Screenplay Competition Selections

  • Poseidon's Wrath

    SS Thessaloniki departs from the island of Ikaria, Greece in late 1913, bound for America, the land of opportunity. Every person onboard—including a young, unscrupulous priest—has something they are running from.
    (Screenwriter: Victoria A. Mullen)

  • love shines brightest in the dark

    Hoping to soak up as much of each other as possible, a stagnant playwright-by-day, janitor-by-night, and a thriving travel nurse set out on a lasting getaway before the nurse must leave for her next assignment.
    (Screenwriter: Christopher Kelechi Nwagbara)

  • Fletchertown Road

    4 Fraternity Brothers must step out of their comfort zones in a fight for their lives against an urban legend seeking revenge.
    (Screenwriter: Devin Jones)

  • Cardinal Virtues

    He would need all seven Cardinal Virtues for thirteen years, for the only murder...he didn't commit. Based on Antonio Ford's book "From a Nigga to a God" on Amazon. Written with permission.
    (Screenwriter: Lawrence Whitener)

  • Review

    In a video message, a social media acolyte invites other women to have sex with her boyfriend, but only if they film their review after.
    (Screenwriter: Jonathan Zarantonello)

  • The Last Mediation of Christ

    It’s a Hell of a ride as the Devil shares her gripes, Eve mediates, and Jesus tries to love his enemies.
    (Screenwriters: David Schleicher & Mike Bell)

  • Turning Back the Pages of Time

    His is a story of greed, backstabbing, double-crossing, double-dealing, lying, cheating, womanizing, and a few other unspeakable and unmentionable manipulations, told by an old, dried-up, broken-down, soon-to-meet-his-maker, southern scalawag.
    (Screenwriter: Emerson Watkins)

  • The Go-Go District

    A recently released convict joins a struggling Go-Go band in Washington D.C., using the chaotic and soulful music scene as a path to redemption while striving to pay for his younger brother's prestigious music fellowship.(Screenwriter: Travis Houze)

  • Betrayed

    On the night of his wife's birthday, a man's seemingly perfect world unravels when he uncovers startling revelations about her. Faced with confronting the truth or clinging to a facade of happiness, he must make a choice that threatens to shatter their carefully constructed life. (Screenwriter: Stanley Williams)

  • Riverwalk

    A troubled fifteen-year-old boy and his fragile nine-year-old brother run away from the foster system to avoid being reunited with their estranged birth mother, and together undergo a life-altering journey along the wild and forgotten banks of the Los Angeles River.
    (Screenwriter: Robin Scovill & Lea Endres)

  • Bridge in the Distance

    A tragic event on Good Friday causes a black minister to change his mind about mixing politics and religion in the church, but does his unrelenting efforts to overcome the obstacles meant to keep him from voting (the bridge in the title is Pettus Bridge) pay off?
    (Screenwriter: Clarence Holmes, Jr )