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CONTEST PLACINGS

AMPAS SPONSORED NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS

(Roughly 7,500 submissions; 300 make the quarters, 100 make the semis) 

Semifinalist

BROKEN HALOS 

THE FRANCHISE
AMERICANA

REMY

Top 15%

A PERIODIC OCCURRENCE


OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAYS

Winner

BROKEN HALOS

Quarterfinalist

BAR FIGHT:  A LOVE STORY

REMY


FINAL DRAFT BIG BREAK

Top 10

THE FRANCHISE

Semifinalist

AMERICANA

Quarterfinalist

BROKEN HALOS

DUKE CITY

REMY


SCRIPTAPALOOZA FEATURE SCREENPLAY

Semifinalist

REMY

AMERICANA

Quarterfinalist

BROKEN HALOS


SCRIPTAPALOOZA SHORT SCREENPLAY

Semifinalist

LOVE ME, TINDER


BLUE CAT SCREENWRITING CONTEST

Quarterfinalist

REMY


BLUE CAT SHORT SCREENPLAY CONTEST

Quarterfinalist

JACKIE


TABLE READ MY SCREENPLAY

Top 10 Comedy

THE FRANCHISE

Top 100 Comedy

BAR FIGHT:  A LOVE STORY

Top 25  Shorts

JACKIE


TABLE READ MY SCREENPLAY – Hollywood

Semifinalist

THE FRANCHISE


TABLE READ MY SCREENPLAY – Park City

Semifinalist

 THE FRANCHISE


PAGE INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

Semifinalist

THE FRANCHISE

Quarterfinalist

A PERIODIC OCCURRENCE


STORYPROS INTERNATIONAL

Finalist

A PERIODIC OCCURRENCE

Quarterfinalist

BLOOD WILL TELL


EXPO SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

Semifinalist

THE FRANCHISE


FILMARTIC TV PILOT AWARDS

Semifinalist

DUKE CITY


FILMARTIC DRAMA SCREENPLAY AWARDS

Semifinalist

BLOOD WILL TELL


LOS ANGELES CRIME & HORROR FILM FESTIVAL

Winner - Best Screenplay

PRODIGAL SON

Semifinalist

THE  AMATEUR

DUKE CITY

BlLOOD WILL TELL



FADE IN COMEDY FEATURE SCREENPLAY

Finalist

THE BIG ASK

Semifinalist

BAR FIGHT:  A LOVE STORY


FADE IN SHORT SCREENPLAY CONTEST

1st Place

JACKIE


OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAYS

Quarterfinalist

BROKEN HALOS

THE FRANCHISE


LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

Honorable Mention

BROKEN HALOS


SCREENCRAFT TV PILOT SCRIPT COMPETITION

Quarterfinalist

DUKE CITY


SCREENCRAFT SCREENWRITING FELLOWSHIPS

Quarterfinalist

THE FRANCHISE


SCREENCRAFT COMEDY

Semifinalist

THE FRANCHISE


SCREENCRAFT FAMILY

Top 10

REMY


SCREENCRAFT ACTION & THRILLER

Quarterfinalist

THE IRON HORSEMAN


HOLLYWOOD SCREENPLAY CONTEST

Finalist

BROKEN HALOS

THE BIG ASK

THE FRANCHISE


LOS ANGELES INDIE FILM FESTIVAL

Winner

BROKEN HALOS


LOS ANGELES FILM & SCRIPT FESTIVAL

Honorable Mention

DUKE CITY


INROADS SCREENPLAY CONTEST

Finalist

THE FRANCHISE


FOR A CAUSE FILM FESTIVAL

Official Selection

BROKEN HALOS


BEVERLY HILLS FILM FESTIVAL

Official Selection

THE FRANCHISE

BROKEN HALOS


NYC INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITING CONTEST

Semifinalist

THE FRANCHISE

BROKEN HALOS

REAR NAKED CHOKE


MEXICO FILM FESTIVAL

Top 13

REAR NAKED CHOKE


FESTIVAL FOR COMEDY

Staged Reading Winner

THE FRANCHISE


SCREENPLAY REPLAY

Finalist

REMY

Files coming soon.

BLOOD WILL TELL


Semifinalist – Los Angeles Crime & Horror Film Festival

Semifinalist – Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards

Quarterfinalist - StoryPros Awards


After robbing a Vegas casino, six friends learn more about greed and betrayal than loyalty.

BLOOD WILL TELL (pdf)Download

PRODIGAL SON

Winner – Best Screenplay – Los Angeles Crime & Horror Film Festival


Ten years after the death of their daughter’s fraternal twin, a family welcomes a stranger into their home, unravelling a decade old secret spiritually connecting them to a violent resolution. 

Prodigal Son (pdf)Download

THE AMATEUR

Semifinalist – Los Angeles Crime & Horror Film Festival


Desperate, an out of work blue collar man seeks a new occupation - contract killer.

The Amateur (pdf)Download

BROKEN HALOS

Winner - Outstanding Screenplays

Winner – Best Screenplay – Los Angeles Indie Film Festival

Finalist – Hollywood Screenplay Contest

Semifinalist - AMPAS Sponsored Nicholl Fellowships

Semifinalist - Fade In Awards Drama 

Quarterfinalist – Final Draft Big Break

Quarterfinalist – Scriptapalooza

Official Selection – Beverly Hills Film Festival

Official Selection – For A Cause Film Festival

Honorable Mention – Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival

Semifinalist – NYC Int’l Screenplay Competition


Two strangers, one a trucker in his 40's, the other a 22 year old girl with a 6 year old boy, find common ground through their individual tragedies.  An unconventional story with undertones of tolerance and compassion for victims of violent crime.

BROKEN HALOS (pdf)Download

BAR FIGHT: A LOVE STORY

Quarterfinalist - Outstanding Screenplays

Semifinalist – Fade In Comedy Screenplay Contest

Top  100  -  Table  Read  My  Screenplay


Unofficially sponsored by Jack Daniels and Budweiser, BAR FIGHT: A LOVE STORY follows two Chicagoans searching for happiness while participating in the Windy City’s unsanctioned summer bar fight competition.

BAR FIGHT - A LOVE STORY (pdf)Download

DUKE CITY

Quarterfinalist – Final Draft Big Break

 Semifinalist – Los Angeles Crime & Horror Festival

 Semifinalist – Filmatic TV Pilot Awards

Quarterfinalist – Screencraft TV Pilot Script Contest

Honorable Mention – Los Angeles Film & Script Festival


After a three year absence, Native American Sheriff Billy Cheveyo returns to Duke City, Texas with one desire “I just wanna make Duke City safe again….”  But with an ethnically divided landscape and historically biased political system will the ends justify the means?

DUKE CITY (pdf)Download

THE FRANCHISE

Top 10 – Final Draft Big Break

Top  10  -  Table  Read  My  Screenplay

Finalist – Hollywood Screenplay Contest

Semifinalist – AMPAS Sponsored Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships

Finalist – Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship

Official Selection – Beverly Hills Film Festival

Semifinalist – Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood

Semifinalist – Table Read My Screenplay Park City

Semifinalist – EXPO Screenwriting Competition

Quarterfinalist – Page International Screenwriting Competition

Semifinalist – Screencraft Comedy

Festival For Comedy – Staged Reading Winner

Quarterfinalist – Screencraft Screenplay Fellowships

Semifinalist – NYC Int’l Screenplay Competition

Quarterfinalist - Outstanding Screenplays 


On Christmas Eve, a local MTA bus driver teams up with the ne’er do well owner of Detroit’s Santa Franchise to find lost reindeer, save the holiday and win back his family.

The Franchise (pdf)Download

REMY

Semi-Finalist – AMPAS Sponsored Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships

Quarterfinalist – Final Draft Big Break Contest

Semifinalist – Scriptapalooza

Quarterfinalist – Blue Cat Screenwriting Contest

Top 10 – Screen Craft Family Friendly Contest

Finalist – Screenplay Replay Contest

Quarterfinalist - Outstanding Screenplays


A brilliant 7th Grader teams up with the new kid in school to find his long lost father and impress the pretty girl at school. Private Investigation’s a tough job, especially when you gotta be in bed by 10.

REMY (pdf)Download

REAR NAKED CHOKE

Semifinalist – NYC Int’l Screenplay Competition

Top 13 – Mexico Film Festival 

 

A past his prime MMA fighter goes on the run with his young daughter.  With no other means to support her, he climbs back into the cage of a barnstorming circuit of amateur competitions.

REAR NAKED CHOKE (pdf)Download

A PERIODIC OCCURRENCE

Top 15% – AMPAS Sponsored Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship

Finalist – StoryPros International Screenplay Contest

Quarterfinalist – Page International Screenwriting Competition


A recently divorced American finds himself part of an ill-fated love triangle with a nefarious British Ex-Pat and a beautiful Cebuano Bar Girl.

A PERIODIC OCCURRENCE (pdf)Download

HEADS OF MY ENEMIES

 

A dark comedy about a software engineer seeking restitution for wrongful termination and theft of service.  Hacksaws, freezers and Shakespeare will never be the same…

HEADS OF MY ENEMIES (pdf)Download

AMERICANA

Semi-Finalist – AMPAS sponsored Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships

Semi-Finalist – Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest

Semi-Finalist – Scriptapalooza 


A Los Angeles radio personality crashes and burns his career only to find his bliss deep in the heart of Americana.

AMERICANA (pdf)Download

THE BIG ASK

Finalist – Hollywood Screenplay Contest

Semifinalist – Fade In Comedy Screenplay Contest


The lives of two best friends unravel when one pitches the big ask – “help me get rid of a body”…

THE BIG ASK (pdf)Download

THE IRON HORSEMAN

Quarterfinalist – ScreenCraft Action & Thriller Screenplay Contest


In this neo-western set in the not too distant future, a group of men plan to assume control of The Last Outpost, the citizens and their hidden resources.  With no one to offer defense, The Iron Horseman convinces his former partners to set aside their differences until good has been protected.

The Iron Horseman (pdf)Download

RULES OF THE GAME

A former poker dealer returns to the casino he was brutally banned from to clear his name as well as settle a score with, and for, his surrogate father.  But in life, experience counts more than talent and there’s always one card left which not all players see.

Rules Of The Game (pdf)Download

BERT & ERNIE

The relationship between two not so bright friends is challenged when one accidentally develops an undiscovered skill at serial killing.

Bert & Ernie (pdf)Download

HOLLYWOOD: NEXT 8 EXITS

A group of characters’  stories intersect through Hollywood, among them The Drifter, The Thief, The Tourists, The Lonely Heart, The Runaway, The Predator, The Fugitives, The Junkie and The Cops who try desperately to keep “the haves and have nots from trading places too quickly“.

Hollywood Next 8 Exits (pdf)Download

MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK

A former High School football star loses his wife and must take a larger role with his son and daughter.  Through the mourning process, he realizes he’s not the husband and father he’d perceived and must course correct or risk losing everything.

Monday Morning Quarterback (pdf)Download

2ND TEAM

A pair of stand ins, one seeking money, the other art, settle their differences, try to overcome their respective heartbreak, ambition and professional distraction while navigating the pratfalls of a high profile action film clusterfuck.

2nd-team (pdf)Download

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