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2025
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 112 Pages
When a champion Iranian wrestler's sense of honor is tested by his country’s oppressive regime, he must choose between protecting his family and standing up for justice.
Ottawa, ON, CA
Amir Zargara is an award-winning Iranian-Canadian writer and director, whose unique perspective is shaped by the cultural mosaic of Iran and Canada. His journey, characterized by the resilience of an immigrant and the challenges of living with a stutter, deeply influences his approach to filmmaking. An alumnus of prestigious programs at Berlinale, T...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
An insecure baby gay vows to finally put her bisexuality into practice, only to be continually thwarted by her gay impostor syndrome.
Los Angeles, CA
Melissa Peng is a writer and comedian based in LA. The short film she wrote and produced, BABY GAY, screened in several Oscar-qualifying film festivals and won the Audience Award for Best Bi+ Short at Queer Screen's Mardi Gras Film Festival. She is a house writer and performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 107 Pages
A conservative Catholic widow, her outspoken maid, and a gay theatre designer in 1930 San Francisco become destitute after the stock market crash. When they open a male brothel, it unexpectedly transforms all of them, including the young men who work there -- in this sexually liberated comedy-drama.
San Francisco, CA
Adam Sandel is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and playwright who’s had more than 20 productions of his plays performed internationally.
His award-winning comedy screenplays include "Bessie's Place," "The Worst Wedding Ever," "F***boys," "The Makeover Man," "My Wild and Secret World," "Dave’s New World," plus the TV pilots "Medium Raya," and "It H...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 120 Pages
Comedy, Romance. "Moonstruck" meets "Step Brothers."
When their estranged uncle in Southern Italy falls ill, two Italian-American brothers race to Calabria to battle for control over his estate. There, both brothers unexpectedly find love and new lives – and uncover a shocking family secret.
New York, New York
Tim Young is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright.
Tim’s most recent feature film script, "Crazy Honey," has won eleven film industry awards. His new TV pilots, "Northlight" and "Deadeye Daisy," have picked up top honors in eleven and seven television script festivals, respectively. Tim’s stage play, "Okefenokee," won best new play of t...
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Gawayne The Arrogant (of Orlando)
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Animated
· 34 Pages
Gawayne The Arrogant (of Orlando) is an adult animated comedy series about an actual medieval knight who ends up working at a Medieval Times dinner theater alongside a band of misfit employees after a wizard curses him to a life in the mundane splendor of modern day central Florida.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
In 11th century Scotland, a willful noblewoman claimed as a spoil of war must restore her position, avenge her husband’s death and save her only son by transforming into the scheming, murderous icon whose name we will never forget: Lady Macbeth.
Ipswich, MA
SARA HALLOWELL is a writer/ director of film, television and theater. Her short films have garnered multiple accolades, including a Panavision grant and Best Short Film/Audience awards at U.S. festivals. She won awards through Filmaka's international competition, judged by directors Werner Herzog, Neil LaBute and Wim Wenders, among others. As a scre...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Western
· 59 Pages
In 1910, when her horse is stolen, Victoria “Vic” Martinez takes her band of makeshift bounty hunters down from Montana to the territory of New Mexico in order to get back what's been stolen and face all the demons she thought she had outrun years before…
Los Angeles, CA
As a recovering student athlete (Equestrian) (yes, she is a horse girl), and now a writer/actor based in Los Angeles, Matilda finds herself sharing stories filled with a little bit of magic and a whole lot of heartbreak. Matilda hopes to give voice to women who have maybe been told to quiet down one too many times -- and maybe in the process, make...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Adventure
· 119 Pages
In May of 1960, after the capture of war criminal Adolf Eichmann, brothers Jake and Ben Solomon race to reclaim a lost family relic stolen by the Nazis and smuggled to South America.
Orlando, FL
For the past 15 years, Matthew Koppin has captured true-life stories as a documentary filmmaker. This is the case for his action/adventure script SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE (Top 10% Nicholls Fellowship). Following a globetrotting expedition by brothers Jake and Ben Solomon, searching to reclaim a lost family relic stolen by the Nazis and taken to South Ame...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 110 Pages
A superhuman running back in the American Football League plays the game of his life when he discovers he is part of an experiment conducted by a rogue nation with ulterior motives.
Terry Podnar
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 111 Pages
When two young TV journalists with contrasting personalities discover a device that reveals the future wherever it's pointed, they're thrust into a high-stakes race to expose a government conspiracy before it's too late.
- Verified WGA Member
Woodland Hills, CA
Member WGA, SAG and AFTRA. Author and Illustrator of "The Writer at Work"
Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 88 Pages
When a broke baker inherits her grandma’s house and a mountain of HOA debt, she cooks up a plan to turn secret family recipes into a secret weapon—a booming weed cookie empire right under the nose of the neighborhood’s nosiest Karen.
Glendale, California
I had always been a creative kind of kid, but being from a Jamaican mom who had her first child at 16, she always pushed me to be employable. So, my artistic skills were always mapped to career tracks that could keep me working consistently. Fine art and being a starving artist were out -- and marketing and advertising were in. "Corporations always ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
When a TV star's best friend dies, a terrible secret and maybe a doorway to another reality is uncovered.
Wappingers Falls, New York
Ryan is a screenwriter, TV writer and playwright. Studio Nowhere, a half hour comedy series he created, was optioned by 24 FPS Pictures which led Ryan to sign with his first agent. More recently he sold a one hour drama entitled The Four Mothers to Hirsch Pictures. The pilot is shot and currently the package for the series is being shopped. Film dir...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
After the last member of their friend group gets married and moves away, two Latina Angelenos with absolutely nothing in common wonder if they should continue pretending to be friends.
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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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 53 Pages
A young, untested female Russian spy must go undercover as a freshman at Harvard to learn the secrets of the nation's elite, making some friends and enemies along the way and discovering where her true allegiances lie. For fans of THE AMERICANS or THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS, this comedic thriller asks hard hitting questions, from what it means t...
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New York, NY
Lily Davis is the Writers’ Assistant for season 2 of Apple TV+’s SEVERANCE.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 107 Pages
Two young Amish men discover themselves while traveling across the country to Las Vegas for their Rumspringa. It’s Dumb & Dumber meets Superbad: a buddy road trip comedy with a raunchy and crazy exterior and a heart-filled emotional core.
New York, NY
Growing up, I was always inspired by the oddly beautiful and the outrageous. I naturally use comedy and satire as a way of expressing myself in life as well as on the page. I am a working partner in Small, But Big productions with fellow producer and writing partner Jake Haddock. We love writing character based comedies with a statement based in h...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Action
· 116 Pages
The daughter of a failing Pro Wrestling tycoon worries that her dad will sell the family business. She recruits a martial artist in order to boost ratings.
Crawley, West Sussex, GB
Farook Qais, pronounced “case,” is a British-born he/him of South Asian heritage. He writes film and TV, winning Screenwriting competitions in the US and the UK. While he's taken on Script Consultancy and participated in Video Editing, Farook's concentrated ambition is to continue writing emotive scripts with broad audience appeal. His strength is t...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 120 Pages
In the early 1900s, America's first famous astrologer is arrested for fortune-telling and must prove astrology's validity in court or lose her right to practice the craft she loves. (A True Story)
Boulder, CO
Ray Keller is an award-winning optioned screenwriter and filmmaker who has written over two dozen screenplays, earning over one hundred awards. He’s a Page Awards Winner, Austin Film Festival Semifinalist and Academy Nicholl Semifinalist who founded Generosity Films after an engineering career. Ray looks forward to bringing his brand of edgy, social...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Horror
· 56 Pages
A high school nerd summons the ghost of his crush's brother and discovers that they are trapped in a weekly sitcom time loop.
Los Angeles, CA
Barry's latest pilot, The Good Life, is currently a finalist under consideration in the HORROR2COMIC contest. His career began as a page on the Paramount lot where he networked his way into a writer's room as a PA, and into an acting gig. Working both sides of the camera allowed him to mentor with such writers as Kenya Barris, Mara Brock Akil, and K...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 52 Pages
In a near-future society dominated by neural enhancements known as Tacitrons, a reclusive philosophy teacher becomes the unexpected catalyst in a spiritual uprising, challenging the boundaries between humanity’s essence and engineered existence.
Redondo Beach, CA
Jason Kemppainen (aka Kemp) is the Executive Producer for the TV show Maine Cabin Masters on the MAX/Magnolia networks. Although an award-winning unscripted producer and director, there is more than enough inspiration to continue to create his own stories and unique worlds, ranging from whimsical fantasy, to edgy family comedy, all the way to dystop...
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