Contest Comments

You must login to post a comment.

First-time user? Register now to receive FREE email contest updates, news, results, deadline reminders and more. Rest assured, information submitted here is held in strict confidence. MovieBytes never sells or in any way distributes email names or addresses. We promise!

Contest News

Write LA Announces Semifinalists

Write LA has announced their 2022 contest semifinalists and honorable mentions.

Moises Amsel – Other Man's Land | Thriller Pilot
An inexperienced Alaska State Trooper investigating a missing person's case in a remote town on the brink of a modern-day gold rush, finds in a group of local inmates the only support available to help him deal with the mounting challenges presented by the case and the town's imminent boom.

Jon Bershad – Cuffing Season | Horror Feature
Looking to get over a break up, a woman visits her quaint hometown for the holidays. Unfortunately, it turns out the town is being stalked by a monster that only eats single people.

Clinton Green – Saving Marcus | Drama Feature
A dying woman sends her young daughter to meet her estranged father, a murderous man, recently released from prison, in a final attempt to save him from his criminal father figure's powerful influence, which can only lead to a return to prison or death.

Lucy Hannah – Homebodies | Comedy Pilot
A struggling comedian forms unlikely alliances in the midst of a lingering mystery that threatens the fabric of her sleepy New England town.

Amy Huckabay – Forty-Eight Steps | Comedy Feature
Callie, the black sheep of her family, shows up at her father’s wedding ready to attempt a relationship with him. Things get complicated when she hooks up with a mystery guy in the bathroom, only to find out he’s her soon-to-be stepbrother, Nate.

Adam Keiser – I'm a Prisoner in an Alien Zoo | Animated Comedy Pilot
A misfit alien zookeeper must drum up visitation to the least popular exhibit at an intergalactic zoo—the human exhibit—or be executed.

Brian Koukol – Crips | Comedy Pilot
When a disabled man discovers that his long-time girlfriend and caregiver has been cheating on him, he must decide where to draw the line in this comedic tale of life, love, and progressive neuromuscular disease set in the un-accommodating world of suburban Los Angeles.

Dillon Magrann-Wells – Popcorn Alley | Western Pilot
1891. The misfit town of Telluride, Colorado is thrown off balance when an eccentric woman shows up on the hunt for the investigator that disappeared while looking into her brother’s murder.

David Meister – House Left Behind | Horror Pilot
A woman travels to execute the will of her estranged mother and discovers a remote mountain town plagued by a string of disappearances, suspicious deaths, and an unsettling phenomenon known as collective dreaming.

Tom O'Connor – Mass MOCA | Comedy Pilot
A workplace comedy set in the pathetically real "Mass MoCA" a cutting-edge art museum located in a half-dead town 40 miles from the nearest highway.

Odin Ozdil – Detroit Run | Thriller Feature
A Detroit police officer must wear a pair of bomb shoes and run around the city to accomplish a series of tasks for the brother of a man the cop murdered.

Rodolfo Salas – Here Lies Tommy | Western Feature
In this Atomic Western, a bounty hunter rises to power after slaying a righteous outlaw who emerges from the dead to seek revenge.

Andrea Turner – The Rule of Thirds | Drama Feature
An unhoused teenager blames herself for a devastating accident that injures her 9-year-old brother, forcing her to move into a group home and return to school where she learns about love and friendship through the lens of a camera.

Jay Wall – Fractured Village | Drama Pilot
When tragedy leaves an African American dad the sole parent to his recently adopted, blonde-haired, blue-eyed son, they must work together to navigate the micro and macro aggressions from all sides in turn-of-the-millennium Washington, DC.

Victoria Zeutzius – Arthur & Lancelot | Comedy Pilot
An anarchistic, bisexual young woman named Arthur wreaks havoc when she accidentally pulls a sword out of a rock and unwittingly unseats her cousin, Lancelot, as the next heir of Camelot.



Honorable Mentions
John Bruno – Unhaunted | Family Feature
Gina East – What the Crows Saw | Horror Feature
Tim Grady – White-Out | Thriller Feature
Hank Isaac – Kyla's War | Thriller Pilot
Alison McGrath – Middlehood | Comedy Feature
Stan Moroncini – Raise Iron | Western Feature
Martina Muhoberac – Nola's Last Heist | Thriller Feature
Alex Reed – Stage Flight | Drama Pilot
Rosa Tu – Crisis | Drama Pilot
Sally Webster – Like No-One Is Watching | Comedy Pilot

Updated: 09/01/2022

Submit Report Card

You must login to read or submit report cards.

First-time user? Register now to receive FREE email contest updates, news, results, deadline reminders and more. Rest assured, information submitted here is held in strict confidence. MovieBytes never sells or in any way distributes email names or addresses. We promise!