2020 FEATURE AND TV PILOT WINNERS

We would like to send a heartfelt thanks to those who entered this year’s Feature and TV Pilot Contests. The quality increases year on year making making our selection process ever more difficult. With so many great stories from talented writers, we are in no doubt that a large number of this year’s entrants will go onto have successful careers in the industry. 

Our Judges have now read our Finalists and decided upon our Winners – who can be seen below. 

Congratulations to our Winners and to everyone who entered.  

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For full details of what happens next, check out our Feature & TV Pilot post-contest timeline.

 FEATURE WINNERS | TV PILOT 1 HR WINNERS | TV PILOT 1/2HR WINNERS

FEATURE FINALIST’s | TV PILOT 1HR FINALIST’s | TV PILOT 1/2 HR FINALIST’s

FEATURE SF’s | TV PILOT 1HR SF’s | TV PILOT 1/2 HR SF’s

FEATURE QF’s | TV PILOT 1HR QF’s | TV PILOT 1/2 HR QF’s

THE BLIND SEA

When her daughter goes missing, a mother seeks out a brilliant but partially blind P.I. to find her. In the midst of what smells like a cover-up, one plucky journalist delves deep into L.A.’s missing persons numbers and realises the bigger, uglier picture.

FEATURE FINALISTS
(TOP 5 in each of our 7 Genres – alphabetical order)

THROUGH VIOLET EYES

In a world where the dead can testify against the living, someone is getting away with murder. Natalie Lindstrom is a Violet–one of the rare, genetically gifted individuals with violet eyes and the accompanying ability to channel the dead–who aids murder investigations by summoning victims to bear witness against those who slew them. But now a masked murderer is stalking the Violets themselves, and Natalie must team with FBI profiler Dan Atwater to find the killer before she, too, becomes his prey.

THE HAIGHT

Amidst the explosive 1968 murder trial of Black Panther, Huey Newton, the multicultural denizens of Reve, a hip Haight-Ashbury café’ struggle to maintain their peaceful balance. And, when a local drug dealer is murdered, the investigation uncovers secrets and betrayals, which rocks this close-knit community of artists and activists to its core.

TV 1 HOUR FINALISTS
(10 Finalists – alphabetical order)

	Charlotte Alexander	Bolshoi Baby	Sixteen-year-old Hope Daniel struggles to come of age whilst navigating the competitive, high-stakes world of the elite Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Desperate for acceptance yet driven to succeed, this is a thrilling ride through the promising, and at times perilous, odyssey of Hope’s self-discovery, as she comes to realise that sometimes in order not to lose yourself, you have to be brave enough to lose another…
	Debora Bottino	They Listen	When a chronically anxious, failed musician lands a too-good-to-be-true job at a shady tech company, he is caught up in the vigilante activities of his enigmatic co-worker, who uses the technology to exact justice on her own terms.
	Eric De La Rosa	Motel of Miracles	When church pastor, Jonah Dernum, is caught having an affair with a man, he loses everything and is ostracized to a remote rundown motel with peculiar residents and unwanted people. However this unwanted location might be his salvation as Jonah performs a miracle and begins a journey of self-discovery and acceptance.
	Ethan Kogan & Jessica Silvetti	Shockheaded Peter	A young girl witnesses the arrival of a fantastic stranger and is quickly troubled by her desire to join his disturbing crusade. Inspired by the 19th century, macabre children’s book.
	Kimba Henderson	The Haight	Amidst the explosive 1968 murder trial of Black Panther, Huey Newton, the multicultural denizens of Reve, a hip Haight-Ashbury café’ struggle to maintain their peaceful balance. And, when a local drug dealer is murdered, the investigation uncovers secrets and betrayals, which rocks this close-knit community of artists and activists to its core.
	Neal Wiser	Frankenstein Unleashed	Seeking redemption after the virus he created kills his wife and millions of others, Dr. Vik Frankenstein has to harvest organs from the dead to live long enough to take down his old friend, the scientist who actually unleashed the virus.
	Priya Domfeh & Phillip Domfeh	The Caregiver	When Artificial Intelligence Mogul, Olivia Vanderbilt, finds her company’s future in jeopardy, a botched interview with a disgraced journalist threatens to expose a dark secret cloaking a global conspiracy of the highest order.
	Simone Hawthorne	Scars	When the plans of the teenage leader of a vigilante justice group goes awry, he is forced to do whatever he can to protect his family and friends from paying the ultimate price. However, with the police bearing down on them, and betrayal from within, things have only begun to get complicated.
	Stephen Woodworth	Through Violet Eyes	In a world where the dead can testify against the living, someone is getting away with murder. Natalie Lindstrom is a Violet–one of the rare, genetically gifted individuals with violet eyes and the accompanying ability to channel the dead–who aids murder investigations by summoning victims to bear witness against those who slew them. But now a masked murderer is stalking the Violets themselves, and Natalie must team with FBI profiler Dan Atwater to find the killer before she, too, becomes his prey.
	Yancey Wang	South China Sea	In the 1800s, when China and Britain are on the brink of the Opium War, a swordsman’s daughter falsely accused of murder joins a band of pirates. As romance grows between her and a notorious pirate captain, so does her desire to become the most powerful outlaw in Colonial Asia.

RBF

Home for the holidays in Small Town, USA, you’d expect to run into a classmate or two, maybe an old flame, and definitely some people you hated from high school. What Iris Burns didn’t expect was to end up disposing of a dead body with the homecoming queen. But in the suburbs — you never really know what else people are hiding.

THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS

In a sleepy oceanside town overrun by bizarre (but harmless) creatures and put under military lockdown, a single father looks for ways to help his 10-year-old daughter as she exhibits stranger and stranger behavior.

TV 1/2 HOUR FINALISTS
(10 Finalists – alphabetical order)

	A Peterson	Millennial	A group of millennials have to navigate the thousand-year period after Jesus returns. But it’s chill.
	Amir Mosallaie	Scoundrel	After buying a pink “live, laugh, love” tank top from CVS, a timid, closeted Iranian-American teenager considers defying his overbearing parents the night before the first day of senior year.
	Deborah Rayne & Catherine Eaton	Flawless: A Feminist Fairytale	When “Ever After, Inc.” hires a Latinx Millennial to become the new Fairy Godmother for NYC, she discovers that the shiny corporate behemoth is nothing more than a shill for the Patriarchy. Disillusioned, she goes rogue; defying the status quo and forcing the City’s very modern Princesses to decide for themselves what it means for a woman to live “Happily Ever After”.
	Disha Sunil Manocha	The Frontman	Neal, a grad-school dropout from India, dreams of being a wedding planner in the US, which seems impossible with an expired visa and no finances. On the brink of deportation, Neal finds himself entering an ill-advised partnership with charismatic but sketchy Rick, who offers to help him out if Neal shares his office.
	Kyra Jones	Good Vibes Only	Well on her way to becoming Dr. Cassandra Bridges, PhD, Cassie is #BlackExcellence personified. But while everything in her 10-year plan is coming, Cassie sure the hell isn’t – and this structure and image-obsessed sociology student is forced to toy around with everything she doesn’t know about sex (and herself) when she’s thrust into conducting research at a Black-owned feminist sex shop.
	Martin Ingle	Disorderly	Their brains see danger, death, disease and sex all around us, but the only way for this misfit group of obsessive compulsives to break free of their minds is to face their worst fears head on.
	Matt Schultz	The Out-Of-Towners	In a sleepy oceanside town overrun by bizarre (but harmless) creatures and put under military lockdown, a single father looks for ways to help his 10-year-old daughter as she exhibits stranger and stranger behavior.
	Natassia Halabi	Abeer Aboud	An attractive, Halal butcher from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn embarks on a career as a supermodel in NYC that she has to keep secret from her family and God so she can make the $60K she urgently needs.
	Sara Casey	RBF	Home for the holidays in Small Town, USA, you’d expect to run into a classmate or two, maybe an old flame, and definitely some people you hated from high school. What Iris Burns didn’t expect was to end up disposing of a dead body with the homecoming queen. But in the suburbs — you never really know what else people are hiding.
	Tevin Knight	Related	Two brothers attempt to thrive in a strange neighborhood while trying to raise one another.

TV 1/2 HOUR FINALISTS
(10 Finalists – alphabetical order)

FEATURE SEMI-FINALISTS
(75 writers have progressed)

TV PILOT 1 HOUR SEMI-FINALISTS
(42 writers have progressed)

TV PILOT 1/2 HOUR SEMI-FINALISTS
(31 writers have progressed)

FEATURE QUARTER-FINALISTS
(152 writers have progressed)

TV PILOT 1 HOUR QUARTER-FINALISTS
(83 writers have progressed)

TV PILOT 1/2 HOUR QUARTER-FINALISTS
(65 writers have progressed)