VIRTUAL SCREENWRITERS SHOWCASE 2020
One winner in each category will be announced on the night of the Virtual Showcase on June 8, 2020 at 7:30 PM. The ceremony is a private event, and winners will be announced to the public on June 9th.
Screenwriters Showcase 2020 Winners
FEATURE ADAPTATION: Aaron Sharp
HALF-HOUR TV PILOT: Regina Kim
ONE-HOUR TV PILOT: Katie Adams
Award Categories
FEATURE ADAPTATION
Aaron Sharp •All is Well
Logline:
In a future where science has solved the problem of aging, strict population control is the law. A baby is allowed to be born only when a family member agrees to die to keep the balance. But when a government euthanizer becomes pregnant and no family member steps forward, she begins to question the very foundation of the system.
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Aaron C. Dalton •The Miraculous Flower of Lombard Street
Logline:
A successful photographer faces the unexpected when his long-dead lover gets a second chance at life. Together, they must navigate how time and circumstance has changed their relationship.
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Matt Jennings •The Yellow Wallpaper
Logline:
New England, 1892—Confined to bedrest for postpartum depression, Jane suspects her sister-in-law threatens to take her place in the family. The ensuing altercations set off a chain of events in which Jane is forced to confront her past trauma and reclaim her identity.
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FEATURE COMEDY
Jordan Wilson •Soft Serve
Logline:
A closeted Catholic high school teacher finally gets a chance to explore his sexuality, but the opportunity takes a form he did not expect: his married neighbor.
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Zachary Arthur •The Last Blockbuster
Logline:
In search of an old memory, five friends tackle a break up, the loss of a brother, and the pressures of adulthood on a cross-country road trip to the world’s last Blockbuster.
The Last Blockbuster
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Cat Wilkins •Two-Faced
Logline:
A high school senior attempts to get her principal fired after discovering a blackface photo, but she quickly learns he won’t go down without a fight.
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FEATURE DRAMA
Giulia Cardamone •Deaf Blood
Logline:
When a deaf teenager who dreams of becoming a professional dancer learns he is a father, he questions his identity and whether or not his daughter should have a surgical procedure to restore her hearing.
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Kristen Angonese •Games in the Sky
Logline:
When a boy with epilepsy makes a new friend who takes him on adventures to an imaginary planet, his queer mother must decide what’s best for him–a controlled life without freedom or a dangerous shot at happiness.
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Paul Sprangers •Night City Zappers
Logline:
Over the course of one night, Bambi Rambo, a struggling dancer, fights to retrieve a stolen U-Haul full of Zapp, a mysterious psychedelic, in order to rescue her daughter from the Wolfman, a violent drug dealer who uses a power drill against his enemies.
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Amber Lena-Miller •Rag Doll
Logline:
Underemployed and living in an unstable environment, a young woman finds herself pregnant and faced with the difficult decision of keeping the pregnancy or terminating. But with family, religion, and politics at play, how do you live with a choice that doesn’t feel like your own?
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Jeff Austin •Uprising
Logline:
When a conservative black professor is brutally assaulted during the Stonewall Riots, tensions flare in his relationship when his white boyfriend joins the gay civil rights movement, threatening his historic chance to be the first black tenured professor at Columbia University.
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HALF-HOUR TV PILOT
Regina Kim •Paramour
Logline:
A Catholic nun discovers she’s pregnant and attempts to hide her affair with a married man by claiming it’s Immaculate Conception.
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Amy Wen •Back From Avalon
Logline:
A wealthy high school mean girl falls off a cliff and ends up in 5th century Britain. Now seen as a poor, uneducated foreigner, she must survive the animosity of the locals, invading Angles, and the spoiled teenage King Arthur with nothing but her wits.
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Aidan West •Summer Can’t Last Forever
Logline:
A sixteen-year-old girl, her thirteen-year-old brother, and their friends enjoy the first days of summer break, until the news announces an asteroid is hurtling towards the planet, life on Earth is doomed, and the next few months may be their last.
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Mark Skeele Wilson •Sssportsss
Logline:
A group of gay middle schoolers decide to change their social destiny by joining… sssportsss. They’re gay. They’re geeks. They’re lispy. They’re bullied.
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ONE-HOUR TV PILOT
Kelly Gaudet •New Eden
Logline:
Struggling to outrun the law and survive in the New Hampshire wilderness, a young couple wanted for murder is stalked by a sadistic supernatural being and takes refuge within a strange, dangerous cult.
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Alexandra Overy •Sanctuary
Logline:
A young socialite is forced to work with the new crime king of Sanctuary after a spell gone wrong leaves her with his dead father’s voice in her head and a murder to solve.
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Natasha Joyce •The Oyster Wars
Logline:
In 1871 Maryland, a German-Jewish immigrant escapes forced servitude on an oyster pirate ship, only to return and rise through the ranks of the thriving, but ruthless oyster industry.
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James Bentley •The Praying Indian
Logline:
A Harvard educated Pequot translator has embraced puritan faith, and walks a dangerous line between his allegiances to the “Plimoth Colony” and his native tribal allies. But when the threat of an all out war looms on the horizon – stoked by the zealous Josias Winslow – he’ll have to choose a side or come to terms with the legacy of his ancestral past.
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Katie Adams •Thimblerig
Logline:
When people-pleasing newlywed Naomi Clark crosses paths with a sardonic conwoman who shows her the cracks in her glossy existence, Naomi struggles not to unravel as she discovers what she really wants—starting with becoming an accomplice to the conwoman’s schemes.
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