Writers X Writers |
2024
A screenplay competition designed for writers, by writers.
Judges inc. Casarotto Ramsay, Paramount, Bellevue Productions, Zero Gravity Management.
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 113 Pages
When a chilling murder with echoes of an old case pulls a detective from his dying husband’s bedside, he must face an impossible choice: protect his fragile family or uphold the truth.
New York, NY
Mike Ackerman is a New York-based playwright and screenwriter. Mike is the Grand Prize and First Place Feature winner of the 2023 Slamdance Screenplay Competition for THIS END UP. Most recently, he wrote and directed GINA & TINA & JENNIFUH GO A-STEALIN' at Caveat NYC. Mike's other credits include AFTER (Hudson Valley Theater Festival), THE GWYNETH P...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A motley crew of disabled residents at an accessible apartment complex cast themselves in an old-school freakshow in an effort to outmaneuver a devastating rent increase.
Nipomo, California
Brian Koukol is an award-winning screenwriter, prose writer, and poet. A lifelong battle with muscular dystrophy has informed the majority of the darkly comedic stories he favors, which are written with the aid of voice recognition and eye gaze technology out of physical necessity. And because keyboards are for suckers.
Semifinalist
Short
· Sci-fi
· 13 Pages
A devoted researcher and his disillusioned partner uncover a mysterious phenomenon at the edge of a forest that threatens to alter everything.
Tampa, FL
Steven has won fellowships with Raindance and WeScreenplay. He Executive Produced Oh Canada, Paul Schrader's next film. He runs Talon Entertainment. His style takes truisms and ratchets them up to eleven in order to surface the absurdity of blindly basing our lives on received wisdom.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 96 Pages
An alcoholic police chief in a small New Mexican town investigates the murder of a drug trafficker to overcome the guilt he carries for being complicit with his late fathers involvement with a cartel.
Oconomowoc, Wi
I'm a father of two who started with sketch comedy at Second City Chicago, and I now write dark comedy in neo-noir and contemporary western genres.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 112 Pages
Before she is a legend, Jane Austen is a struggling writer who has a complicated romance with a mysterious sea captain who inspires her final novel Persuasion.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
Carolyn Kras has developed for 20th TV Studio, Escape Artists, and Welle. She was named to ISA's List of "Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch." Her awards include the Hamptons Film Festival Screenwriters Lab, Alfred P. Sloan Award, NYTVF Selection, Plume & Pellicule, Middlebury Script Lab, and a Fulbright. She is an alum of: NBC Page Program, Women in Fil...
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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
Short
· Comedy
· 16 Pages
A daughter helps her elderly Asian immigrant mother learn how to bike, and as the mom learns to stop talking about others and keep the focus on herself, they end up working out their relationship along the way.
JOY REGULLANO is a writer / actor / comedian based in LA who wrote on the animated show MONSTERS AT WORK (based on MONSTERS INC) on Disney Plus. Previously, she wrote on JELLY, BEN, and POGO (a PBS Kids web series), KUNG FU PANDA: DRAGON KNIGHT (Netflix / Dreamworks), HEALING POWERS OF DUDE (Netflix), several Sesame Workshop digital shorts, and she ...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Drama
· 23 Pages
An impartial cop questions her principles while surveying crime witnesses alongside a judgmental analyst.
Brooklyn, New York
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Ashley is an award-winning Writer/Director who's received recognition from top competitions, such as the Nantucket Film Festival, WeScreenplay, Female Voices Rock Film Festival, and more. She strives to create engaging stories that portray humanity in all its beautiful and sometimes terrifying complexities.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Family
· 57 Pages
Single mother Nancy Nathanson must give a once-in-a-lifetime presentation for her family business when an unexpected and debilitating medical diagnosis not only risks her job but will change her dysfunctional family forever.
New York, New York
Matt Nicholson is a queer screenwriter based in LA with 55 wins and over 140 placements in international screenwriting contests. His portfolio of short scripts and hour-long pilots brings new twists to old myths and champions stories about family legacy. Matt has worked as a stage manager, researcher for "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," and Editor-I...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 104 Pages
A cantankerous cowboy is forced to take in his estranged teenage granddaughter for a turbulent weekend. They confront old wounds and unexpected bonds. The ghosts of their shared past are able to heal them both.
Scottsdale, AZ
Searching for representation.
Semifinalist
Pitch
· Comedy
· 1 Pages
A group of broken hearted individuals kidnap the wrong person in their attempt to rid the world of cheaters.
San Francisco, CA
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 32 Pages
After her Christian private school is shut down, a wistful Black lesbian navigates the chaos that is a Texas public school in the early 2000's.
Austin, Texas
KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer from Texas. KB has written and published three award-winning books of poetry and nonfiction: How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (2022), Freedom House (2023), and Pretty (2024). They are represented by Annie DeWitt of The Shipman Agency for literature. They are currently seeking screenwriting managem...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Action
· 58 Pages
Days before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, British spy Elaine Fisher and her team are sent on a perilous mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a stolen nuclear device and prevent a catastrophic disaster.
Queensland, AU
Criss Gidas is a Greek-Australian writer/director whose imagination never takes a day off. By day, she weaves action-packed narratives with heart and fearless female heroes. By night, she brings cinematic dreams to life as a cinema projectionist.
Hero of Hyrule? Check. Pokémaster in search of the next great character? Absolutely. Criss is always ...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 109 Pages
A desperate father who resorts to crime to fund his fertility treatment must confront his past when the seven-year-old girl he killed is reborn as his daughter.
Comps: Fargo, Prisoners and The Omen.
Irvine, CA
Shiva Ramanathan discovered the magic of storytelling when an egg hit him squarely during his stage debut. It kickstarted an adventure even Indiana Jones would admire. From a degree in Communication to community theater, Shiva discovered a companion in writing through life’s exhilarating highs and soul-crushing lows.
While his screenplays have garn...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Horror
· 15 Pages
Tormented by his manipulative violin teacher and the cutthroat culture of his elite music conservatory, a teenage prodigy's fears and suppressed trauma manifest as an evil shadow that threatens to consume him and the boy he loves. CARRIE meets WHIPLASH.
New York, NY
Frederik Ehrhardt is a writer & producer based in the US & Germany. He got his industry start as an associate producer for four-time Independent Spirit Award nominee Darren Dean. Most recently, Frederik produced the screen adaptation of Markus Potter’s Outer Critics Circle nominated Off-Broadway play STALKING THE BOGEYMAN starring Tony winner Santin...
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Dinkum
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 96 Pages
In 1886 teenage sisters, one with bound feet, the other able-bodied, leave China to marry the mandarin of a Tasmanian tin mining camp; challenging their relationship and ability to survive the hardships of a primitive culture.
No bio available.
Dysphoria
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 61 Pages
After his starlet fiance disappears and a strange video shows up in the hands of the police accusing him, a strip mall martial arts instructor must go undercover en femme to track her down and unravel the darkest of tinsel town mysteries in this black comedy noir thriller.
- Verified WGA Member
Redondo Beach, CA
I want to scare you, make you laugh, and get you involved on an emotional level. By the end, I want you to feel as though you've been through something extraordinary yet real.
Winner of the Academy of Motion Pictures Nicholl Fellowship.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 90 Pages
When an autistic boy is inadvertently taken during a carjacking, his parents give chase, remotely connecting to the car's dashcam in order to follow their son. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman attempts to goad the accidental kidnapper into murdering the boy—for reasons known only to her.
The writer does a great job of keeping the pace up throughout, but also gives us enough moments with the characters that we really care about what happens to them. The villains are suitably evil, and it's a fast, fun ride with a surprisingly touching ending.
Merry's Recommendation
Coverfly Writer Development Team
Boones Mill, VA
I germinated the ill-conceived notion to study film in college. I did okay—my thesis film won an AMPAS Foundation Award. Mentored by a Sundance winner, worked as an editor and producer in LA, wrote some more. Won some contests, started working with interested producers, thought about giving it up to make raku pottery. Nope—still writing and shootin...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 95 Pages
A lobotomist who runs a mental asylum in 1950s New England begins to question his own sanity — and when he refuses to operate on a young boy, the consequences tear him and his community apart.
Kiefer Lloyd (he/him) writes underdog stories that explore queerness and masculinity. His series pilot FEVER won the WeScreenplay TV Lab and was fast-tracked for development by the International Screenwriters Association. He is a playwriting fellow with Lambda Literary and an alumnus of the Tin House Fiction Workshop.
Kiefer was homeschooled by c...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 99 Pages
Convinced his love is a curse that brings death, a reclusive funeral director is forced to choose between a promising, new relationship and his fear of killing another.
New York, NY
Mike Ackerman is a New York-based playwright and screenwriter. Mike is the Grand Prize and First Place Feature winner of the 2023 Slamdance Screenplay Competition for THIS END UP. Most recently, he wrote and directed GINA & TINA & JENNIFUH GO A-STEALIN' at Caveat NYC. Mike's other credits include AFTER (Hudson Valley Theater Festival), THE GWYNETH P...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Horror
· 38 Pages
Mel's trained to be a Final Girl her entire life-- and she gets her chance when her agnostic preacher father takes her to summer camp. Stakes heat up when they realize their ill-fated family trip is fated to begin the Apocalypse.
Valencia, California
Final Girl fanatic Sophie Mutiara Nova is a queer, half-Indonesian, SLE-diagnosed Writer-Director. (Writing Fellow of the ACEX TV Initiative, Finalist of the Emmy's TV Academy Foundation Directing Program). Their TV series have been awarded at the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, ScreenCraft, and countless others; their film work's screene...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
When Rachel’s meticulously planned life implodes, her IVF dreams go down the drain. Enter Millie—a lovable wreck—who inserts herself as the partner Rachel never wanted for a chaotic journey to redefine single motherhood as a team.
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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Semifinalist
Short
· Sci-fi
· 13 Pages
In a future where transhumanism is the law, a Freeborn father resists an authoritarian regime to protect his unmodified daughter, knowing his defiance will cost him everything.
Porters Lake, NS, CA
Shane Harbinson, a 55-year-old Canadian screenwriter and actor, brings a unique perspective to storytelling. With a focus on exploring themes of humanity and technology in a dystopian future, Shane's work, including his acclaimed scripts 'Freeborn' and 'The Affected', reveals a deep interest in the ethical dilemmas posed by advancements in AI and cy...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
When a print shop gets forced into election fraud, its charismatic owner and embattled step-daughter must cooperate with dirty politicians to protect their lives.
Orange County, CA
BENJAMIN R. MONACO is an award-winning screenwriter and Southern California native. His most recent one-hour drama pilot THIS THING OF OURS is a 2nd rounder at Austin Film Festival, the Winner of the 17th Annual StoryPros Awards Drama category, and placed in Launch Pad’s Pilot Competition’s Top 50. He holds a BA in Psychology from The Ohio State Uni...
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GreyHats Bible
Private
Semifinalist
Series Bible
· Thriller
· 14 Pages
An NSA employee develops a dark, obsessive fascination with a young woman he surveils while controlling an uprising hacktivist group called the GreyHats.
Los Angeles, CA
Alia Zeid is a screenwriter who won Best Adult Storyreel in Pixar’s Story Xperiential Program, participated in the UCLA Professional Program for three years, was selected for the Mosalsalat Screenwriters Lab by the Jordanian Royal Film Commission, and is a two-time winner of the Emerging Content Creators Scholarship from NALIP. She writes high-conce...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
A group of small-town teens see their newfound superpowers as a curse -- until they’re forced to band together to stop the dark powers at work in their community.
Mar is a queer Ashkenazi writer originally from Atlanta, Georgia. Mar is passionate about stories that examine the surrealism of Americana, the queer life at its fringes, and the everyday possibilities of the imagination.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 112 Pages
Dr. Halsted challenges late-19-century American society's ignorance, implementing aseptic principles in revolutionary surgeries no one's ever seen before. In his prime, his life turns upside down during his search for local anesthesia when experimenting with... cocaine.
West Hollywood, CA
• Signed Multi-award-winning (Screen)Writer: 200+ accolades, and fellowships.
• Signed Fashion Model & Actor: 600+ fashion works published in 12+ countries.
• Ranked All-Time 1st Coverfly (the largest database of script competition placements)
• UCLA: Screenwriting & TV Writing (Graduate studies).
• 3 Degrees (Film, Business, Law) in 5 countries...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 60 Pages
"In a tech-centralized future ripe with cybernetics and street violence, the city’s corrupt government uses music implants to suppress the violent emotions of the masses and prey on poorer sections of the city. A young naive inventor, newly enlisted by the most powerful tech company, must cooperate with a dangerous terrorist group in order to expose...
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Orlando, FL
Ambitious writer and film student living in Orlando. Had a upbringing infused with diverse fiction and forms of storytelling such as video games, books, and anime leading to a unique perspective when creating stories. Along with ethnic roots in Jamaica, Haiti, and Latin culture.
EMAIL: khalilclark65@gmail.com
Semifinalist
Treatment
· Horror
· 5 Pages
When Marta’s father comes back from prison, their
home is haunted by a sinister ghost. Marta must uncover how
her father’s return is linked to these supernatural events
and reveal dark family secrets.
Astana, KZ
Born and raised in Kazakhstan, I am a screenwriter with a UCLA certificate specializing in horror and thrillers.
My work falls into what I call "domestic horror"—intimate, character-driven stories that explore human relationships, all while weaving in the presence of the supernatural.
I believe the scariest monsters aren’t always the ones lu...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Drama
· 32 Pages
On the adventure of a lifetime, a teen fearlessly treks the turbulent Caribbean Sea during the 1994 Cuban Exodus. After being forced to leave everything behind when seeking asylum from her once beloved home country, she grapples with hope in the face of adversity.
Los Angeles, CA
The ability to loose myself in whatever I’m watching has always been something that stuck with me. As I’ve gotten older and decided to make storytelling my livelihood, I’ve realized it’s as simple as can be. When we allow ourselves to be fully immersed and taken into these beautiful, at times terrifying, unexplored new worlds we are granted a break ...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 93 Pages
After unleashing a seething evil while exploring an abandoned asylum, a young woman with a tragic past must confront buried family secrets and confront her own inner demons to survive.
Jolan Bastien
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
A washed-up actress and single mom, jaded by years of Hollywood ageism and misogyny, cashes in on her Golden Globe-winning childhood role to gouge the Jesus crowd on the convention circuit and transform herself into a multimillion-dollar Christian lifestyle brand.
New York, NY
Frederik Ehrhardt is a writer & producer based in the US & Germany. He got his industry start as an associate producer for four-time Independent Spirit Award nominee Darren Dean. Most recently, Frederik produced the screen adaptation of Markus Potter’s Outer Critics Circle nominated Off-Broadway play STALKING THE BOGEYMAN starring Tony winner Santin...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Comedy
· 16 Pages
When a Goalkeeping company decides to put on a 4-day sleepaway camp for 11-17 year-olds they discover they are completely unprepared for the chaos awaiting them.
Seattle, WA
Madeline Down is a Director, Writer and Producer based in Seattle, WA. She spent seven seasons with the Seattle Seahawks leading their Production and Entertainment teams. Madeline spends her time obsessed with telling documentary and narrative stories through her directing, writing and DOPing. Her work has been celebrated with 4 NATAS NW Emmys, 2 Sp...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 63 Pages
Set against the Italian Enlightenment, know-it-all Laura Bassi clashes with allies and enemies alike - from friends-turned-lovers to scheming scholars - in her struggle to become the world’s first female professor.
Venice, CA
Justine Beed is a writer-director born in Washington DC, and raised across seven cities around the world. After graduating from Stanford University she moved to LA — both the strangest and most familiar place she’s ever lived. Her global upbringing and love of irony inform her screenplays and short films, which are all feminist, genre-bending coming...
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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
This former LA native moved back to New England where her heart lies. Her scripts shine a light on complicated women, especially those time forgot.
Semifinalist
Series Bible
· Sci-fi
· 20 Pages
A controversial startup markets a device that removes unwanted parts of reality from perception, gaining opponents as its harmful effects on society grow.
Rome, IT
Andrea is a serial builder of fictional worlds, which he shapes from a capital of cinematic imagination and ancient center of the world. He specializes on High Concept projects, on crafting a wide, deep and semantically dense worldbuilding that combines psychological, social, and technological realism with visionary creativity.
His work includes gr...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
Hadriel, an angel who has been demoted from her high status, wants nothing more than to get away from humans– a difficult feat seeing as she is the angel who processes human souls after their deaths. After finishing her tenure down in Soul Intake, she is forced back into her job when the nuclear holocaust occurs and four billion humans arrive at her...
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Macon, Georgia
In 2021, Alex completed her Master's degree in the Writing for Script and Screen program at Falmouth University. Currently, she is on the Shortlist for The Script Department. Her specialties include both speculative and dark comedy. She has a keen interest in dialogue and character development in her screenplays.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A struggling cult leader brings in a new follower, however their popularity and natural ability to spread nirvana, creates a rift of jealousy.
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Cody is a writer, comedian, director, and producer.
Cody recently worked in production on A24's feature film ETERNITY.
Cody was the Associate Producer and contributing writer of HyperObject and Disney's cult-hit MOTHERLAND: FORT SALEM.
Cody has had many unique life experiences from his childhood of moving o...
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Semifinalist
Series Bible
· Comedy
· 10 Pages
The spunky but inept heiress to a dying regional shopping mall fights to keep the quirky, independent shops alive in the era of big-box stores and online shopping.
Ontario, CA
Shannon's award-winning works tend to explore the hectic, wondrous complications of coming-of-age. She co-produced and co-wrote THE GAME CHANGERS (executive produced by James Cameron & Arnold Schwarzenegger) and is producing/writing the sequel. She lives in a very old house in a very sweet village in Canada.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Action
· 62 Pages
Married into a political family of assassins, Dale’s desperate to prove his worth. Founded on an understanding that scarcity must be manufactured, the "Coalition" carries out hits on powerful players. Then tragedy strikes—forcing Dale to operate alone out of his desolate plain-sight post: the mattress store.
Los Angeles, California
Contact: Chris.Loveland13@gmail.com
I write TV pilots rich with action and drama. The main themes I work with are: family, love, and finding a purpose. Previous working experience as a production assistant, writer’s assistant, and in teaching. I graduated from Vanderbilt Magna Cum Laude in English in 2021. Mentored and inspired by writer Natalie B...
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Semifinalist
Short
· Horror
· 15 Pages
A teenage boy is hired to house sit for a wealthy couple whose young daughter has just died. The grieving parents have only one request for the night: Stay out of Maya's room.
Denver, Colorado
Andrew is a screenwriter who specializes in offbeat horror, dark comedy, and genre scripts with a strong emotional core. He was a 2024 WeScreenplay Short Script Lab Fellow and a winner of the 2024 Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition. Andrew has a degree in Creative Writing from Middlebury College and worked for many years as a journalist.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 56 Pages
After contracting polio and becoming permanently handicapped, Hermine discovers Bridge while living in Los Angeles in the 1950s. The story follows her rise to become a masterful bridge player while begging the world to see her as more than a disabled person but the bright, free-spirited young woman she is becoming.
Los Angeles, CA
Rebecca Hirschmann Karpas (Becky) is from Chicago and was a staff writer on the TINY TOONS reboot for HBOMAX, where she worked her way up from being a writer's assistant. A write-up in the New York Times of Tiny Toons Looniversity even applauds an episode she helped pitch because of its dramatic storyline moments.
Previously, she was a writers' P...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
When the flighty first daughter of Black Hollywood is outed during her father’s Oscar press week, she and her family must navigate their fame amid scandal to maintain their status among the elite.
Inglewood, CA
Born in the Bronx, Aadrise moved to Irving, Texas at ten. Even though she tried her hardest to reject the Southern lifestyle, it melded into her New York grit. Her comedic writing style stems from real-life mixed with crippling anxiety. However, that doesn't stop her from sharing joy and pain through comedic stories of Black women just trying to exi...
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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
Short
· Thriller
· 17 Pages
An emergency services operator receives a desperate call from the past, from someone she wishes she'd had the chance to know.
Manchester, Cheshire, GB
"handles the exploration and the complexities of love in the face of physical and emotional distance, brilliantly." - Chris Overton, Oscar Winner, The Silent Child.
Nik Perring is an award-winning screenwriter and author from the UK.
www.nikperring.com
@nikperring
Semifinalist
Series Bible
· Animated
· 22 Pages
In this darkly comedic tale, an eccentric Jewish patriarch, besieged by neuroses, grapples with a relentless cascade of cringe-worthy dilemmas. His daily life takes a surreal turn when an unhinged, foul-mouthed demon, imprisoned within a cursed wine box, unleashes a series of paranormal dangers and otherworldly misadventures, turning his once-ordina...
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Annandale, New Jersey
Meet Larry Patterson, the animated animator and writer who went from the hustle and bustle of Queens, New York to the quiet chaos of Central Jersey – talk about a culture shock! With a BA in Political Science and a minor in creative writing (because who needs practicality when you can have fun?), Larry's got brains and humor to spare, clearly a Satu...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
A beloved comedian's life is thrown into chaos when his friend and long-time double-act is accused of sexual assault.
Los Angeles, California
Zoe Miller is a 2024 Screenwriting Fellow at the American Film Institute Conservatory.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
Having trouble with his career as a magical nanny, Marty Popp soldiers on to care for a struggling kid who wants nothing to do with him. Together, they learn what it means to have a family they never asked for.
Los Angeles, California
Growing up gay, poor, and Asian in America, David Ngo pursued writing as a way to tell stories about every person and system that's shaped him to this day. Currently based in Los Angeles, he remains a strong advocate for lying in the grass and doing nothing.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 60 Pages
When a series of natural disasters and unnatural phenomena wreak havoc across the globe, a group of unlikely allies must come together to confront a mysterious faction determined to engineer the very end of the world.
In the same vein as LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND and THE HAPPENING.
Denver, CO
Steve Brown, a graduate of the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting, holds dual degrees in Journalism and English from the University of Arizona. In 2023, he transitioned from corporate copywriting (for popular brands such as Nintendo and Kaplan Test Prep) to pursue his passion for film and TV. Today, he dedicates his time entirely to screenwr...
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Proprietary Power Nappers
Private
Semifinalist
Short
· Sci-fi
· 12 Pages
In a dystopian future where humans no longer sleep, an office worker catches corporate attention when he is accidentally knocked unconscious and experiences a boost in productivity
Despite initially planning to pursue a career in medicine as a Stanford undergraduate, Aiden couldn't deny a passion for movies, especially ones that blend wildly contrasting tones. He has since pursued film production full-time, at least when he's not taking street photographs.
His short film, Young Oak Tree, was the winner of the "Los Angeles ...
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