Write LA Names 2024 Semifinalists

Write LA Names 2024 Semifinalists

The Write LA Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2024 semifinalists and honorable mentions. Finalists will be announced on September 15th.

Semifinalists

Kathy Benjamin, Jenn Bradford, Katie Stober - Yanks | Comedy Pilot
Three brilliant American women navigate bad sex, binge drinking, and grad school in 2000s-era England, where “American” may as well be a four-letter word.

Jamie Campbell – Kirby in Limbo | Drama Feature
A retiree's perfect life is shattered when a tragic car crash takes the live of his wife and daughter. After an insurance settlement leaves him the world's most miserable millionaire, he attempts to pick up the pieces and find a reason to keep going.

Matthew Brian Cohen – The Happy Couple | Drama Pilot
When their teenage son assumes they are getting a divorce, a middle class couple takes a deeply uncomfortable look at their lives and asks -- how far are they willing to go to be happy?

Aaron Hierholzer – Psycho Therapist | Thriller Feature
A free-spirited woman's dream of opening a bakery in her hometown turns into an living nightmare when her new therapist, harboring a deadly grudge, begins a sinister game of manipulation.

Jeff Hindenacht – Siberia | Thriller Feature
A US spy disarming nuclear warheads in the wilderness of Siberia has his life of solitude upended when he finds love within a welcoming Russian family.

David Kosh – Le Vin | Action Historical Feature
In 1944, the long-simmering rivalry of the two greatest winemakers in Bordeaux boils over after the daughter of one of the winemakers returns from Switzerland and rekindles her romance with the son of the other. When a fanatic Nazi colonel with a dark secret becomes obsessed with the daughter, the winemakers must overcome that rivalry not only to save their families and vineyards, but to create the greatest wine ever made.

Brian Koukol – Sad Gopher | Drama Feature
A disabled man sets his eyes on a regional chess tournament in pursuit of self-worth, but the trans woman he meets along the way might just turn his ambitions from check to mate.

Ruby Mainieri – Be Bold | Comedy Pilot
An insecure fifteen-year-old girl sets out on a mission to dominate the stand-up comedy scene, even if that means sneaking her way into a live teen reality competition with only luck, a little trauma, and a washed-up British comedian by her side.

Morgan Pepper – Folie A Deux | Drama Feature
Sentenced to thirty days of court-ordered rehab, a disgraced rockstar faces off with a therapist who refuses to let him off the hook until he confronts the trauma that caused him to go MIA for six weeks during his band's sold-out world tour.

Louie Pradt and Kevin Gutteron – Hit Me | Drama Feature
"Are you happy? Really?" G. Cutter is a euthanistic assassin. If you've hired him and answered "no" he will kill you. Cutter meets Deborah, she's like no other client he's ever had and she could spell his downfall.

Bernhard Pucher – Oxygene | Historical Drama Feature
In the late 18th century, while Paris is on the brink of social unrest, a printer’s son dreams of becoming a scientist. But when his mentor and hero shatters those dreams, he stokes the flames of the French Revolution to take him down.

Rocky Rose – Being Lucky | Comedy Feature
An Australian expat living in the USA is forced to reconnect with his family of con-artists in order to pay off his debt to a local mobster.

Matilda Corley Schulman – Bloody Noses | Drama Pilot
What's the cost of winning? After the assault of one of their own, a team of female collegiate soccer players are about to find out, and make others find out as well, whether they want to or not...

Daniel Weber – Provenance | Drama Feature
A gifted apprentice sommelier is taken under the wing of an enigmatic wine legend bent on high-stakes deception. This modern crime caper immerses the audience in the rarefied world of luxury wine sales.

William Zide – Newton | Historical Drama Pilot
Isaac Newton is the 17th Century's Eliot Ness protecting the Royal Mint with his own band of 'untouchables', while taking on criminals, French spies and traitors. Based on a true story.

Honorable Mentions
Steven Bogart – Aria | Drama Feature
Daniel Callaghan – Snootwood | Comedy Animated Pilot
John Patrick Daly – Murder at the Renaissance Faire | Action Feature
Ana R. Dominick – Boom the Conqueror | Adventure Feature
Matthew Dycus – Edgebound | Drama Pilot
Holden Gilkey & Tana Larson – Arabesque | Drama Pilot
Lukas Hassel – Silhouette | Horror Feature
Alex Lyras – How To Address an Envelope | Drama Feature
Steve McGrath – The Man Who Knew Poe | Historical Feature
Dave Ragsdale – Swim Home | Sports Drama Feature
Adam Rodman – Promises To Keep | Historical Drama Pilot
Danielle Tjoelker – Ravenous | Horror Feature

Updated: 09/01/2024

Additional Contest Info: Write LA Screenplay & Pilot Competition