Winter 2025

Diverse Writers Outreach

Entries - Finalists - Winners
Maxwell Thomas
Winner
Best Screenplay
"GalBaby"
Tormented after witnessing her 6-year-old sister’s inexplicable suicide, a mob boss’ daughter flamethrowers everything she ever loved to find out WHY.
Alberto Diamante
Winner
Best TV Script
"Cafe Romeo"
A group of artists gathers in a café to create theater, art, comedy, and performance art. Meanwhile, the Cuban Missile Crisis brings the world to the brink of extinction.
Lindsay Maxoutopoulis
Winner
Best Short Script
"People Watching
After moving to a small beach town, Lucy finds herself caught in a web of gossip and rivalry, forcing her to question her loyalties and her place in the  local social circles.
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Summer/Fall 2024

Diverse Writers Outreach

Entries - Finalists - Winners
Johnny Russell
Winner
Best Screenplay
"Neon"
One man’s voyage from troubled youth to street gang messiah as he sets into motion the gravest scourge to ever hit American urban life. The Story of the Bloods and the Crips
Liz Tenan
Winner
Best TV Script
"The Dot""
The foul-mouhted, feisty "Princess of Southie” witnesses her mafia kingpin father murder her Black boyfriend and now must fight to reclaim her young son and her life.
Susan Kelejian
Winner
Best Short Script
"He/She/Us""
Astrid's boyfriend Paolo comes out as trans and fights for their love when he has radically changed, and she has not.
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Spring 2024

Diverse Writers Outreach

Entries - Finalists - Winners

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Barry Putt
Winner
Best Screenplay
"Omeed's Tapestries"
An Iranian, same-sex couple seeks to migrate from their homeland to a country where they will be able to live a peaceful life as their authentic selves. 
Celine Foster
Winner
Best TV Script
"Flop Era""
After her co-founder boyfriend publicly torpedoes their company and their relationship, a Type-A perfectionist must rebuild her life with the help of her dysfunctional college besties.
Karla S. Bryant
Winner
Best Short Script
"Kodachrome""
The established relationship between two siblings unexpectedly changes after their mother's death.
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Winter 2024

Diverse Writers Outreach

Entries - Finalists - Winners

d.b. Roderick
Winner
Best Screenplay
"Ovidado"
Set on the U.S.-Mexico border on the cusp of  9/11, "Olvidado" weaves their intersecting stories together, but it is not a narrative about the border, but the people who must cross it. 
Frances McCoy
Winner
Best TV Script
"Maddie and Zina""
A young girl with Down syndrome envisions herself as a superhero, soaring through the skies with her canine companion by her side.They discover the power of friendship, love, and the strength found within.
Paula Rossman
Winner
Best Short Script
"Refractions"
A young woman, her life spiraling out of control, confronts her mother’s mistakes, even as they reflect her own. Can she learn to forgive, and so, heal her own future?
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Fall 2023
Diverse Writers Outreach
Entries - Finalists - Winners
Rosalyn Rosen
Winner
Best Screenplay
"Red Sea"
In 1983, Jewish Holocaust survivors are challenged to come to terms with their past when their American teenage daughter decides to leave home to pursue her dreams..
Suzanne Birrell
Winner
Best TV Script
"Sally & Norma"
Two retired middle school teachers decide to whoop some ass and take on the societal ills of today.
Kyung-Ja Lee
Winner
Best Short Script
"Little Tokyo Story"
An elderly Korean woman with a tragic history during the Japanese occupation struggles to accept the help of a Japanese caregiver.
Summer 2023
Diverse Writers Outreach
Entries - Finalists - Winners
John Patrick McHale & Xavier Jackson
Winner
Best Screenplay
"Nurses and the Virus That Changed Everything"
The riveting saga of a black male nurse on the front lines during the darkest days of the COVID pandemic.
Marine Mondelot
Winner
Best TV Script
"EON"
In the rigid society of the 18th century, a low-ranking nobleman is game for anything to marry the woman he loves. Even changing gender...
Madeline Daly Puccioni
Winner
Best Short Script
"Said the Spider to the Fly"
Down-and-out Private Investigator Michael Francis Daly finds a million dollar ruby necklace on his desk in his shabby office in the Tenderloin District of SF, and a world of trouble. 
Spring 2023
Diverse Writers Outreach
Entries - Finalists - Winners
Robert Borrego
Winner
Best Screenplay
"The Agave Diary"
A young man reads the diary of his late father, revealing
a youthful romance that ended in a murder which may
​now be repeating in the present.

​​Congratulations to these amazing writers!
Winter 2022-23
Diverse Writers Outreach
Entries - Finalists - Winners

Ernestina Juarez
Winner
Best Screenplay
"The Banner"
Though haunted by the memory of the lynching of his father for leading a slave rebellion, an African-American slave risks his life to join in Mexico's struggle for independence after witnessing the execution of the author of the first law against slavery on the North American continent. (based on true events)
Deborah Rayne &
Catherine Eaton
Winner
Best TV Pilot
"Flawless: A Feminist Fairytale"
When “Ever After, Inc.” hires a Latinx Millennial to become the new Fairy Godmother for NYC, she discovers that the shiny corporate behemoth is nothing more than a shill for the Patriarchy. Disillusioned, she goes rogue and sets out to dismantle The System.
​Congratulations to these amazing writers!
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Fall 2022

Diverse Writers Outreach
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Tennessee Martin
Winner
Best Screenplay/TV Pilot
"Sutton Holler"
When stunt-woman and modern day cowgirl, McClane Thatcher, learns that her twin brother Travis has gone missing, she returns home to Sutton Holler after ten years of absence to uncover the truth about his disappearance. 
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​Congratulations to these amazing writers!
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Summer 2022
Diverse Writers Outreach
Entries - Finalists - Winners
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Helen Cho & Sally Renee Brunk
Winners
Best Screenplay/TV Pilot
"Into the Cold"
A young widow is forced to revisit the traumatic events from her past to solve her daughter’s past life regression.

​Congratulations to all these amazing writers!
F = Finalist
Michele Wright
Robert Cox
Roosevelt Lewis
Paul Whitehead
Matthew Parvin
Lisa Triano
Patricia Fox
Melissa Peng
Eric Dyson
Heather Shreve
Michael Miller
Frank Scott
Sterling Daniels
Robert Cuen
Johnny Dunn
Stuart Forrest
David Rivera
Lesley Manuel
Gene Lassers
Allie Robinson
Ally May
Gregory Cala
Beth Milstein
William Swanson
Lisa Iannini - F
Carlos Dorsey
Mary Burton
Lisa Triano
Johnny Dunn
Stephen Guillen
Dominique Partridge
Johnny Dunn
BK Wells
Sasha Gary
Sohrab Fracis
Helen Cho 
Fronnie Lewis
Salvatore Riggio
Patricia Lewis
Sam Callahan
Fronnie Lewis
Andrew Justvig
Gregory Lemmons
Michael Elliott
Helen Cho & Sally Brunk 
​WINNER
Jodie Anders - F
Joseph Stephen Meadows
Steven Berry
Peter Piwowarczyk
Shiva Kumar
Jodie Anders - F
Patricia Fox
William Swanson
Andrew Rotondi
Patrick Skeyhill
Nicholas Szegedi
Mark Bowes - F
Christine Inserra
Steven Berry
Sterling Daniels
Christine Inserra - F
Patricia Fox
Christine Lee
Michael Elliott
Georgette Franklin
Robert Cuen
Lulenoxx Filmmaker
Ambar Jan
Kyle Michel Sullivan
Marcelo Bendotti
Alicia Eastes
Bear Kosik
Leslie Bloom
Christine Inserra
Kacy Boccumini
Christine Inserra
Sherry Klein
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel
Susan Lander
John Alarid
Christine Inserra - F
Cari Jackson
Inspire Publishing
John Alarid
Theo Perry
John Prather
Lukas Hassel
John Alarid
John Alarid
John Alarid
Trevor Southall - F
Lisa Triano
Carl Burcham
Elena Schumann
Sterling Daniels
​54 Years Late
A Christmas Without Snow
A Matter of Strife
Adam & Eve
After the Deluge
All In
Anatomy of a Town
Baby Gay
Baby Steps Feature
Bamboo Wife 
Beyond the City of Lights
Black Wolf
Blood Manor
Boy meets Girl
Brothers Mussolini
Brown Recluse
Cases and the Norm
Catfished
Corinth
Cupid's Chokehold
Dandelion Wishes
Debit Card
Declaration of Conscience 
East Side Story
Empress
Entanglement 
F*ck Cancer
Finally
Finding Room
Firmé
FML (Fuck My Life)
Free Range
Funny Money
Glamping Gone Wild
Go Home
Happy Sad Scared Mad
He's the One
Heroes, Just For One Day 
Hidden
High Praise
Hoop and Glory
Hotel CP
Houston: The Man Who Lynched Jim Crow
In Self Defense ? 
Into the Cold
​Best TV Pilot/Screenplay
Invisible  
It's Only Life
Janet Leslie
Jessie's game
Journey to Babylon
Kita Manitou
La Hacienda
Le Train
Learning To Fly
Legend of First Memory
Libido on Steroids
Life During Wartime  
Loving Out Loud
Make It Work!
Marshal Bass Law
Monumental
My 4 Bodies
My Hero
Nobody's Heroes
Old MacDonald Had A Son
Pachucos
Pairs to the Floor
Peaked
Porno Manifesto
Postponed.
Pretty Girl
Queer Cowfolk 
Rainbow Cowboy
Salaam Santa
Samara & The City
Silk Road Runaways
Smother's Day
Snowy Strangeways
Swing Vote Blues
Sympathy for the Devil
Teleception
Tenderness
That's So Gay
The Ant People
The Colors
The Jesus Nut
The Mechanic
The Miracle Man
The Oldest Caddies
The Road to Shambala
The Spiritual Tourist 
Truly Madly Deeply
What Strong Women Can Do
What the Prophets Last Say to Earth
Whiskey Sour