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American Zoetrope Names 2024 Contest Winner

From nearly 2,000 submissions, Judge Francis Coppola and the Zoetrope staff have selected Spragger by Allison Mattox as the winner of the 2024 American Zoetrope Screenwriter Competition.

Winner:
Spragger by Allison Mattox (Brooklyn, NY)

Finalists:
Hail Daisy by Oliver Arnoldi and Atticus Hoffman (New York, NY)
Mermania! by Michael Brennan (Phoenix, MD)
Baby Rattler by Scott Corbett (Los Angeles, CA)
Len and Sal in Sperryville by Joe Duca (Glendale, CA)
Home Knight by Ariel Ehrlich (Bainbridge Island, WA)
Missing (pilot) by Martha Newman (Los Angeles, CA)
Zander the Great by Allison Orr Block (Austin, TX)
The Son by Jay Smith (East Liverpool, OH)
Kore by Regina Tsasis (Elk Grove, CA)

Semifinalists:
Forbidden by Julia Barker (Weare, NH)
Mauritius by Philippe Benoit (Lafayette, CA)
Charles Somebody by Scott Corbett (Los Angeles, CA)
Empire of Dirt by Noah Harald (Valley Glen, CA)
Samantha Spade, Private Dick by Bonnie Hendrickson (Gainesville, FL)
The American Village (pilot) by Goeun Lee and Nick Steinheimer (Redondo Beach, CA)
The Crossing (pilot) by Aidan Moretti (New York, NY)
The Detective’s Son (pilot) by Aidan Moretti (New York, NY)
On the Drift by Blake Muir and Sean Muir (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
Tears of Laughter by Christopher Zafirson (Woodland Hills, CA)

Quarterfinalists:
The Vein by Conner Bell (Los Angeles, CA)
Lafitte by Gary Branfman (Victoria, TX)
The Ghosts of Silver Gulch: A Western Christmas Carol by Bob Canning (Petaluma, CA)
Nothing Pink by Eric Glawe (Long Beach, CA)
In Ecstatic Motion by Lauren Lola (San Francisco, CA)
Giants by Roderick MacKay, Steve McCall, and D. C. Stephens (Perth, Western Australia)
I’ll Leave You with This by Blake O’Donnell and Benjamin Dietels (Morgan, PA)
She’s Having My Baby by Archana Shinde (Los Angeles, CA)
Midnight in Mallorca by Mary Beth Warner (Washington, DC)
Elephant Path by Robert Wooldridge (Colorado Springs, CO)

The winner will receive the grand prize of $5,000.

The winner and nine finalists will be considered for representation by the agencies CAA, Circle of Confusion, Energy Entertainment, Exile Entertainment, the Gersh Agency, ICM, Oasis Media Group, the Radmin Company, UTA, and William Morris Endeavor. Their scripts will be considered for option and development by the production companies American Zoetrope, Anonymous Content, ARRAY, Cats & Dogs Productions, Double Hope Films, Fox Searchlight, Groundswell Productions, Icon Films, IFC Films, Jean Doumanian Productions, Lionsgate, LIT Entertainment Group, Lleju Productions, Netflix, Number 9 Films, Oasis Media Group, Pretty Pictures Productions, Roserock Films, Sony Pictures Classics, Verisimilitude, and Working Title Films.

Updated: 02/10/2025

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