WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab |
2018
Winners will take part in an interactive 3 day virtual lab with hands-on workshops and mentorship meetings with industry professionals!
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Winners
Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 63 Pages
After becoming an enemy of the Syrian government for treating Aleppo war victims, a former medical student seeks asylum in the United States. Risking her future, she treats undocumented immigrants and others who need care while struggling to outrun her past and avoid attracting the attention of the law.
Los Angeles, CA
Robin creates layered TV dramas that take the women you love to hate, put them in messed-up situations, and make you root for them. She previously coached international physicians on empathy and draws on this expertise to bring emotional truth to complex narratives. She was a 2022 WIF Writing Circle Mentee and a past NYSCA Screenwriting Fellow, and ...
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Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
Just when a powerhouse New York defense lawyer wins a controversial trial and poises herself to become the next attorney general of New York, she faces a courtroom showdown with the one legal mind who could tear her down and ruin her aspirations: her mother.
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Kat Sieniuc is a television writer most recently staffed on Amazon Studios' adaptation of The Left Right Game podcast and the Netflix series The Order. She previously won the Page International Screenwriting Awards and WeScreenplay’s Television Competition, and was also an Austin Film Festival finalist. A former news reporter, Kat tells stories ripp...
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Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 67 Pages
When minority children start going missing in a small Southern town, two exceptional FBI agents—one Black, one Pakistani-American—with colliding worldviews are called in to investigate. What they uncover reveals the heart of hatred in America and a vast, sinister conspiracy.
Brooklyn, NY
Faisal Azam is an award-winning film editor and screenwriter best known for the Oscar-nominated documentary short St. Louis Superman; Brooklyn Film Festival Grand Prize Winner Without Shepherds; and Salar, which won Best Dramatic Short at the Austin Film Festival and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. In 2016, Faisal co-wrote H8, which was a top ...
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Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 63 Pages
At the start of World War II, a young mechanical engineer becomes Winston Churchill's first recruit in what would become Britain's first covert secret agency, the Special Operations Executive, designed to sabotage the Nazi war machine and assassinate Adolph Hitler. Inspired by a true story.
Bellevue, Washington
I've had multiple screenplays and TV pilots optioned or given shopping agreements. Continuing to work on great storytelling and scripts for television that are binge worthy
Winner
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 60 Pages
While trying to scrape out a living in the asteroid belt, a crew of hard-luck miners happen upon an old shipwreck, which launches them into a world of bounty hunters, terrorists, and a mammoth mining conglomerate set on keeping old mistakes buried.
North Hollywood, CA
Justin is a bi-coastal writer living in either North Hollywood or NYC depending on the season. Other writing projects include the Broadway musicals "POPE!", "The Spidey Project/Peter Who?" and "Nightfall on Miranga Island." He also works as a freelance writer for Marvel Comics.
Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
If the “Odd Couple” were dogs…. When two dogs are abandoned in the middle of nowhere, a grumpy wolf and a coddled pure-bred must travel the open road together until they finally make it back home. (Unless they kill each other first)
Los Angeles, CA
When he wasn’t bringing home every stray animal off the street, Steve Miranda spent his childhood in the library reading because it was the only quiet place he could find in Los Angeles. His comedic writing often pairs odd couple outsiders trying to find their forever home. Steve Miranda is more interested in making laughs than winning awards, but h...
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Winner
TV Script
· Action
· 33 Pages
Stacey, a photographer stuck in a dead-end job, starts to realize that something life-changing is happening during her late-night partying.
Los Angeles, CA
Born in Reno and raised in Atlantic City, Julia Wackenheim received her BFA in Acting from Emerson College in Boston. She can be seen in live shows in Los Angeles and on TV. She’s the EP & an actor of the webseries “F’d.” She’s written multiple festival winning scripts. Julia's a WRJ Executive Board Member, a member of Bend the Arc, and the Social ...
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You Are Special!
Private
Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 40 Pages
An awkward loner teams up with her rock star neighbor to pursue her dreams—and save both of their lives.
No bio available.
Finalists
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
Since turning 30, a millennial struggles to navigate adulthood. It’s been one year since a stolen fortune, and vicious beatdown left this gambler in recovery, destitute. After losing his job, and feeling increasingly concerned for the wellbeing of the rescued animals he hoards in his father’s basement, he contemplates returning to his old gambling w...
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No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
A homeless Bulgarin Chalk Artist is living on the streets of London where she meets Eric, an immigration case officer in mourning, who comes to her rescue outside his house when she's attacked.
Epsom, GB
No bio available.
City of Gold
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Western
· 54 Pages
The Gold Rush is in full swing. San Francisco is a lawless, wild west powder keg. A local business tycoon consolidates his power as a mysterious group bombs his dig sites. A female miner, hell-bent on getting her sister out of the city, takes aim at the land he stole. The long lost son of the tycoon’s war buddy becomes a pawn in his schemes. How man...
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No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 66 Pages
LOGLINE: At the height of the Cold War a Soviet mole raised her entire life to destroy America has succeeded in becoming the first female missile commander in the US military and launches an American ICBM at Israel to start WWIII – while a second missile aimed at NATO is timed to launch twenty-four hours later to aid in her escape to Moscow via Mex...
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Lisbon, PT
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Adventure
· 51 Pages
When plans to expand his dwindling enterprise fail, a 19th century Midwestern businessman falls prey to the charms of a con man who convinces him to pack up his family, and embark on a perilous journey to California.
Elmhurst, New York
The first film I have any recollection of watching is THE SEVEN SAMURAI in a theater in Havana, Cuba where I was born. I was only five. My father wanted to leave halfway through, but I begged him if we could stay. I knew no Japanese and could not read the subtitles. The power of the images kept me glued to my seat. It was my first lesson in screenwr...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Other
· 62 Pages
When an Indian immigrant widow unwittingly attracts the attention of an overeager ICE officer during an incident at the airport, she must work to protect her underground green card brokerage business under wraps.
No bio available.
GANJA BAY
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 48 Pages
A parolee returns home and must choose between skullduggery or his family but when he finds a dead body and a million dollars, he’s torn.
Stony Hill, Kingston, JM
Jamaican born, product of a mixed marriage: mother was a woman; father was a man. Writes thriller screenplays; Produces shorts, TV shows, comedies and plays in JA & UK. Lives in USA with one wife and two cats. Swim, write, walk, golf, watch soccer and shout a lot.
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
This drama, set in Arizona on the US/Mexican border, follows two Border Patrol agents who succumb to temptation when they find a large pile of drug cash. Problem is, they’re not the only ones after that money.
- Verified WGA Member
New York, NY
Chris is a writer, producer and soon to be director. She tells stories about dead bodies because she keeps stumbling over them where ever she goes. And it's not just in her capacity as a former prosecutor. Ask her about it sometime. She wrote on Law and Order: SVU. Chris writes, produces and develops film, documentary, television, and podcast projec...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 40 Pages
n00bs follows the misadventures of an esports team (competitive video gamers) as they transition from poor college students into local celebrities and globally ranked gaming athletes, without the experience or maturity to deal with success properly.
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
A seasoned counselor at a last ditch teen rehab fights to hang onto his sobriety when a new boss from hell challenges his status.
Seattle, WA
Told I was special.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
A bipolar and uninsured single mother with an autistic son inherits a funeral home, but when her son is hit by a car and fighting for his life, she begins selling human body parts on the lucrative black/red market to pay the medical bills and keep the business alive.
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
The scion of a prominent political family, his career at the State Department in ruins after inadvertently sleeping with a Russian spy, is given a chance to redeem himself when he’s sent to the tiny principality of Milovia to help them transition to democracy and enter the modern world.
Los Altos, CA
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
A young combat veteran fresh out of the military moves to Los Angeles to try and figure out life after the uniform with help from his sometimes idiotic but always well meaning group of friends.
Portland, OR
Shain Brenden is a comedian, writer and actor living in Portland, Oregon. He was named an “Undisputable Genius of Comedy” by the Portland Mercury and finished in the top 3 of the Portland’s Funniest Person Contest in 2019. He was a host for the sports television show 'Blazers Outsiders' on NBC Sports and was also named one of Willamette Weekly’s Fun...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 58 Pages
Amidst the explosive 1968 murder trial of Black Panther, Huey Newton, the multicultural denizens of a hip Haight-Ashbury café' struggle to maintain their peaceful balance. When a local drug dealer is murdered, the investigation uncovers secrets and betrayals, which rocks this close-knit community of artists and activists to its core.
Van Nuys, CA
Kimba Henderson was born in Detroit, the youngest of three Navy brats. Her mother’s job as a court reporter required dictating cases at home, so Kimba grew up on true crime rather than Dr. Seuss. She studied Dramatic Writing at NYU and loves telling stories about people of color in unexpected places doing unexpected things. She is currently a TV Dr...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
The staff of a women's health clinic struggles to treat patients and keep their sanity in the middle of the War on Women.
Sherman Oaks, CA
I write sociopolitical comedy. My anti-bullying comedy screenplay, 8th Grade Sucks, was a Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist. My comedy pilot, The Last Abortion Clinic in Kansas, has been a finalist in four writing competitions including the Austin Film Festival Writing Contest.
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 50 Pages
Two young women are pulled in to a new life of crime reliving the worst parts of their teenage years after they impulsively choose to rob a cafe, which they discover is owned by the Welsh Mob.
London, London, GB
Sam is taking the leap from one side of the desk to the other, moving from script editing over to writing. 2021 has been an exciting year of meeting companies and pitching work. He is currently in advanced conversations with two companies around his first development.
His taste and style tends towards comedy/drama with a leaning towards genre, sp...
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 47 Pages
A once-conventional family become unhinged by tragedy, and face a paradox in paradise, while realizing that there are no shortcuts in the pursuit of happiness, especially on an island like Maui.
A year after the tragic passing of helicopter rescue pilot, Pete Wilson, Anne, Olivia, and Liam Wilson leave their snowy home in Colorado to move back t...
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No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
Big Little Lies: EPISODE #8 (Season 2, Ep. 1)
Los Angeles, CA
Peter Haig is a writer/director based in Los Angeles, California, who received his M.F.A. in Film & Television Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Other
· 57 Pages
A rogue public enquiry endangers the career of a firefighter returning from injury, he faces the possibility of training his replacement whilst keeping a dark secret from the watch.
Liverpool, Merseyside, GB
My name is Andrew Judge, a writers guild of GB writer who is a self taught, UK based screenwriter and author. I have received a number of industry recommendations in various competitions; including ISA Top 50, ScreenCraft recommendations and Page Turner Awards Finalist 2023. Author of The Boot Room: An inside Look at Footballs Transfer Window. My...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 52 Pages
1940 - A young woman ATA pilot battles to prove herself against friend and foe alike in the skies above war-torn England.
Trim, Meath, IE
Simon Wilkinson is a London born, Anglo-Irish author and screenwriter.
After spending years as a history teacher, museum curator and animal sanctuary manager, Simon started writing professionally in 2013.
He primarily writes historical drama and war stories with a British / Irish focus, but also has a passion for science fiction and fantasy.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 54 Pages
When a deep sea explorer goes missing in the Gulf of Mexico, his son must unravel a coded message embedded in his father’s Last Will and Testament, and if successful, it can lead to enormous riches -- or his own death.
Houston, TX
Gary Howell is a native Texan, yet still doesn't own a cowboy hat. He practiced law for 17 years before finally scratching a life-long itch and started writing short and feature films. He's had four of his short films produced, one feature optioned and has worked with producer Matthew George ("LBJ", "Wind River"). Coverfly featured his TV pilot "...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 58 Pages
A youth counselor haunted by her supernatural past is forced to use her agonizing powers when one of her teens gets possessed by demonic forces.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
A first-gen American, Natasha's family immigrated from Barbados to Brooklyn during the crack epidemic. Raised to be a Bajan "model minority" traversing drug-addled streets, Natasha now writes Caribbean and American-centric stories about belonging, coming of age, and romance. Working TV Writer. 2020 CBS WMP & AFF Winner. ViacomCBS writers program alu...
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happily ever after- pilot
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
Ellie is a wedding planner who loves making her friends' and clients' dreams come true. But she's too busy find time to make her own dreams a reality.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
Sick of the status-quo, a stymied pharmacist risks his life and freedom to take on the opioid epidemic by selling a miracle plant - cannabis.
Los Angeles, CA
Deck was born in Queens (NYC) to Haitian immigrants, but raised in Northeast Philly.
In 2018, Deck founded Beer & Bedtime Stories Theatre Company. In 2022, his script "Shells" won ScreenCraft, adding to several notable finalist rankings.
Deck writes character-driven stories about man's search for meaning, utilizing human constructs like capitalis...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 67 Pages
John Brown's battles to end slavery.
Los Angeles, CA
After graduating in Film and TV from the University of Westminster, Simon produced at BBC World Service Television, Channel 4, The World Bank and produced multiple shows for ABC, PBS, Discovery, Vh1, Oxygen, Bravo, and Friends of the Earth. He has written numerous award-winning screenplays and plays and is currently developing several full-length pl...
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Jung
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 57 Pages
A young disillusioned North Korean soldier wants to convince his girlfriend to defect with him and escape North Korea's harsh conditions but their knowledge about the country's nuclear secrets turns them and everyone they know into targets.
No bio available.
Mahogany
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
Mahogany is a one-hour drama set in 1960s Chicago - think “Mad Men” meets “Empire.”
When most people think of African-Americans and the 1960s, they usually think of the struggle for civil rights; the fight to end segregation; but the black elites working at Mahogany are only interested in the battle for wealth and status!
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
Oh, Mighty River
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 53 Pages
While a family deals with the disappearance of their son, mounting evidence suggests a serial killer in the region; an exploration of reason vs. belief in the search for understanding.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Western
· 65 Pages
In the early 20th Century, a young, educated and socially conscious Mexican migrant finds himself in the middle of an imminent military conflict between the USA and Mexico.
Toronto, ON, CA
Multinational & versatile storyteller, passionate about history, mythology, elevated genres and research. Author of the book "Level Up Your Screenplay". His scripts have 100+ accolades at writing competitions, winning 10 awards. His short films have played at numerous festivals worldwide and broadcast on TV & cable.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 56 Pages
Still haunted by his violent upbringing, a disgraced lawyer returns to his Texas hometown to take care of his father and gets a chance at redemption by representing a client no one else will: an eighth-grader accused of murder.
Los Angeles, CA
Seth Harrington grew up a transparently gay, theatre kid on army bases and then worked as a garbage man to pay for college. As a result, he writes about "queer triumph." He’s worked in unscripted, as a producer for reality tv and for game shows. His horror-comedy, Catfish Killer premiered at OUTFEST and was nominated for a Queerty Award.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
Garrett helps Glenn make new friends. Kelly thinks Jonah is hiding something from her, and Mateo and Cheyenne pursue stardom.
New York, NY
Cara is a New York-based writer who can talk in the third person when it's required. She worked as a writers' assistant on Nat Geo's GENIUS: ARETHA and as a Director's Assistant on QUIZ LADY on Hulu. A recovering reality TV producer, Cara strives to write scripts that are equal parts humor and heart.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Western
Bass Reeves, a former slave and new U.S. Marshal, hunts outlaws and searches for justice in the broken and desperate Indian Territory in 1875.
Culver City, CA
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 52 Pages
At the onset of the financial crisis, with the housing bubble about to burst, a small-town attorney and his clients find themselves outgunned as they battle a Fortune 500 corporation and its white-shoe law firm in a civil suit that will make or break careers and families.
Salinas, CA
I was a big firm lawyer in Washington, DC, for 16 years.... 16 loooong years. Now, with a toddler, a baby on the way, and a dwindling back account, I'm hoping to begin a second career as a writer. And if that doesn't work, look here for my GoFundMe link in the very near future.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
Inspired by true events: In 1820s Edinburgh, where demand for medical cadavers is high and supply is limited, a prominent doctor makes moves to fund his research by leveraging control of a lucrative cadaver black market. (Boardwalk Empire with cadavers)
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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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
After inheriting a house from his deceased, White uncle, a Black man and his family wake up White every morning with the chance to right the wrongs of their new White society.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 64 Pages
An eleven-year old caricaturist longs to run away to the Caribbean, but these plans are forced to a halt after her seed-money goes missing and she learns that a new neighbour and ‘friend’…might just be a cannibal.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
An hourlong satirical drama following the accidental descent of an intelligent liberal millennial journalist into her hate-spewing conservative television persona beginning during the 2016 election, which affects her family, relationships, and America writ large.
Los Angeles, CA
Orange County kid who couldn't escape suburbia quick enough. I worked in special needs education before moving to LA to work in development at Cinelou Pictures. Finalist in Tracking Board, Script Pipeline, Screencraft. Political junkie and outlandish crime aficionado. I'm drawn to stories of desperate, weird, broken people with hearts of gold. My pa...
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Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 62 Pages
A talented Marine following in his father’s footsteps discovers a surprising Vietnam legacy, sending him searching through family secrets for answers about his parents, identity and the meaning of heroism; 20 years later a young CIA translator, hell-bent on revenge after 9/11, discovers a connection to those Marines and begins a new chapter of the s...
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Nichols Hills, OK
I'm a serial entrepreneur turned screenwriter, focused on telling stories of characters missing critical bits of information about their own past. I graduated from UCLA’s Professional Screenwriting Program, have over 30 placements in national screenwriting competitions in the past few years, and won the 2018 Beverly Hills Screenplay Competition for...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
What would you do, if you’re a single, Muslim woman, and on your 34th birthday you realise that you might die alone? Try to get a baby, of course.
No bio available.
Actual Innocence Pilot
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
Wrongfully convicted, a driven jailhouse lawyer manages to free himself and seeks to help others as secrets from his own past return to haunt him.
Los Angeles, California
Aidan Largey is the Writer/Director of numerous award winning work for BBC, HULU and RTE. He created the crime series FARR for RTE and the Irish Film Board, which won BEST DRAMA from ITVFest. It was also awarded BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA PILOT and BEST DIRECTOR at SERIES FEST. He's currently in post on a YA sci fi series he directed for BBC and HULU and c...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Horror
· 52 Pages
Fantasy, Drama, Horror
Comps: Dexter meets True Blood
Pilot "Predators Are My Prey"
A badass grim reaper creates disruption when she follows her angelic heart, serving vengeful justice while breaking the reaping rules and alienating herself from her father and the reaper community.
Portland, OR
Being the daughter of a Mexican immigrant and a career US veteran influenced Kari's lens. Her work spans genres and cultures, exploring identity, trauma, abuse, and the unknown. In contrast, she relishes adapting long-forgotten public domain material.
Optioning her ancestor's sinister story to ITV Studios empowered Kari to craft gritty female rol...
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