ISA SPOTLIGHT

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. 17 Success Stories Listed.

THE LITTLEST VOICE short script

By: Tammy Olsen
Tammy Olsen's short script THE LITTLEST VOICE reached the Top 100 for the Emerging Screenwriters Shoot Your Short Competition. 
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Tammy Olsen reached semi-finals in Fresh Voices Contest
By: Tammy Olsen
Sci-fi / Action feature 'Shadow Warrior' reached the semi finals of the Fresh Voices Screenplay Contest.
Tags: Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition

Tammy Olsen - Finalist in Happy Writer 2013 Feature Contest
By: Tammy Olsen
Action/Drama 'Fail Safe' placed in the top 20 of the Happy Writer's 2013 contest.

Final Draft Fellow for Stowe Story Labs 2020

By: Lisa Jay
Lisa Jay's screenply THE DOMOVOI was chosen as the Final Draft Fellowship winner for Stowe StoryLabs Fall 2020.

Cassian Elwes Sundance Fellowship Finalist -&- WIF Blacklist Labs Finalist

By: Lisa Jay
Lisa Jay's Horror Feature THE DOMOVOI was a finalist for both of these fellowships.
Tags: The Domovoi,

Julia Skikavich named a 2020 ISA Fast Track Fellow

By: Julia Skikavich
Julia Skikavich has been named a 2020 ISA Fast Track Fellow. Julia's pilot scripts -- MISSING PIECES and SURVIVORS: B.S. -- were the basis of her selection. Fellowship judges said Julia's "writing is personal yet entertaining, gripping and compelling, wildly specific and yet also relatable." Julia is an award-winning screenwriter, online producer, and journalist. Both scripts have previously won and placed in several contests and have been hailed for their women-centric approach in tackling intractable social issues, centred on wholly relevant discussions. Julia holds degrees in screenwriting, journalism and political science. She has worked on a variety of news programs, factual entertainment and reality series.
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Julia Skikavich wins Magee TV emerging screenwriter mentorship award
By: Julia Skikavich
Julia Skikavich has received the 2020 Magee TV Diverse Screenwriters Mentorship Award. She is incredibly honoured to join this amazing group of emerging Canadian talents. Five winners are selected annually for the mentorship program created to support emerging screenwriters from diverse backgrounds through mentorship, networking with Canadian television professionals, and exposure to leaders in the field of screen-based writing. Julia will be mentored by Canadian screenwriter Duana Taha during the 3-month program, where she'll further develop her award-winning serialized drama SURVIVORS: B.S.. Julia is grateful to the Toronto Screenwriting Conference and Magee TV for supporting this opportunity to grow her career.
Tags: Survivors: B.S., Magee TV Diverse Screenwriters Award(Official Selection), International Screenwriters' Association, ISA, Toronto Screenwriting Conference

Julia Skikavich a TOP 50 finalist for ISA's Fast Track Fellowship
By: Julia Skikavich
Julia Skikavich has been named a TOP 50 finalists under consideration for the ISA Fast Fellowship. Two of Julia's pilot scripts -- MISSING PIECES and SURVIVORS: B.S. -- landed her a double-slot on the finalist list, and chance at being one of the two fellows selected for 2020. Julia is an award-winning screenwriter, online producer, and journalist. Both MISSING PIECES and SURVIVORS: B.S. have won and placed in several contests and have been hailed for their women-centric approach in tackling intractable social issues, centred on wholly relevant discussions. Julia holds degrees in screenwriting, journalism and political science. She has worked on a variety of news programs, factual entertainment and reality series.
Tags: Survivors: B.S., ISA Fast Track Fellowship(Top 50), International Screenwriters' Association, ISA

SURVIVORS: B.S. a TOP 50 script in ISA's Fast Track Fellowship
By: Julia Skikavich
Julia Skikavich's darkly funny, one-hour drama, SURVIVORS: B.S., is under consideration as a TOP 50 finalist in ISA's Fast Track Fellowship. The pilot script has been hailed for its women-centric approach in tackling intractable social issues, centered around wholly relevant discussions tied to sexism, rape culture, the #MeToo movement, and the harsh realities of dealing with a serious medical issue and disability as a struggling young professional.
Tags: Survivors: B.S., ISA Fast Track Fellowship(Top 50), International Screenwriters' Association, ISA

MISSING PIECES a TOP 50 script in ISA's Fast Track Fellowship
By: Julia Skikavich
Julia Skikavich's female-centric serialized crime drama, MISSING PIECES, has placed as a TOP 50 finalist under consideration for the 2020 ISA Fast Track Fellowship. The gritty pilot has been hailed as a "kick butt script" that's "thoughtful" and "thrilling", "high stakes story that will keep the audience invested."
Tags: Missing Pieces, ISA Fast Track Fellowship(Top 50), International Screenwriters' Association, ISA

Top 50 finalist in the 2020 ISA Fast Track Fellowship

By: Josh Sorokach
Josh's new script THE MOST HATED MAN IN NEW YORK was a Top 50 finalist in the 2020 ISA Fast Track Fellowship.
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Quarterfinalist in the 2018 WeScreenplay TV Competition
By: Josh Sorokach
Josh Sorokach's Pilot ROCK BOTTOM was a quarter-finalist in the The 2018 WeScreenplay TV Competition.
Tags: Rock Bottom,

Winner of the 2018 Table Read My Screenplay Competition
By: Josh Sorokach
Josh Sorokach's comedy pilot CLEAN SLATE won the 2018 Table Read My Screenplay Competition. A live reading of the script took place at the Sundance Film Festival.
Tags: Clean Slate, Table Read My Screenplay - PARK CITY(1st Place)

JUDY BEDNAREK TOP 50 ISA FAST TRACK FELLOWSHIP

By: Judy Bednarek
A SEASON OF STRAWBERRIES was considered for the 2020 ISA Fast Track Fellowship and placed in the Top 50. This coming-of-age thriller has also been entered in the Los Angeles InRoads Screenwriting Fellowship and the FilmNorth McKnight Fellowship in her home state of Minnesota.
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YELLOW EYE Finalist in Film Quest 2019
By: Judy Bednarek
Yellow Eye was a Finalist in the prestigious sci-fi FilmQuest in Utah. A low-budget version of the original script was commissioned by Chris Turner at Ballistic Films in Canada. His direction went into television and after 7 years of being shelved, the script was released.
Tags: Yellow Eye,

STAR CHILD: A FOURTH GENERATION Ready To Go
By: Judy Bednarek
Judy moved to LA for 3 months to network with film colleagues that resulted in offers to direct and produce Star Child. She collaborated on a rewrite with award-winning directors Scott McCullough and Pasha Patriki (Black Water, Gridlocked) who both signed on to direct. Agents requested exclusive contracts for their clients that included an actor from Game of Thrones. Matthew Helderman at Buffalo 8 has offered to submit the project to their financiers for funding. There was interest from independent producers and an offer to film in China. Script has been read by Isaac Florentine, Jennifer Connelly, Ozzie Devrish, Jacob Whitley, Patrick Wang, Pasha Patriki, Matthew Helderman, Lou Simon, Dempsey Tillman, Trisha Kirk

Oaxaca Film Festival Official Selection 2019
By: Judy Bednarek
A SEASON OF STRAWBERRIES was a pitch winner at the WildSound Film Festival in Canada and placed as a finalist in the Sundance-affiliated Oaxaca Film Festival in Mexico. The script was entered in the Global Script Challenge category and chosen for immediate commercial development from more than 10,000 scripts. It was also a semi-finalist in the Los Angeles CineFest.
Tags: A Season of Strawberries,

MESCALERO - Stowe Story Labs, Fresh Voices, Atlanta International, Richmond

By: Anderson Boyd
Western screenplay MESCALERO was invited to the Stowe Story Labs April Writer's Retreat prior to postponement, finished as a Quarterfinalist in Fresh Voices, a Quarterfinalist in Richmond International Film Festival, and placed as a Semifinalist in the Atlanta International Screenplay Awards. Wishing all great health and safety during this time.
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MESCALERO - Capital Fund Hot 100 and Sidewalk Film Festival Finalist
By: Anderson Boyd
Anderson Boyd's screenplay MESCALERO, a Western saga, placed 22nd in the Capital Fund's Hot 100 list and is a current Top 16 Finalist with Sidewalk Film Festival's - Sidewrite Competition.
Tags: Mescalero, Capital Fund Screenplay Competition(Top 100)

MESCALERO - HUMANITAS New Voices Semi Finalist!
By: Anderson Boyd
Boyd's Western Adventure/Drama MESCALERO is a current Semi Finalist within the tenth HUMANITAS New Voices Program!
Tags: Mescalero, Humanitas New Voices(Semi Finalist)

MESCALERO - 2020 Stowe Story Labs; THE LEASE OF NATURE - Inroads, BlueCat..
By: Anderson Boyd
Boyd's Western Drama MESCALERO received an invitation to the 2020 Stowe Story Lab programs, his second affiliation with the Labs. Elsewhere, his crime saga THE LEASE OF NATURE placed as a Finalist with the Inroads Fellowship, advanced and finished as a Semifinalist in the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, and as a Semifinalist with New York International Screenplay Awards.
Tags: Mescalero, Stowe Story Labs(Official Selection)

THE LEASE OF NATURE - BlueCat, Fresh Voices, Atlanta, New Media...
By: Anderson Boyd
Crime saga THE LEASE OF NATURE placed as a Semifinalist in both the Atlanta Film Festival and Atlanta International Screenplay Awards, finished as a Quarterfinalist in Fresh Voices, and is currently a Quarterfinalist with BlueCat. THE LEASE OF NATURE is also an official selection of the New Media Film Festival, still slated to occur this June. Stay safe, all.
Tags: The Lease of Nature, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition(Quarter Finalist), Atlanta International Screenplay Awards (Quarter Finalist), BlueCat Screenplay Competition(Quarter Finalist), Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition(Quarter Finalist), New Media Film Festival Scripts Competition(Quarter Finalist)

THAT SISTER THANG BlueCat Quarterfinalist

By: Dale Winton
Following thier Top 10 placement in the Creative Screenwriting contest, the TV pilot THAT SISTER THANG has advanced to the quarterfinals of BlueCat - in the same week they made the last 5 in the Fresh Voices competition.
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SAUSAGE & SUSHI makes Finals of WeScreenplay Diverse Voices

By: Dale Winton
Dale Winton's latest pilot about a bisexual guy secretly juggling a traditional straight life with a more hedonistic gay one is through to the final round! (Script and pitch deck available.)
Tags: Sausage & Sushi, Diverse Voices presented by WeScreenplay(Semi Finalist), WeScreenplay

THAT SISTER THANG makes Screencraft Pilot Launch semis
By: Dale Winton
Dale Winton is chuffed to see his pilot THAT SISTER THANG advance through to the semifinals. They've enjoyed over 15 top contest placements for their script and are hopefully one step closer to seeing a story about African sisterhood in Texas become an original series. (they've created a website for any producers wanting to know more about the show.)
Tags: That Sister Thang , ScreenCraft Pilot Launch Contest(Semi Finalist), ISA, ScreenCraft

SAUSAGE & SUSHI makes WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Semis
By: Dale Winton
Great to see Dale Winton's pilot make the next round! A story about a bisexual guy secretly juggling a traditional straight life with a more hedonistic gay one and finds his two worlds colliding when his fiancee gets pregnant and his boyfriend proposes. (Pitch deck with pilot script available on request.)
Tags: Sausage & Sushi, Diverse Voices presented by WeScreenplay(Semi Finalist), ISA, WeScreenplay

SAUSAGE & SUSHI pilot makes quarterfinals x 2
By: Dale Winton
Great to see the script for Dale Winton's show SAUSAGE & SUSHI advance to the QFs in both the Shore Scripts Pilot Contest and the ScreenCraft Pilot Launch.
Tags: Sausage & Sushi, ScreenCraft Pilot Launch Contest(Semi Finalist), Shore Scripts Screenwriting Competition(Semi Finalist), ISA, ScreenCraft, Shore Scripts

2nd place, Script Summit.
By: Dale Winton
Dake Winton and writing partner Lindiwe Muellwer-Westernhagen's TV pilot THAT SISTER THANG came in second overall for half-hour sitcoms. They are so happy that two black South African female leads are not only conquering Austin, but numerous LA screenwriting contests too.
Tags: That Sister Thang , Script Summit(2nd Place), International Screenwriters' Association, Script Summit

THE LEASE OF NATURE - BlueCat, Fresh Voices, Atlanta, New Media...

By: Anderson Boyd
Crime saga THE LEASE OF NATURE placed as a Semifinalist in both the Atlanta Film Festival and Atlanta International Screenplay Awards, finished as a Quarterfinalist in Fresh Voices, and is currently a Quarterfinalist with BlueCat. THE LEASE OF NATURE is also an official selection of the New Media Film Festival, still slated to occur this June. Stay safe, all.
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MESCALERO - Capital Fund Hot 100 and Sidewalk Film Festival Finalist
By: Anderson Boyd
Anderson Boyd's screenplay MESCALERO, a Western saga, placed 22nd in the Capital Fund's Hot 100 list and is a current Top 16 Finalist with Sidewalk Film Festival's - Sidewrite Competition.
Tags: Mescalero, Capital Fund Screenplay Competition(Top 100)

MESCALERO - HUMANITAS New Voices Semi Finalist!
By: Anderson Boyd
Boyd's Western Adventure/Drama MESCALERO is a current Semi Finalist within the tenth HUMANITAS New Voices Program!
Tags: Mescalero, Humanitas New Voices(Semi Finalist)

MESCALERO - 2020 Stowe Story Labs; THE LEASE OF NATURE - Inroads, BlueCat..
By: Anderson Boyd
Boyd's Western Drama MESCALERO received an invitation to the 2020 Stowe Story Lab programs, his second affiliation with the Labs. Elsewhere, his crime saga THE LEASE OF NATURE placed as a Finalist with the Inroads Fellowship, advanced and finished as a Semifinalist in the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, and as a Semifinalist with New York International Screenplay Awards.
Tags: Mescalero, Stowe Story Labs(Official Selection)

MESCALERO - Stowe Story Labs, Fresh Voices, Atlanta International, Richmond
By: Anderson Boyd
Western screenplay MESCALERO was invited to the Stowe Story Labs April Writer's Retreat prior to postponement, finished as a Quarterfinalist in Fresh Voices, a Quarterfinalist in Richmond International Film Festival, and placed as a Semifinalist in the Atlanta International Screenplay Awards. Wishing all great health and safety during this time.
Tags: Mescalero, Atlanta International Screenplay Awards (Grand Prize), Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition(Grand Prize), Richmond International Film Festival(Grand Prize), Stowe Story Labs(Grand Prize)

TOP-30 Finalist Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition

By: George Varotsis
George Vartosis' thriller feature BLACK EQUINOX was a Top 30 finalist in Scriptapalooza's Screenplay Competition. A maverick homicide detective discovers a shocking connection between himself and a series of gruesome murders when he realizes that his past is intertwined with his present and the serial killer he's been chasing - his own father.

Ted Campbell's thriller BLUE MOTEL Grand Prize Your Script Produced 2019

By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell's thriller BLUE MOTEL has won the Grand Prize in Your Script Produced 2019 contest!
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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

BLUE MOTEL YSP Season 1 Grand Prize Winner wins Platinum Remi Award
By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell, Your Script Produced Season 1 Ultimate Grand Prize Winner BLUE MOTEL, won the prestigious top category Platinum REMI AWARD for his script at the 53rd Worldfest Houston International Film Festival. "We have started developing the script into a great feature film, the team is proud to see Ted Campbell recognized by another established festival! We will come back to Houston next year with the finished film and look forward to adding our names on the great list which Worldfest founder prides himself for discovering : the likes of Spielberg, Lucas, Ang Lee..." -- YSP's Doval Bacall, executive producer BLUE MOTEL
Tags: Blue Motel, Worldfest Houston International Film Festival(Category Winner)

Ted Campbell's thriller ALMOST GONE Search for New Blood Finalist
By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell's supernatural thriller ALMOST GONE is a Finalist in Stage32's 6th Annual Search for New Blood screenwriting competition.
Tags: Almost Gone, Stage 32 Search For New Blood Screenwriting Contest(Finalist)

UNDERGROUND to be Produced by Kieran Corrigan
By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbells heist thriller UNDERGROUND has been optioned by Film Bridge International and will be produced by Kieran Corrigan of Merlin Films. His contained, crime thriller BLUE MOTEL won the Grand Prize in Your Script Produced contest, and his suspense thriller HARM'S WAY was a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival and the Runner-Up in Roadmap Writers JumpStart Contest.
Tags: Underground,

Ted Campbell's supernatural thriller ALMOST GONE Search for New Blood
By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell's supernatural thriller ALMOST GONE has placed as a Semi-Finalist in Stage32's Search for New Blood screenwriting contest.
Tags: Almost Gone, Stage 32 Search For New Blood Screenwriting Contest(Finalist)

Ted Campbell's BLUE MOTEL Semi-Finalist Emerging Screenwriters Contest

By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell's crime thriller BLUE MOTEL is a Semi-Finalist in the Mystery category for Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition. BLUE MOTEL recently won the Grand Prize in the Your Script Produced screenplay contest.
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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

BLUE MOTEL YSP Season 1 Grand Prize Winner wins Platinum Remi Award
By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell, Your Script Produced Season 1 Ultimate Grand Prize Winner BLUE MOTEL, won the prestigious top category Platinum REMI AWARD for his script at the 53rd Worldfest Houston International Film Festival. "We have started developing the script into a great feature film, the team is proud to see Ted Campbell recognized by another established festival! We will come back to Houston next year with the finished film and look forward to adding our names on the great list which Worldfest founder prides himself for discovering : the likes of Spielberg, Lucas, Ang Lee..." -- YSP's Doval Bacall, executive producer BLUE MOTEL
Tags: Blue Motel, Worldfest Houston International Film Festival(Category Winner)

Ted Campbell's thriller ALMOST GONE Search for New Blood Finalist
By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell's supernatural thriller ALMOST GONE is a Finalist in Stage32's 6th Annual Search for New Blood screenwriting competition.
Tags: Almost Gone, Stage 32 Search For New Blood Screenwriting Contest(Finalist)

UNDERGROUND to be Produced by Kieran Corrigan
By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbells heist thriller UNDERGROUND has been optioned by Film Bridge International and will be produced by Kieran Corrigan of Merlin Films. His contained, crime thriller BLUE MOTEL won the Grand Prize in Your Script Produced contest, and his suspense thriller HARM'S WAY was a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival and the Runner-Up in Roadmap Writers JumpStart Contest.
Tags: Underground,

Ted Campbell's supernatural thriller ALMOST GONE Search for New Blood
By: Ted Campbell
Ted Campbell's supernatural thriller ALMOST GONE has placed as a Semi-Finalist in Stage32's Search for New Blood screenwriting contest.
Tags: Almost Gone, Stage 32 Search For New Blood Screenwriting Contest(Finalist)

LUANA chosen for Emerging Screenwriters

By: Danielle Erlich
LEGACY and LUANA both came in as Semi-finalists or Top 25 Sci-fi/Fantasy Screenplays in The Emerging Screenwriter Gene Competition!!
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Supporting actor attached to Danielle Erlich's award winning screenplay
By: Danielle Erlich
Cas Anvar has been attached to a supporting role in Legacy II: Origins (Once titled simply Legacy). You may recognize his name from Argo or because he stars on THE EXPANSE. THE EXPANSE is the #5 most popular show from all streaming networks.
Tags: Legacy Two: Origins,

Rocaberti Writers Retreat Scholarship and Fellowship
By: Danielle Erlich
Danielle Erlich is humbled and honored to have had THE LEGACY SAGA, chosen to receive one of the scholarships for the elite, and talent-filled Rocaberti Writer’s Retreat Oct 2021! She will be going to the South of France for the retreat and staying at the music industry’s and former Sting manager, Miles Copeland’s castle in the French Countryside. She is being put in one of the only bedrooms with a bathroom you don't have to share. The castle is 700 yrs old. This retreat is filled with academy award winners for mentors too. This scholarship is an amazing accolade for Danielle and her script.
Tags: Legacy One: Luana,

LEGACY chosen for Emerging Screenwriters
By: Danielle Erlich
LEGACY and LUANA both came in as Semi-finalists or Top 25 Sci-fi/Fantasy Screenplays in The Emerging Screenwriter Gene Competition!!
Tags: Legacy Two: Origins, Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition(Semi Finalist)

LUANA chosen as a Top 10 Sci-fi in Austin
By: Danielle Erlich
Danielle R. Erlich's origin story LUANA was chosen as one of the Top 10 Sci-fi Feature Screenplays at The Austin Film Festival. The total number of screenplays submitted to Austin this year was around 12,000 screenplays. LUANA was in the Top 2% out of the 12,000.
Tags: Legacy One: Luana, Austin Film Festival Script Competition(Top 10)

Top 100 Scripts - 2019 Emerging Screenwriters Shoot Your Sizzle Competition

By: Joseph Tamborello
Joseph Tamborello's one hour legal drama pilot, JUST PERSPECTIVE placed in the top 100.

EVERYTHING AND NOTHING WINS 2ND PLACE -TABLE READ MY SCREENPLAY - PARK CITY

By: Denise Meyers
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING, based on a true story about the desperate fight to protect endangered black rhino from poachers in the Eastern Cape, won second place for the 2020 Table Read My Screenplay - Park City competition. Meyers, who is the inaugural winner of the Sloan Foundation grant for screenwriting in partnership with the Athena Film Festival, is developing a sizzle reel to support the screenplay and the book it is based on.
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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

LUCKY 13 TABLE READ AT THE ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL
By: Denise Meyers
The Athena Film Festival in partnership with the Sloan Foundation present a table read of the inaugural winner of the Sloan Foundation grant for screenwriting at the ten year anniversary of the Athena Film Festival. Tickets are free. RSVP with the following link. https://athenafilmfestival.com/film/lucky-13-reading/
Tags: LUCKY 13,

Live Table Read During the Peachtree Village International Film Festival

By: Christine Stevens DeLorenzo
The festival celebrated great film, television, Web series, documentaries and more. There were various panels and the opportunity to pitch. Professional actors were provided by PVIFF. The actors joined me for rehearsals several days before the FF. Then they table read my screenplay before an enthusiastic and attentive audience.
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Awarded Special Marquee 2018
By: Christine Stevens DeLorenzo
American Movie Awards awarded Christine Stevens DeLorenzo a Special Marquee for her TV pilot RICHER THAN A WHITE MAN. The Official Jury awards the Special Marquee to a select group of deserving entries for productions that display exceptional merit.
Tags: RICHER THAN A WHITE MAN,

Winner of the Writer's Digest 87th Annual Writing Competition
By: Christine Stevens DeLorenzo
Christine Stevens DeLorenzo was the winner of the Writer's Digest 87th Annual Writing Competition. WD also published her winning TV pilot in their 87th Annual Writing Competition Collection.
Tags: RICHER THAN A WHITE MAN,

THE REDEMPTION OF FRANK MALONE makes Top 25 in Table Read My Screenplay

By: Mary Goldman
A character driven supspense thriller, THE REDEMPTION OF FRANK MALONE advanced to Top 25 in Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood. Mary is currently working on a feature length version. Here's the logline: Haunted by a bloody past, mob enforcer Frank Malone gets one last shot at redemption as he matches wits with a psychopathic teenager planning a massacre at his daughter’s school.
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UNHOLY TOLEDO Makes Quarter Finals in PAGE
By: Mary Goldman
Written by sister and brother writing team, Mary Goldman and Tim House, UNHOLY TOLEDO is a period crime drama inspired by their grandfather's life as a slot machine runner during Prohibition Era Toledo, Ohio. Here's the logline: When a couple of runaway farm boys start running slots in Prohibition-era Toledo the ruthless Purple Gang moves in, kidnapping one of their wives, setting up a high stakes game of life and death.
Tags: Unholy Toledo, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards(Quarter Finalist)

Short Screenplay GONE makes finals in Barnstorm Screenplay competition
By: Mary Goldman
Intense character driven thriller, GONE, written by brother and sister team, Mary Goldman and Tim House, makes finals in the Barnstorm Festival Screenplay competition. Here's the logline: A teenage farm boy flees the family farm after suffering abuse from his alcoholic father.
Tags: Gone (2nd version), Barnstorm Fest(Finalist)

Mary Goldman's THE REDEMPTION OF FRANK MALONE makes finals in Live Read/LA
By: Mary Goldman
A character driven supspense thriller, THE REDEMPTION OF FRANK MALONE advanced to finals in the Live Read/LA short screenplay competition. Mary is currently working on a feature length version. Here's the logline: Haunted by a bloody past, mob enforcer Frank Malone gets one last shot at redemption as he matches wits with a psychopathic teenager planning a massacre at his daughter’s school.
Tags: The Redemption of Frank Malone, Live Read/LA(Top 10)

Mary Goldman Options GLORIA STEINBERG

By: Mary Goldman
Mary Goldman's short, GLORIA STEINBERG, has been optioned by the New York Conservatory of Drama. Slated to be produced in the summer of 2020, it will be produced by a professional crew and will feature the Conservatory's acting students. Here's the logline; A beauty pageant contestant explains her muslim-convert sister’s choice of wearing hijab to a fellow contestant.
Tags: Gloria Steinberg (short/5pgs),

From Table Reads to Sundance

By: Annika Pampel
With ODIUM winning Table Read My Screenplay, and Annika being a Top 25 Screenwriter, she and her team got into the WIF/SUNDANCE finance intensive where they pitched to 7 companies, including Endeavor and Big Beach. They ended up signing a shopping agreement with Amy Ahn (formerly WME/Endeavor), to accumulate financing at 1.2 million, with Annika set to direct. They have also since signed a co-production/ co-finance agreement for 300k with a wonderful producing team. ------ "A beautiful organization that genuinely cares and won't leave you alone in the best way:). You think winning a contest is the end of it? Nope, thats just the beginning.:)" - Annika Pampel

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