2019 FEATURE AND TV PILOT WINNERS

AMERICAN VICE
by Benjamin Feuer

Right wing lawyer, media genius, closeted homosexual. Aide to Joe McCarthy, mentor to Donald Trump, fiancee of Barbara Walters, blood rival of the Kennedys. This is the incredible true story of Roy Cohn, the greatest lawyer you’ve never heard of.

LAND’S END
by Jonny King 

A surly, pregnant teenager reluctantly agrees to drive an elderly widower to Cornwall, where he plans to end his life by jumping from the cliffs at Land’s End.

Jonny on Making It As A Screenwriter

MODEL MINORITY
by Amy Thomas

In 1970s Los Angeles, one woman finds herself stuck between the traditions of her Chinese-American family and her new found interest in the world of adult magazines.

BAD WATER
by Jacob Wehrman 

A troubled biologist teams up with a grieving migrant to reveal a disturbing eco-terror plot. As the women race to stop the attack, they become targets of a racist war criminal.

Jacob on Making It As a Screenwriter

SON OF A GUN
by Evan Cunningham

Frank Cooper is content to live a quiet life on his Texas homestead with his 10-year-old son, Sam. When a chance meeting with a bounty hunter brings troubles from his mysterious past, Frank decides to meet his problem head-on and takes Sam along on the journey of a lifetime.

PIPELINE
by Brian Golden

In California’s drought-stricken Central Valley, three Mexican-American siblings are forced to confront their complicated history when a controversial public works project pits them on opposite sides of the law.

SONS & MOTHERS
by Geoff Gedroyc

Fearing an arrest for historic war crimes in Afghanistan, an ex-military interrogator travels back to her seaside home town of Margate, to mend her relationship with her long-estranged son.

LIVING MEMORY
by Charlotte Cameron 

A trauma psychotherapist turns memory detective when she suffers a vicious, mysterious attack she cannot remember, and encounters a patient whose trauma resembles her own. With the attacker still out there, and clues deep in the memory of this fellow victim – and others – she sets out on a dangerous quest for justice.

THE BIG O
by Kate Shenton 

An awkward millennial who can’t reach orgasm embarks on a journey through sex therapy to face her demons and achieve her Big O.

BLUE GIANT
by Jordan Prosser 

After suffering a nervous breakdown, self-destructive 28-year-old Abby Horne embarks on a hilarious and heartbreaking quest to become the first person on Mars.

STAGED
by Marla Cukor 

Desperate to stop the network from cancelling their once-wildly popular real estate reality show, STAGED, TV’s most famous real-life couple, Ree and Billy Sanders, take matters into their own hands, devising a desperate, twisted scheme to save their TV empire, and bring their show back to its original glory.