Screenwriting Contest Final Results
Fall 2024
Winners - Finalists - SemiFinalists - QuarterFinalists
Fall 2024
Winners - Finalists - SemiFinalists - QuarterFinalists
John Knapich
& Thomas Kelly Winner: Best Screenplay "Bleached Blonde Betty" A lonely 33-year-old aspiring writer and hard-working waitress gets scammed into a perilous scheme to steal an art masterpiece from a modern museum. |
Stephanie Kornick
Winner: Best TV Script "Pleasure Principle" A 'perfect' 20-something teacher's aid struggles to keep it together when she finds out about her rabbi-boyfriend's surprise marriage proposal. |
John Ravitz
Winner: Best Short Script "No Nails" A grieving police detective who serves as a Eucharistic Minister identifies a mob hitman while serving Holy Communion and must tread the line between the sacred and the need to stop a killer before he kills again. |
Finalists
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Semi-Finalists
Screenplay
TV Script
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Quarter Finalists
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Screenwriting Contest Final Results
Summer 2024
Winners - Finalists - SemiFinalists - QuarterFinalists
John Ravitz
Winner: Best Screenplay "Billy & Sam" After a heavenly mistake, a struggling musician's spirit is placed in the body of a bitter broken old man, whose heart and soul must be restored before they can both find peace. |
Mary A. Byron
Winner: Best TV Script "The Diplomat's Wife" A newlywed joins her husband, a foreign diplomat as he reports to an embassy abroad. She steps out of her husband's shadow onto the front lines, where mistakes can cost lives—even her own. |
CR Sherman
Winner: Best Short Script "Mother's Day" For love or for luck, professionals who live in harm’s way keep a memory close of the one person who always tried to keep them out of it. |
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Semi-Finalists
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Quarter Finalists
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Honorable Mention
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Screenwriting Contest Final Results
Spring 2024
Winners - Finalists - SemiFinalists - QuarterFinalists
Spring 2024
Winners - Finalists - SemiFinalists - QuarterFinalists
Rowan Grey Sutherland
Winner: Best Screenplay "State of Being" A computer hacker, completely unsuited to the world of espionage, is recruited as an FBI field agent, and must use his unique skills to survive as he unravels a plot to assassinate the American President. |
Richard Martin Powell
Winner: Best TV Script "The Writers Room" Characters created by the writers of a failing soap opera suddenly appear on the writers' screens, totally unscripted, critical of the roles they've been given, demanding a say in what will be written for them |
Alfred Thomas Catalfo
Winner: Best Short Script "We Will Never Be" A young rock star's older self appears to prevent him from making a decision that will ruin his life. |
Finalists
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Semi-Finalists
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Quarter Finalists
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Honorable Mention
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Screenwriting Contest Final Results
Winter 2024
Winners - Finalists - SemiFinalists - QuarterFinalists
Jennifer Renner
Winner: Best Screenplay "The Long March" After a failed suicide attempt, a middle-aged man returns to his childhood hometown to contemplate his faith and the origin of his unhappiness. |
Mark Bowes
Winner: Best TV Script "Life During Wartime" An alcoholic, gay actor struggles with sobriety, HIV, caring for his mentally declining mother, while battling 80’s AIDS hysteria. |
Lindsay & Laura Kent
Winner: Best Short Script "The Split" After a psychedelic experience renders her 'enlightened', a woman is horrified to discover her incessant, annoying ego has transformed into her doppelganger. |
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Semi-Finalists
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Honorable Mention
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Screenwriting Contest Final Results
Fall 2023
Winners - Finalists - SemiFinalists - QuarterFinalists
Michael Alan Elliott
Winner: Best Screenplay "I'll Never Find Another You" Realizing the true "love of her life" has been in and out of her life for six decades, a dying woman seeks to reignite her true passions. |
Vincent Scarsella
Winner: Best TV Script "No Justice" In the sleazy world of the Lawyer Discipline Office, the chief investigator goes after the District Attorney for the ultimate ethical infraction: murder. |
Jules Corriere
Winner: Best Short Script "Standing in Line" Standing in line at the grocery store, a Holocaust survivor watches the supermarket morph into the haunting scenes of Auschwitz. |
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Semi-Finalists
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Quarter Finalists
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Short Script
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Honorable Mention
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TV Script
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