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Screenwriter Testimonial


Posted on Dec 18, 2023

The team at Screenplay Festival works pretty hard to create a positive experience for the screenwriters who submit to our contest.  FilmFreeway reviews like this one make us smile!

I had a great experience with the Screenplay Festival. On the award notification date, I received an email telling me that the judges loved my screenplay and that I had been awarded a Finalist. It felt like a personalized email and I really appreciated it. Also, they invited all the finalists to an awards ceremony in LA. My wife and I attended and had a great time. It was a lot of fun to meet the other writers, network, and celebrate everyone’s work together. They gave me and everyone else who won an honorable mention award a plaque and took photos of the award winners. Screenplay Festival really went the extra mile to celebrate the writers. I definitely recommend submitting to this contest. It was overall one of the best experiences I’ve had yet.  

Eric MacKinnon Johnson

Thank you to Eric and all of the screenwriters who have written reviews at filmfreeway.com/ScreenplayFestival

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2023 Winners


Posted on Dec 14, 2023

In order to choose the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners for Screenplay Festival, there are three rounds to the competition. In the final round, every script is read by at least five judges and rated regardless of genre. The screenplays with the highest ratings become the winners!

This year, the winning screenplays listed below represent the top 5% of entries that we receive.

We appreciate everyone’s hard work and would again like to congratulate everyone for their great writing!


Grand Prize Winners


Movie: Action/Adventure : King of Blades by Paul Hikari
Movie: Comedy : Me’n Gus by Leslie Flannery
Movie: Drama : Lyman: The Movie by Anne Johnstonbrown
Movie: Thriller/Horror : Rough Cut by Mitchell V Slan
Television: Half Hour Script : Always Something by Courtney Slusser
Television: One Hour Script : Amy (Sort Of) by Peter Podgursky


Honorable Mention Winners


Movie: Action/Adventure

Movie: Action/Adventure : Britt Johnson by Peter Bloomquist
Movie: Action/Adventure : Brothers Blood by Virginia Travers, CV Herst, Scott Amour, & Clayton Shuster
Movie: Action/Adventure : If You See Me by Vanesa Stoynova
Movie: Action/Adventure : Pardou by Lacy McClory & Duane McClory


Movie: Comedy

Movie: Comedy : A Midsummer Night’s Play by Eric MacKinnon Johnson
Movie: Comedy : I’ll Be Doggone by Robert Cole
Movie: Comedy : Love Me X 3 by Erin Elizabeth Keefer
Movie: Comedy : Playing Hero by Warren Lane


Movie: Drama

Movie: Drama : A City Clean and Good by Daniel Lin Worthen
Movie: Drama : Anna Incognito by Laura Preble
Movie: Drama : Before the Dust Returns by Adam Peditto
Movie: Drama : Victory Disease by Andrew D TePas


Movie: Thriller/Horror

Movie: Thriller/Horror : Chateau Sauvignon by David M. Night Maire & Adam T. Wolfe
Movie: Thriller/Horror : Hello. by Sophia Lee
Movie: Thriller/Horror : S-21 by Kylee Q Robinson
Movie: Thriller/Horror : Stupid Dead Boy by Alex Vickery-Howe


Television: Half Hour Script

Television: Half Hour Script : AnHedonia by Lucky Bailey
Television: Half Hour Script : Hoof & Horn by Kevin Brunner
Television: Half Hour Script : Locked Up: The Fish by Ronald D. Smith
Television: Half Hour Script : TINU by Nirali Shastri


Television: One Hour Script

Television: One Hour Script : The Combat Art Collective by Baron Rotza
Television: One Hour Script : The Mind’s Eye by Gabriel Meyers
Television: One Hour Script : The Orphans by Johnny Galvan
Television: One Hour Script : Wench by Aaveen Marandi & Tommy Miller

 

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2023 Finalists


Posted on Nov 15, 2023

In order to choose the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners for Screenplay Festival, there are three rounds to the competition. In the first round, every script is read by at least two judges and rated regardless of genre. The screenplays with the highest ratings move on to the second round!

The most frequent question we get asked is, “What percentage of scripts make it through the first round?”  This year, the Second Round screenplays listed below represent the top 15% of entries that we receive.

We appreciate everyone’s hard work and would again like to congratulate everyone for their great writing!

Finalists

Movie: Action / Adventure

A Need For Something New by John T. Frederick
Britt Johnson by Peter Bloomquist
Brothers Blood by Virginia Travers, CV Herst, Scott Amour, Clayton Shuster
Closer to The Sun by Sara Althani
Epicenter by Luke Swanson
Heroes and Villains by Timothy Burgess, John Burgess
If You See Me by Vanesa Stoynova
King of Blades by Paul Hikari
Nobody’s Heroes by Michael Alan Elliott
Pardou by lacy mcclory, Duane Mcclory
Sixgun Saint by Warren Lane
Spiralmind by Benito F Perez, Jackson J Smith
The priory of Sion by Cazebon-Taveau Cazebon-Taveau Cazebon-Taveau
The Rifle Brothers by Brett McKay Prieto
The World Turned Upside Down by Dennis O’Flyng

Movie: Comedy

A Midsummer Night’s Play by Eric MacKinnon Johnson
Beyond Romeo by Aaron Fitzgerald
Blood Money by Dominic Flanagan
Eating Rhode Island by Lawrence Thelen
I’ll Be Doggone by Robert Cole
Love in the Time of Coronavirus by Emilio Santín
Love In The Time of Covid by Dennis Manuel
Love Me X 3 by Erin Elizabeth Keefer
Me’n Gus by Leslie Flannery
Playing Hero by Warren Lane
Rock On by Bill Rutkoski, Dan Karlok
The Littlest God by Barry Steven Kohl
The Resurrectionists by Duncan Putney
Under Done by El Brazil
Wildwood by Damon Fabbo

Movie: Drama

A City Clean and Good by Daniel Lin Worthen
A Letter to Sakharov by Andrew Joseph Crane
Anna Incognito by Laura Preble
Ball of Fire by Sean Coleman
Before the Dust Returns by Adam Peditto
Call Me Thor by Jamie Campbell
Devotion by Leon McConnell
Learning To Be Human by J Frederick
Look at It This Way by Danae Clark
Lyman: The Movie by Anne Johnstonbrown
Manongs by Mariel Madrid, Keone Madrid
Paradise Destroyed by Robin Neil Chambers
Replacement by Borys Shusterman
Reunion at Red Paint Bay by George E Harrar
Victory Disease by Andrew D TePas

Movie: Thriller/Horror

Bento Box by Brian Elliott Feinberg
Chateau Sauvignon by David M. Night Maire, Adam T. Wolfe
Dark Destinies by Warren Lane
Hello. by Sophia Lee
Home of the Dead by Rod Tipton
Margo and the Monster by Don Famularo
Ombre by Kevin Brunner
Rev by Jay K McGrath
Rough Cut by Mitchell V Slan
S-21 by Kylee Q Robinson
Scratch by Cedrick Nichols
Stupid Dead Boy by Alex Vickery-Howe
The Dive by Andrew Essig
Time, Space, And The Poet by John Turner
WiLL by Ryan Hughes

Television: Half Hour Script

Always Something by Courtney Slusser
AnHedonia by Lucky Bailey
Bender by Vic Paul
Film Or Be Filmed – Pilot by Alexander Green
Hoof & Horn by Kevin Brunner
Lemonlight by M. Rowan Meyer
Locked Up: The Fish by Ronald D. Smith
The Black Paintings by Finn Weatherstone
The Gang Gets Diverse by Jordan Champagne
TINU by Nirali Shastri

Television: One Hour Script

Aisle of Arsara by Jess Carlyle Palmer
Amy (Sort Of) by Peter Podgursky
Desert Star News by Robert Alan Haus
Gemini by Alex Vickery-Howe
Gilligan’s Island Of The Dead by Jerry Kokich
Life Through the Lens by Chad Hutson
Mrs. Ashby by Jesse Millward
Norwich by Hisonni Mustafa
Still’s Life by Duncan Putney
The Combat Art Collective by Baron Rotza
The Mind’s Eye by Gabriel Meyers
The Orphans by Johnny Galvan
The Scripts of Virtue by Jairaj Singh Walia
Watchlist by Alex Vickery-Howe
Wench by Aaveen Marandi, Tommy Miller

 

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