2021 Winner
Cauliflower
Daniel Jackson
Daniel Jackson is a screenwriter whose most recent script, Cauliflower, won the Grand Prize in the 2021 Script Pipeline Screenwriting Competition. He’s currently a Senior Staff Writer for Thrillist, where he covers film, television, and music. As a journalist, he’s written for XXL, CMJ, Spin, and Esquire.com. He earned a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in Los Angeles.
Runner-up
Kony 2012
Austin Hall & Zach Visvikis
Austin Hall and Zach Visvikis are a Los Angeles-based filmmaking duo whose work has screened at the Bath Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, and Tribeca. Together they directed music videos that received over two million views on YouTube. They both graduated from NYU Tisch in 2019. Austin is currently getting his MFA in Screenwriting at USC, while Zach is getting his MFA in Ass-Kickin’ from the School of Kickin’ Ass. Their moms say they have decent people skills (mostly).
Finalists
12 Steps of Christmas
Brian Allen
Happy Accidents
Patrick Franklin
Impaled: A Love Story
Josh Litman
Miss Dickpuncher
Emily-Anne Mikos
N.R.A.
Dan Williams
The House in Coyoacán
Lore V. Olivera
Thomas Mayfly
Anthony DiBlasi
White Gold
Rex Cheung
Semifinalists
12 Steps of Christmas
Brian Allen
All Shook Up
Elan Toby
Betwixtmas
Cheri Steinkellner
Cauliflower
Daniel Jackson
Crawl Space
Derick & Rebecca Otto
Donna And Samir Do A Kidnapping
Paul M. Horan
Happy Little Trees
Patrick Franklin
Impaled: A Love Story
Josh Litman
Just Add Betty
Jill Brennan
Miss Dickpuncher
Emily-Anne Mikos
Mr. 2012
Austin Hall & Zach Visvikis
N.R.A.
Dan Williams
Revisionaries
Andrew Adams
Rose-colored Glasses
Adrian Prospero
Simple Beast
Erik Odom
Sometimes the Devil Wins
Tex Gresham
The Great Spaggiari
The Mul Brothers
The Hard & Short of It
Fredrick Leach
The House in Coyoacán
Lore V. Olivera
Thomas Mayfly
Anthony DiBlasi
Unicorn
Sheila Erdmann
Welcome Home
Sara Strange
White Gold
Rex Cheung
Quarterfinalists
12 Steps of Christmas
Brian Allen
Alice
Tom Albanese
All Shook Up
Elan Toby
All-American Boy
Nate Gualtieri
Betwixtmas
Cheri Steinkellner
Born Again
Amy Huckabay
Bounty
Lee Ehlers
Cauliflower
Daniel Jackson
Crawl Space
Derick & Rebecca Otto
Descent Into The Maelstrom
Thomas Thonson
Donna And Samir Do A Kidnapping
Paul M. Horan
Ghosted
Kate Beacom & Lacey Jeka
Glisten
Connor Smith
Happy Little Trees
Patrick Franklin
Haystack Hair
Jonathan Kleinman
Impaled: A Love Story
Josh Litman
Just Add Betty
Jill Brennan
Maul
Nick Everhart
Miss Dickpuncher
Emily-Anne Mikos
Mr. 2012
Austin Hall & Zach Visvikis
N.R.A.
Dan Williams
Paul is Dead
Amy Huckabay
Plum Town
Kelly Yu
Revisionaries
Andrew Adams
Rose-colored Glasses
Adrian Prospero
Senioritis
Julian Berger
Simple Beast
Erik Odom
Slaycay
Bill Poore
Soft & Pink
Zoe Ward
Someone with Nerve
Noah Keeling
Sometimes the Devil Wins
Tex Gresham
Surviving the Holidays
Dave Pantano
The Board
Karen McDermott
The Great Spaggiari
Chris Mul
The Hard & Short of It
Fredrick Leach
The House in Coyoacán
Lore V. Olivera
The Other Side of Solitary
Scott Carelli & Nick Jimenez
Thomas Mayfly
Anthony DiBlasi
Through the Trees
Logan Dunn
Tink
Jarrett Bryant
Unicorn
Sheila Erdmann
Welcome Home
Sara Strange
White Gold
Rex Cheung
Finalists – July 10th
Winner – July 24th