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Jan 31 2025

2024 Pitch (II) Results

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Playback by Khaled Ridgeway Born in the Middle East and raised in the Midwest, writer/director Khaled Ridgeway tells stories illuminating men from all walks of life. A former bioengineer, Khaled pivoted into film by studying at USC. He's since become a Ryan Murphy Half Mentee and received the Student DGA for his rap-infused horror short, Night Diner. Sony acquired his award-winning feature debut, Death of a Telemarketer, starring Emmy-winner Lamorne Morris and Oscar nominees Jackie Earle Haley and Haley Joel Osment. He was recently named one of Austin Film Festival's Screenwriters to Watch. Follow on: IG | IMDB
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Jan 17 2025

2024 First Look Project Results

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Action & Sci-Fi | Comedy | Drama | Horror & Thriller TV (Hourlong) | TV (Half-Hour) Winner Purebred by Sam Robotham Sam Robotham is an award-winning screenwriter and non-award-winning filmmaker and podcaster currently based in Brooklyn. With roots in playwriting, his genre bending, character driven scripts have received placements in the Nicholl Fellowship, Austin Film Festival, Screencraft, and was named one of the ISA Top 50. In 2023, his short film, Deadcoats, had its world premiere at the Lake Placid Film Festival. His career is just beginning and he hopes to have more to put in his bio someday. Follow on: IG Runner-up Avalanche by Andrew Andrew Vasconcelles has worked on series for CBS, Showtime, USA, and OWN. He is also an avid skier with AIARE 1 avalanche training, and much of his own experience went into writing his feature Avalanche, which has garnered industry interest. Andrew explores stories that feature thrilling…
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Jul 31 2024

2024 Pitch (I) Results

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The Untethering by Jon Di Rocco Jon Di Rocco is an Argentine-American writer currently living in Charlotte, North Carolina. At an early age, he discovered the power of escapism through words. Using them to create entire worlds when his own felt dull and monotonous. Nowadays, Jon continues to advocate for his stories and hopes to convey his vision for them as a Writer/Director. Pipeline execs called his thriller pitch "a refreshing spin on a well-worn plot device" and "a film that could make an impact on multiple levels, both in the genre and the weight it carries in psychological exploration." Follow on: IG | X
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Jul 10 2024

2024 TV Writing Contest Results

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Eater by Cathriona Slammon Cathriona Slammon is an award-winning screenwriter from the West of Ireland. After obtaining a first-class Master's degree in Filmmaking, Cathriona completed her debut feature script WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE MADE OF. Making the finals of the Screencraft Horror Competition, the script went on to win Best Unproduced Screenplay at the academy-award qualifying Raindance Film Festival 2023, and the Golden Script award 2023, garnering her a mentorship with BAFTA-nominated writer John J McLaughlin (Black Swan, 2010). The script has since been optioned by Irish production company Tailored Films (The Apprentice, Bring Them Down, 2024). Her second feature script, PEEP, a low-budget psychological horror, is almost complete after being awarded a fellowship by the Raindance Film Festival where she was mentored by writer/director/producer Stéphanie Joalland (The Quiet Hour, 2014). She is also finishing a third feature script which explores the tension between self-love and altruism through a horror…
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Jul 08 2024

2024 Screenwriting Contest Results

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Sunshower by Stefanos Tai Stefanos Tai  is a Chinese–Greek–American filmmaker. In 2023 he released his debut feature, “We Don’t Dance for Nothing”— a super-16 love letter to the Filipina Domestic Workers of Hong Kong. Described as “La Jetée” meets “La La Land”, the film screened everywhere from festivals to universities to the UN, and was written up by Asia Society, Vice, Tatler, Huffington Post, Kodak, and Vogue, and is now available on Amazon and Tubi. His work has been recognized by Tribeca, SFFILM, Film Lincoln Center, EAVE, Scholastic, and the Hong Kong Asia Financing Forum, where he won the 2024 TAICCA Prize. He’s also an alum of the Google Creative Lab, and was previously Head of Film for TBWA\ Hong Kong, where he cut his teeth directing branded content. Today, he’s developing a feature about aging, in order to convince the world of lessons shared by his grandmother with dementia, to…
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Jan 31 2024

2023 Pitch (II) Results

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Disco Inferno by Oliver Woolf Oliver Woolf is a writer/actor from London. He wrapped the feature film Two Big Feet by Noah Stratton-Twine, acting as the lead alongside Luke Rollason (Extraordinary, Disney Plus) slated for a 2024 release. He first started scriptwriting to get revenge on a roommate—who was a writer himself, and claimed he needed the biggest room in the house in order to write efficiently, leaving Oliver with the tiny room—thus making Oliver want to prove that big rooms aren't essential for scriptwriting. His first pilot Whoops and feature film With Hate, From Love caught the attention of producers and lead him to write his passion project, Disco Inferno, a TV Series about the unknown, insane world of VIP nightclubs—a topic deeply connected to Oliver and his family, himself having worked in nightclubs for 8 years, and his dad 30 years. In a world where nightclubs are getting…
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Dec 20 2023

2023 First Look Project Results

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Action & Sci-Fi | Comedy | Drama | Horror & Thriller TV (Hourlong) | TV (Half-Hour) Winner Parallel by Nate Wilcoxen Growing up in the rural Midwest, Nate found an escape from the mundane through books and movies. Years later, when he discovered the magic of screenwriting, he dove in headfirst and never looked back. Now an award-winning screenwriter with over 20 feature scripts and TV pilots under his belt, Nate's talent for specializing in elevated action, sci-fi, horror, and thriller projects was discovered in 2021 when he was signed by Gravity Squared Entertainment to represent his vast catalog of work. Some of Nate's other notable awards include being a two-time semi-finalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship Competition, a Tracking Board Launch Pad Top 10 finalist, as well as a Silver Prize winner in the PAGE International Screenwriting Contest. Follow on: X Runner-up Charlotte D'Artagna by Julia Bergeron Julia is a…
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Jul 31 2023

2023 Pitch (I) Results

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WINNER 7 Prom Dresses (feature) by G.S. Prendergast G.S. (Gabrielle) Prendergast is the bestselling author of numerous books for children and teens. She studied at the University of New South Wales in Australia, at San Francisco State University and the University of British Columbia. After working in the music industry and in social welfare, Gabrielle wrote the screenplay for Hildegarde, which starred Oscar nominee Richard E. Grant. Gabrielle went on to work in TV, but began writing books when she became a mother, so she could work from home. Her books have received nominations for the White Pine Award, the Canadian Library Association Award, the Vancouver Book Prize and several other honors. She won the BC Book Prize for her YA sci-fi Zero Repeat Forever and the Westchester Award for her YA novel in verse Audacious. Born in the UK and both an Australian and New Zealand citizen, Gabrielle now lives…
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Jul 10 2023

2023 TV Writing Contest Results

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Winner Meme Girls Matthew Manson Matthew Manson is a writer and director whose work can be seen across multiple platforms: from TV and film to sketches and commercials. He has won awards at the Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes Lions, and Telly Awards. Additionally, he won the 2022 Final Draft Big Break TV Award, and the 2023 Script Pipeline TV Writing Contest. Born and raised in Manhattan, Matthew is a graduate of NYU’s Film & TV program. His thesis film screened at festivals worldwide, winning multiple awards, including the Audience Award for Best Short at the Tribeca Film Festival. After creating hundreds of webseries and sketches for production companies such as FunnyOrDie and UCB - many of which were among the most viewed on YouTube - Matthew worked as the comedy executive and in-house writer/director at AwesomenessTV. While there, he created and oversaw production on several series, including two seasons of…
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Jul 10 2023

2023 Screenwriting Contest Results

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Winner Brobot Island James Anderson Hunt James Anderson Hunt is a writer/director based in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in Georgetown, Texas and graduated from Baylor University with a BA in Film & Digital Media. Whether imagining elaborate tales with action figures as a kid, writing and directing parodies of The Lord of the Rings in high school (where he and his best friend played every character) or expanding his creative voice beyond screenwriting through improv courses at the Upright Citizens Brigade, James has only wanted to do one thing: tell stories. Having been raised on The Twilight Zone, he’s most drawn to stories that can entertain us on a large scale while also revealing something to us about what it means to be human. The bigger the premise but more intimate the story, the better. His previous scripts have placed in the ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition…
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Dec 14 2022

2022 First Look Project Results

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Action & Scifi - Winner - Against All Entropy by Nick McMurdy Nick McMurdy was born and raised in the rural Rust Belt wasteland just outside of Pittsburgh, where he witnessed his hometown slowly fade away like blotted watercolor. In fact, Nick’s own childhood home was converted into a meth lab by the last owners, and sold at a police auction for $1,000.* That’s why he writes offbeat dramatic features about working-class loners, focusing on themes of purpose and belonging. Some of Nick’s other notable screenplay awards include the Roadmap Writers Top Tier Grand Prize, Winner of the Summer Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, and Top 1% on Coverfly. He also has nearly 20 years of experience in the advertising industry, with over 80 productions under his creative direction. (*Nick has never done meth.) - Runner-up - Sonny is a God! by Scott Tinkham Scott Tinkham is an award-winning Writer & Director…
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Dec 05 2022

November 2022 Script Sales

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Here are some of the most notable script sales from November 2022. StudioCanal and The Picture Company have picked up April Wolfe’s action spec Honey Trapped. VMI World Wide and BondIt Media Capital will produce Darkness of Man, a noir action film written by James Cullen Bressack and Alethea Cho, from an original story by Bressack and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Bressack will also produce and direct, and Van Damme will executive produce and star. Writer/director Bryan Fuller has found his next feature: the horror drama Dust Bunny. eOne, Thunder Road Pictures, and Fuller’s company Living Dead Guy Productions will produce. Mads Mikkelsen is set to star. Riverside Entertainment, Margate House Films, and Stride Management are moving forward with the crime drama Dixie Crystal, written by Jake Allyn. Conor Allyn will direct, and Rob Morgan will star. Mandalay Sports Media and Bluestone Entertainment will produce the Hank Aaron biopic 715!, written…
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Nov 10 2022

October 2022 Script Sales

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Here are some of the most notable script sales from October 2022. Legendary Pictures has picked up Chris Sparling’s action/drama spec Fight Fast. Speck Gordon (Will Speck and Josh Gordon) will be turning The Oregon Trail into a musical feature. Pasek and Paul will help write the songs. VMI Worldwide and BondIt Media Capital are moving forward with the action film Darkness of Man. Director James Cullen Bressack co-wrote the script with Alethea Cho from an original story by Bressack and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Van Damme will executive produce and star. Sophie Hyde will write and direct An Ideal Wife for Curiosa Films, Embankment Films, and Zephyr Films. The film will be based on the life of Oscar Wilde’s wife Constance Lloyd, and Emilia Clarke is set to star. For Mongrel Media and Crescent Entertainment, Ann Marie Fleming will write and direct the sci-fi/thriller Can I Get a Witness. Sandra…
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Oct 10 2022

September 2022 Script Sales

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Here are some of the most notable script sales from September 2022. Sony Pictures and Olive Bridge Entertainment have picked up Matthew Kellard and Jackson Kellard’s comedy Locked Out, based on their pitch. 3dot productions, G-Unit Film (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson), and Electromagnetic Productions have picked up two horror scripts: The Gun by Kirkland Morris and Trackmaster by Justin Calen-Chenn. Eli Roth will also produce both films. Universal 1440 Entertainment is producing a new, fresh take on American Pie. Sujata Day will write, based on her pitch. The original 1999 movie was written by Adam Herz. Yassir Lester will write the Armor Wars film for Marvel and Disney. Don Cheadle will star and reprise his role, and Kevin Feige will produce. The film will be based on the comics written by David Michelinie and Bob Layton, and it was previously announced as a TV show before switching over to a…
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