Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards

Boyd's Western Adventure MESCALERO awaits further consideration as a Top 50 selection with the Cinequest Screenplay Competition and Finalist within the ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Contest. MESCALERO also finished as a Top 20 Finalist within...

Boyd's crime saga THE LEASE OF NATURE won Grand Jury Prizes at Richmond International Film Festival and River Bend Film Festival, and won 2nd Place at the Byron Bay International Film Festival. The script placed as a Finalist with Flickers Rhode...

April 2020. AWAY WITH MY HEART, co-written by Lawrence Nelson and Hoyt Richards, was awarded the quarterfinalist status by Stage 32 Feature screenwriting contest and by the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards.

FLAT-RATE FRANK, Jeffrey Howe's historical coming of age drama, advanced to the quarterfinals of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. It also entered the semifinal round at the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices competition.

REVOLUTION celebrated a successful festival run with an online table read featuring professional actors from the New York and Boston areas. Recently nominated for Best Short Screenplay at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, REVOLUTION...

Boyd's feature Western screenplay Mescalero finishes as a Top 14 Finalist with Humanitas New Voices, takes 2nd place at Byron Bay International Film Festival, and remains a current Top 50 screenplay with Roadmap's 2020 JumpStart Competition.

The award winning Adventure/Drama Screenplay THE ALOHA WAR was chosen as an Official Selection for the 2020 Marina del Rey Film Festival.

Warren Clarke's FAMILY SPIES has advanced to the semifinalist round of the 2020 Shore Scripts Feature Contest. The family-friendly action comedy tells of retired husband-and-wife spies who go to extraordinary lengths to keep tabs on their rebellious...

Warren Clarke's CITY SPIRIT has been named a semifinalist in the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Spring 2021 Screenwriting Lab. The action comedy tells the story of a loner cop and a disgraced ghost hunter who must work together to solve a series of...

Warren Clarke's HE'S A WINNER has made it to the semifinalist round of the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Spring 2021 Screenwriting Lab. The satirical comedy looks at what happens when a status-obsessed office supplies analyst gets sucked into a dark,...

Warren Clarke's THEY'RE OUT OF THIS WORLD has been named Category Winner at the 2020 Script Summit. The family feature tells the story of a newlywed who realizes his wife and stepchildren aren't who he thought they were after his bride is targeted...

The sci-fi dystopian short script, EBO, makes the semifinals in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards. The placements moves EBO back into the Coverfly Red List for sci-fi shorts for the month of February 2021.

Gary Bikal's screenplay BETTER ANGELS appears among the "Top 20" in the "Other" Feature Category for January and February, 2021. The screenplay was also recently named a Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Semifinalist and an A.M.P.A.S....

Gary Bickal's screenplay LOOSE ENDS reaches the "Top 20" in the Action Feature category during February 2020.

Big Thanks to the International Screenwriters Association for featuring ANTILLIA: CONQUEST GOLD in the ISA Spotlight. An Industry Pro took notice and requested a read! After some recent contest placements, ANTILLIA is now in the Top 3% of scripts on...

ANTILLIA: CONQUEST GOLD has advanced to the semifinal round for the Screenwriters Network (SWN) Screenplay Competition. This follows a semifinalist placement in the 2020 Filmmatic Pitch Now (season 3) competition earlier this year. ANTILLIA:...

ANTILLIA: CONQUEST GOLD has advanced to the semifinal round of the 2021 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition. This is the third accolade for Antillia in 2021, including Top 100 for Table Read My Screenplay - Genre Competition and...

Frank Hays is a screenwriter/director/actor from Washington state. His passions in life are his family and writing screenplays with diverse characters. His genres include drama, horror, and animation. His screenplay LA FAMIGLIA (THE FAMILY) was...

A LABOUR OF LOVE, a historical feature by Olga Holtz, made The Red List after several recent contest placements, becoming Olga's fifth script on The Red List.

Gary Bickal's sci fi adventure screenplay WISHING WELL has been named one of the Top 10 screenplays in the Action/Adventure genre for the 2021 Table read My Screenplay Austin competition. Genre category winners to be named in mid-September, 2021. In...

Western feature WILD DATURA has placed as a quarter finalist in The Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards 2021 summer competition. Both writer and script will be publicized on the website, announcing their top 20% placement.

Writing in several genres, I consider myself a multi-talented artist. Earlier in the year I met with a potential mentor who suggested that I give up screenwriting and concentrate on writing more plays since they were the only written projects that...