LiveRead/LA Names Contest Winners
Updated: 01/17/2020
LiveRead/LA has named Natalie Higdon and Mads Gauger & Christan Mary Leonard as the winners of their next live read, to be held Monday, January 27th at 7.30pm at the Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood. MovieBytes readers are eligible for a $5 discount for the reading and the Q&A afterwards.
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A burned out middle-age accountant and a young daredevil woman form an improbable alliance on a dangerous rescue-mission to Mexico. First Place, Screenplay Festival, 2017.
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Screenwriting Contest News 
Tracking Board Names Launch Pad Feature Finalists
Tracking Board has announced the 100 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Feature Competition. [Updated: 01/16/2020]
People's Pilot Names Semifinalists
The People's Pilot has announced their 2019 Comedy and Drama Semifinalists. [Updated: 01/13/2020]
Scriptapalooza Launches New Website for Coverage Department
[Updated: 01/11/2020]
Which Screenplay Contests Should You Enter in 2020?
Screenwriting contests are not a one-size-fits-all affair. While there are obvious benefits to winning a huge and prestigious competition like the Nicholl Fellowships, smaller contests can be just as valuable if they hook you up with a judge who wants to option your screenplay, or a manager who wants to represent your work. [Updated: 12/31/2019]
Emerging Screenwriters Names Genre Contest Winners
Survivors: B.S. by Julia Skikavich has been named the winner of the 2019 Emerging Screenwriter Award, and 7 other writers have also been honored for genre-winning scripts. [Updated: 12/20/2019]
Launch Pad Names 2019 Pilot Competition Winners
Noah Kloor's Grand Illusions has been named the Overall Winner of the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition for his period drama about a young factory worker longing to escape her difficult life who is drawn inexorably into the glamorous and dangerous world of a touring illusionist and his troupe. [Updated: 12/16/2019]
CineStory TV Announces First Round Contest Results
Cinestory TV has announced the quarterfinalists in their Original Drama, Comedy and Sci-Fi Categories, and the semifinalists in their Family category. The next round of results will be announced in mid-January. [Updated: 12/16/2019]
Your Script Produced Honors Contest Winners
Your script Produced! International Film/TV/Short Screenplay Competition inaugural 2019 Season 1 Awards Dinner in Beverly Hills, CA November 8, 2019. [Updated: 12/05/2019]
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WinningScripts: ScriptLinks
LITTLE STEPSISTERS
When a wealthy businessman and a waitress (each with an eight year old daughter) get married, they think they have the perfect family-unaware that their two darling angels are actually little menaces.
Author: Mandy Gales
Genre: Comedy,Family
RUBERT BECOMES: Existentialism for Dummies
RUBERT BECOMES: Existentialism for Dummies
An animated existential story of a pink Irish ogre, RUBERT, discovering his origin and creators in an animation studio.
Author: David J Schroeder
Genre: Drama,Fantasy,Animation
LOST CAUSE
A lost nuclear bomb is found on a stranded ship heading for the Gulf of Mexico.
Author: David J Schroeder
Genre: Drama,Thriller,Action-Adventure
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: ACCIDENT
Larry David has a hard time being smart without being an ass.
A traffic violation leads Larry David to traffic court and community service as a traffic cross walk guard. Meanwhile, the hybrid car maybe a silent killer, and Jeff Green is losing weight while getting Rolf-ed.
Winner of 8 'Best Screenplay' awards.
Author: David J Schroeder
Genre: Drama,Comedy,Urban
HALFWAY HOME
When a catastrophic accident causes an athlete to become paralyzed, and all seems to be lost, he finds redemption in the most unlikely place, with a gaggle of colorful characters in a halfway house for the mentally disabled.
Winner of 19 'Best Screenplay' awards. Previously #1 on the MovieBytes.com feature Drama & Family 'Winning Lists.'
Author: David J Schroeder
Genre: Drama,Comedy,Family
LANA LUI/BECOMING LANA LIU
LOG LINE: A young girl begins her life as an Asian martial arts Mensa chick in search of the American Dream.
SYNOPSIS: Lana Liu, disguised as a boy, enters a Chinese martial arts academy, only to be discovered. She fights to support her grandmother, and begin her journey to the home of her father, the USA.
Winner of 6 'Best Screenplay' awards.
Author: David J Schroeder
Genre: Drama,Family,Animation
Forever After
A retiring Beverly Hills Detective with a secret past is the only one who can foil an E.T. plan for global domination.
Author: Emil Faithe
Genre: Thriller,Sci-Fi,Supernatural
LOTUS OPERANDI
This one is pure Fun.!It's a genre buster, Fosse/Verdon 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
NOCTUME'S RAINBOW
Kids and their dogs, find the rainbow bridge in a
snowstorm. They teleport, fly, zoom through tunnels, and
levitate, around this heaven-like universe.They have a lot
of fun, but get a few surprises along the way, from
messages, and musical communication with angels and
whales....to a run in with a demon. They meet up with their recently departed Grandfather, and his dog, who helps them return home.
Author: janet caulfield
Genre: Fantasy,Supernatural,Animation
CURIOUS BUDDIES
It's not your mother's buddy movie. It's a combo meal. It’s a little bit of Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, The Social Network with a side of Taken. Experienced FBI Agent hires and befriends an internet entrepreneur to help rescue a six year old girl taken hostage in a fall out shelter by a ruthless psychopath.
Winner LA film fest Best scene 2017.
Author: Janet Caulfield
Genre: Drama,Thriller,Action-Adventure
