2025 FEATURE CONTEST WINNERS

WE ARE HONORED TO ANNOUNCE THE FINALISTS AND WINNERS OF OUR 2025 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 – 2025 FEATURE

TOP 10 FINALISTS – 2025 FEATURE

SEMI-FINALISTS – 2025 FEATURE

QUARTER-FINALISTS – 2025 FEATURE

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GOD MAKERS

In this true story of the battle over ChatGPT, academic researcher Helen Toner takes on tech-industrialist Sam Altman in an attempt to control the future of AI.

LIFE AS A MESOPLANKTON

After her father’s death, Mab (13) returns to the hospital where he died and, by helping terminally ill George (10) chase his dream of becoming a marine biologist, learns to live with loss.

DO NOT RESUSCITATE

After reviving a psychotic killer, a workaholic paramedic must reverse her mistake and protect her close-knit community by making sure he doesn’t escape a rural hospital.

5 GENRE WINNERS

(Each writer wins a guaranteed meeting with companies like FilmNation, Miramax, etc)

COMEDY		Molly Bandt and Celia Ramsey	Sturgeon General	When an infamous sturgeon fisherman dies in a mysterious hunting accident, his outcast daughter returns to Wisconsin to protect her family from a caviar crime ring and repair the relationships she left behind.
DRAMA		Teddy Cecil	Sandy Gray	In the remote Scottish Highlands, a young teen sets out to prove the existence of a mysterious creature, hoping to preserve the magic of his community and protect it from industrial ruin. This is the unknown, true story of how the Loch Ness Monster became a legend.
HORROR		Joel Michalak	Calm	A health and wellness social media influencer with high blood pressure has to keep herself calm to stay alive after being abducted by a jaded fan with a nefarious plan.
SCI-FI		Max Rissman	TIME FLIES	When a science obsessed teenager is visited by a future version of himself, he sets off a time-travel love triangle that threatens to destroy his closest friendships.
THRILLER		Louisa Connolly-Burnham	SISTER WIVES	Two sister wives married to the same man start to develop feelings for each other.

FEATURE FINALISTS

(10 Finalists – in alphabetical order by writer name)

	Daniel Ezra	Locusts	An emotionally unavailable escort’s carefully curated lifestyle is disrupted by the arrival of her first love, an ambitious club promoter with criminal ties.
	David Milwee	The Fabled Five	When the Dark Queen steals the infant heir to the Kingdom of Ancora, five unstable fairy tale characters are released from prison to join the wizard Merlin on a quest through the Black Forest to save the prince.
	Emma He & Maddie McCann	Superbloom	A valley girl goes on the hunt for a nose job in the not-so-wild West.
	June Escalante	An Unremarkable Family	Two sisters work through their grief after the murder of their sister by her husband to find themselves suspected by a young detective of committing crimes themselves.
	Kat Magrowitz	Once Upon A Time In East Germany	In 1986 East Berlin, a young woman betrays her revolutionary boyfriend and teenage brother to save their lives from a deadly May Day bombing plot, only to learn twenty years later that her boyfriend was actually working as a Stasi informant who manipulated her into fleeing to West Germany while he rose to power through East Germany’s fall..
	Louisa Connolly-Burnham	Sister Wives	Two sister wives married to the same man start to develop feelings for each other.
	Max Rissman	TIME FLIES	When a science obsessed teenager is visited by a future version of himself, he sets off a time-travel love triangle that threatens to destroy his closest friendships.
	Nepa Khatun	The Body Snatchers	In this survival drama set in 1912 Alabama, a teenager is plunged into destitution after her father’s tragic suicide and her mother’s abandonment, leaving her to care for her younger siblings. Desperation drives Odessa to the door of a malevolent anatomist who offers her a job as a body snatcher.
	Teddy Cecil	Sandy Gray	In the remote Scottish Highlands, a young teen sets out to prove the existence of a mysterious creature, hoping to preserve the magic of his community and protect it from industrial ruin. This is the unknown, true story of how the Loch Ness Monster became a legend.
	Weiyang Liu	WELCOME TO AMERICA	After losing her passport, spoiled Chinese teen Yan finds herself in a US children’s immigration center, where she encounters a circumcised Nigerian girl who escaped a Mexican cartel, an Eastern European boy who chased dud missiles for a living, and a Chinese boy who discovered love on his smuggling journey to the US. A revolutionary cross-cultural odyssey, based on my true story.

OUR 2025 FEATURE SCRIPT SEMI-FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name)

OUR 2025 FEATURE SCRIPT QUARTER-FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name)