Screenwriting Contest Final Results

Winter 2025

Winners - Finalists - SemiFinalists - QuarterFinalists

Aaron Huckleberry
Winner: Best Screenplay
"The Tree With No Heart"
In war-torn Syria, a woman, her son, and her mentally challenged cousin take in a wounded Western aid worker, unknowingly igniting a chain of deadly consequences.
Tyler G. Lynch
Winner: Best TV Script
"What Happens in The Hamptons"
What Happens in the Hamptons is a highly engaging and sharply written dramedy that deftly balances humor, social commentary, and character-driven intrigue. 
Brandon Osterman
Winner: Best Short Script
"The Naughty List"
The Naughty List is a darkly funny and emotionally resonant holiday short that manages to do something rare in the saturated Christmas genre: feel fresh. 

​​​Finalists
​
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script
Semi-Finalists
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script
What's the fastest way to bring your script up to the truly professional level?
Line Notes & Live Consultation
Work with a WGA writer-producer in
a private and personal Zoom meeting to go through your script line-by-line with detailed notes written directly on your script pages.
RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW.
​Quarter Finalists
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script
Let's find the money to make your movie!
Screenwriting Contest Final Results

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
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script

"Stop screwing around"... and become a professional screenwriter.
These three concise, to-the-point books are
the "bottom line" for anyone with the ambition and determination to break into the pro ranks.

Available in every format on Amazon
Semi-Finalists
Screenplay
TV Script
​Quarter Finalists
Screenplay
TV Script

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.

​​Finalists
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script


All you need to know about formatting a screenplay that stands above the competition and has the greatest chance of selling. Read this book and keep it by your side as you write your next screenplay.
Semi-Finalists
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script


Write a screenplay that stands above the competition and has the greatest chance of selling. Read this book and keep it by your side as you write your next screenplay. You'll avoid the pitfalls and problems that mark you as an amateur.
​Quarter Finalists
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script
​Honorable Mention
Screenplay


​Whether you’ve just got an amazing idea for a movie, or you’ve started your first script and need to know what to do next...or if you’ve already got a few scripts under your belt but haven’t quite crashed the studio gates yet...this book will get you on track.
Screenwriting Contest Final Results

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
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script

​This is the book that answers the question "How do I get an agent?"...and so much more.

Writing marketable screenplays is difficult. But the incredible rewards are there for you when you understand the business and have the right professionals working for you.
  • Move beyond writing screenplays and into the world of selling screenplays​
Semi-Finalists
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script
​Quarter Finalists
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script
​Honorable Mention
Screenplay

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.


​Finalists

Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script

Semi-Finalists

Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script


​Quarter Finalists

Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script

​Honorable Mention

Screenplay
Short Script

Screenwriting Contest Final Results

Fall 2023

Winners - Finalists - SemiFinalists - QuarterFinalists

Click here to see Michael in The Screening Room
Click here to see Vincent in The Screening Room
Click here to see Jules in The Screening Room
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.
Finalists
​
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script
Semi-Finalists
​
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script
Quarter Finalists
​
Screenplay
TV Script
Short Script

​Honorable Mention
Screenplay
TV Script