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Exciting ISAConnect Member Success Stories

These are the top success stories listed by ISAConnect Members. If you're an Industry Pro and interested in viewing the work of these emerging writers, please request Industry Pro status. 50 Success Stories Listed.

ISA Development Slate 2021

By: Nicholas Horwood
Nicholas' script SPRING-HEELED JACK won the Action-adventure category in Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition. This accolade meant that he has now been selected for the ISA's Development Slate.
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SPRING-HEELED JACK comes 2nd in WriteMovies' Summer Screenwriting Contest
By: Nicholas Horwood
Nicholas Horwood's TV pilot SPRING-HEELED JACK has come second out of 1000 entries in the WriteMovies Summer 2020 Screenwriting Contest. The script is a Victorian action-adventure based on a 1904 Penny Dreadful.
Tags: SPRING-HEELED JACK (FEATURE), WriteMovies Seasonal Screenwriting Contest(2nd Place)

Nicholas Horwood makes the 2015 Emerging Screenwriters Top 100
By: Nicholas Horwood

Nicholas Horwood's "Journey To The Lost Island Of Killer Dinosaurs!", a period comedy about a group of eccentric Victorian explorers, has made the 2015 Emerging Screenwriter's Top 100.

 

LOGLINE: A group of eccentric Victorian explorers go on a quest to find a mysterious island full of mutant ducks, sabre-toothed squirrels, feminist cavewomen and ferocious man eating dinosaurs.

Tags: Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition

Nicholas Horwood's LANCELOT makes Cinestory Semifinals
By: Nicholas Horwood

Nicholas Horwood's LANCELOT has reached the semifinals of the prestigeous Cinestory Screenwriting Awards.

Finalists are announced in late June. Winners are announced in early July.

Tags: CineStory Screenwriting Awards

Nicholas Horwood's LANCELOT makes Cinestory Quarterfinals
By: Nicholas Horwood

Nicholas Horwood's LANCELOT has reached the quarterfinals of the prestigeous Cinestory Screenwriting Awards quarterfinals out of over 500 enties.

LANCELOT recently won the Grand Prize in Final Draft's Big Break Contest and the Gold Prize in PAGE International Awards. It also came first in the 100 Screenplays Contest.

Tags: CineStory Screenwriting Awards, Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards

ISA Fast Track Fellowship Effect

By: Robert Ripley
Testimonial: ISA's Fast Track fellowship was a fantastic experience. During the fellowship week of meeting, I met some fantastic people who had read my pilot, were so welcoming and curious - just the kind of people I hope and love to meet in our industry. But the meetings were more than just good discussion, they were productive - I had three executives ask to send along additional scripts. Those meetings, along with a year of support that comes with the fellowship, entering ISA's Fast Track was a smart investment, and one that has me setup for a productive, career-changing 2021.

SUGAR LAND for Top 25 writer
By: Robert Ripley
Since becoming an ISA Top 25 Writer, Rob Ripley has optioned his one-hour pilot, SUGAR LAND and he is about to go out with two new pilots in early 2020. He has also been hired for three feature writing assignments - two rewrites and one adapting a short film script into a feature. ------ "If you're looking for an organization that provides you with candid, helpful feedback on projects, amazing networking opportunities, and a supportive circle of professionals. then I can't recommend ISA enough." - R.B Ripley
Tags: Sugar Land,

ISA Development Slate 2021

By: Rae Jones
As a part of the Grand Prize for her screenplay, WHAT'S LEFT OF US Rae Jones was invited to join ISA's Development Slate in 2021. She has already had a meeting with the Development Team, and is looking forward to an exciting year ahead.

ISA Fast Track Fellowship Effect

By: T. Siena
Testimonial: As a novelist, I came late to the screenwriting industry and had no idea how to get my work into the tight network of agents, managers and producers. Then I entered and won the 2019 ISA Fast Track award and everything changed! I now have industry pros requesting my work. My most recent TV Pilot, HIGHER PRIMATES is represented by 5X5 productions and being read by executives at Amazon, CBS, MSM Tollin and Indy Entertainment. Thank you ISA!

ISA Fast Track Fellowship Effect

By: Danielle Nicki
Testimonial: Entering the Fast Track competition was a great investment in my career. The connections I was able to make during the week of general meetings have proven invaluable. In addition to the pilot that ISA sent them before we met, three executives asked to read additional scripts during our call! There are lots of screenwriting competitions out there, but Fast Track provides a year of support and can get you in front of people who can help change your career.

ISA Fast Track Fellowship Effect

By: Christopher DeWan
Testimonial: During my ISA Fast Track Fellowship, I spent one glorious whirlwind week meeting industry insiders—and the relationships that began that week are still an important part of my professional life all these years later. The people I met that week continue to champion my work, and I now have friends and advocates at some of the best production companies and studios in Hollywood.
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WUNDERLAND optioned by Omnifilm Entertainment
By: Christopher DeWan
WUNDERLAND, Chris DeWan's TV series set inside a VR world, has been optioned by Vancouver-based Omnifilm Entertainment
Tags: Wunderland,

AVALON optioned by Awesomeness TV
By: Christopher DeWan
Chris DeWan's screenplay AVALON, a "gay, teen Shape of Water," has been optioned by Awesomeness/Viacom
Tags: Avalon,

Christopher DeWan - Shows in Production + Writing Residencies
By: Christopher DeWan
Since being selected as one of ISA's Top 25, Chris has developed a TV show with Electric Entertainment, partnered with a showrunner, and now has two new shows in development with two other studios. He's been awarded a pair of writing residencies, guest-lectured a few workshops on screenwriting, and, on the side, wound up writing a book of nonfiction journalism for Harper-Collins to be released in spring of 2020. ----- "In an industry where we often feel alone, the ISA gives us a team of steadfast allies who not only know the industry, but who also understand writers." - Christopher DeWan

Christopher DeWan - Finalist Cinestory Fellowship
By: Christopher DeWan
Christopher DeWan places as a finalist in Cinestory's TV/Digital Fellowship for the script Live From Mars.
Tags: CineStory T V / Digital Retreat & Fellowship

ISA DEVELOPMENT SLATE LEADS TO MANAGER

By: Denise Meyers
A new management company recently found LUCKY 13, FREEFALL, POWDERKEG and the TV pilot for THE DARK OF NIGHT on the International Screenwriters Association website and is now in negotiations with writer Denise Meyers to represent her material. Meyers is the 2019 inaugural recipient of a Sloan Foundation Development Grant in partnership with the Athena Film Festival and Barnard College, a development grant winner through the Stowe Story Labs and winner of the Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.
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EVERYTHING AND NOTHING Genre Winner (Drama) 2020 Fast Track Fellowship
By: Denise Meyers
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING, based on the true story about a female jockey who agrees to train a mounted anti-poaching unit in the Eastern Cape, was selected by the ISA Fast Track Fellowship as a Genre Winner (Drama).
Tags: Everything and Nothing, ISA Fast Track Fellowship(Category Winner)

LUCKY 13 Is a Finalist for the 2020 Screencraft Fellowship
By: Denise Meyers
LUCKY 13 has been selected from out of nearly 3000 submissions as a Finalist for the 2020 Screencraft Fellowship. The selection represents 1.5 percent of submissions, and adds to the growing list of accolades for this powerfully written screenplay about female pilots in World War Two. LUCKY 13 is the inaugural recipient of a Sloan Foundation Development Grant, awarded a development grant by the Stowe Story Labs for their 2020 fall season, won the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition and was a Finalist for The Writers Lab and the Nashville Film Festival.
Tags: LUCKY 13, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship(Finalist)

LUCKY 13 Selected by Stowe Story Labs for a Fall Development Grant
By: Denise Meyers
The Stowe Story Lab has selected LUCKY 13 for a $1000 development grant for the 2020 Fall Lab in Stowe, VT. LUCKY 13 is the inaugural recipient of a Sloan Foundation development grant. The script won the Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition in 2017 and has also been a finalist for The Writers Lab, the Nashville Film Festival and placed in the Next 100 for the Nicholl Fellowship in 2019.
Tags: LUCKY 13, Stowe Story Labs(Finalist)

EVERYTHING AND NOTHING advances to Finalist
By: Denise Meyers
The Stowe Story Labs, in partnership with Final Draft, have advanced EVERYTHING AND NOTHING, based on a true story about rhino poaching in the Eastern Cape, to finalist for a fellowship grant. Everything and Nothing was a second place selection for Table Read My Screenplay Park City in 2020.
Tags: Everything and Nothing, Stowe Story Labs(Finalist), Stowe Story Labs

Ted Campbell Wraps A DANGEROUS DEFENSE for MarVista Entertainment

By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell's feature writing and directing debut A DANGEROUS DEFENSE wrapped principle photography in Los Angeles this week. The indie thriller is produced by MarVista Entertainment and Shadowboxer Films. Next up, Ted is writing and directing another thriller for MVE. As well as directing his award winning heist thriller UNDERGROUND for Film Bridge International and New York based Choice Films. Ted was named a Top Screenwriter to Watch in 2018 and is a member of ISA's Development Slate.
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Ted Campbell's A DANGEROUS DEFENSE produced by MarVista Entertainment
By: Ted Campbell
Development Slate and Top 25 Screenwriter to Watch Ted Campbell, will write and direct the dramatic thriller A DANGEROUS DEFENSE for MarVista Entertainment. The film will be produced by Robert Ballo and his Shadowboxer Films. VP of Development & Production at MarVista Entertainment Marianne Wunch will Executive Produce.

Ted Campbell's DEVIL WINDS Semi-Finalist Microbudget Horror Competition
By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell's contained supernatural triller DEVIL WINDS was named as a Semi-Finalist in Stage32's Microbudget Horror Competition.
Tags: Devil Winds, Stage 32

Ted Campbell's HARM'S WAY Second Rounder Launch Pad Feature Competition
By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell's thriller HARM'S WAY has placed as a Second Rounder in the Launch Pad Feature Competition 2020-2021.
Tags: Harm's Way, Launch Pad Feature Competition(Second Round)

Ted Campbell repped at Zero Gravity
By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell has secured representation with Cameron Cubbison at Zero Gravity Management. Prior to becoming a literary manager, Cubbison worked as a freelance reader and story analyst for ten years, writing agency and production company coverage, and is the co-founder of ScreenCraft. Ted Campbell recently won the Grand Prize in Your Script Produced's screenplay contest. And is slated to direct the heist thriller UNDERGROUND (co-written with legendary filmmaker John Boorman) later this year.
Tags: Zero Gravity Management

MAMADUKES named a Top 10 Comedy Script

By: Oliver Warren
Oliver Warren's pilot script MAMADUKES was selected as one of the TOP 10 COMEDY SCRIPTS in the Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition. MAMADUKES has already caught the eye of incredible Exec Producer John Melfi (Sex & The City, House of Cards, The Morning Show). MAMADUKES is a 10 x 60min Comedy Drama Series about a heavily-pregnant freelance fashion designer, with a Peter Pan complex and combusting birth-plan, who opens her home to four other desperate soon-to-be single moms, and finds herself in a constant battle for the role of matriarch as they raise their newborns in a five-woman, five-baby, no men, East Village commune. Written and Created by Oliver Warren - One of the ISA’s Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2021.
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YA-thriller Pilot Script Commission for Oliver Warren
By: Oliver Warren
One of the ISA's 'Top 25 Screenwriters in 2021', Oliver Warren, was recently commissioned to write an original pilot script for LA-based Euramco Pictures, a YA-thriller series called ICARUS SQUAD. Producer Renato Romano is keen for the series to enter production in 2021, and Oliver can't wait to see it brought to life.

Oliver Warren commissioned to rewrite romance feature LOVE IS ALWAYS YOUNG
By: Oliver Warren
LA-based production company EURAMCO PICTURES has commissioned Oliver Warren to rewrite the romance drama feature script LOVE IS ALWAYS YOUNG, set on the Italian island of Ischia, a story that deals with nostalgia, lost love and the long-lasting damage of a broken heart.

THREE DATES WITH BEN selected to take part in Stowe Story Lab
By: Oliver Warren
Oliver Warren was invited to join the Stowe Story Lab at the Sidewalk Film Festival with his dark gay romance feature script THREE DATES WITH BEN, in Summer 2020.
Tags: Three Dates With Ben, Stowe Story Labs(Official Selection)

Oliver Warren invited on Nostos Screenwriting Retreat with THAT'S ME TRYING
By: Oliver Warren
Oliver has been invited on the three-week intensive screenwriting retreat on Elba Island, in Italy to develop his feature script THAT'S ME TRYING into a limited series pilot script. Oliver joins a hand-selected group of writers this October.
Tags: That's Me Trying,

BREAKWATER CITY wins Genre in Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition

By: Jeremy Dehn
Jeremy Dehn's pilot, BREAKWATER CITY, has won the Mystery/Crime genre in the Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition. This tops off a great year for Breakwater City, as it also was a quarterfinalist in the Final Draft Big Break, became a second rounder at the Austin Film Festival, and got Jeremy invited onto the ISA Development Slate, where he was named one of the Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2021.

Beasts Undiscovered optioned & in development
By: Jeremy Dehn
This film is in development and scheduled to shoot in 2021, with the Jim Henson Creature Shop attached to create creature effects, some of which are already completed. The production has raised a significant amount of initial investment, and partnered with a renowned producer/sales agent currently working on casting, pre-sales, and completion of financing. Co-writer Jeremy Dehn is attached to direct.
Tags: Beasts Undiscovered, Nicholl Fellowship(Quarter Finalist), Stowe Story Labs(Quarter Finalist), Free ISA Virtual Pitch Challenge(Quarter Finalist)

Michael Graf wins Screenwriter's Residency Program in Bahamas

By: Michael Graf
Michael Graf was one of five feature screenwriters to win the Screenwriter's Residency Program at the Bahamas International Film Festival for his inspirational true story, THE LAST INDIAN WAR.
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Graf Selected Second Time For Bahamas Screenwriter Residency Program
By: Michael Graf
Michael Graf's quirky coming of age sports story, THROWING HAMMERS, was one of five screenplays selected as part of the Screenwriting Residency Program at the Bahamas International Film Festival. It's the second script for Graf to receive the honor.
Tags: THROWING HAMMERS, Bahamas International Film Festival(1st Place)

Graf Named First Writer In Residence at the UW Institute For Discovery
By: Michael Graf
Screenwriter and Director Michael Graf was named the very first Writer In Residence at the University of Wisconsin's Institute For Discovery as part of their Science To Script program. The program promotes STEM in the arts to encourage young people to pursue science and math related fields.
Tags: PICKET CHARLIE,

THE LAST INDIAN WAR Optioned to Nonesuch Pictures
By: Michael Graf
"We think the market has caught up to this amazing script," says Producer Darin Dusan when he optioned screenwriter Michael Graf's historical sports drama about a group of Native American children that are kidnapped by the US Army and go on to invent the modern game of football. "This is an amazing story and it needs to be told." The screenplay has been making waves around the world, winning dozens of awards and accolades. It also has been a part of the ISA Development Slate.
Tags: THE LAST INDIAN WAR,

Won Best Screenplay at Paris Arts & Movie Awards
By: Michael Graf
Michael Graf's screenplay based on true events, was the only category that won an unanimous vote by the judges. At the Awards Show, the founder of the Festival said, "THE LAST INDIAN WAR is an important work that needs to be shared with the world."
Tags: THE LAST INDIAN WAR, Paris Arts and Movie Awards(1st Place)

FOLLOW THE BADGE by Jayson Crittenden Scores a Trifecta

By: Jayson Crittenden
The original story FOLLOW THE BADGE was selected as a top 25 Action/Adventure finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices competition. The script was also chosen as a finalist in the Table Read My Screenplay Contest. Most recently, it was featured on Coverfly's The Red List.
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HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS by Jayson Crittenden awarded by Emerging Screenwriters
By: Jayson Crittenden
After a record number of submissions, HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS by Jayson Crittenden was selected as a quarter-finalist in the Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition. Another humbling accomplishment for this remarkable true story.
Tags: Harlem Hell Fighters, Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition(Quarter Finalist)

KILLED TWICE IN TEXAS by Jayson Crittenden Thrives with Five
By: Jayson Crittenden
The Western, KILLED TWICE IN TEXAS, placed as finalist in both Drama and Action/Adventure categories in the Table Read My Screenplay Contest. This unique tale was also selected as a top 25 finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition. Most recently, it was recognized as a top-ten finalist in Breaking Walls: The Ultimate Thriller Contest. In addition, this script was featured on Coverfly's The Red List.
Tags: Killed Twice in Texas, Breaking Walls Thriller Screenplay Contest, Creative Screenwriting, Table Read My Screenplay

HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS by Jayson Crittenden joins TRMS, The Red List & LAISA
By: Jayson Crittenden
After receiving a record number of submissions, Table Read My Screenplay competition selected the true story of the HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS as a finalist. Soon after, Jayson's pilot script was featured on Coverfly's The Red List. Most recently, it was chosen as quarter-finalist in Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Competition.
Tags: Harlem Hell Fighters, Table Read My Screenplay

KILLED TWICE IN TEXAS by Jayson Crittenden Thrives with Five

By: Jayson Crittenden
The Western, KILLED TWICE IN TEXAS, placed as finalist in both Drama and Action/Adventure categories in the Table Read My Screenplay Contest. This unique tale was also selected as a top 25 finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition. Most recently, it was recognized as a top-ten finalist in Breaking Walls: The Ultimate Thriller Contest. In addition, this script was featured on Coverfly's The Red List.
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HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS by Jayson Crittenden awarded by Emerging Screenwriters
By: Jayson Crittenden
After a record number of submissions, HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS by Jayson Crittenden was selected as a quarter-finalist in the Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition. Another humbling accomplishment for this remarkable true story.
Tags: Harlem Hell Fighters, Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition(Quarter Finalist)

FOLLOW THE BADGE by Jayson Crittenden Scores a Trifecta
By: Jayson Crittenden
The original story FOLLOW THE BADGE was selected as a top 25 Action/Adventure finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices competition. The script was also chosen as a finalist in the Table Read My Screenplay Contest. Most recently, it was featured on Coverfly's The Red List.
Tags: Follow the Badge, Creative Screenwriting, Table Read My Screenplay

HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS by Jayson Crittenden joins TRMS, The Red List & LAISA
By: Jayson Crittenden
After receiving a record number of submissions, Table Read My Screenplay competition selected the true story of the HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS as a finalist. Soon after, Jayson's pilot script was featured on Coverfly's The Red List. Most recently, it was chosen as quarter-finalist in Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Competition.
Tags: Harlem Hell Fighters, Table Read My Screenplay

WHERE THE MEN ARE Continues to Place

By: Wendy Wilkins
Road picture comedy feature screenplay -- 'WHERE THE MEN ARE' -- written by Wendy Jean Wilkins, continues to be awarded FINALIST spots for script competitions, the latest being the Sherman Oaks Film Festival and the Mystic Film Festival -- its 25th and 26th placement. 'WHERE THE MEN ARE' has won Best Comedy Script with Creative Screenwriting: Unique Voices, Best Comedy Screenplay with the Creative World Awards, 3rd place in the Comedy Screenplay Competition as well as a Top-10 Runner-Up spot with Scriptapalooza.
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ONE MORE DAY Wins more accolades
By: Wendy Wilkins
Post-apocalyptic hour pilot script, ONE MORE DAY won this year's Space and Time Film Festival for best short screenplay, following up her win for best screenplay at the 2019 Sherman Oaks Film Festival and her Semi-Finalist spot with the 2020 Creative Screenwriting: Unique Voices contest. The radio play version of the script, with over 42,000 listens, can be heard on YouTube.
Tags: One More Day, Creative Screenwriting UNIQUE VOICES Screenplay Competition(Grand Prize), Sherman Oaks Film Festival(Grand Prize), Space and Time Film Festival(Grand Prize)

COOZE Keeps Bringing In Script Comp Awards
By: Wendy Wilkins
'COOZE', a half-hour dramedy original pilot script written by Wendy Jean Wilkins, has its latest script competition placement as a 2nd Rounder for this year's AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL-- its eighth, including Finalist spots with the Creative World Awards, Series Fest and Austin Comedy Film Festival as well as Semi-Finalist spots with the Creative Screenwriting: Unique Voices Awards and the Stage 32 TV Writing Contest.
Tags: Cooze, Austin Film Festival Script Competition(Quarter Finalist), Creative World Awards Screenwriting Contest(Quarter Finalist), Stage 32 TV Writing Contest(Quarter Finalist)

Awarded Best Comedy Script
By: Wendy Wilkins
Since becoming an ISA Top 25 Writer, Wendy has won competitions like the Creative Screening Contest: Best Comedy Script and leveled up to finalist slots in higher profile script competitions like StudioFest Film Fund and Creative World Awards Screenplay Competition. ----- " When people believe in you who believe solely in helping unknown, great writers get the attention they deserve, it makes the long, hard battle to be notice that much more palatable and delicious. The ISA is the squad you've always wanted in your creative corner -- always encouraging, supporting, striving and believing in you and your writing even when you didn't have any gas in your tank to believe in yourself. " - Wendy Wilkins

INSIGNIFICANT Wins Best Dark Comedy Short Script At Houston Comedy FF
By: Wendy Wilkins
This past Saturday, screenwriter Wendy Jean Wilkins took home the Best Dark Comedy award for her short screenplay entitled INSIGNIFICANT at the Houston Comedy Film Festival. Her feature comedy screenplay WHERE THE MEN ARE was also an official selection/semi-finalist for the festival.
Tags: Insignificant,

DEAD MAN'S GULCH is the #1 Western Feature of the Year on The Red List

By: Rob Rex
Stage 32 Feature Competition Finalist DEAD MAN'S GULCH is also the #1 Western Feature of the Year on Coverfly's The Red List. Other recent awards include 1ST PLACE in the Script Pipeline First Look competition, TOP 10 in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices competition, TOP 12 in the NYC International Screenplay Awards, and Nicholl Fellowship Quarter-finalist.

AXIS is the #1 Sci-Fi Feature of the Year on Coverfly's The Red List
By: Rob Rex
AXIS continues its streak as the #1 Sci-Fi Feature of the Year on Coverfly's The Red List and continues to garner merits and awards from the industry's top competitions and festivals.
Tags: AXIS, Nicholl Fellowship(1st Place), PAGE International Screenwriting Awards(1st Place), Script Pipeline: First Look Project(1st Place), Shore Scripts Screenwriting Competition(1st Place), Elixir Entertainment

Austin Film Festival, 3 for 3. Three consecutive "Second Rounder" projects.

By: Craig Miller
Austin Film Festival "Second Rounders" 2020- WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S III and RAILS 2019- RAILS (previous iteration ) 2018, UNCLE RON AND THE RYAN EXPRESS (previously named 'Craig and his Uncle Ron')
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Three Script Summit Official Selections
By: Craig Miller
Craig Miller celebrates great success as three of his scripts, were named official selections at Script Summit 3. WEEKEND AT BERNIES III, RAILS and UNCLE RON AND THE RYAN EXPRESS.
Tags: Script Summit

WEEKEND AT BERNIES 3 on Screenplay Mechanic "Lugnut List" of Top 10 scripts
By: Craig Miller
Andrew Hilton, aka The Screenplay Mechanic (screenplaymechanic.com) put WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S III on his annual "Lugnut List" of his 10 favorite scripts of the year. Selected Notes: "will absolutely standout in the feature world, both with its premise and the writers' unique voice." "showcases an original voice and an outside-the-box creativity that's truly rare."
Tags: Weekend at Bernie's III,

THREE DATES WITH BEN selected to take part in Stowe Story Lab

By: Oliver Warren
Oliver Warren was invited to join the Stowe Story Lab at the Sidewalk Film Festival with his dark gay romance feature script THREE DATES WITH BEN, in Summer 2020.
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MAMADUKES named a Top 10 Comedy Script
By: Oliver Warren
Oliver Warren's pilot script MAMADUKES was selected as one of the TOP 10 COMEDY SCRIPTS in the Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition. MAMADUKES has already caught the eye of incredible Exec Producer John Melfi (Sex & The City, House of Cards, The Morning Show). MAMADUKES is a 10 x 60min Comedy Drama Series about a heavily-pregnant freelance fashion designer, with a Peter Pan complex and combusting birth-plan, who opens her home to four other desperate soon-to-be single moms, and finds herself in a constant battle for the role of matriarch as they raise their newborns in a five-woman, five-baby, no men, East Village commune. Written and Created by Oliver Warren - One of the ISA’s Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2021.
Tags: Mamadukes, Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition(Top 100)

YA-thriller Pilot Script Commission for Oliver Warren
By: Oliver Warren
One of the ISA's 'Top 25 Screenwriters in 2021', Oliver Warren, was recently commissioned to write an original pilot script for LA-based Euramco Pictures, a YA-thriller series called ICARUS SQUAD. Producer Renato Romano is keen for the series to enter production in 2021, and Oliver can't wait to see it brought to life.

Oliver Warren commissioned to rewrite romance feature LOVE IS ALWAYS YOUNG
By: Oliver Warren
LA-based production company EURAMCO PICTURES has commissioned Oliver Warren to rewrite the romance drama feature script LOVE IS ALWAYS YOUNG, set on the Italian island of Ischia, a story that deals with nostalgia, lost love and the long-lasting damage of a broken heart.

Oliver Warren invited on Nostos Screenwriting Retreat with THAT'S ME TRYING
By: Oliver Warren
Oliver has been invited on the three-week intensive screenwriting retreat on Elba Island, in Italy to develop his feature script THAT'S ME TRYING into a limited series pilot script. Oliver joins a hand-selected group of writers this October.
Tags: That's Me Trying,

Winner - Best International Feature Screenplay

By: Jordan Taylor
Proud to announce that JAIL BREAK has been awarded as Winner of the 'Best International Feature Screenplay Award' in the Fall 2020 Portland Comedy Film Festival

TOP 7 FINALIST - Unpublished Book Competition - Memoir - 2020

By: Shane Elizabeth
Shane qualified as a one of the TOP 7 FINALISTS in the category of memoir for 2020's Pacific Northwest Writer's Association Unpublished Book Competition out of over 600 submissions.
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ROTU - Named an Official Selection for the CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2020
By: Shane Elizabeth
ROTU, the VR story-narrative gaming experience was officially selected by the Cannes Film Festival 2020 in the category of: XR DEVELOPMENT SHOWCASE. Shane was the writer for this piece. She is responsible for brining the characters to life with dialogue and direction as well as setting the stage for the gaming experience.

WRITER FOR HIRE: VR: Finding Pandora: VENICE FILM FESTIVAL

By: Shane Elizabeth
Thanks to Felicity and the ISA, Shane has also made a great connection with Double Eye Studios. They have officially hired Shane to come on board as a writer for the larger-than-life, LIVE Interactive Virtual Reality Theater Performance: Finding Pandora. She is currently writing scenes and developing character's voices for the soon to be seen experience. Officially premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2020.

WRITER FOR HIRE: Biopic Feature
By: Shane Elizabeth
After Datura Studios read Cannabiz, thanks to the ISA, they hired Shane to write a biopic feature about one of Houston's first African-American millionaires. This marks Shane's first official PAID job for a feature as a screenwriter. She started it at the beginning of the pandemic and is currently working on revisions with the intention of moving into development soon! THANKS ISA for the recommendation.
Tags: Cannabiz, Table Read My Screenplay - Park City

HALF-HOUR DRAMA Wins Pilot Category of Drama Screenplay Awards

By: Shane Elizabeth
Shane was recently named the category winner in the Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards for her half-hour drama pilot, Cannabiz. This is an interesting success worth noting due to the fact that the half-hour drama format is still a very new, niche, not often used, format. Yet, Shane still pulled through with a win, beating all the other traditional hour-long drama screenplays submitted.
Tags: Cannabiz, Filmmatic Screenplay Awards(Category Winner)

THE WHITE WITCH OF ROSE HALL

By: Shaunia McKenzie
Shaunia McKenzie's feature script THE WHITE WITCH OF ROSE HALL was listed as a semifinalist in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition.

THE WHITE WITCH OF ROSE HALL - The Hot 100 List
By: Shaunia McKenzie
Shaunia McKenzie's feature script THE WHITE WITCH OF ROSE HALL has secured a place on The HOT 100 list in the Capital Fund Screenplay Competition. This well respected list is published and provided to film industry financiers around the world and includes the top 100 Scripts of the year. The scripts are showcased at investor meetings at the major film markets worldwide including AFM, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and Shanghai film markets.
Tags: The White Witch Of Rose Hall, Capital Fund Screenplay Competition(Top 100)
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