As this blog enters its 15th(!) year of existence, its primary purpose has been and continues to be about one thing: helping screenwriters.
While my experience, influence, and social media presence may not be as extensive as some, I try to offer whatever help and guidance I can.
If that means giving writers the chance to include their script on a list for anybody and everybody to peruse, share, and spread across the internet, then that works too.
Therefore, I humbly present The Maximum Z Winter ’23 Script Showcase.
An amazing assortment of 71 screenplays and 39 TV scripts covering a vast spectrum of genres and subjects, many of which with notable contest achievements.
And to make it that much more of a valuable resource, each writer’s contact info is included. A script or three sounds like it would be a good read? Drop the author a line and say “Hey, I’d like to read that!”
If your script is among those in this list, take pride in that (You finished a script! Yay you!) and feel free to tell the Internet to your heart’s content. (In fact, it’s highly encouraged.)
Once again, a huge thanks to all the writers who participated. I wish you nothing but amazing results and stupendous returns.
Thanks for reading, and enjoy.
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FILM
21:00 ZULU TIME
Sadia Carone
Military, Action-Adventure
A mysterious ancient hourglass gets accidentally tipped over at CIA Headquarters — triggering a series of events. A beast in Scotland awakens. A similar hourglass in Cairo starts to glow. Seven chosen people. Who can put the facts together to unlock the ancient secrets?
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AIN’T NO COWBOYS IN NASHVILLE
Christopher J. O’Bryant
Crime, Drama
A robbery sets off a chain reaction of revenge as an aspiring country singer, a broke bartender, and a two strike criminal find their lives thrust together under the neon shadows of music city as they try to make it out alive.
Quarterfinalist – 2019 Nicholl Fellowship
Winner – 2019 California Film Awards
Finalist – 2019 Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival
Semifinalist – 2019 Screencraft Drama
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ALWAYS A SOLDIER
Brad Staggs
Procedural, Adventure
A former Military Intelligence Soldier is recruited to root out corruption and seeks revenge on the turncoat who killed her men and almost succeeded in killing her.
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AMERICAN FALLS
Ross Allaire
Drama
A hotheaded political journalist is ordered to relax at Niagara Falls and write a puff piece about the monumental dewatering project going on there, but discovers a cold case mystery involving one of the construction workers and her pageant-winning twin sister.
Quarterfinalist – 2022 Screencraft Fellowship
Quarterfinalist – 2021 Screencraft Feature
Quarterfinalist – 2021 Screencraft Drama
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AND BROKEN PROMISES
Spencer Alexander
Drama
A safe-averse lawyer plans on reuniting with his ex but must first defeat her uncles – two Rabbis – in a court case seeking to find her incompetent as heir to her fathers’ billions because she’s a lesbian! – And Broken Promises!
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BAIT
Philip C. Sedgwick
Drama, Action, Relationship
An Oahu-based marine biologist sets out to determine the cause of unusual shark behavior while the research institute employing her battles for funding, and her relationship partner issues unrealistic demands.
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BRAVE EARS
Mark Gunnion
Rom-Dramedy
After a big-city schoolgirl, obsessed with her gig as a pirate-radio broadcast DJ, is forced to move to a tiny town just after graduation, she lies to win a legit radio license – claiming to be a Native American – and then must redeem herself with the tribe (and outfox the FCC) to stay on the air.
Semifinalist – 2023 StoryPros International
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CURSE ON RUE ROYALE
Lois Buchter
Sci-Fi, Thriller
Jillianne is trapped in a haunting Voodoo curse when she marries into an influential French Quarter family. After her husband succumbs to the family’s twisted beliefs, Jillianne must uncover the truth behind the curse and protect her unborn child from the clutches of Desmond Bennett, a deranged killer determined to prove the curse’s power.
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DELIVERY ROUTE
Adrienne Thorne
Young Adult, Dramedy, Romance
After learning that his ex-girlfriend is nine months pregnant and trapped in her home from a weather disaster, an irresponsible high school senior must act as labor coach for the birth of his child, over video chat.
Finalist – ISA Virtual Pitch Challenge
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DEN OF VIPERS
Ian Martin
Crime, Black Comedy
After losing millions on a risky investment, a group of ex-bankers pull off a daring heist against the Russian mob and must use all their smarts when the Russians seek revenge.
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HIGH MOON
Dave Goossen
Sci-Fi, Stoner Comedy
On the moon’s largest colony, one happy-go-lucky stoner must do what no one has done before, protect the aliens he accidentally saved until they can make ‘official’ first contact unless a xenophobic moon command – or far, far worse – stops them.
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HOUSE CALL POC
Skip Clark & Thomas Kiss
Horror, Comedy
The school’s it couple unleash an unholy terror that could kill them all.
NYLIFF, CIFA nominated – Best Short
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HUNTER’S MOON
Tim Brennan
Horror, Action
When a pack of werewolves is pursued by skilled hunters, they must fight to survive in the wilds of Rocky Mountain National Park.
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HURRICANE SEASON
Kim Hornsby
RomCom
Desperate to save his job and regain family brownie points after a pink eye “incident”, a neurotic germaphobe ventures to a remote tropical island chasing an interview with a free-spirited pop star during a hurricane, in spite of his phobia for water, wind and girls.
Quarterfinalist – 2022 Table Read My Screenplay
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Filmmatic Comedy
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I JUST WORK HERE
Wes Cambron
Comedy
Unable to afford his dream college, a high school graduate lands his first job where he creates friendships with the jaded staff and follows his passion as a comic book artist.
Quarterfinalist – Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards – Season 8
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I WOULDN’T TOUCH THAT
Meik V. Fischer
Sci-Fi, Horror, Short
Two kids seek to escape boredom on a beach and discover something deadly on a deceased whale.
Top 4% – Short Horror Projects – Coverfly Red List
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JUICED
Scott Sawitz
Crime Thriller, Dark Comedy
When his girlfriend leaves him for not being “big enough,” an introverted engineer will walk a path of self-discovery through bodybuilding that turns into a self-destructive journey fueled by anabolic steroids, cocaine, and casual sex.
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KITTEN ON THE KEYS
Jim Boston
Comedy, Western
In 1876, the death of her husband on a train trip out West forces a college-educated woman to strike out on her own at the next stop: Dodge City, KS.
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MS. ME
Leo Maselli
Dark Comedy
After six years in a French convent high school, a teenage girl with a pathological narcissist disorder in full bloom is released to return home in California determined to having sex with her imagined hero, her father’s best friend, the man she’s always call Uncle Chuck.
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NEVER MEET YOUR HEROES
Riley Ott
Horror
When two young up-and-coming filmmakers gain mentorship from their retired hero, they jump at the opportunity for his help completing their student film before the old man’s erratic behavior turns deadly.
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NIGHT CRIER
Maurice Vaughan
Horror Action
A fiercely independent woman tries to single-handedly kill a hungry humanoid monster each night it visits her house.
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ONCE A HOMECOMING QUEEN
Joan Moran
Drama
A rebellious, resistant and inherently funny hell-on-wheels seventy-five-year-old alcoholic falls down the stairs in her home twice in the last two years. She is rescued by her daughter who intervenes by sending her to detox and rehab with Francine discovers that recovery will take her in an unexpected direction that offers her a chance to reclaim her sobriety and dignity after facing down her demons.
Winner – The Big Apple Film Festival
Finalist – LA International Women in Film Screenplay Awards
Semifinalist – NYC Screenplay Awards
Official Selection – Cannes International Cinema Festival
Official Selection in the Toronto Independent Women in Film Festival
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ORE-NO/MINE
Jonathan Concepcion
J-Horror
After she is stabbed by an obsessed Stalker, a troubled J-Pop Idol and Her Loyal but suspicious Manager fight a curse: A Demon that kills the Idol’s loved ones whenever she feels love, as punishment for rejecting her Stalker.
Quarterfinalist – 2022/2023 The Script Lab Free Screenplay Competition
Semifinalist – 2023 HorrorFest International
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OUR LAST SUMMER
Rhys Samuel Washington & Logan Geddes
Horror, Comedy
On the last weekend before their high school graduation, two feuding friend groups are terrorized by a serial killer in a smiley face mask.
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PERPETUATION
Joanne Brouard
Sci-FI, Drama
A hundred years in the future, a conservationist and former artist finds herself tasked with a mysterious assignment to design an artificial creature.
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POP MUSIC
Bob Burns
Horror, Comedy
When a music obsessed graduate student discovers the members of a hot new boy band are actually bloodthirsty vampires, she teams up with friends, family, and former bandmates to stop the pop group’s evil beat.
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Script2Comic
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PRESENT
Lisa Lutes
Family, Comedy
Trapped in the photos of her social media account, a girl must find a way out to return to her real life.
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PROMISE
Annette Sanchez
Horror, Thriller
An Atheist, desperate to comfort her dying son, tells him she will enter Heaven by his side, which leads to haunting and exorcism intended to make her keep that promise.
This film hasn’t received any awards. However, my short film, Penance, was an Audience Favorite at HollyShorts Film Festival, where the screenplay was also a Finalist.
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QUEEN OF THE SKY
Brett Nicholson
Drama, Based on Fact Historical Biography
When Nazis invade the Soviet Union in WW2, young Ukrainian flier Lilya Litvyak joins the Soviet Air Defense and fights not only the pilots of the Luftwaffe but the sexism and bureaucracy of the Soviet system to become the highest scoring female ace in history only to have her records and story buried by Stalin.
Finalist – Nicholl Fellowship
Quarterfinalist – Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – Screencraft True Story & Public Domain Competition
Top 4% of all 127, 262 projects – Coverfly
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RADIO TIL MIDNIGHT
Will Reimer
Romance, Drama, Comedy
After making a discovery at a vintage record store, a nostalgia-obsessed musician begins an on-air affair with a mysterious radio DJ, only to discover that she’s broadcasting from 1977.
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RECOMPENSE
Dawson Howard
Action, Adventure
A man seeks revenge and/or recompense, through his acquired skills and wealth, on his father, who had abused him and taken away his family.
Honorable Mention – Big Apple Film Festival
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RED FLAG
Robert Rhyne
Thriller
The mysterious sole survivor of a small plane crash ingratiates himself into the family of his rescuer – a kind Nebraska schoolteacher and her troubled teenage son – with sinister results.
Winner – StoryPros Awards
Semifinalist – WeScreenplay Feature Lab
Quarterfinalist – PAGE International
Second Rounder – Austin Film Festival
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REGRESSION TEST
Michael Dean
Crime, Thriller
A brilliant young software developer puts her career and life in jeopardy when she fights to hold a billionaire tech titan accountable for assaulting her and stealing her world-altering code.
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Nicholl Fellowship
Finalist – 2023 Richmond Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
The Originals Bureau – 2023 The Stunt List
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RIP VAN WILSON
Phillip E. Hardy
Dramedy
When his new girlfriend is accused of a felony, a former alcoholic lawyer battles against an ambitious prosecutor who is also the woman who left him at the altar and caused his emotional descent.
Winner – LA Film Awards
Winner – Hollywood Gold Awards
Winner – New York Film Awards
Winner – Milan Film Awards
Quarterfinalist – StoryPros International
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ROCKIN’ ROBY
Seth Nelson
Sports, Comedy, Drama
A rockin’ rowdy washed up foosballer, one year sober and battling early onset Parkinson’s, returns for a chance to win another state championship.
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SANTA VS KRAMPUS: A LOVE STORY
Ash Willeby
Horror, Comedy
When Krampus discovers his former boss and toxic-bro, Santa, has enspelled the entire North Pole with dark magic, he must get over his hundred-year-heartache and return to rescue his old flame, Mrs. Claus.
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SAVE THE CAT
Maura Campbell
Comedy, Drama, Family
A lonely neuroscientist transfers her elderly cat’s consciousness into the mind of one of her coma patients. But when the cat gets his tongue, the fur starts to fly and she has a difficult decision to make.
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SAVING EMMA
Gene Cartwright
Family, Drama
When a precocious 7-year-old girl, adopted by her late mother’s twin sister, receives a mysterious terrier for her birthday, they instantly bond and are joined by unseen forces to survive a deadly plot to destroy her and her family.
Semifinalist – 2023 Austin Film Festival
2023 Coverfly Red List
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SHIKSAS ARE FOR PRACTICE
Benj Austin
Comedy
Senior year, a newly-questioning Muslim and a love-lorn agnostic Jew begin a FWB relationship, for their first sexual experience, but when they begin to fall in love, they must figure out if they’re truly right for each other.
Second Rounder – Austin Film Festival
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SILVER
Joseph Murillo
Horror, Western
The young sheriff of an Old West mining town struggles to defend his people from a werewolf that’s claimed the territory as its new hunting ground.
Short List – 2022 Barnstorm Fest
Official Selection – 2023 Coverage Ink Get Repped Now
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SONG OF THE VALKYRIE
Steven M. Rogers
Action, Adventure
When her scorned suitor shows up with an army of 300 men and abducts her into the heart of the Viking world, a semi-legendary princess struggles for vengeance while envisioning a new nation of laws that would prevent this from ever happening again.
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SPACE COLONIES
Emmanuel Chuks Jex
Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller
A group of teens and their transformer spaceship form a formidable team, guided by a veteran they’re able to face the federation tyrannical Admiral and his army of cyborgs and machines.
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SPACE/TIME
Danny Baram
Sci-Fi, Action
America’s first chrononaut sets off on an exploratory mission to travel back in time. But when he returns to the present, he finds that this initial breach of space/time has set off a chain reaction that’s sent the world into chaos.
Semifinalist – Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship
Semifinalist – Screencraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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TEAR ME TO PIECES
VJ Mancuso
Slasher Horror, Romantic Comedy
Five years after surviving a madman’s murder spree, a real-life “final girl” finds herself falling for the DP of a documentary crew dedicated to exposing her darkest secrets.
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THE ALEXANDRITE RING
Harker Jones
Psychological Thriller, Horror
When a successful architect’s search for his husband’s misplaced wedding ring is interrupted by home invaders, his life and all he knows to be true are upended until he starts to question his identity.
7 – The Black List
Semifinalist – 2023 Page Turner Screenplay Competition
Official Selection/Finalist – 2023 Ethos Film Awards
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THE BATTLE FOR SYRACUSE
Alexander Conway
Historical Epic
A Roman tribune battles Archimedes’ ingenious weapons of mass destruction to conquer the city of Syracuse.
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THE CALVARY
Leroy Ricks Jr
Action, Animation
Six high school grads embark on a college tour when a severe storm hits that will change their lives in ways they never imagined!
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THE CATERPILLAR
Marc Prey
Drama
An emotionally-guarded young widower struggles to find a way to connect with his eight-year-old son who – believing he’s responsible for his mother’s death – refuses to leave the house unless he’s wearing the caterpillar costume she had made him for Halloween.
Optioned twice
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THE CHOSEN ONES
Paul Sheridan
Thriller, Horror
Seven years after the disappearance of his son, a grieving father partners with the mother of another missing youth to hunt down those responsible—a sadistic backwoods cult operating under the radar of local police.
Semifinalist – 2023 Austin Film Festival
Recommend – 2023 Roadmap Writers Accelerator Program
Top 10 Finalist – Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards Season 7
Winner – 2022 WeScreenplay Feature
Semifinalist – 2022 PAGE Awards
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THE DIRECTOR
Carlos E. Santana
Dark Comedy
Burnt out and disillusioned with Hollywood, a fragile and struggling actor finds a lifeline when he’s thrust into the heart of an epic guerrilla film shoot led by an infamous director.
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THE EVENT
Izabela Borowska
Drama, Fantasy, Music
After a bus crash, a teenage dancer caught between life and death must grapple with the father who abandoned him, his own deepest regrets, and the prospect of saying goodbye to his love – or joining her forever in the afterlife.
Winner – Fantasy Category – 2020 Script Summit
Semifinalist – Filmmatic – Inroads Fellowship Season 6
Quarterfinalist – 2020 CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2021 Industrial Scripts – The TITAN Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2023 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
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THE LOST GIRLS’ HIGHWAY
Guy Crawford
Thriller
A troubled biker and a pistol packing ex-nun rescue an abused woman and play a deadly game of hide and seek when her powerful preacher husband calls in a hitman to save his political career by burying the family sins.
Top 10% – 2023 Nicholl Fellowship
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THE NENDOROID
Jonathan Luke Gamer
Animation, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, Short
A Nendoroid encounters a human survivor in a post-apocalyptic world and forms a friendship. However, their friendship gets tested when they face off against a killer cyborg. It’s Wall-E meets The Terminator.
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Filmmatic Sci-Fi/Fantasy Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2022 HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition
Quarterfinalist – Inroads Fellowship (Season 5)
Semifinalist – Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 6)
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THEO JESSUP, TEEN “GENE”IUS
Isaac D. Lucas
Action-Thriller
A genetically gifted teen is forced to go on the lam when an egocentric scientist and his dying henchman, hunt him down to harvest his advanced DNA as a cure.
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THE PHILO PROJECT
Eric Player
Historical Drama
Invention comes with with both a spark of genius and a moment of deceit. This is the story of Philo Farnsworth, the boy genius who figured out the electronics of television at the age of 14. And the corporation that erased him from history.
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THE PULL OF MIDNIGHT
Drew Robinson
Drama, Dystopian
In a world where state-sponsored death penalties are banned, a private execution specialist faces a moral dilemma when a family’s conflicting views on capital punishment challenge her mission.
Finalist – Fall 2023 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab
Finalist – Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards -Diversity Initiative III
Semifinalist – 2022-2023 Finish Line Script Competition
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THE REVVER
Mike Hanson & Kelly Susan Moothart
Dark Comedy, Wish Fulfillment Fantasy Thriller
At wit’s end with a motorhead neighbor always revving his big truck, a beleaguered artist takes matters into her own hands to finish her masterwork.
Top 25 Quarterfinalist – 2021 Slamdance
1st Place – 2023 Nevada City Film Festival
1st Place – 2021 Irvine International Film Festival
Top 25 Semifinalist – 2023 PAGE Awards
Second Rounder – 2023 Austin Film Festival
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THE SIDE HUSTLE
Eva Knoet
Adventure, Heist
When a gallery owner with a thieving side hustle is hired to steal a priceless Mummy and take down a shady museum director, she enlists the help of an eclectic team with their own agendas and must outsmart her Interpol boyfriend.
Quarterfinalist – 2023 PAGE Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Big Break
#14 – Adventure, Coverfly Red List – Sept 2023
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THE SUPERFAN
Matt Thompson
Road Trip, Thriller, Drama
After being humiliated by his favorite band, a music fan teams up with a journalist on a cross-country mission of dirt-digging and score-settling.
matthew.thompsonwrites@gmail.com
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THE UNLIKELIEST OF HEROES
Paul Zeidman
Animated Fantasy-Comedy
While escaping a tyrannical wizard, a novice witch from a magical dimension ends up stranded without her powers in the least magical place of all – New Jersey.
3rd Place – Family/Teen/Animation – 2023 StoryPros
Second Rounder – 2023 Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – 2023 PAGE Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Creative Screenwriting Feature
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THE VOODOOMON
Christopher D’andre Williams & Nicole Simone Backus
Teen Horror
In a tale of supernatural reckoning, ‘Voodoomon’ follows a bullied teen’s return from death, her soul infused with voodoo might. As she seeks retribution, her mother faces a heart-wrenching choice: kill her own daughter to save the world.
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THE WANDERING KNIGHT
Todd Robinson
Spy Thriller
Hired by a ruthless CIA asset to hunt down North Korean agents operating in Los Angeles, a burnt-out spy living off the grid discovers his target… is himself.
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THREE GROOMS AND A BRIDE
Gary Goldstein
Romantic Comedy, LGBTQ+ Comedy
Comedy about a gay male couple and their straight best friends who plan a double wedding with unexpected romantic, financial and familial complications –and the world’s most take-charge wedding planner (based on my produced L.A. stage play).
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TITLE IX
Stacy Bannerman
Drama, Sports Biopic, True Story
When a gutsy third grader becomes the first girl to wrestle on a boys’ team under federal law, she must fight injury and animosity on her way to the State Championship.
3rd Place – Stage 32 Period Piece Logline Contest
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TRAPPED
Farrin Rosenthal
Dark Comedy, Thriller
Claustrophobic and confined to an underwater grave for stealing billions in Bitcoin from the Russian mob, a Los Angeles retail store manager has just 60 minutes to prove his innocence and save his family.
Semifinalist – 2023 StoryPros
Quarterfinalist – 2023 PAGE Awards
Recommend – Dec 2023 Barb Doyon/Extreme Screenwriting
farrin@artistic-visions-entertainment.com
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TRAPPED IN CHRISTMAS TOWN
Kevin McGriffith & Laurie Anne Marie
Comedy
After a big snow storm hits, a jaded New York businessman and renown holiday grump finds himself trapped in a Christmas-obsessed small town just as their famously cheesy holiday festival is starting.
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TRIDENT
David Wales
Thriller
Isolated for six months on a seafood processing vessel in the wild Bering Sea, a young man struggles with sanity when the love of his life disappears from the ship without a trace.
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TWISTED JUSTICE
Joel McElvaney
Drama, Thriller
Pregnant from a sexual assault, the pro-life granddaughter of a conservative Supreme Court justice attempts to escape her forced-birth state to obtain an abortion, but gets apprehended by a vigilante group headed by her brother and incarcerated at a “Life Mall” where she must remain until she gives birth.
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UNCHARTED: THE NON-SWISS ADVENTURES OF THE FAMILIES ROBINSON
Mere Walton
Family Adventure
Two families unexpectedly crash on an island and must learn to survive with each other while also braving the elements.
Semifinalist – 2023 PAGE Awards, Family
Honorable Mention – 2023 Big Apple Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – 2021 ScreenCraft Feature Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2021 ScreenCraft True Story and Public Domain
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WORST DATE EVER
Mage Lanz
Romantic Comedy
After being robbed of their phones and money on their first date, two middle-aged strangers must work together to get home on one crazy, awful night in Los Angeles.
Second Rounder – 2023 Austin Film Festival
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YOUR TIME IS UP
Wendy Applebaum
Comedy
A fragile woman with an unhealthy reliance on her helicopter parents gets a chance at growth and redemption when both she and her fed-up therapist are held hostage in a dysfunctional bank robbery. (No Hard Feelings meets Bandits)
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TV
ALIVE: A FRANKENSTEIN REIMAGINING
Aimee Dansereau
Horror, Comedy
The sociopathic Dr. Victoria Frankenstein brings Mary to life, and forces her to kill people for scientific experimentation, but as Mary evolves into an ethical person, she must find a way to sabotage her creator’s evil agenda.
Semifinalist – 2021 Screencraft Fellowship
Finalist – Fall 2021 Big Apple Film Festival
Semifinalist – Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Season 7
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Screencraft Horror Competition
Top 8% – All Projects – Coverfly
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ALL GOOD
Kat Rollinson
Drama, Grounded Sci-Fi
At a clinic where troubling emotions can be cleansed, a series of tormented clients discover that the seemingly utopian procedure is an expressway to destruction.
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Page Turner
Honourable Mention – 2023 Finish Line Script Competition
Exceptional Achievement – 2023 Multi Dimension IFF
Official Selection – 2023 New York Script Awards
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AN UNBALANCED LINE
Kristy Leigh Lussier
Sports, Drama, Romance
After a female football prodigy saves a failing collegiate program, she defies the odds and becomes the first woman head coach in college football history, until she discovers an underground sports-betting plot against the team and threatens to expose it to the world, even if it means destroying her own legacy.
Best Drama – Script Summit
Best Screenplay/Excellence in Screenwriting – Twin Falls Film Festival
Best Sports Screenplay – Las Vegas International Screenplay Contest
Finalist – Filmmatic Drama Contest
Semi-Finalist – Screencraft Drama Competition
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BEHEADED
David Draper
True Crime Drama
Based on the 2004 case of Jack Irwin, a reclusive veteran is taken advantage of by two women and disappears. Without the determination of his only friend, Sandy Bailey, his case would have vanished like him, instead, it uncovered a twisted case of elder abuse and a horrifying murder in the mountains of Southern California.
Semifinalist – 2023 Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Creative Screenwriting Pilot Competition
Top 2% – All Projects on Coverfly
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BRAINCHILD
Maya Zivkovich
Drama, Sci-Fi
Three unusual kids with secret mind-bending abilities struggle to contain the detrimental side effects that their existence causes society. But when their medical records are leaked, the cure they so desperately need is at stake.
Semifinalist – 2021 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2022 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2021 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
Quarterfinalist – Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship Season 4
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CERTIFIED
Roger Wilson-Crane
Comedy Drama
When the emotionally erratic Tom meets the no-nonsense Dawn, they embark on a journey of farce and heartbreak through birth, marriage, and death.
Grand Prize – 2021 Mark Twain International CIBA (Original Book)
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CIVIL SERVANT
Brian Padian
Comedy
After a failed writer accepts a temp job on the City’s Equity Team he is quickly pulled into the absurd labyrinth of municipal government and must find his way out.
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DAD BOD
Michael Brewer
Comedy
A goofy and not-always-honest attorney’s unique–and illegal–plan to have an old friend carry his baby hits a literal bump in the road when a pregnant ex appears.
Top 50 Pilot – 2023 Roadmap Jumpstart
Second Rounder – 2023 Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – The Script Lab Free Screenplay Competition
Semifinalist – 2022 Omaha Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2022 Screencraft TV Pilot
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DIVIDED
Lou Johnson
Dystopian, Sci-Fi
Lala and Jon – a biracial couple – are caught in the middle of an American race war. With battle raging, and a bounty on their heads, where will they run? Where will they hide?
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FREEWHEELIN’
Ryan Greenwood
Comedy
A washed-up, newly separated, ex-professional hockey Enforcer inherits a warehouse on a suburban property and turns it into a roller rink.
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GYM’S
Brett Joyce
Half-hour Comedy
An unhealthy accountant that’s inherited a gym from his recently deceased dad works to keep things afloat as he deals with the annoyance of his extremely fit staff and manages a health scare after collapsing while filling in as a yoga class instructor.
Finalist – 2023 Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition
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HAWKWOOD
Karen E. Simmons
Light comedy-murder-mystery
A devilishly-charming former Scotland Yard Inspector tries to redeem his fall from grace & dark past by working as a private detective in a quirky Cotswolds village in 1950’s England, surrounded by equally-quirky & eccentric inhabitants with secrets of their own.
Semifinalist – 2022 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2022 Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2023 ISA’s Table Read My Screenplay
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HUNTING VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN
Manda Pepper Langlinais
Drama, Horror, Fantasy, Mystery
After 28-year-old James McKinnon wakes up in a field as a walking corpse, he enlists his high school best friend-turned-mortician and a transplanted police officer to help him answer the question of what is happening in their small, Midwest town.
Semifinalist – Creative World Awards
Quarterfinalist – Stage 32 Happy Writers TV Contest
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ILLUMINATI, INC.
James Timberlake & Odell Burton
Sci-FI, Comedy, American Anime
Idealistic Agent B and his jaded partner T work thanklessly to save the world’s sheeple from aliens, monsters, and most importantly, themselves.
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INSIDE THE WORLD OF ZOE SANDER
Suzanne Lutas
Family Feature, Animation
When a kid’s collection goes viral overnight, she must learn to navigate the cut-throat fashion world with only her working-class mom’s help and a talking magazine cut-out of her favorite supermodel.
Finalist – 2021 New Voices in Animation
Gold Award – Sept 2023 Florence Film Awards
Gold Award – Sept 2023 Paris Film Awards
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ITCHIKAN
Bin Userkaf
Coming of Age, Fantasy
Seeking adventure in a divided fantasy society, a tenacious teenage girl and her friends unknowingly repeat history when they take on the responsibility of saving their world from a corrupt Queen.
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KITTERITCH
Leah Simmons
Horror
A high school football star recovering from a brain injury must stop his friends and family from being infected with a sentient slime mold that threatens to turn everyone in the remote Minnesota town of Kitteritch into a single, murderous hive mind. TOMMYKNOCKERS x TWIN PEAKS
Second Rounder – 2022 Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition
Semifinalist – 2023 Creative Screenwriting Pilot Competition
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LAW 101
India Jenkins
Dramedy
A semi-retired attorney with a checkered past gets hired as an associate professor at a local community college.
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LEGENDS – GIVING IT ALL
Al Fenderico
Drama, Comedy
Eight diverse career struggle talented artists with personal and Mental Health issues partner up to develop a TV series to level up their troubled careers.
alfenderico@mawftproductions.com
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MURDER IN MID CITY
Baraka Noel
Thriller, Comedy, Mystery
A homeless detective – who can only solve crimes when drunk – struggles with sobriety. Mick has 8 days to solve a murder, while living in his car. But each clue pulls a thread of mystery that could unravel the town, and cost him more than a job.
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NESS
Nina Stewart
Dramedy
In the midst of a forbidden affair with her commanding officer, a sharp-witted transgender combat medic embarks on a journey to be true to herself, challenging old-school military rules amid internal conflicts and the complexities of love, identity, and self-acceptance.
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N.E.S.S. (Nightmare and Extraction Storage Solutions)
Simon Laurence Doyle
Comedy/Sci-Fi
A government agent trained to infiltrate and extract rich clients’ nightmares must balance his debt to the mob, a suspiciously keen new intern and some rather stabby dreams of his own. Easy peasy.
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NEW ORLEANS
Christopher Javon Pope
Drama, Dark Comedy, Sci-Fi
Hakeem, a drug dealer and Voodooist from New Orleans, is the first spiritual son of the Voodoo deity, Obba Nani. Despite his reoccurring psychosis, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery and love, guided by his poetry and Obba Nani’s mystical teachings that bestow upon him supernatural powers.
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ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG
J.R. Curry
Sci-Fi, Action
After his estranged son steals a new tech innovation with destructive capabilities, a retired mercenary must track him down before a war is waged between a multitude of corrupted corporations.
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OSAMA BIN LADEN: A LOVE SONG
Amir Mo
Comedy
The true story of the world’s most infamous terrorist and how he teams up with his bumbling Jihadi cohorts to evade U.S. forces and convince superstar pop singer Whitney Houston that they are each other’s soulmates.
Second Rounder – 2023 Austin Film Festival
Finalist – 2021 Stowe Story Labs
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OVER THE EDGE
Lauri Jon Caravella
½ hour Dramedy
After leaving her cheating, well-to-do husband, an ex-graphic designer opens an edgy greeting card design studio and store. When her ex opens a competing card studio she must ramp-up her edgy and take her studio Over The Edge!
Semifinalist – 2023 The Script Lab’s TSL Free Screenplay Contest
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PICK AND ROLL
Jack Caswell
Comedy, Sports
When a huge first round upset busts 99% of America’s March Madness brackets, the uptight and introvert owner of the last possible perfect set of selections is forced to navigate overnight fame, a desperate rookie reporter, and the Las Vegas underbelly, when pick after pick goes his way.
Quarterfinalist – Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards – Season 8
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ROO
Kelly Asher
Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mother’s reality disintegrates when her 7-year-old son befriends a mysteriously masked woman he claims lives in his closet.
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Creative Screenwriting Pilot Competition
Quarterfinalist – Spring 2023 Table Read My Screenplay Competition
Second Round – 2023 Circle of Confusion Writers Discovery Fellowship
#8 – Horror – Television (One-hour), Coverfly Red List – Aug 2023
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SOUTHERN ELITE LAW
Clifton McMillan Jr.
Legal Drama
A former JAG attorney starts a new life as a private sector lawyer and gets caught up in a class action lawsuit against a crooked pharmaceutical company.
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition
Semifinalist – 2023 Creative World Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2022 Australasian Screenplay Competition (TV Pilot)
Quarterfinalist – 2022 StoryPros International
Quarterfinalist – 2023 Scriptation Showcase – Teleplay Category
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TEMPS
Bryan Powell
Dark Comedy/Drama
A bold, dark comedy that follows our main character Matthew, who’s stuck in a temp job at a call center, living with his ex-girlfriend and battling an extraordinarily mediocre existence. He eventually finds solace and friendship in the one place he never thought to look: the people who also inhabit the unpredictable world of his temp agency.
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THE KINGMAKER
J.D. Elliby
Sports Drama
A young privileged African-American baseball scout puts his job on the line when he vouches for an undiscovered pitching phenom who’s trapped in the drug game.
Second Rounder – 2023 Austin Film Festival
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THE MANOR
Steven Louis Arnold
Police Procedural/Horror
A disheartened Police Constable investigates an VHS tape that shows the murders of missing children.
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THE NOMAD
Hayden Lummus
Crime Drama, Fantasy-esque
A happy-go-lucky private investigator finds himself stuck between a past he’s been running from, and the hope of what the present brings. But his curious nature leads to a revelation of supernatural proportions.
Quarterfinalist – WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab
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THE OASIS
Luke Hellyer
Comedy, Mockumentary
A crew of desperate college journalists investigate a peaceful cult in their area. However, the more they uncover about this community, the less peaceful they seem.
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THE SHADOWMAN/BLOOD OF THE DRAGON
Pasquale Matera/Andrew Beller
Historical Drama, Action Adventure
The son of a famed Draconian Knight survives years of imprisonment and torture with an iron will and singular purpose – to escape his oppression and exact revenge upon those who murdered his family… giving birth to a terror that had endured over five centuries.
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THE VEGETARIAN ZOMBIE
Jake Lynch
Animated Comedy, Adventure
When the Princess of the Zombies is outed as a vegetarian she runs away from home, finding a portal into the monster multiverse and proof that her Father, the missing King, is still un-alive.
Finalist – 2022 Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest
Semifinalist – 2022 ScreenCraft Animation
Quarterfinalist – 2024 WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab
Quarterfinalist – 2023 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
Quarterfinalist – Fall 2022 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab
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THE WISH
Wayne Middleton
Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
A young man crashes into his own past when he wishes for a second shot at a high school romance. A time-travelling LGBTQ+ love story, told against a backdrop of slightly askew seaside attractions, a chilling serial killer and a gaggle of elderly genies.
Finalist – 2022 Screenwriters Network TV Pilot Competition
Semifinalist – 2021 The Script Lab Screenplay Competition
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WEST/EAST – “THE GREAT EQUALIZER”
Mark Anthony Ramitt
Dramedy
A Westernized East Indian teen defies and denounces his Muslim upbringing and culture much to the chagrin of his traditional parents, who’s arranged marriage for him is in conflict with the white girl he plans on marrying.
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WHO ARE WE?
David Chaaya
Drama
Three siblings struggling to overcome a heinous family secret become the prime suspects in the death of a renowned entrepreneur and wrestle with the consequences of grief, guilt and growth.
Maximum Z 