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!
This year, the “Finalist” screenplays listed below represent the top 25% 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.J. Artificial Justice by D. Hunter Fein
Ancestors From the Stars by Joe McNeal
Blossom City Blues by MINH N/A NGUYEN
ESTEBAN by Robin Neil Chambers
Evie and Amaya by Kerrys Virgo
Miss Dixie is a Pixie by Nathan Caliner Goldman, Miriam Esther Goldman
Pay Dirt by Dan Angus Morrison
RACE ACROSS AMERICA by Dennis DeBon
Reaches by Zeynep Ekim
Sixgun Saint by Warren Lane
Strike by Charles Borg, Johnny Vongnaphone
The Cascades by M R Caldwell
The Geography of Violence by Sophie Rapaport
The Glass Key by Brando Benetton
The Ruby Books by Jeanne Demers
Curry Sauce Ninja by Hecham Heesh Elhajoui
Movie: Comedy
20June67 by Joe Fenico
AI UNPLUGGED: THE TRINITY by Craig Trumbo
Anything To Win Her Love by Nicole Stefani Rodriguez
Bessie’s Place by Adam Sandel
Cave Dwellers_ by Francis Indigo
Giggling Gallows by Warren Lane, Jon Tenzing Neralich
Happy as Larry by Hugo André
I’m in a Screenplay by Arthur Tiersky
Mary Mary Quite Contrary by Kevin Brunner
Playing Hero by Warren Lane
Safe Words by Daniel Clements
Tequila Run by Donald Valley
The Cottages by Erin Elizabeth Keefer
The Dad Joke by Joe Bor
The Marriage Maker by Cam Seamus, Dave Bone, Laury Falter
The Mullet Round by Kevin Gries, Charles Hallinan
THE PLOT, THICKINS! by Russ Lindway
Thursday’s Special by Rob Levinson
What’s Wrong With You Son? by Harry A Druding
Suckle by Gary Wayne Anderson
TOILET SHARKS by Bruce Griffiths
Movie: Drama
7 Scars by Peter Cameron
8-Hour Nightmare by Jeff Kimball
A Bullet For God’s Bounty by Don Stroud
A Promise I Made to Mr. Bagels by Romeo Ciolfi
Beastings by Derek Masterson
Down By Law by Rich Otto
HEIMRICH FARM Subtitles ed. abridged 2024 by Charles J Finesilver, Greg D Paxton
Let the Boy Sing by Gunnar Garrett
Limbo by Princess Anene-Maidoh
Love’s Pure Light by Steven Hawkins
Malinalli by Isaak France’s Gracia
Neighbours by Olga Sovenko
Next Time We Meet by Robert Gokay
NO WATER FOR WALK-ONS by MICHAEL CUTLER
One Last Build in Centralia by Michael Klug
Oorah… by Lori Lee Daliposon
Rahma by faysal soysal
The Apostate by Darrin Thompson
THE HOOD AND VEIL QUEEN by Angelo Bell
The Long Road To War by Joe Micklethwaite
The Race by Carlos Miranda, Michael Corcoran
THE REFLECTION OF MARCUS JOHNSON by Shawn Casey McLaughlin
The Shuck by John Patrick Hayden, Shawn Fisher
The Town by Al Mertens
The Wardrobe by Peter Noel
Tinderbox by Wendy Jean Wilkins
Turn the Sandglass by Robert Gokay
When No One Else Beieved by Ron J Tripodo
Movie: Thriller/Horror
Aqualand by Luke Hunter
BELIEF by Susan Kelejian
Blood and Bone Pawn Shop by Laura J. Hickman
Breaking the Curse by Lisa K. Thomas
Breezy Point by Keith Roenke, Luke Edwards
Cat Lady, A Psycho-Biddy Horror by Suzan Averitt, Jeff G Peters
Desert Rose by Walter Siefker
Ghost Station by Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez
Giggling Gallows by Warren Lane, Jon Tenzing Neralich
Golliwog by Mod Grip
Hillcrest Manor by Reese Morgan, Steve Deering
Jaju by Greg Dorchak
Love and Other Bloody Messes by Brian McGrath
MISCHIEViOUS by Nathan Warren Lane
Monster Within by Emanuele Frusi
My Child by Matthew Ford
Night Creatures by Daniel Michael Williams
NIGHTFALL by Shawn McLaughlin
Octave by Brenda Ellen Warder
Shark of the Dead by Nick Bankhead
The Fall of the House of Usher by Ronald Ecker
The Lonely by Girard Dorney
The Offering by David Solomon Kornfield
Three Days by Emilio Santín
Time, Space & the Poet – Part Two by John Turner
TOILET SHARKS by Bruce Griffiths
Vice vs. Vampyres by Brad Havens
Victor Dickens and the Silent Minority by Jeremy David Thompson
Wanting by Zach Closs
Who Watches the Weight Watchers? by Aaron B. Covaleski
Witchblood by Richard Hohenrath
Television: Half Hour Script
*SHOOTING STAR* Pilot: “Star Seeds” by TJ Morehouse
Brothers “pilot” by Benjamin Rodefer
Executive Disorder by Ethan Olmstead
FAMILY PHYSICIAN by Benjmin Alexander, Dan Ringey
HAPPY LANDING by Dianne Lee Blomberg, PhD, Joseph Alexander Carabello
Hear Yourself by Kerrys Virgo
Kai Fishman’s Life In The Background by Chris Warner
Last out by Stan Hope
No One Likes You – “First Week” by Josh Perry
Scandiman by Kerrys Virgo
The Baxters Take New Orleans (spec script) by Lucie Rose Courtois
The Bear “Heard” by Monis Rose
The Belfast Connection – Pilot Episode by John Donovan
The Chronicles of Harley Pony Boy Episode One by Tony Schweikle
The Folklore Files by Warren Lane
UNIT F: Monster Vice by Chris Warner
Vapor by Sean Taylor
Wildflower of the Valley (Pilot): Carnal Bloom by Hannah Rose Vernot
Television: One Hour Script
A MEXICAN DILEMMA by Charles Richard Clotfelter
Aris by V.P. Evans
Catering Hell by Nate Lane
GATE’S FLYING CIRCUS by Dennis DeBon
Hedy’s Wars by John J Rutter
HOLLYWOOD GHOSTWRITER (TV Pilot) by Melanie Villines
In Real Life (IRL) by Shawand M Marquez
Law hop by Latris Latrelle Oliveira, Gary Swaby
Little Italo by Mattia Simioni
Means & Methods by Sean McMahon Roper
PAST SHIFT by Sabina Sattar
Renting Grandma by Todd Colby Pliss, Jacob Shelton
ShowDown 52 by Alex Martins
Shut Up & Swim by Eleanna Santorinaiou
The Human Computers by John J Rutter
The Last Angel by Tommy Gunns
The Leader by Adam Butler
The Ultimate Game by Mia McEvoy