New York Screenplay Contest

Dan's feature-length script "Hellbender" was chosen as one of 13 finalists in the 2013 New York Screenplay Contest. 

The Sports Rookie, a reality television program received the Empire Award at the 2012 New York Screenplay Contest and is now ready for consideration.

Grand Prize Winner - 2012 Hollywood Screenplay Contest for Best Treatment - Street Club Kids, Go Hong Kong.  The story has also received the Park Avenue Award at the 2012 New York Screenplay Contest.  The screenplay, written by Greg Hill...

Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova's multi-award-winning drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), is a finalist in the 2014 New York Screenplay Contest. Patricia Chica (CERAMIC TANGO, SERPENT'S LULLABY) is attached to...

4 Corners written by David Morring was selected as a Top Ten Finalist in the Thriller category at the 2014 New York Screenplay Contest, and recently named the Grand Prize Winner at the 2014 Hollywood Screenplay Contest in the...

Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova's multi-award-winning drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), is an Official Selection of the Glendale International Film Festival. Patricia Chica (CERAMIC TANGO, SERPENT'S LULLABY) is...

Winner, Park Ave. Award, Comedy: The Secret of SleepThis dark comedy came about from real-life days as a US Navy veteran turned repo man. The script is laden with a dark sense of humor. *A seperate original screenplay: The Ivory Coast, was...

The Ivory Coast wins on both Coasts, East and West, in the same week!Within the same week, the original feature length screenplay placed as an official finalist in two separate screenplay competitions: The New York Screenplay Contest, Official...

Feature film script "Out of Brooklyn" is currently in development with Director, Gil Cates Jr. and Producer, Howard Rosenman.  Recently actors Melanie Griffith and Mimi Rogers expressed interest playing lead roles. This same...

WriteMovies has named Jonathan LaPoma's feature-length screenplays, SOFI'S JOURNEY, and, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE)--co-written by Natalia Porras Sivolobova - quarterfinalists in its WriteMovies 37 competition. Semifinalists...

Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova's multi-award-winning feature-length screenplay, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), has advanced to the semifinals in the 2015 WriteMovies 37 competition. LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO can be described...

 GRACE GETS A "RECOMMEND" BY THE AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL. "Grace is an iconic, Oscar-worthy heroine who deserves to have the movie named for her." --Austin Film Festival reader, 2014 And from New York Screenplay...

4 CORNERS, a feature-length crime thriller narratively in the vein of Crash and stylistically in the vein of Fargo, has been selected in the Top Ten Percent of the 2015 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. David Morring's script is also a Grand Prize...

 Since retiring early from AT&T Robert wrote 2 novels, 11 screenplays, 2 stage plays and 2 non-fiction books. As a body of work he has finished finalist or better in over 126 writing competitions, and placed quarterinalist or better in over...

The Canada International Film Festival has awarded Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova's feature-length drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), honorable mention in their 2015 Write Brothers Screenplay Competition. This is the...

Brett Riley's feature-length horror screenplay, CANDY'S FIRST KISS, has placed in multiple contests. It won the Grand Prize in Horror at the New York Screenplay Contest, Third Place overall at the London Film Awards' Screenwriting...

John Waring's script for the short-film, "The Opposed", earned him an Honorable Mention in the NYC MIDNIGHT Screenplay Competition, 2014.  It is a sci-fi thriller, where aboard an alien warship, a race of creatures hold their...

More contest finals or wins.

I was a Drama Finalist in the 2014 New York Screenplay Contest for "Torn".

FROSTED GLASS - Winner of Grand Prize in the Drama Category - New York Screenplay Contest 2014

Jonathan LaPoma's coming-of-age drama THE WAY BACK HOME is a finalist in the 2015 New York Screenplay Contest. This is the script's 11th award/honor. 

I loved the first two seasons of "The Mindy Project," so when it came time to write my first spec, my head flashed with an idea for an episode of the show. Comedy is in my bones, and I found writing "The Mindy Project" to be a...

Ann Simon's BLACK FUNERAL places as a 2015 Official Finalist for Stage Play Script in New York Screenplay Contest. This is the Second Finalist Award for BLACK FUNERAL.

Travis Opgenorth's, Iscariot, showed its chops in the competition circut in 2013. In the vein of Davinci's Demons, or The Borges, the TV pilot is a biographical drama centered around Judas Iscariot prior to his meeting Jesus Christ. The...

Empire Award Winner - “The Reincarnation Cop” written by Steven Serban 

In 2013, Serban was named the finalist at the New York Screenplay Contest with PROTECTORS OF THE SPECIES, and 2014 is the Park Avenue Award Winner at the same contest with his script, THE PIZZA MAFIOSO, 2015 won Empire Award...

Historical Epic screenplay "Precious Warrior" Finalist in the 2015 New York Screenplay Contest

Family animation screenplay "Gargoyles on eh Case!" recognised as an official finalist of teh New York Screenplay Contest.

Historical Epic "Precious Warrior" Finalist 2015 New York Screnplay Contest

John Heavey's Historical Epic "Precious Warrior" has enjoyed Multiple Contest Finalist placings in the following competitions, New York Screenplay Contest, Hollywood Screenplay Contest, Courier Awards and an official selection of the...

"Circled In Red", my feature length drama, placed as a finalist (top 20) in 2013 London Film Awards and the 2013 New York Screenplay Contest. 

The World Series of Screenwriting is dedicated to recognizing and advancing the work of the world's most talented and compelling storytellers in film and television screenwriting. The Bronze Prize Winner for TV Drama Pilot is BorderState from...

Author/Screenwriter Tom Rico is killing it in the Festival circuit with his Screenplay for Northern Lights!  After shooting a low budget trailer for Northern Lights produced by Black Rock Entertainment, headed up by Chuck Powers, Tom Rico...

NYU Alumni Bernard Zeiger's television pilot, Hellbound, has won best in its category at the New York Screenplay Contest. Many thanks!

Damon Ragsdale's short script 'Fishin' With Pops' was a finalist (top 10) in the New York Screenplay Contest in both the Short Screenplay and Stage Play categories. The New York Screenplay Contest is a global screenwriting...

Michael Curtis named Official Finalist in 2016 New York Screenplay Contest for his drama feature, 'Inheritance'.

Michael Curtis named Official Finalist in 2015 New York Screenplay Contest for his drama short, "Gravel Heart."

Dianna Zimmerman's Screenplay 'Radical' is a top ten finalist in the New York Screenplay contest in the biography/historical category.

John Arvai has adapted one of his animated family screenplays into a fully illustrated Children's picture book, titled 'Off the Hook: A Christmas Ornament Adventure'.Set in a world where a Christmas tree's star is actually a secret...

Postnuptials (play) - Nominated Best Play at the 2015 New York Screenplay Contest.

Glitches made top ten

Dene Stark's short script 'The Mortician' was a FINALIST in the New York International Screenplay Awards 2017.

Afonso Henrique has been selected for a Screenwriting Fellowship with Time Warner via the Bourough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC).

Medea, South Carolina was among the Official Finalists in the New York Screenplay Contest, 2017. The competition had over 1000+ submissions.

Fishin' With Pops by Damon Ragsdale, has won the Grand Prize of the New York Screenplay Contest in the Stageplay category.

LEGACY continues to impress at film festivals, and screenwriting competitions. It won 1st place in the Fan Fiction Screenplay Contest, 1st Place in the fantasy genre in The Las Vegas International Film Festival and Screenplay Competition, 2nd place...

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.