2024 Winners


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 : The Geography of Violence by Sophie Rapaport
Movie: Comedy : Mary Mary Quite Contrary by Kevin Brunner
Movie: Drama : Tinderbox by Wendy Jean Wilkins
Movie: Thriller/Horror : Jaju by Greg Dorchak
Television: Half Hour Script : Executive Disorder by Ethan Olmstead
Television: One Hour Script : The Ultimate Game by Mia McEvoy


Honorable Mention Winners


Movie: Action/Adventure

Blossom City Blues by MINH N/A NGUYEN
ESTEBAN by Robin Neil Chambers
Evie and Amaya by Kerrys Virgo
RACE ACROSS AMERICA by Dennis DeBon
The Cascades by M R Caldwell


Movie: Comedy

Anything To Win Her Love by Nicole Stefani Rodriguez
Bessie’s Place by Adam Sandel
Playing Hero by Warren Lane
The Cottages by Erin Elizabeth Keefer
The Marriage Maker by Cam Seamus, Dave Bone, Laury Falter


Movie: Drama

8-Hour Nightmare by Jeff Kimball
A Bullet For God’s Bounty by Don Stroud
Let the Boy Sing by Gunnar Garrett
One Last Build in Centralia by Michael Klug
Turn the Sandglass by Robert Gokay


Movie: Thriller/Horror

BELIEF by Susan Kelejian
Ghost Station by Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez
Octave by Brenda Ellen Warder
The Offering by David Solomon Kornfield
Who Watches the Weight Watchers? by Aaron B. Covaleski


Television: Half Hour Script

FAMILY PHYSICIAN by Benjmin Alexander, Dan Ringey
The Baxters Take New Orleans (spec script) by Lucie Rose Courtois
The Bear “Heard” by Monis Rose
The Chronicles of Harley Pony Boy Episode One by Tony Schweikle
Vapor by Sean Taylor


Television: One Hour Script

A MEXICAN DILEMMA by Charles Richard Clotfelter
HOLLYWOOD GHOSTWRITER (TV Pilot) by Melanie Villines
Law hop by Latris Latrelle Oliveira, Gary Swaby
Little Italo by Mattia Simioni
Means & Methods by Sean McMahon Roper