC Riverside, Mr. Peters set out to fulfill his life’s true ambition: to become a starving artist. He was immediately successful.
His first stage play was greeted by rave reviews from friends and family, but never produced. His second play won two national play writing awards, receiving ...
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Winner
· Unknown
· 97 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
The Escapist
Private
Winner
· Unknown
· 100 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
Finalists
Big Sister
Private
Finalist
· Drama
· 103 Pages
No logline available.
David Chester
No bio available.
Brandini
Private
Finalist
· Unknown
· 117 Pages
No logline available.
Frank Licari
No bio available.
Butter Bridge
Private
Finalist
· Unknown
· 84 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 122 Pages
In the future in India, a cynical auto-rickshaw driver and a naive whistleblower escape a ruthless assassin and expose a corrupt politician trying to destroy slums and build skyscrapers.
Sydney, Nsw, AU
No bio available.
Enough Cocaine to Time Travel
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 95 Pages
No logline available.
Brooklyn, NY
I'm Kyle and I'm a Midwestern-born, New York-based film director and writer. I also take an obscene amount of photos, travel to obscure lands, and eat about triple the national annual human consumption average of pizza, according to my doctor. A private institution gave me a degree in film and in return, I provided them with a lifetime of student de...
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Further From Here
Private
Finalist
· Unknown
· 99 Pages
No logline available.
Anthony Mezza
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 114 Pages
In 2009 Stephen Hawking proved time travel was impossible. He did this by holding a time traveler's convention and sending out the invitations after the fact. This way only time travelers could attend.
No one showed up.
If time travelers just needed a forum to prove their abilities, this experiment might have worked, but how do you catch a time tr...
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No bio available.
Finalist
· Unknown
· 104 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 116 Pages
The crew of Earth's first starship journey across the galaxy in search of extraterrestrial life, unaware that they're the stars of an intergalactic reality television show.
Calgary, Alberta, CA
Joe Borriello is a self taught, award-winning screenwriter whose scripts have won and placed in competitions like ScreenCraft, Austin Film Festival, PAGE and the Nicholl Fellowship.
Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 98 Pages
Romantic Comedy:
An unemployed, postal worker takes a job in a steamy male review and must keep his identity secret when he’s reacquainted with a long lost crush.
Newnan, GA
No bio available.
Restitution
Private
Finalist
· Unknown
· 115 Pages
No logline available.
Tracy Carbone
No bio available.
SCHIZO
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 106 Pages
An untreated paranoid schizophrenic falls through the cracks of a broken mental health system triggering the largest manhunt in California history.
No bio available.
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Screaming My Heart Out
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 111 Pages
"Screaming My Heart Out" is about the deep love, pain and joy that one Italian family shares in the 1960's in a small, blue collar neighborhod that is just beneath a mighty steel mill.
Janyce Lapore
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 114 Pages
A single mother joins the doomsday cult of armed, anti-government sovereign citizens that kidnapped her son and makes a desperate bid to win his freedom.
Eagle Rock, CA
Bio.
After surviving a BA from Stanford and an MFA from UC Riverside, Mr. Peters set out to fulfill his life’s true ambition: to become a starving artist. He was immediately successful.
His first stage play was greeted by rave reviews from friends and family, but never produced. His second play won two national play writing awards, receiving ...
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Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 106 Pages
Five years after the Zombie Apocalypse, a couple fighting about whether to start a family adopts a baby zombie they don't have the heart to kill.
The Anklebiter is a fun ride and a quick read. The script uses absurd comedy and grotesque humor to tackle real relationship issues that feel relevant and honest. It's well crafted, it provides a new take on the Zombie Apocalypse genre and has commercial appeal.
Geoffroy's Recommendation
Coverfly Director of Development
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
Andy Jones and his writing partner Adam Weinstock were staffed on Seasons 13 and 14 of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and wrote the episode "Charlie's Home Alone," which Deadline ranked as "one of the series’ all-time bests."
They've also sold two TV pitches -- one to Legendary Entertainment and one to Peacock -- and two feature-film pitches...
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Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 115 Pages
An elderly woman, haunted by her son's ghost for forty years, finds herself carjacked by a scatterbrained teenager who reminds her of her dead son
San Diego, CA
Owner and operator of George Petersen Productions in San Diego for 25 years: emphasis on photography and video, portrait and commercial. Produced stock footage for Universal Television. First Screenwriting Book Reviewer for Creative Screenwriting Magazine. Taught Motion Picture Production Techniques at UCSD Extension and St. Mary's College of Califo...
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The Drive There
Private
Finalist
· Unknown
· 101 Pages
No logline available.
Sean Patrick Monahan
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 119 Pages
A UFO lands in a peaceful western town, giving an ex-outlaw a shot at redemption when he has to save the townspeople from an alien boy whose mission is to take over the human race.
Newbury Park, CA
I served 13 years as a film rater on the MPAA rating board; (rated over 6,000 movies). Afterward, I started my own successful film rating consulting company (filmratingadvisors.com) and lecture on this topic at film schools and universities. I was fortunate enough to have worked with my two favorite filmmakers, Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone, who w...
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Finalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 109 Pages
A psychotic drifter is intent on claiming a dead man's family for himself.
Yucca Valley, California
Surrounded by an eclectic group of family members in Liverpool UK, June started writing plays and screenplays based on family experiences. This has produced scripts that have won the Silver Award in the Page Awards, placed in the top 10% in the Nicholl Fellowship and and is listed in the top 1% and 2% of scripts on the Coverfly platform. Most recent...
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The Man Who Killed Sherlock Holmes
Private
Finalist
· Action
· 120 Pages
No logline available.
Stephen Siegel
No bio available.
Finalist
Feature
· Action
· 99 Pages
A decorated Marine suffers a savage head wound and must overcome his fading memory to track down the safe house where he's hiding three young women from sex traffickers.
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.
Vacuums and the Whistling Pig
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 105 Pages
The dramatic, funny and heartrending story of lifelong friends living in a small town in the shadow of an interstate desperate to keep their carpet cleaning business afloat while fighting personal demons that tear them apart.
New York, NY
Screenplays for "Quarantine in the Grand Hotel," "The Frontier Garrison" and "The It Drive In" have won over 100 grand prizes, finalists and semi-finalists awards in film festivals from Cannes to London to Tokyo to LA and New York and all points in between.
Award winners "Vacuums and the Whistling Pig" and "The Widow Marsh" to be filmed in 2...
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VICTOR
Private
Finalist
· Unknown
· 93 Pages
No logline available.
Tony Heaver-Wren
No bio available.
Warpath
Private
Finalist
· Unknown
· 113 Pages
No logline available.
Paul Abascal
No bio available.
Finalist
· Drama
· 109 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 104 Pages
After a successful NY federal judge on a path to the US Supreme Court is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, he leaves everything behind to make amends for the damage he's caused in his past (before it vanishes).
Stamford, CT
A writer/director, Gustavo was selected to pitch his supernatural series UMBRAL at the Madrid Online Pitchbox/ FilmarketHub. Won Billboard,MTV & Grammy Awards. His first feature film, rom-com TO SEE YOU AGAIN, featured Ozark's Alfonso Herrera. He was hired by Sony Int. TV to write/develop a thriller series for LatAm. Big Break finalist. Directed 200...
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Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 120 Pages
Mourning the death of his father, a teenager in this small Missouri town is determined to keep his dad's beloved movie palace afloat against rising competition from Television and boiling racial tensions over the theatre's colored section in the 1950s.
North Hollywood, CA
No bio available.
7 deaths a week
Private
Quarterfinalist
· Unknown
· 107 Pages
No logline available.
steven comas
No bio available.
7th SON
Private
Quarterfinalist
· Unknown
· 88 Pages
No logline available.
William Maurer
No bio available.
A GRAND OBSESSION
Private
Quarterfinalist
· Drama
· 112 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
A Heritage of Honor
Quarterfinalist
Feature
No logline available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 107 Pages
When a child is accidentally killed in a hit and run accident, two families are destroyed by guilt and grief. Pitting the two fathers on a collision course of revenge or redemption.
Epsom, GB
No bio available.
A PASSIONATE MAN
Private
Quarterfinalist
· Unknown
· 103 Pages
No logline available.
Martin Blinder
No bio available.
A Rose To Georgia
Quarterfinalist
Feature
No logline available.
A Thinner Man
Private
Quarterfinalist
· Unknown
· 80 Pages
No logline available.
Colombo, LK
No bio available.
Agoraphobia
Private
Quarterfinalist
· Horror
· 106 Pages
No logline available.
Daniel Hess
No bio available.
Alien Cousin
Quarterfinalist
Feature
No logline available.
ALMA
Quarterfinalist
Feature
No logline available.
Bang, Baby, Bang
Private
Quarterfinalist
· Action
· 113 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
Blessed McGill
Private
Quarterfinalist
· Unknown
· 130 Pages
No logline available.
Roger Young
No bio available.
Blind Faith
Private
Quarterfinalist
· Unknown
· 125 Pages
No logline available.
Sebastian Maharg
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 90 Pages
While investigating a series of gruesome murders, a lonely coroner falls for an enigmatic stranger who may be connected to the crimes.
No bio available.
Blue River
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 116 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
Boys In Blue
Private
Quarterfinalist
· Unknown
· 86 Pages
No logline available.
Jabari Howard
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 91 Pages
When Derek makes the mistake of flashing his brights at the wrong car, he’s chased all over Los Angeles by a group of vicious maniacs who make this the most terrifying night of his life.
Los Angeles, CA
A career as a producer in reality television has fire-baptized Edward Klau into incorporating network notes while writing economically on a deadline. His specialty is infusing elegant high-concept clockwork thrillers and grounded sci-fi with relatable three-dimensional characters. He's been around the industry and plays very nicely with others.