2025 Short Screenplay Results
2025 TV Pilot Results

 2025 FEATURE SCREENPLAY RESULTS

WINNERS

1st Place: Age of War by Peter Bloomquist
2nd Place: The Farm by Craig Urquhart
3rd Place: Schmoolie The Deathwatcher by Theresa Burkhart Gallagher

FINALISTS

Age of War by Peter Bloomquist
Chinese Canary by Betty Jiang
City of Roses by Peter McMurran
Intimacies by Gerald C. Wood
Light Keepers by Duncan B. Putney
Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco by Judith Robbins Rose
Lungs by Lara Karuna Vaidya
OMG I’m Gay by Joetta Wright
Rainbow Angel by Andry Platrites
Shadow Self by Tom Zimmerman
Schmoolie The Deathwatcher by Theresa Burkhart Gallagher
The Answer Girl by Stephanie Scott
The Circle by Craig Urquhart
The Cursing Tree by Nan Schmidt
The Farm by Craig Urquhart
The Girl on the 7 Train by Jim Harkins & Tom Bragg
The Pit by Duncan B. Putney & Greg Chopoorian
The Scottish Play by Rashel Mereness
The Teller by Jordan Leigh Buster
Voodoo Valentinos by Michael Louis Gould
Yahoo Boy by Wendy J. Bednarz

SEMIFINALISTS

Accessory x Opportunity by Joe Smith
Age of War by Peter Bloomquist
All Up in Your Bizness: Managing Your Business Crap by Julianna M Newland
American Fairy Tales by A. S. Templeton
Angels Desired by Lukas Scheja
Beach Impressions by Stuart Pollack
Bensonhurst by John Robert Franklin
Blue by David McAbee; Adam Means
Boom!Town by Bob Pondillo
Cat Lady, A Psycho-Biddy Horror by Suzan Averitt; Jeff G Peters
Chinese Canary by Betty Jiang
City of Roses by Peter McMurran
Darla by Steven Bogart
Death in Poland by Grant Huffman
Hardscrabble: The Rise of Ulysses S. Grant by William C. Ray
Holiday Houdinis HH4 by Patrick Bernet
Hollywood Projects by Aaron Willett
Intimacies by Gerald C. Wood
Kris Kringle by Maria Ciampi
Legacy of the Eclipsed by Shashank Upadhye
Let There Be Blood by Sterling Davis
Light Keepers by Duncan B. Putney
Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco by Judith Robbins Rose
Lost In Buffalo City by Raymond Wallace
Lungs by Lara Karuna Vaidya
Meet Me At The Altar by Andrea Lynn; Joanne Messina
Old Nick by Sean Plemmons; Jeff Hassen
OMG I’m Gay by Joetta Wright
Primeval Fury by Aaron Willett
Rainbow Angel by Andry Platrites
Reginald & Vivianne by David Smallwood
Schmoolie The Deathwatcher by Theresa Burkhart Gallagher
Second Chances A Cops Redemption by Michael Massa
Shadow Self by Tom Zimmerman
Simulacrum by David Bayles
Sutterville by Brandon Allen
Takin' It To The Streets by William Szarka
The Adventures of Clara by Mike Vegas Dommermuth; Claudia Hackl
The Answer Girl by Stephanie Scott
The Circle by Craig Urquhart
The Cursing Tree by Nan Schmidt
The Farm by Craig Urquhart
The Girl on the 7 Train by Jim Harkins; Tom Bragg
The Last High Score by George Strayton
The Pit by Duncan B. Putney; Greg Chopoorian
The Pool Boy by Thomas Joseph Bentey
The Quest to Overthrow Heaven by Bolko Zimmer
The Rules of Dating by Gary Grandolph
The Samurai Ghost and Ms. Jones by Nancee LaFayette
The Scottish Play by Rashel Mereness
The Teller by Jordan Leigh Buster
The Trial of Edgar Allan Poe by Sven Anarki
Three for Hire by Daniel R. Burle
Terminus Road by Richard Rosso
Voodoo Valentinos by Michael Louis Gould
Water Touching The Rock by Michael Angel Johnson
Yahoo Boy by Wendy J Bednarz

QUARTERFINALISTS

A Gefilte Fish Out of Water — by G.L. Sherman
A Fine Line — by Dan Burns
A Story of Wrath — by Theo Leipert
Abraham Van Helsing and the Hunt for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide — by Gary M Raskin
Accessory x Opportunity by Joe Smith
Adieux — by Hew Brown
Air — by Steven C Freehauf
All Up in Your Bizness — by Julianna M Newland
All Up in Your Bizness: Managing Your Business Crap — by Julianna M Newland
American Money — by Timothy A McGhee
An A.I. for Thanksgiving — by Hala Dika
Amonster, Amongus — by Jon Marro
Angels Desired — by Lukas Scheja
Beach Impressions — by Stuart Pollack
Becoming Ben — by David Goldstein
Between 2 Worlds — by Paul Byrne
BLAZE — by Theodore Carl Soderberg
Blue – Feature — by David McAbee & Adam Means
Blue Eyes of the Swale — by Jose Montalvo
BOOM!Town — by Bob Pondillo
Bread — by David Alan Templeton
Buckskin Gulch — by Hannah Eaton
Canary — by BetteLou Tobin
Cat Darling — by Rie Anders
Canterbury Trails — by Michael Brose
Cat Lady, A Psycho-Biddy Horror — by Suzan Averitt & Jeff G Peters
Chinese Canary — by Betty Jiang
City of Roses — by Peter McMurran
Conquering You — by Chris McGowan
COOP — by Joe Leone
Cosmos Black — by Eliot Cooper
Darla — by Steven Bogart
Death in Poland — by Grant Huffman
death is not the end (la mort n'est pas la fin) — by Jose Montalvo
Deputy Dawg or DB Cooper — by Maureen Anne Meehan
Detention Diary — by Bryan Matthews
Divorce & Class Wars at Cedar Falls Bay — by Janet Rose Nguyen
Doris & Vickie — by Nicole Salmeri
Dragoon Feature — by Andri Elia Elia
Durango — by Daniel J. Ricottone
Dudes & Bros — by William Sobel
Elven — by Matthew Tallacksen
ESCAPE FROM THE HOOD MVP GOING GOING GONE — by Laurie Michael Thomas
Everyone’s Crazy — by Richard Spencer
Fatal Error (adaptation to film) — by Mark Howard Mazza, Josie Hull
FERRARA AND THE YOUNG BALBO — by Giampietro Manzalini
Filthy — by Lisa Cole
Forever After — by Emil Faithe
Freedom Clan — by Richard Levine
Freeway — by Kathy Boettcher
Ghost Warrior: The Awakening — by Michael John Chase
Gin and Sin — by Scott Wheeler
GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA & THE TRIAL OF FIRE — by Giampietro Manzalini
GOLD MINE — by Andrzej Ciesielski
Good Fences — by Joe Amato
Happy Time — by Jeff Man
Haunt This! - by Erin Burchard
Heart of a Nation — by Richard Mundy
HEAVY (The Feature) — by Collette Legault
Hercules and Me – True Story of a Boy Who Turned Disability Into Destiny — by Subhranil Dhar
Hollywood Projects — by Aaron Willett
IMY FAVORITE SEASON — by Raymond Lawrence Sullivan
Intimacies — by Gerald C. Wood
Jane — by Sarah Lawrence
Jessie's Saint — by Linda Jean Butorac
Johannesland — by Emilio Santín
Josh & Hana — by David Zhang
Kid — by Jordan Hopa
Kiss Me Dead — by Ken Henderson
Knight Guards — by Eve Florin, Corey Mackey
LA PARCA — by Miguel del Campo
Last Call For Sin — by Laurie J Conrad
Legacy Rats — by Randy W. Perkins
Legacy of the Eclipsed — by Shashank Upadhye
Let The Wild Grasses Grow — by Kase Johnstun, Trevor Baierl
Let There Be Blood — by Sterling Davis
Linchpin — by Robert Anthony Mazzonna
Little Cowboys — by David Shannon
Local Dick — by Rick Balian
Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco — by Judith Robbins Rose
Lungs — by Lara Karuna Vaidya
Love and Glory — by Gary Parker
Mama Pirate — by Keelin McCool
MARAH FROM EILAT — by Leiter S Daniellson
McDoodle — by David Healy
Mel of Astoria — by Maggie McMeans
Mesa Verde — by Sean Joseph Salazar Jourdan
Minding Therapy — by Ros C Johnson
Miracle Girl — by Joy Roulier Sawyer
MONEY IS THE STREAM OF BLOOD — by Kevin Ndango
My Exciting Afghanistan — by Iliyas Daudi
Nobody's Heroes — by Michael Alan Elliott
Oar River — by Jody McNicholas
OASIS — by John E. Jacobsen
Of All People — by Sasha Bortnik
Old Nick — by Sean Plemmons, Jeff Hassen
OMG I’m Gay — by Joetta Wright
On The Record — by Adam Goudchaux
On the Platte — by Scott Newell
PARISINA – Punishment without Forgiveness — by Giampietro Manzalini
Primeval Fury — by Aaron Willett
Q — by Will Grey
Quietly Quitting — by Will Bannister, Jerry Toth
RAINBOW ANGEL — by Andry Platrites
Red Hands — by Maureen Anne Meehan
Reginald & Vivianne — by David Smallwood
Relentless — by Jude Quintiere
Repo Reindeer — by Alida Scarbrough Hilton
Rise Up Little Girl — by Matthew Avant
Scarred — by Paul Byrne
Schmoolie The Deathwatcher — by Theresa Burkhart Gallagher
Searching For Flash Gordon: A Christmas Story — by Elizabeth Russell
Serving Justice — by Paul Thornhill
Shadow In Hawthorn Bay — by Steven Robert Mitchell
Shadow Self — by Tom Zimmerman
She's Never Coming Back — by Jesse Dorian
Shattering… — by Elizabeth V. Newman
Slump Buster — by Kevin T. Morales
SOUTH WIND COME — by Ernestina Juarez
Spoon-fed Addiction — by Silvano Williams
STAR QUALITY — by Katy Dore
Surviving Nine Months by Sherry Rudd
Sutterville — by Brandon Allen
Symbiosis — by Justin Hunt
TAKING ARIZONA — by Jeff Goldstein
Tattoo — by Konrad Maximilian Piotrowski
Terminus Road — by Richard Rosso
The Answer Girl — by Stephanie Scott
The Armchair Travelers — by Trish Plank
The Bookseller's Daughter — by Carl Robinson
The Circle — by Craig Urquhart
The Crude — by Zach Green
The Cursing Tree — by Nan Schmid
The Emergence of Carlyle — by Anne-Marie Maidan
The Farm — by Craig Urquhart
The Girl on the 7 Train — by Jim Harkins & Tom Bragg
The Grimoire — by Steven Berger, Bridget Sullivan
The Irony of Coincidence — by Nona Kocharyan
The Last Place — by Steffany Lohn Sommers
The Linguist — by Maggie Tsavaris
The Old Ways — by Jack Rice
The Pit — by Duncan B. Putney & Greg Chopoorian
The Pool Boy — by Thomas Joseph Bentey
The Problem with Jenny — by Rani Deighe Crowe
The Quest to Overthrow Heaven — by Bolko Zimmer
The Reluctant Messiah — by G.L. Sherman
The Road Unpaved — by Risa August
The Rules of Dating — by Gary Grandolph
The Samurai Ghost and Ms. Jones — by Nancee LaFayette
The Scottish Play — by Rashel Mereness
The Sound Of River — by Nitin Adsul
The Teller — by Jordan Leigh Buster
The Track — by Alex Halpern
The Ushers – Best in Showbiz — by Leslie K. Bloom
The Vampire Russell — by Jeff Goldstein
The Warriors — by Michael John Chase
Three for Hire — by Daniel R. Burle
Time Switch — by Jill Thrussell
Title IX — by Sydney Hoffner
To Hell — by Matthew David Rafferty
TWINSANITY — by Robert Rogers
Unacceptable — by Damien Mulvany
Walking Point — by Candy Campbell
Wandering Star — by Richele Anne Caragianis
Wando, Slim & The Light Within — by Matt Jacobs
Wheels of Hope — by Tim Vogel
Who Let the Wallflowers Out? — by Virginia Austin
Why Not Her? — by Taylor Bartczak
Wild Witness — by Jill Thrussell
Winnie & Clyde — by Matthew Rafferty
Woo Girls — by Julie Sharbutt
Yahoo Boy — by Wendy J Bednarz
Yrrem Samtsirhc From Mars — by Naomi B Lisner