2024 FEATURE CONTEST WINNERS

WE ARE HONORED TO ANNOUNCE THE FINALISTS AND WINNERS OF OUR 2024 FEATURE SCRIPT CONTEST

It has been a pleasure to immerse ourselves in these fantastic stories and proudly share them with our award-winning industry Judges.

And now the Judges have spoken!

We want to congratulate all the writers who have graciously shared their work with us this year. With so many great stories from talented writers, we are in no doubt that a large number of this year’s entrants will go on to have successful careers in the industry.

Learn more about our Feature Contest alumni and how we can help move your career forward by checking out the Feature Script Success Stories.

 WINNERS – 2024 FEATURE

TOP 20 FINALISTS – 2024 FEATURE

SEMI-FINALISTS – 2024 FEATURE

QUARTER-FINALISTS – 2024 FEATURE

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HEARTRACE

A father will stop at nothing to save his dying daughter after a drug cartel hijacks her transplant heart.

NO GHOSTS TONIGHT

In a desperate bid to get home, a young woman forces her way aboard an inflatable dinghy full of asylum seekers who must band together to evade capture and survive a deadly Channel crossing.

ONE RUBBISH SUMMER

A young girl, Mellie, escapes the secret burden of looking after her mentally ill Mother into the fairy-tale world of her imagination, until she befriends the junk hoarding eccentric old woman she has always been taught to fear, who shows her that reality, although sometimes cruel, can be just as beautiful as a fairy-tale.

MY SCARE LADY

An aspiring female serial killer meets her idol – a sour, retired, and now-disabled mass murderer who mentors her in the art of the kill. Along the way, their relationship becomes complicated. A dark take on “My Fair Lady” – with serial murder.

DOWNLINE

When a former homecoming queen hits midlife, she joins a cult-like beauty company that miraculously reverses her age. Everything seems perfect until her daughter develops disturbing bodily afflictions that make her doubt her path to quick wealth and immortality.

HUNTRESS

The pastoral town of Glenside is turned upside down when the appearance of a lost new mother and her baby coincides with a string of mysterious, brutal deaths.

FEATURE FINALISTS

(20 Finalists – in alphabetical order by writer name)

	Aaron Warner	CLING	With a narcissistic pop-psychologist father and a mother lost to suicide, David DeGrandis is nervous about bringing his current “partner” to his seaside childhood home. But old tensions and expected awkwardness are soon dwarfed by the creeping, monstrous family secrets lying beneath David’s worst impulses.
	Adele Smaill	NO GHOSTS TONIGHT	Determined to get home, a young woman forces her way aboard an inflatable dinghy carrying asylum seekers embarking on a deadly Channel crossing – where one extra body could make the difference between life and death.
	Alex Murawski	WALKING IN IOWA	After her son accidentally drowns, a reclusive photographer rebuilds her life in Montana where she falls in love with a kind widower, but her newfound happiness is threatened by a secret from her past.
	Alice Greenland	ONE RUBBISH SUMMER	Mellie, a young, neglected girl,escapes the burden of looking after her mentally ill mother into the fairy-tale world of her imagination, until she befriends the local junk hoarding reclusive old woman who she has always been taught to fear, who shows her that reality, although often cruel, can also be as beautiful as a fairytale.
	Hunter M. Davis & Bryan Bockbrader	CHECKOUT	After a professional assassin on the run finds himself trapped in a rural MegaMart on Christmas Eve, he must join forces with the quirky big box store employees to fight an elite force of mercenaries in a deadly after hours battle for their lives. JOHN WICK meets SUPERSTORE
	Iain Anderson	CASPAIN GULL	Nature’s tranquility in the Pacific Northwest is challenged by a war-torn vet’s attempt to resurrect his murdered daughter, as a rookie park ranger sets out to keep her community safe.
	Ilaria Remotti	NIGHT CALLS	A prison officer begins an involvement with a prisoner in his care after he develops an obsession with the relationship between the prisoner and his mother
	Isabella Garcia	UGLY OLGA	After the suicide of their cryptozoologist son, an older couple embarks on a trip to an island off the coast of Washington in search of a cryptid he had been looking for.
	Izzy Mant	A PLACE FOR US	Londoner Will is unable to express his feelings to his girlfriend, Charlotte. After her unexpected death, he finds her again, in a mysterious otherworld that’s a 1950’s Broadway musical. This is Will’s second chance to tell Charlotte how he felt. Trouble is, here she’s a musical theater star with no idea who he is. And he hates musicals.
	Jacqueline Cordova	A DANCE IN THE DEVIL’S BOOTS	When the brother of a small-town New Mexico Sheriff is beheaded by a couple of hardened psychopathic killers, the Sheriff abandons his morals and family and descends into the killers’ dark world where survival is a game and death a wager.
	Kylie Eaton	HUNTRESS	The pastoral town of Glenside is turned upside down when the appearance of a lost new mother and her baby coincides with a string of mysterious, brutal deaths.
	Laura Waters Hinson	DOWNLINE	When a former homecoming queen hits midlife, she joins a cult-like beauty company that miraculously reverses her age. Everything seems perfect until her daughter develops disturbing bodily afflictions that make her doubt her path to quick wealth and immortality.
	Lori Webster Fore	THE PRICE OF FREEDOM	A black woman revolutionary turned enemy of the state, races against time for political asylum but finds herself torn by another timely calling — motherhood.
	Mary Ann Rotondi	RUN RENEGADE	Forced to deliver a load of pharmaceutical oxycodone as ransom for his baby grandson, a lonely long-haul trucker inadvertently picks up a young stowaway hiding from a dirty cop, and together the unlikely pair must survive the authorities, a Mexican drug cartel, and each other.
	Max Rissman	LORD SAID SO	A disgraced cop races to save her nephew from his schizophrenic, drug addicted, religious fundamentalist father, only to discover her nephew doesn’t want to be rescued.
	Jack Hamer	SIDE STEP	A young Syrian refugee lands in an eccentric Welsh village and falls in love with the strange sport of rugby, but is soon targeted by a criminal gang.
	Puja Maewal	THE DIPLOMAT	When the hard-partying son of an American ambassador is framed for an assassination in India, he becomes the target of an international manhunt and is ensnared in a web of espionage that demands a courage and cunning he never knew he possessed.
	R. W. Smith	IN-DEPTH	Inspired by true events: A scientist researching coral damage done by deep-sea mining 50 years earlier, stumbles upon buried military secrets and its a explosive race between corporate greed and a government cover-up to stop him from exposing the truth.
	Tanya Klein, Jim Cirile	MY SCARE LADY	An aspiring female serial killer meets her idol – a sour, retired, and now-disabled mass murderer who mentors her in the art of the kill. Along the way, their relationship becomes complicated. A dark take on “My Fair Lady” – with serial murder.
	Will Bermender	HEARTRACE	A father will stop at nothing to save his dying daughter after a drug cartel hijacks her transplant heart.

OUR 2024 FEATURE SCRIPT SEMI-FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name)

OUR 2024 FEATURE SCRIPT QUARTER-FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name)