Feature Screenplay Competition Finalists (alphabetical order)

ADONIX by Daniel Boddicker
A timid, over-weight gay man gets the body of his dreams thanks to a powerful weight-loss supplement, but it comes with ravenous side effects.

CHARLIE HOROWITZ by Dillon Fuhrman
With help from the devil, a nerdy high school student returns from beyond the grave to exact revenge on those who wronged him. As the body count rises, his humanity begins to diminish.

DEAD BELOW ZERO by Edward Case
Stranded in the mountains of Vermont, eight snowboarders find themselves under siege by murderous, shape-shifting ice creatures.

DESTINATION by Alexis P Johnson
In the wild Sonoran Desert, a woman on the run takes shelter in a cursed castle where the master rides nightly as a servant of Death, and the castle itself has a life of its own.

HIGH STAKES by Stuart Creque
In 1992, two perpetual students discover that a nest of vampires has taken over the local marijuana trade and realize it's up to them to save the weed - and the world.

JATUM by John F. Saunders
Stranded in a remote train switching yard, a pair of millennial film makers must battle a trio of brutal railroad thugs and a Jatum, a savage primordial beast that has escaped its cage if they hope to survive the night

KATIE KILLED BRIAN by Andrew Miller and Zack R. Smith
Still reeling from the death of his wife, Zack arrives for a guys’ weekend to find that one of his friends, Brian, is suspiciously absent.
Now, with a host of theories swirling about Brian’s fate, and trusted companion Andy by his side, the duo embarks on a madcap adventure of crime solving, big-game hunting, mortal combat, and surreal dark comedy.

MATHIAS by Ian Davies
A mysterious father and son are sent by King Louis to battle a secretive tribe in war-torn Colonial America.

POD by David Christopher Bell and Patrick McGrath
After a disastrous attempt to retrieve his runaway nephew from the deepest reaches of space, Ed Blackman and his next of kin Trevor find themselves locked inside a badly damaged escape pod with a mysterious stranger, a misplaced cockatoo, and a bagful of the universe’s most exotic drugs. On an 18 month course back to Earth, the three men tuck into their chryo-chambers to engage in stasis. But when one of the chambers malfunctions, Trevor is left awake in solitude with no way to wake the others without scrambling their brains. Armed with a lifetime supply of uppers, downers, and widow-makers, he has little else to do but question what it was he was running away from, what he’d be returning to, and what the fuck happened back on the mothership — all of these questions further complicated when the pod’s surreally busted A.I. System alerts him to the fact that there isn’t enough oxygen for all three men to reach Earth alive. Moments before Trevor is to take the ultimate big one for the team, the others awake and shit gets weird. Weirder even than when he was alone, high out of his gourd, fucking a hole in the wall.

SHUNNED by Donnalyn Vojta
A teenager's bullies recklessly summon a mystical hell-monster that puts him into a coma, but his then-disembodied spirit allows him to take matters into his own hands as he doles out revenge while also struggling to save his family.

Feature Screenplay Competition Winners

Winner: KATIE KILLED BRIAN by Andrew Miller and Zack R. Smith
1st Runner-up: JATUM by John F. Saunders
2nd Runner-up: ADONIX by Daniel Boddicker

Short Screenplay Competition Finalists (alphabetical order)

THE CLOSET DOOR by Scott Nelson
A young couple moves into a new home, only to find a strange closet door that should terrify them, but doesn't until it's too late.

DAWN by Alexandra Ruggieri
When an infertile woman finds a crash-landed alien ship in the woods, she discovers she may be able to fulfil her dreams of motherhood after all.

HELPING YOU TO FORGET by Scott Nelson
A man goes to a clinic that promises to help him forget a traumatic memory, but doing so causes unintended negative consequences.

JED STEELE EP 01: “WASH, DRY, FOLD, AND DIE!” by Sean Whitley
Man of action Jed Steele will fight the good fight against any foe, whether they’re Vampire Cub Scouts, the Giraffoids from Planet Junglor, bionic baboons, or even obnoxious kids who kick the backs of airplane seats. When a robot attendant at a laundromat goes nuts, will Jed save the day, or will he lose his head to the metallic robo-hands of death?!

LAST WOMB ON EARTH by Nancy Safavi
It's the end of the world, and one woman's womb remains the only way for the human race to survive.

MARY, DISPOSSESSED by Kristy Walsh
After his daughter is possessed by a supernatural being, Frank must lure the spirit out of her body by any means necessary.

RAYMOND CARVER AND DERRIDA'S ZOMBIE ARMY by James Fitzmaurice
It's the 1960s and a blizzard is raging in Iowa City, a place where Kurt Vonnegut, Jr teaches in the Writers' Workshop and Gayatri Spivak holds classes in literary theory. This evening Raymond Carver is worried about his wife's possible infidelity. As Carver is stewing over Maryann's lateness, Lois, a pretty undergraduate, pops out of the bathroom, regales him with theory, and seduces him. Phoebe Dronfield, a fake fictional character from Vonnegut's "Slaughter House Five," rides to the rescue, revealing Lois as a theory-monster, brain-eating zombie. With red-rimmed eyes and a greenish tinge to her face, Lois emerges from the bedroom to explain about Jacques Derrida's idea of endless layers of meaning, deconstruction, and mise en abyme. Dronfield puts paid to the "missing I beam" idea and helps to peel back the layers of Lois's identity to reveal the undergraduate's harmlessness. All ends happily with wife Maryann's actual demobilization from the Zombie Army. But why has Maryann chosen to buy cauliflower at the grocery store?

SUPER NANCY by Valerie Schwartfigure
A 68-year-old widow with special needs cats receives a curious letter in the mail inviting her to a top-secret superhero training academy. Because her late husband was obsessed with superheroes, she decides to give it a shot. But the academy isn't quite what she had in mind, and she may not be able to get out.

THE THREE LITTLE BREAKUPS by Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid
When the hard-core girlfriend of the three little pigs attempts to break up with each of them in a romantic restaurant, the wolfish waiter goes out of his way to make the tale unfold the way it was meant to.

WET ROT by Stuart Creque
Kit wonders why Dad is spending so much time in the basement, cleaning up the mildew growing there....

THE WOODS ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP by Lindsay Jaeger
A woman's deteriorating mental state is mirrored in the encroaching forest around her.

YOU CAN'T ESCAPE YOUR PAST by Scott Nelson
A man finds himself traveling back in time ten years every time he falls asleep. He reaches out to a psychologist to help make it end.
Short Screenplay Competition Winners

Short Screenplay Competition Winners

Winner: WET ROT by Stuart Creque
1st Runner-up: THE WOODS ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP by Lindsay Jaeger
2nd Runner-up: SUPER NANCY by Valerie Schwartfigure