Finish Line Names Contest Quarterfinalists

The Finish Line Script Competition has announced their TV Pilot and Screenplay Quarterfinalists from among more than 1,100 submissions. [Updated: 08/17/2017]

CWA Names 2017 Semifinalists

The Creative World Awards has announced their 2017 semifinalists. [Updated: 08/16/2017]

ScreenCraft Names Comedy Winner

The Triple Engagement by Robert Troccolo has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest. The script is described as a fun and entertaining romantic comedy that marries concept and character. [Updated: 08/15/2017]

BlueCat Names Quarterfinalists

BlueCat has named their 2017 Contest Quarterfinalists for Features, Pilots, and Shorts. [Updated: 08/15/2017]

PAGE Names 2017 Semifinalists

The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards has announced their Semifinalists for 2017 -- the top 25 scripts in each of the contest’s ten genre categories. [Updated: 08/15/2017]

CWA Names 2017 Quarterfinalists

The Creative World Awards has announced their 2017 quarterfinalists. [Updated: 08/09/2017]

HollyShorts Names Screenplay Selections

HollyShorts has announced their 2017 Screenplay Selections. [Updated: 08/09/2017]

Scriptapalooza Announces Semifinalists

Scriptapalooza has named their 2017 Screenplay Contest Semifinalists. [Updated: 08/08/2017]

Writers Lab Names 2017 Participants

The Writers Lab, funded by Meryl Streep and Oprah Winfrey, has announced the screenwriters selected to participate in the 2017 Lab. The program is the only lab in the world devoted to providing script development for women writers over the age of 40. It is produced by New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) and IRIS, in collaboration with The Writers Guild of America, East. [Updated: 08/04/2017]

TrackingB Names TV Contest Winners & Finalists

Botany Bay by Eleanor Burgess has been named the winner of the TrackingB TV Contest. [Updated: 08/02/2017]

Scriptapalooza Names Quarterfinalists

Scriptapalooza has announced their 2017 quarterfinalists. Semifinalists will be announced August 6th. [Updated: 08/02/2017]

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Author: janet caulfield
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Curious Buddies

*** A veteran FBI Agent hires and develops a surprising bond with a young internet entrepreneur when he seeks his expertise in a week long rescue of a six year old girl taken hostage in a fall out shelter by a ruthless psychopath. Rewrite. It's a combo meal.The Nice Guys meets The Social Network with a side of Taken.
Author: Janet Caulfield
Genre: Drama,Thriller,Action-Adventure

Lotus Operandi

This one is pure Fun.!It's a genre buster, LA LA Land meets James Bond, meets All That Jazz and Cabaret! Asian American Black Belt goes undercover for the CIA, to help track down terrorists. Oh, and did I mention she’s the Lead in a Broadway Musical? This is very musical, but there’s a lot of action! This one is getting a lot of attention right now! The main Characters reside in New York, they are part of an international terrorist group.
Author: Janet Caulfield
Genre: Drama,Romantic Comedy,Thriller

Understanding The Alacran

A troubled 22-year-old man moves to Mexico and better understands the addiction and mental illness destroying his life [Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Awards, 2017, 2nd Place (contemporary/literary category)].
Author: Jonathan LaPoma
Genre: Drama,Comedy,Romance

Diplomatic Ammunity!

A struggling Hollywood screenwriter recruits his former best friends to help him write a script about a series of pranks they pulled in high school, and they discover why their friendship fell apart (ADAPTATION meets IDIOCRACY). [3 awards/honors including, 3rd place in the 2017 Indie Gathering Film Festival]
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Genre: Drama,Comedy

Harm For The Holidays

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Genre: Drama,Comedy,GLBT

Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story

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Genre: Drama,Comedy,Urban

A Sacrifice To The God Of The Blues

An impressionable young man struggles to make sense of the alternating good and bad advice he receives from a much older friend as they travel through the heart of Mexican drug territory on a cursed trip to a remote Pacific coast beach [Ranked 10th in the Drama short script category of MovieBytes.com's "Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts"].
Author: Jonathan LaPoma
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Sandley

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