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Winter 2025
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Maggie Tsavaris
Winner: Best Screenplay
The Linguist"
A richly layered blends of a political thriller with the emotional resonance of an intimate character study, inspired by real-world geopolitics with a complex and deeply human protagonist.

Erin Donovan
Winner: Best TV Script
"Todos Santos"
A single mom who just wants to send her kid to a good college.
becomes a wanted criminal hiding out in a picturesque Mexican town.The question remains: Who do you have to fuck over to get your kid into Juilliard?

Melissa Brides
Winner: Best Short Script
"Room B"
In the aftermath of a school shooting a group of parents wait for news of their children's fate. As they come together they are unaware that one of them is the shooter's mother. Out of the tragedy come moments of love, support and in the end, compassion.

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Fall 2024
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Mark Zaslove
Winner: Best Screenplay
"Wind"
The story of two brothers, and one's single-minded vision threatening to tear them and their family to pieces, leaving behind shattered lives and broken wings. This is the true story of the Wright Brothers....

Tom Franey
Winner: Best TV Script
"Breaking Bad; Season 6"
Jesse Pinkman (42, full head of hair) leads an idyllic life as Virgil Driscoll, husband, father and dedicated factory worker. Unable to resist the lure of easy money, his actual job is cooking meth..

Joey Medina
Winner: Best Short Script
"Buddy & The Man"
A terminally ill man finds solace and purpose in rescuing an abused dog, rediscovering the meaning of life and the profound power of companionship.

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Summer 2024
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Susan Sweeney
Winner: Best Screenplay
"The Widow of Summit Springs"
A young heiress seeks help from a father-son detective duo to escape the wrath of her stepmother. As the detectives work to protect the heiress, they uncover the stepmother's web of deceit and the family's dark past.

Andrew Chiaramonte
Winner: TV Script
"Starstruck Galileo"
The scientist and philosopher Galileo Galilei is found guilty of heresy for his scientific theories and is sentenced to a life sentence of house arrest.

Mackenzie Breeden / Riley Scott
Winner: Short Script
"Praying Mantis"
A Confederate soldier takes shelter in the isolated cabin of two women who now find themselves at his mercy until they turn the tables.

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Spring 2024
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Daniel William Pero
Winner: Best Screenplay
"Dire Straits III: Choke Point"
A former Special Forces war hero and Governor of Michigan, now President of the United States, must make controversial and emotional decisions that will impact her marriage, radical Islamists in the Persian Gulf, and a potential conflict with China in the South China Sea.

Chad Hutson
Winner: TV Script
"Life Through the Lens"
A talented photojournalist obsessed with winning the Pulitzer must choose between his pursuit of the award or being the father he never had after being abandoned as a boy.

Brendon Richards
Winner: Short Script
"Lament"
A young man is confronted by a supernatural entity which feeds upon his regrets and desires.

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Winter 2024
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Stan Lewis
Winner: Best Screenplay
"The Curious Disappearance of John Drasinski"
Three celebrity-obsessed college students, Bella, Harper, and Samira, set out to meet actor John Krasinski but accidentally kidnapped him. This causes worldwide concern for his safety and creates an impossible situation that they have no idea how to get out of.

Lynda Reiss
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Tara Tremaine
Winner: TV Script
"Moonlight and Mayhem"
Vera Atkins, a Romanian Jew and seven female agents recruited by Winston Churchill go to wartime France with one just job: cause as much chaos and mayhem as possible to fuck with the Nazis.

James Mulcahy
Winner: Short Script
"Grammatical Identities"
Dr. Emerson, an English professor devoted to the sanctity of grammatical rules, faces an unexpected challenge when his traditional lectures are derailed by students eager to explore gender identity and language's evolving role in expressing it.

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Fall 2023
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SEAN LAWRENCE
Winner: Best Screenplay
"The Baxter-Brown Gang"
After their mentor is nearly beaten to death, a gang of grifters, gunslingers and thieves in the old west decide to pull a dangerous con on a ruthless land baron who's been terrorizing a small town.

D.Purcell
Winner: TV Script
"Down Deep"
An intriguing mystery that sets up a strong sense of time and place, complex character relationships, and a memorable plot hook, with the early death of a lead character.

Frances Presley Rice
Winner: Short Script
"The Brandy Picasso"
A reformed art forger helps a local art dealer and the police catch a notorious art thief as he attempts to steal a Picasso.

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Summer 2023
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GEORGIA L. WELL
Winner: Best Screenplay
"The Last Road Trip"
Harvey and his best friends take off for Montana in a VW van...and only Harvey knows his friends will be returning home alone because he plans to die on his own terms.

Curtis Lofgren
Winner: TV Script
"There's a Pea in My Soup"
An episode of the hit TV series Justified that takes place two years after the final episode, featuring the challenges faced by Raylan Givens as he enters retirement.

John Brown
Winner: Short Script
"We'll Remember William"
A young British column writer battles with his diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's. With the help of a long friend, they navigate the new life he has to come.

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Spring 2023

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Chad Hutson
Winner: Best Screenplay
"Good News Gary"
A hopeful TV reporter is deceitfully fired from his popular good news segment, forcing him to sacrifice his values and become a seedy gotcha journalist to pay for his daughter’s looming college tuition.

Michael D. Kenney
Winner: TV Pilot
"Ancient City Bait"
A single father not long out of prison moves to Florida with his daughter to start over. When he borrows money from the owner of a local bait shop, he gets caught in a whirlpool of crime that threatens his plans.

Scott Thompson/
Hayes Hart-Thompson
Winner: Short Script
"Free Martin"
A fourteen-year-old and her girlfriend run away from home after fears their relationship has been discovered.

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Winter 2022-23

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Reenita M. Hora
Winner: Best Screenplay
"Operation Mom"
An Indian-American teen deals with her single mother and becomes her mother’s matchmaker instead of the other way around.

Michael Morero
Winner: TV Pilot
"Boo's Cruise"
A sober stand-up comedian gets his world turned upside down with a gig on a cruise ship. He quickly learns that finding his fiancé on board with another man is the least of his worries.

Alysha Haran
Winner: Short Script
"The Ride"
When Blake picks up a young Marine hitching his way down the highway, he has no idea giving the veteran a simple ride will have such a life-changing effect on both of them.

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Fall 2022

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John L. Prather
Winner: Feature Screenplay
"The Jesus Nut"
A reviled college professor, a delusional homeless man, and a priest who loves strip clubs embark on a journey to discover the century's greatest relic... and, in the end, find themselves. Adapted from the novel.

Don McKinney
Winner: TV Pilot
"Agency of Record"
In Corporate America there are predators and there are the predators’ meal. The last standing independent advertising agency is the main course, as holding companies wait for the most opportune moment to strike.

Vu Mai
Winner: Short Script
"Don't Let Me Sink"
After ten years of sobriety, a heroin addict finds herself down the path of temptation again as she struggles with her grief. Deep down she knows that if she decides to push that needle, there is no coming back.

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2022 Fall Competitive "Selected" Entries

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Summer 2022

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Joel Lesko
Winner: Feature Screenplay
"Seeds"
A young agri-business prognosticator goes home to bury her father and sell the family farm, only to unearth the dark family secrets of human nature that have distorted her world ever since.

Matthew Webster
Winner: TV Pilot
"Back"
A group of people in a small town in Ohio try to continue moving forward in the life they’re living, rather than give in to the constant temptation to “go back” and “fix” their lives.

Dean Friske
Winner: Short Script
"Mousse"
A man must overcome an all-encompassing battle with his alter ego, in order to admit to his wife what kind of person he really is.

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Spring 2022

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Susan Klos
Feature Screenplay
"Voices"
A single mother struggles to balance a business and family life with a new romance as her daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia. She must choose between the love of her life and the life of her child.

Earl Javorsky
TV Pilot
"Charlie Miner"
Charlie Miner, a heroin-addicted PI, wakes up looking down at his own body at the LA County morgue. Now he has a murder to solve: his own.

Francesca Scotti-Goetz
Short Film Script
"Undecided"
A powerful, relevant, and timely piece as three parallel conversations debate the abortion issue and whether or not to keep a pregnancy.

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Winter 2021-2

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Congratulations to all these wonderful writers...

in the most competitive of all competition seasons!

Eli Rose
Feature Screenplay
"The Strays"
Traumatized and addicted, 15-year-old Blue and her homeless friends begin to crumble under the brutal weight of a dark drug world.

Eve Patzlaff
TV Pilot
"Friendless"
What happens when friendships disintegrate? The answer is June, friendless and wondering what the hell went wrong.

Kevin Fintland
Short Film Script
"Dave's Lucky Day"
A story about a guy, a fortune cookie, and what it truly means to be "lucky".

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Fall 2021

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Doug Williams
Feature Screenplay
"Black Star Rising"
Barbara Jordan conquers poverty and racism to become a leading black politician in the 1970s. But as she rises, Jordan’s allies sabotage her career because she doesn’t act like a stereotypical “black woman politician.”

Richard Muti
TV Pilot
"Sinatra"
Frank Sinatra, whose reckless behavior often gets in the way of his immense talent, overcomes obstacles early in life with the help of a strong-willed mother and Mafia benefactors, as he strives to reach the top.

Rachel Jacob
Short Film Script
"Four on the Mantle"
Two couples in the same family are expecting, one for the first time, the other with a sorrowful past. After a miscarriage, family dynamics change as they learn to deal with tragedy in a whole new way.

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Summer 2021
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Congratulations to all these wonderful writers!

Bill Brock
Feature Screenplay
"James Dean: Crossing the Finish Line"
On the night before his death, an inevitable Hollywood
film icon questions his fate through a series of life-altering triumphs, challenges, and haunting nightmares.

Vikas Bandhu
TV Pilot
"The Industrialist"
India's top prosecutor is sent to the United States to extradite the world's most powerful industrialist, responsible for an environmental disaster that killed four thousand people in India in 1991.

Richard Bruce Stirling
Short Film Script
"What About Huggy?"
Gary Parker's new job is taking him and his family to Mars.
But their plans hit a wall when they learn they can't
take their beloved old dog Huggy.