Drama Screenplay Awards
Season 8 Results:
Overall Winner - Season 8
Finalists
*Thanks once again to all of the hard-working writers who entered, and congratulations to our Season 8 Quarter-Finalists, Semi-Finalists, Finalists and Winner!​
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We had a large number of entries again this
season, boiling that group down to the list you see on this page was no easy task. So many wonderful projects this season, keep on writing everyone, and stay well!
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The Devil and Dick Gregory - Sean Slater
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Internal Security - Stefan Alexander
A Tent on Jupiter - Derek Nicoletto
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Life During Wartime: Nowhere Fast - Mark Bowes
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This Wonderful Life - Sam Juergens
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Air - Jordan Trippeer
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Semi-Finalists
Blue Ridge Falls - Samantha Schechter
Meetings With Marty - Gregor Nicholas
Days Of Anger - Heidi James
Jeder Mann - Diana Caldwell
Wickedest Man Alive - Autumn Cavender
Apple Pie - Lexa Hayes
Dragonland - Jason Jacobson
Love Me, Love My Dog - Courtney Froemming
Pilotus: A Tale of Anathema - Bob Singleton
American Patriot - Shintaro Ogai
The Grey Lady - C.S. Woo
Demons - Laura Kenner
Kill Them With Kindness - Steven Demmler
Road To Hell - Gavin McClenaghan
Her Name is Carolyn - Cassiopeia Sachs
Lim - Paul Land
Patriots and Tyrants: Spark of Rebellion - Jack Gorman
Lincoln at Congo Square - Rick Bailey
Panama - Justin Lloyd-Williams
One Hope - Greg Farinelli
A City Clean and Good - Daniel Lin Worthen
Connor Dunn: The Search For The Weapon - Peter Murphy
Minister Speer - Sven Anarki
Operation Condor - Jody Hadlock
Nothing Means Nothing - Andrew Zeoli
Rudy Champion and the Edge of the Earth - Philip Enchelmaier
Decade + 3 Years - Paul Lucia
Crow - Matilda Corley Schulman
The Outcry - Bruno Borello
Old Business - Brian Miller
Camerahead - Zachary Rothman
This Vast Wilderness - Grace Melville
Wonderland Cave - Krista Bradley
More Than An Exchange - Sam Baxter
Who Will Live? - Paul Sokal
Behold - Tom Cavanaugh
Esperanza - Jamee Decio
Captive - Warren Paul Glover
The Sacrifice - Trey Chapman
The Promised Letter - Alexander Yakobovich
Sundowners - Robert Buscemi
Otherworld, NJ - Matthew McLachlan
The Treasure Grows - Rajko Stiglic
The Distance - Pann MuruJaiyan
Article Five - Steve Stranov
The Judas Branch - Bill Loiselle
Trophy - Jody Ellis
Warm Brothers - William Gorgensen
Van 59 - Brian Trotter
Game Changer - Jerry Reedy
Life Support - Andrew Hopps
Mano Nera - Samantha Caprio-Negret
Growing Flowers on the Moon - Robert Bowersox
Beatrice: A Fenland Tale - Simon Cooke
Shaka - Emelie Svensson
A Human Frailty - Kylie Hitchcock
Into The Ether - Steve Brown
The Three Lives of Angel Fleming - William LiPera
Good City - Natalia Chown
Misdiagnosis - Sophie Mutiara Nova
Leatherneck - Verlon Roberts
Moonlight & Mayhem - Lynda Reiss
Love and Venim - Craig Peters
Gemini - James LeJeune
The Last Good Day - TJ Berry
Crypto Clown - Daniel Padbury
Sins Of The Father - Sarah Mellas
The Amen Sisterhood - John Doble
Melody -- screenplay - David Sanders
Power & Way - Paul Locander
Nobodys Heroes - Michael Elliott
Burnt Sugar - Mark Penberthy
Her Seventh Death - Virginia Austin
The Hallows - Layne Marie Williams
South Wind Come - Ernestina Juarez
A Winter Spring - Paul Anderson
Terra Fertil - Gretchen Klein
The Overturning Moment - Tom Holowach
Joe - M.R. Fitzgerald
Hard-knocked - Harley Jones
A Pirate - Terry Buss
Viktor - 119104 - James Dillon
Playing the Changes - George Edward Collins
The Book of Raquel - Olga Holtz
Back in the High Life - Larry Collins
Refugee - Ed Wiles
Syril Was Here - Derek Ladd
Trigger Objects - Nik Perring
Blood Will Tell - James Grayford
The Night WAtchman: Beasts of Burden - Thomas Gaunt
Corius - Jason Balas
Asylum - Craig Nobbs
The Engineer of Magic - Leila Murton Poole
Blitzkrieg Follies - Brian Whitaker
Right Beside You, Dear - Scott Honea
Bog Water - Jonathan Weisbrod
The Brockton Brawler - Timothy Driscoll
GinVerse: "A Ginless Bar" - Francesco Capussela
Mary [Redacted] - Phae Amara
The Alexandrite Ring - Harker Jones
Valley of Secrets - Matt Curtsi
Quarter-Finalists
See You In My Dreams - Miida Chu
Summer of Mercedes - Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz
Swingman - Zeki Turgut Gezgez
Aubergine - John Allis
A Woman's Touch - Brendan Wade
How to Build a Home - Genevieve Cramsie
Regression Test - Michael Dean
How To Survive A Narcissist - Steffany Sommers
The Rainbow Passage - Ajai Tripathi
Hell's General - Tara de Bach
The Pugilist - Geaux Francois
Spark - Kathryn Speelman
Tullianum - Juan Ignacio Ottobre
The Badge - Roz Sohnen
Contradictions - Todd Ramsay
Murder in Manaus - Mary Tourangeau
Black Powder Justice - Alexander Robertson
Where Flowers Don't Grow - Christopher Dauer
Silent Ranks - Tara Jackson
Donut Man - Michael An'gileo
Awakening - Brian J Leitten
Never Wake a Sleepwalker - Don Shroll
And India - Stephen Shapiro
Mud Simple - Austin Alward
Merde - Kimberly Samon
Jeff Buckley - DT Houston
This Is My Body - Roses Urquhart
The Point O-Nine Factor - Loren Elmer
Tender - Trina Colon
The Local - Mark Naccarato
The Hummingbird Trees - Andrea Koehle Jones
Black Fleet - Matthew Sprosty
'Til the Buzzer Sounds - Michael Alter
Blackwater Creek - CK Anderson
Letters From Athens - Miranda Filippides
Liberty - Chris Lawing
The Flight of USS Rachel - Henri Chase
Adversity - E.J. Eccles
The Empty Confessional - Tom Hogan
The Family Business - Laurie Austin
Minerva Reef - Phillip Faulkner
The War Jeep / What do deserts drink when they're thirsty? - Marko Josic
The Matriarchs: Pilot - Monique Greer
Foreshadow - Giulia Frediani
The Zookeeper's Daughter - Lisa Hickey
Dignity - Dean Poynor
The Teacher - Florence Ordesh
Flight For Life or Death - Opal Morning Star
The American Oligarchy - Alison Greene
When We're Wild - Brian Wapole
The Curse Of Ham - Robert Landau
The Fisherman's Wife - Gabriella Bedsworth
La Hacienda - Patricia Fox
(A)voi(d)ance - Sasha Compere
Amerika - Zaf Ayub
Beneath The Starry Night - Omid Zader
Avenging Alex - Eric Ayala
Color Me In - James Murphy
Pustka - Edel Dmytro Oksamyt
Tijuana Touchdown - Ronald Smith
Terror and Virtue - Ernest Pysher
Bench Seats - Courtney DeStefano
Son of Africa - George Tarr
(Narc)olepsy - Holden Harris
Village Freemen Street - Calvin Jones
The Bear - Jay Williams
The Circuit Series Pilot - Juan-Arturo Maldonado
The Paper Man - David Roberts
The Judas Apocalypse - Dan McNeil
JustUs - Anthony Torino Blevins
Servility - Amanda Kowalski
Coona & huckee - Rosemary Druar
By the Sea - Vanita Flanagan
Istanbul Crossing - Timothy Jay Smith
Arcana - Chandler Patton
Sidetracked - Ed. Gillow
The Jessica Hicklin Story. - Tiziana Giammarino
Marque and Reprisal - Brian Stransky
Those Who Can't Do - Anna Blum
Stupid Dead Boy - Alex Vickery-Howe
The Bard - Jay Apking
Richard Spong - Terry Podnar
The Terminal Club - Kimberly St.croix
The King's Friend - Vladimir Vassilenko
Phenotype - Michael Buckley
Shark - Gregory Abbey
Mermaid - Vincent Nel
Open - Alex Leas
In Da A - Larry J. Allen Jr.
Epic Dharma TV - David Bernal
The Thaw - Shea Stripling
The Things We Bury - Ryan Bennett
Cat Darling - Rie Anders
Uptown Santos - Jonathan Ramirez
How To Kill A Black Dragon - Florin Deleanu
Shortstop - Howard Emanuel
Alba - Erika Van Doren
86 On Lollipops - Oliver Woolf
The Bench - Tammy Boyer
Brasa - Attilio Caselli
Under The Bridge - Richie Lee Cunningham
All Hail The Charlatan - Guy Vincenzo
The Nuthouse - Michael Hammer
Sanity Road - Eric Victor Kelso
Aging Queens - Joffre Faria Silva
Remembering The David - Shirley Filardi Amitrano
Horse - Dianne Gramp
I'm Worried About You - Hari Ziyad
Marilyn on the Couch - Hans Galesloot
The Orphan Train - Bill Wilson
A River of Time - Mary McDaniel-Doran
Stuck - Chimoma Orakwue
Billy and The Kid - Jonathan Freeman
Frag - Christopher Beytia Frentzel
virtual timepiece - Lee John
Sacrificial - Michael Lucid
One Man's Promises - Leor Shaddai
Over the Hill - Laura Kemp
Duchang - Daniel Padbury
Snake Eyes - Joey Smiley
The Battles of Birdtown - Christopher Shank
Anatomy of an Upset - Rich Gallagher
Typhoid Mary - Rachel Ward
East of Mecca - Sheila Flaherty
Stupid C*nt - Ksenia Nikto
I Need a Light - Brandon Gates
Motherland - Chantal Barton
The Arrangement - Don Lorincz
Barking Wolf - James Everett
Nocturne - Lindsay Wyath
Epilogue - Cassandra Due
The Basement - J.D. Elliby
Behind Locked Doors - Brandon Brawner
(I'll Never Find) Another You - Michael Alan Elliott
Cotton - Jim Rothman
Let Me Buy Your Death - Malt Schlitzmann
Furlong Fix - Alana Gerdes
Kathartirio - Drew Clanton
The Tides - Darren A. Furniss
Trust the Tooth - Alex Arabian
Our Greenwich Village Days - Michael and Andrew M Volpe
Max and Maria - Rosalyn Rosen
The Prince of The Black Hand - Danny Range
Selection - Jonathan Fear
"Enter the Room" Screenplay - Harry Waldman
Blood Knot - Michael Greene
Arizona Sunrise - John Martins III
My Name Was Icek - Ron Modro
The Doctor Stories - Mark Gallini, Arden Kass
Seven Minutes in Heaven - Melinda Marie Core
The Race - Alexander Platt, Slade Mead, Winter Mead
Beyond the Razor Wire - Sandy Thorne, Lynn Santer
Bush League - Robert A. Palmer
Les Blessés - Bob Canning
Learning to be Human - J Frederick
Co-Exist - Kyle Derosiers
It's Okay, I Like Being Alone - Jacob Harding
John H. Watson: Crime Doctor - Timothy Erving Liebe
Donavan Emery, The Android & Himself - Jesse Dorian
Child of the Disappeared - Michael Thomas Holliday
Hiding In Daylight: Feature - Gregory G. Allen
Quarantine in the Grand Hotel - Tom Vecchio
House on Fire - Grace Melville
Stronger When She's Broken - SherLann D. Moore
Don’t Say Gay - Kevin J. Howard
Coop - Joe Leone
Like Him - Brian McGrath
The Sun Also Rises - Phillip E Hardy
Where the Wind Blows - Deborah Melanie Hodgetts
A Place in the World - Michael Stern
The Pickleball Killer - Jim Carroll
Heroes, Just For One Day (Breaking Thick Ice) - Salvatore Riggio
Overworkd - Victoria Hirakawa-Lee Castro
Brothers - Matthew David Rafferty, Philip Anthony McCarthy
Billy Donner's Picnic - Richard Redlo
Lobby Card Pilot: Some Fabulous Rhapsody - Tom Morgan
Beyond the Faded Trail - Marcus Wolf
Yesterday and Tomorrow - Tom Allen
White Line Fever - Tapan Sharma
Enter the Dreadi - Kristina Falkerstien Jordan
A Free Run - James Dillon
The Hollow Earth - Kenneth James
Time, Space, And The Poet - John Turner
Kill List: Ticket to Hell - Crystal Diane Stevens
The Cellist of Sarajevo - David Becker
I Dream a World - Hal LaCroix
For Anna - Jay A Newman
Quintana - William LiPera
Dire Straits - Daniel William Pero
Burning Virtue - Bryan Harlow
A Promise To Keep - Angela Cincotta
Lost Connection - Matthew L Brutsche
Place Your Bets - Andy Powell, Jan Scott
Off Ramp - Clayton Brown
Script Avenue - Daniel Bodenmann
Boardgames - Michael Markus, Madeline Hombert
Mrs. Arnold’s War - Martin Blinder
Men Abuse. Me too. - Nana Ponceleon
Last Hand - Sandi Jerome
Marah From Eilat - Leiter Daniellson
The Last Call - Phenice Arielle
On Island - Rie Anders
A Regular Guy - Charles Petrilla
Eighty-Eight, Kentucky - Michael Cavallaro
The Tribe - Emadeldin Elsayed
After the Underground - Amisha Patel
Caller Unavailable - Bella Maxwell
The Celebration - Christopher Gallagher
Exhale - Joe Klaunberg
Holding On - Nate Andrews
Scene Queen - Annique Arredondo
Charles, The Giant - Jon Butts
The Wickedest Woman in New York - Camille Gladney
The Hunt for Ezekiel Adams - Fred Kalmbach
Astronaut - Lukas Hassel
Falling - Grace Tallmadge
Kites Over Mekong - Dai Duong Nguyen
Dangerous Days - Ruben Varela
Touchy Feely - Josh Corrigan
Jack Renton - Miroslav Bernatovic
The Butterfly Never Dies - Roland László Papp
Vote for Women - Julia Anderson Pulver
The Bay of Piglets - Jake Grand
Woe - Rashawn Bass
Being Banal - Selah Major
Club Kingdom - Melissa Young
Red Hot - Benjamin Kmecheck
Vivienne Varlette - Demi Aspey
12 Hours - Kelly Stanphill
Worst Enemy - Kevin Machate
Survivor - Joshua T. Harrel
Two Kgs of Marmalade - Megan Mazer
Clean Break - Tova Swartz
Thickest Thieves - Harley Jones
The Painting - Stefan Alexander
Bunny Kensington and the Corporate Widows of New England - Sierra Millard
Royal Blood - Andrea Walter
An Irish Gift - Jed Thomas
Korean Shooter - Jimmy Prosser
The Last Hooker - Kevin OBrien
Please Stay Here - Cassandra Rose
The Fault Line - Larry Collins
Heaven on Earth - Paul Eisman
52: The Ray Lewis Story - Daniel Roers
Boiling Point - Amy Charlesworth
Masters and Servants - John Enright
Elite Capture - Alison Lani
The Queue - Gail Jeidy
Maybe today, Maybe Tomorrow, Maybe Never - Tim Cairns
Fins - Kevin Brunner
Dr. x - Stephanie Turci
Worlds Apart - Thomas Gaunt
Parallel - Ryan Werner
Meaning - Mathew Mang
Dear Langston - Kevyn Richmond
Rosary - Gertrude Namara
DM from Charlie - Jonathan Howell
Bitter Harvest - John Munn
Salesmen from Topeka - Adam Seidel
Invisible - Edmon Rober
5 Sandwiches - Michael Puzzo
The Bookstore at Flicker Alley - Anna-Lina Koehler
I-10 - Trey Wickwire
Black Over Blue - Cheran Rush
Nathan's Passing - Pat Branch
The Great American Eclipse - Jeremiah Granden
Even Keel - Jeff Gendelman
Bipolar - William Rhodes
Nashaa - Jas Kandola
Church Choir Christmas Party - Becca Blackmore
Play Dead - Sebastian Watson
Sins of the Father - Shane Redding
Hopium - JD Wallace
Unjustice - Jennifer Milne
The Alexandrians - Max Sonin
Pixadores - Sarasa Kikuchi
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