We are proud to announce the 2016 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists!
Congratulations to everyone who has placed, and a special thanks to all of you who submitted your screenplays!
The Semi-Finalists will be announced on Tuesday, March 1st, 2016.
The Quarterfinalists are listed in five separate categories:
- Best Feature Screenplay
- Best Short Screenplay
- Joplin Award (Best International)
- Cordelia Award (Best UK)
- Roshan Award (Best of India)
Feature Screenplay
The 2016 Feature Screenplay Winner will receive a $15,000 USD cash prize. Four Finalists will receive $2,500 each.
This year, we received a total of 4,523 Feature Screenplays.
| 1:58 | by | Mark Allen |
| 14:23 | by | Averi Israel |
| A Bright Tragic Thing | by | Elyse Friedman & Randall Cole |
| A Man Called White | by | Randy Hines |
| A Month | by | Richard Averill |
| A Small, Tiny, Practically Insignificant Case of Demon Posession | by | Shannon Pestock |
| A Solid Man of Boston | by | David Carkeet |
| A Winter Love | by | Rhiana Yazzie |
| Adoring Katie | by | Lauren Fitzgerald |
| Alchemy Lost | by | Henry de Hoon |
| All the Tiny Dancers | by | Ryan Vaughn |
| American Spring | by | Willie Hynd |
| Angler | by | Adam Baker |
| Antarctica | by | Jason M. Fylan |
| Are you There God? It’s me, Violaine — A.K.A. Girls Pull Hair | by | Astride Noel |
| Ars Erotica | by | Jay Alan Quantrill |
| At the Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea | by | Ana Reyes |
| Bach, A Monster | by | Avery O. Williams |
| Bar League | by | Luke Crawford |
| Big Red | by | Brennig Hayden |
| Billy’s Valentine | by | Karen Frank |
| Birds of a Feather | by | Maggie Dodson |
| Blood Creek | by | Kyle Francis |
| Bloodhounds | by | David Marantz |
| Bombers | by | Darren Sand |
| Boomtown | by | Kyle Francis |
| Borderline | by | Philip Tarl Denson |
| Brae Burn | by | Graham Techler |
| Brothers in Arms | by | Jonathan Cooperman |
| Bruno del Bosque | by | Hernan Jimenez |
| BTTMFDRS | by | Ezra Claytan Daniels |
| Bull Comb Blues | by | David Warnock |
| Bullet for My Brother | by | Kiera Maloney |
| Bullfight | by | Stephen Saltarelli |
| Bush Kill | by | Ross Evison |
| Bushfire | by | Philip Davey |
| Candice | by | Jake Hansen |
| Capacocha | by | Daniel R. Green & H. Cheyenne Green |
| Casanova | by | Darren Robert Tibbits |
| Cole Steele | by | Michael Brodin |
| Completists | by | Scott Kawczynski |
| Crashing Camelot | by | Mark DeAngelis & John Stimpson |
| Crossing Bass Straight | by | Ben Morton |
| Cul-De-Sac | by | Jeremy Leder & Alex Van Pelt |
| Daffodil | by | Christina Wollerman |
| Dago Harlem | by | Chris Caleo |
| Dance of the Wounded | by | Asim Abbasi |
| Dark Stars | by | Michael Burgner |
| Darktown Blues | by | Ruth Knafo Setton |
| Day Job | by | Ralph Bismargi |
| Death of an Ortolan | by | Justin Piasecki |
| Debbie the Viking | by | Graham Parke |
| Deepest, Darkest or How Not To Lie | by | Paras S. Borgohain |
| Destruction | by | Patricia Steffy |
| Dog | by | Conall Pendergast |
| Dog & Kat | by | Daniel Putkowski |
| Donuts | by | Daniel Cohen |
| Dream Baby | by | Michael Ajakwe Jr. & Bruce McAllister |
| Entanglement | by | Rebecca Sue Haber |
| Eulology | by | Martin Williams |
| Everybody’s share | by | Nicola Pagano & Francesca Borgo |
| Expat | by | Ero Karlsen |
| Extinction Protocol | by | Martin Gomez |
| Finding Sam Brown | by | Maria Gigante |
| First to Find | by | Liana Winters Thomas |
| Flash | by | Torgeir Blok & Jahfed Wismans |
| Forgiving Evil | by | Michael Scherer |
| Frankie and Fabulous | by | Kimberly J. Shumate |
| Freewheeler | by | Chris Tolley |
| From the Start | by | Mark Reinhold |
| From the Tree | by | Matthew Alaniz |
| Fuck. Superhero. Movies. | by | Steven Schwartzstein |
| Furry Thieves | by | Chris Russell |
| Gentlemen’s Bluff | by | Dawn LeFever |
| Getting It Right | by | Katherine Fox |
| Ghost Bros | by | Sascha Karner & Scott Lister |
| Girls of Nephele | by | Bathilde Odolant |
| Golan’s Holm | by | Tasso Dattenberg-Doyle |
| Grass Monkeys | by | Matt Wildash |
| Grey Skies | by | Michael Reese & Adam Schwartz |
| Hearts of the South | by | Tamara Shure |
| Heaven’s Mistake | by | Brandon Montgomery |
| Hetero | by | Brennan Robideaux |
| Hijita de Papa | by | Hannah Leshaw |
| Hired Goons | by | Tom Fallows |
| Horatio Vs. The Monsters of Denmark | by | Tommy Trull |
| House of No | by | Leslie Greene |
| House Unamerican | by | Deirdre Sparrow |
| Humans Among Humans | by | Carylanna Taylor & Jacob Akira Okada |
| I Hate Mondays | by | Farrin Rosenthal |
| I Hate You | by | Monique Gramby |
| Idle Youth | by | Lauren Fitzgerald |
| Ignorant | by | Anita Justice Skibski |
| Ill Conceived | by | Jeannette Cormier |
| In Her Name | by | Richard Smith |
| In The Cradle of Granite | by | Jonathan Holmes |
| Incinta | by | William Schlichter |
| Inspired | by | Steven Harvey & Peter Ohara |
| Intellectual Beauty | by | Sherece Lamke |
| Iris and Rudolph and Pauly and Frederick are Liars | by | Susan Brunig |
| Jackson | by | John Henderson |
| Jura | by | Alex Mullarky |
| Kibera | by | Apolos Israel |
| Kids Rule | by | Jill Gurr |
| Kill or Cure | by | Charlotte Cameron |
| King Ghezo | by | Gildas Segbede Tchekpo |
| Layla… And Other Assorted Love Songs | by | Derek Weissbein |
| Let’s Kill D.B. Cooper | by | Mark Price |
| Life Expectancy | by | Louis Ackerman |
| Like a Rock | by | Tyler Gallimore |
| Little Earthquakes | by | Todd Bird |
| Looking Up and Coming Down: The Legacy of Walter Strink | by | T.J. Peters |
| Lost Touch | by | Richard M. Lamborne |
| Love is a Battlefield | by | Jai Brandon |
| Love Me Tomorrow | by | Kent Moran |
| Lovestuck | by | Bob Cousins |
| Lucky Dog | by | Annabel Osborne |
| Major Arcana | by | Kevin Alexander |
| Make Believe | by | Ryan Little |
| Mayfly | by | Adam Cosco |
| Memorial | by | John Whitcher |
| Mercy | by | Stephen McCann |
| Mexican/American | by | Michael Ryan Hahn |
| Miss Juneteenth | by | Channing Godfrey Peoples |
| Moirai: A Memoir | by | Stacie Gancayco-Adlao |
| Mona. Richy. Robby. And Ray | by | Declan Holliman |
| Monogamish | by | Steve Moody |
| Never a Word of a Lie | by | Karl Mather |
| Niagara Falls | by | Amanda Toye |
| Nicole Jones | by | Haris Leventi |
| Nomad | by | Maziar Lahooti |
| Nomia | by | Callie Nichole Lyons |
| North Point | by | David Vlcek & Steve Spremo |
| Not A Word | by | Tim Knowles |
| Octegenarians! | by | Kodjo Tsakpo |
| Old Moon | by | Calvin Pembroke |
| Older Gods | by | Anne Carmack |
| One and Another | by | Tim Maddren |
| Orshu Oblix and the Okino Six | by | Morris Long |
| Out of Shape | by | Angela Ryan |
| Over The Clouds | by | Guilherme Viegas |
| Ozymandias | by | Gary Files |
| Pain Perdu | by | Jacquelyn Poplar |
| Pan Dulce | by | Jesus Celaya |
| Paper Wraps Fire | by | Ernest Leong |
| Paper, Metal, and Bones | by | Danny Reckart |
| Parody | by | Chad J. Nelson & Alexander Ellerston |
| Play to Win | by | Sam Mandegaran & Kimberly J. Bowman |
| Plummet | by | Michael Zaracostas |
| Portraits | by | Dan Moyer Jr. |
| Profitable Pulp | by | D.H. MacAulay |
| Purdah | by | Shakti Bhagchandani |
| Quiet Borderline | by | Elizabeth Samaroo |
| Quince | by | Monzerrat Lozano |
| Real Social Dynamics | by | Ted Sim |
| Rebuild | by | Nikki Wallin & Ed Collins |
| Renaissance Man | by | Robert Tolz |
| Replica | by | Anthony Khaseria |
| Reset | by | Kaye Scott |
| Rhyme or Reason | by | Armando Fente Jr. & Robert Fente |
| Romp | by | Craig Paulsen |
| Rudi | by | Michael Gibney |
| Rumblegus | by | Joseph J. Greenberg |
| Running | by | Gregory D. Goyins |
| Safety Second | by | Joe Collevecchio & Kat Croft |
| Sanguine | by | Andrew K. Meyer & Daniel Manche |
| Saving Grace (Suburbia Staying Alive) | by | Regina Robert |
| Selfie | by | Declan Butvick |
| Shoe City | by | Renee Buck |
| Shooting in Vein | by | Doug Nelson & Jared Januschka |
| Signs of Warning | by | Taylor Albertson |
| So Long, Claus | by | Richard Toscan |
| Somata | by | Alex Mathias |
| Some Kind of Miracle | by | Arun Narayanan |
| Sophie & Valentina | by | Lucero Delgado |
| Souled | by | David Records |
| Speak English | by | Kieran Angelini |
| Starkiller | by | David L. Williams |
| State of Believerment | by | Kristen Tracy |
| Still Waters | by | Raolat Abiola |
| Stirling Silver | by | Justin Grundfast |
| Stray Dog Cafe | by | Joseph D’Agosta |
| String Theory | by | Vincent Accettola |
| Sunshine Estates | by | Aaron Miller |
| #Super$lut | by | Lindsay Stidham & Angela Gulner |
| Taming the Beast | by | Thurane Aung Khin, Dary Matera, & Kenn Long |
| Tasting Home | by | Judith Newton |
| The Actor | by | Tim Chan |
| The Adventures of the Velvet Cat | by | Bob Canning |
| The Atomic Sun Was A Red Gold Ring | by | Tyler Henderson |
| The Aviaries of Dr. Vogel | by | Daniel Pike |
| The Big D | by | Samantha Buck & Marie Schlingmann |
| The Bonus Day | by | Kimberley Ann Sparks |
| The Cargo | by | Billie Jo Mason |
| The Clown is Down | by | Esra Saydam |
| The Corrupted | by | Richard James Halstead |
| The Dog King | by | Doug Mallette |
| The Dove | by | Ben Murray |
| The Dying Days | by | Ryan Patterson |
| The Firebird | by | Suzanne Egan |
| The Flight | by | Joshua Provonchee |
| The Fundraiser | by | Russell Nelson |
| The Godmammy | by | Anna-Marie Hinds |
| The Golden Cage | by | J.J. Islas |
| The Hotstepper | by | Beth King |
| The Immaculate | by | Barry Sherman |
| The Last Contact | by | David Danfulani |
| The Law of Gravity | by | Janna Jilnina |
| The Lazarus Event | by | Graham Parke |
| The Lonely Veil | by | Andrew Norman |
| The Loop | by | Jaleesa Jones |
| The Man Who Cheats Death | by | Katherine Miller & Patience Rector |
| The Motel Experience | by | Ingrid Eskeland-Adetuyi |
| The Muffin Men | by | Laura Garrison |
| The New Americans | by | Johnny Sanchez |
| The Opposer | by | Andrew Brown |
| The Peacock’s Tale | by | Steven T. Grubart |
| The Pierpoint Corporation Space Adventures of Nucleod 19 Television Showcase Hour | by | David Sergenian |
| The Playlists | by | Michael Kotsiros |
| The Queen | by | Sara Rose Feinberg |
| The Role Of A Lifetime | by | Robert Rosenbaum |
| The Shangmao Steinway | by | Robert B. Taylor |
| The Skins Game | by | Justin Neal |
| The Skrunda Solution | by | David E Starobin |
| The Spanish Affair | by | Tony Hua |
| The Spy | by | Andrew Slattery |
| The Stark Vendetta | by | Paul Sheridan |
| The Station | by | Andrew Byrne |
| The Stella Destina | by | T.J. Redhead |
| The Stitcher | by | Tim Westland & Rod Thompson |
| The Story of Lola | by | Vojislav Pejovic |
| The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother | by | Anita Brandt Burgoyne |
| The Three Little Girls | by | Deborah Meyer |
| The Tiger Killer | by | M. Vanessa Coto |
| The Uncommon Life of Charlie Shenanigan | by | Tim Remley |
| The Voyage of Genesis 2 | by | David Thorndill |
| The Warrior’s Ballad | by | R.L. Dean |
| The Wedding Kimono | by | Jim Clarken & Isabella Codd |
| The Writer | by | Esta Steyn |
| The Yesterday Doctor | by | Anne Katherine |
| Thesis | by | Julianne Iannone |
| Threshold | by | Tom Trott |
| Title IX | by | Haydn Fox |
| Tivoli | by | Alexandra Edmondson |
| .torrent | by | Maxwell Heesch |
| Trackers | by | Dean Edelson |
| True Believers | by | Alan Clay |
| Tussaud | by | Cat Youell & Brad Crowe |
| Two Entangled | by | Dawn LeFever |
| Unconventional | by | Christopher Kearney |
| Undead Outlaws | by | Matthew David |
| Untapped | by | Chloe Hung |
| Valedictorian | by | Jimmy Mosqueda |
| War: The Cataclysmic Experience | by | Bert Emrick |
| Wavelength | by | Reinaldo Garcia |
| Werewomen | by | Eric Hueber |
| Western Evils | by | Frank Ruy |
| What Not to Forget | by | Joe Borg |
| Where Moths Destroy | by | Jordan Strand |
| Wild Boys | by | Alexander Hendrie |
| Wind River Drift | by | Connie O’Donahue |
| Winners Never Fly Solo | by | Steven Thadeus |
| Wish | by | Laura Dembowski |
| With All Deliberate Speed | by | Marcus Herzberg |
| Women of Wonder | by | Chas Fisher |
| Work in Progress | by | Josh Bradley |
| Yellow | by | Kamal Moo |
| Your Children Well | by | Katie White |
| Zambes | by | Marcus Wilson |
Short Screenplay
The 2016 Short Screenplay Winner will receive a $10,000 USD cash prize. Three Finalists will receive $2,000 each.
This year, we received a total of 2,086 Short Screenplays.
| #FatTina | by | Isabel Navarro & Chiara Sander |
| 2 Men in a Bunker | by | Robert G. Casiello & Jonathan R. Paine |
| 5 Moons of Pluto | by | Bradford Walton |
| 9 Lives | by | Justin Scutieri & Blair Tanenbaum |
| A Dinner with Death | by | Samir Asthana |
| Ace Killington | by | Thomas Lynn |
| Acrylic | by | Robert Jackson |
| Admit One | by | Riley Gowan |
| An Accident | by | Daniel Chase Leviton |
| An Eye for an Eye | by | Ruth Herrberg-Schubert |
| Apart | by | Elizabeth Capot |
| Bar Fly | by | David Mullin |
| Barcode | by | Bill Scheggia |
| Blackface | by | Shanrica Evans |
| Blub | by | Daniel Brennan |
| Bonne Nuit | by | Zoey Kortz |
| Break | by | Jennie Fahn |
| Cantina | by | Jesus Celaya |
| Cassandra | by | George Ding |
| Cat & Mouse | by | Jeremy Storey |
| Cat Black | by | Al Anderson |
| Catcophany | by | Nathan Summerlin |
| Changelings | by | Nic Yulo |
| Charlie the Chaplain | by | Marco Ianniello |
| Children Of The Rat | by | Luis Zhang |
| Cold Hard Cash | by | Sarah Brims |
| Colour Me Pretty | by | Jacolby Percy |
| Darlings | by | Elisa Graybill |
| Defrosted | by | Julie Su |
| Doin’ It | by | Clarence Williams IV |
| Don’t be late | by | Marc Henderson |
| Double Trouble | by | Pamela Rodeheaver |
| Drought | by | Rich Hill |
| Finch and the Witch | by | Ben Shupe |
| First of April | by | Giancarlo Fusi |
| Fish Dog Wife | by | Jeffrey K. Miller |
| Frenemies | by | Kathryn F. Taylor |
| FutureHealth | by | Sarah Polhaus |
| Gloria’s Worms | by | Maegan Houang |
| Go Fly A Kite | by | Robert Shill |
| Grain | by | Alejandro Seri |
| Guest | by | Jason Thomas Gray |
| Hand Signal | by | Anita J. Louis |
| Happy Birthday | by | Annabelle Hood |
| Hell’s Zoo | by | Connie Wright |
| Help Me Brother! | by | Louis Chan & Yuan Hu |
| Henry Porter | by | Lee M. Krempel |
| I Sleep Easy | by | Tess Carroll |
| If It Happens Again I’ll Kill You | by | Lisa Jay |
| It’s My World, Dog! | by | Jeremy Fairman |
| Jacob | by | Chase Caldwell |
| Jimmy’s Eulogy | by | Aaron Marshall |
| Kiss and Make Up | by | Kerry Patten |
| Krognog | by | Austin Jay Mills |
| Kubrick By Candlelight | by | David O’Reilly |
| Latchkey | by | Brian Sanders |
| Leap | by | Jacob Beavers |
| Loco Motive | by | Mike Willoughby & James Littlewood |
| M.A.N.S. | by | Peter T. Clarke |
| Manly Ness | by | Katie Grotzinger |
| me<HE | by | Courtney Takabayashi |
| Men of Paper | by | Brian MacEvilly |
| Merry | by | Peter Maple |
| Messerschmidt | by | Jeremy Yonzon |
| Miss Caramel | by | Carolyn Corben & Rachel Tillotson |
| Missed | by | Beth Dodson |
| Naanii | by | Zac Taylor |
| Necessary Evil | by | Adam Slutsky |
| Not a Sound | by | Matt Richards |
| Pa’s Money | by | Laura Shields |
| Petite Dame Nuage D’Orage | by | Jason M. Fylan |
| Pride and Joy | by | Justin Olstein |
| PSL | by | Michael Brazda & Chloe Tuck |
| Rare | by | Daniel Guest |
| Restitution | by | Migizi Pensoneau |
| Run, My Dear | by | Marjory Kaptanoglu |
| Sam and Doug | by | Brendan Cleaves |
| Seat of Death | by | Andrew McGivern |
| Seven Minutes to Closing | by | Kim Nunley |
| Shoot Me, Antonia | by | Eric Emma |
| Sight Unseen | by | Chloe Tuck |
| Skullduggery | by | Nicholas Allen-Woolfe |
| Suited Reality | by | Aki Parhamaa & Anders Vacklin |
| Superhero Supper Club | by | Bill Scheggia |
| Swallowed | by | Richard Marvin |
| Tale Of Seven Sons | by | Andrea Wukitsch |
| The Best Little Neighborhood In Chickasaw County | by | Thomas Kennedy Pope |
| The Bug | by | Ryan Kessler |
| The Burglary | by | Hendrik De Smet |
| The Clanmore | by | Casandra Corrales & Topher Naylor |
| The Darkest Place | by | Christopher Jeal & Declan Taaffe |
| The Dollar Store | by | Hannah McMechan |
| The Drinker of Dust | by | Ashlee Renz-Hotz |
| The Elevator Most Belonging To Alice | by | Bill Sarre |
| The Eulogy Project | by | Cindy Heath |
| The Girl in the Window | by | Jaye Swift |
| The Girl with the Radioactive Teeth | by | Felipe Javier Hernando Meneses |
| The Iron Claws | by | James Hartley |
| The Key To A Man’s Heart | by | James Schlesinger |
| The Last Meatloaf | by | Samuel Laskey |
| The Long Run | by | William Fanelli |
| The Marriage Counselor | by | Ace Hasan |
| The Red Villa | by | Rahdy Elwan |
| The Second Beatle to Die | by | Carlos Schroeder |
| The Shelf | by | Shaun Radecki |
| The Shrink | by | Raj Rohit Gottipolu |
| The Sixth Line | by | Richard A. Harrold |
| The Tennis Racket Conundrum | by | Matthew Onorato |
| The Watcher in the Room | by | M.D. Snider |
| Threesome | by | Jennifer Wegerer |
| Too Short The Peace | by | Milethia Thomas |
| Torn | by | Piotr Jamróz |
| TV in the Fish Tail | by | Iesh Thapar |
| Valerie Ann’s Perfect Man | by | Scott Bourne |
| Voglio Sognare (I Want to Dream) | by | Jenny Bahn |
| We’re Not Broken | by | Jessy Leigh |
| When We Run | by | NIkki Tran |
| Will | by | Alex Alvarez |
| Ziggy | by | Elizabeth Wallace |
Joplin Award
Each year, BlueCat awards a $2,000 USD cash prize to the best feature screenplay submitted to the competition from a screenwriter residing outside of the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom.
This year, we received a total of 503 Feature Screenplays from outside of the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom.
| A Leader Prepares | by | Pietro Seghetti | Italy |
| Alchemy Lost | by | Henry de Hoon | Netherlands |
| American Spring | by | Willie Hynd | Australia |
| Bloodhounds | by | David Marantz | France |
| Borderline | by | Philip Tarl Denson | Australia |
| Bushfire | by | Philip Davey | Australia |
| Clown is Down | by | Esra Saydam | Turkey |
| Crossing Bass Straight | by | Ben Morton | Australia |
| Day Job | by | Ralph Bismargi | France |
| Dear Grandpa | by | Abraham Marcos | Mexico |
| Debbie The Viking | by | Graham Parke | Netherlands |
| Emerald | by | Naira Gevorkyan | Hong Kong |
| Eulology | by | Martin Williams | Australia |
| Everybody’s share | by | Nicola Pagano & Francesca Borgo | Malta |
| Expat | by | Ero Karlsen | Norway |
| Fiver Fingers for Marseilles | by | Sean Drummond | South Africa |
| Flash | by | Torgeir Blok & Jahfed Wismans | Norway |
| Frau Einstein | by | Selena Stankovic | Serbia and Montenegro |
| Ghost Bros | by | Sascha Karner & Scott Lister | Australia |
| Girls of Nephele | by | Bathilde Odolant | France |
| Gulp | by | Nikhail Asnani | Hong Kong |
| Jura | by | Alex Mullarky | Australia |
| King Ghezo | by | Gildas Segbede Tchekpo | Nigeria |
| Leo, The Hero | by | Inga Vosk | Russia |
| Lucky Dog | by | Annabel Osborne | Australia |
| Never a Word of a Lie | by | Karl Mather | Australia |
| Niagara Falls | by | Amanda Toye | Costa Rica |
| Nicole Jones | by | Haris Leventi | Greece |
| Nomad | by | Maziar Lahooti | Australia |
| Once Upon A Stuff | by | Eduardo Passarelli | Brazil |
| One and Another | by | Tim Maddren | Australia |
| Out Of Shape | by | Angela Ryan | Singapore |
| Over The Clouds | by | Guilherme Viegas | Portugal |
| Ozymandias | by | Gary Files | Australia |
| Pain Perdu | by | Jacquelyn Poplar | Netherlands |
| Parody | by | Chad J. Nelson & Alexander Ellerston | Australia |
| Pipeland | by | Karl Mather | Australia |
| Rudi | by | Michael Gibney | Ireland |
| Saving Grace (Suburbia Staying Alive) | by | Regina Robert | Germany |
| Sophie & Valentina | by | Lucero Delgado | Mexico |
| Stuck | by | Wesley Javier Verastegui Arteaga | Peru |
| Swimming with Sammy | by | Daniel Andrew Wunderer | Austria |
| The Actor | by | Tim Chan | Hong Kong |
| The Corrupted | by | Richard James Halstead | Indonesia |
| The Hotstepper | by | Beth King | Australia |
| The Last Contact | by | David Danfulani | Nigeria |
| The Lazarus Event | by | Graham Parke | Netherlands |
| The Playlists | by | Michael Kotsiros | Australia |
| The Shangmao Steinway | by | Robert Taylor | Australia |
| The Spy | by | Andrew Slattery | Australia |
| The Station | by | Andrew Byrne | Australia |
| The Stella Destina | by | TJ Redhead | Australia |
| The Wedding Kimono | by | Jim Clarken & Isabella Codd | Ireland |
| The Writer | by | Esta Steyn | South Africa |
| Tivoli | by | Alexandra Edmondson | Australia |
| True Believers | by | Alan Clay | New Zealand |
| Tshepa Themba | by | Yolanda Mogatusi | South Africa |
| War the Cataclysmic Experience | by | Bert Emrick | Virgin Islands |
| Women of Wonder | by | Chas Fisher | Australia |
Cordelia Award
Named after one of our favorite dramatic characters, the Cordelia Award will be presented to the best feature screenplay submitted by a writer residing in the United Kingdom. The winner will receive a $2,000 USD cash prize.
This year, we received a total of 414 total Feature Screenplays from the United Kingdom.
| Big Red | by | Brennig Hayden |
| Castles in the Air | by | Louise Cogan |
| Dance of the Wounded | by | Asim Abbasi |
| Free Falling | by | Karelia Scott-Daniels |
| Freewheeler | by | Chris Tolley |
| Function Creep | by | Jonathan Carr |
| Golan’s Holm | by | Tasso Dattenberg-Doyle |
| Grace | by | Ryan Boyd |
| Grass Monkeys | by | Matt Wildash |
| Hired Goons | by | Tom Fallows |
| Humble Pie | by | Martin Stocks |
| Inspired | by | Steven Harvey & Peter Ohara |
| Kill or Cure | by | Charlotte Cameron |
| Life Expectancy | by | Louis Ackerman |
| Liminal | by | Rob Moore |
| Murderabilia | by | Matt Haynes |
| Neighbourhood | by | Patrick Monger |
| Octegenarians! | by | Kodjo Tsakpo |
| Once Upon a Time in the East | by | Tom Mann |
| Replica | by | Anthony Khaseria |
| Scarlett | by | Toby Moses |
| Serinus Serinus | by | Tom Mann |
| Skin Deep | by | Lisa Howells |
| Somata | by | Alex Mathias |
| Stealing Rosie Blue | by | Stewart Sugg |
| Straight Shot | by | John Shackleton and David Hughes |
| Superzero | by | Ed Connole |
| Tag | by | Janice Hallett |
| The Fundraiser | by | Russell Nelson |
| The Godmammy | by | Anna-Marie Hinds |
| The Lonely Veil | by | Andrew Norman |
| The Long Road | by | Teresa Godfrey |
| The People We Lost | by | Tom Boughton |
| The Sad Triumph of Caroline Norton | by | KT Parker |
| The Strange Days | by | Alice Seabright |
| Threshold | by | Tom Trott |
| Title IX | by | Haydn Fox |
| Welcome to SAG | by | Elsa O’Toole |
| What Not to Forget | by | Joe Borg |
Roshan Award
The inaugural Roshan Award will be presented to the best feature screenplay submitted by a writer residing in India. The winner will receive a $2,000 USD cash prize.
This year, we received a total of 43 total Feature Screenplays from India.
| Adhoore | by | Rohan Narula & Rahul V. Chittella |
| Bardo | by | Ravi Krishnan |
| Be The Man | by | Darshit A.V. |
| Bent | by | Karan Mirchandani |
| Corvus Ingeniosi | by | Saikat Mukherjee & Sumita Banerjee |
| Deepest, Darkest or How Not To Lie | by | Paras S. Borgohain |
| Head Above the Parapet | by | Bhivesh Behl |
| In the Shadows | by | Dipesh Jain |
| Jazz-Baazi Nights | by | Karan Mirchandani |
| New Delhi York | by | Mansi Nirmal Jain |
| Pooja | by | Latha Krishna |
| Shoonya | by | Harihar M Thaker |
| The Gun Show | by | Karishma Jhalani |
| The Performer | by | Nandana Sen |
| The Pickpocket | by | Rajnish Mehra |
| The Watchmaker | by | Dipesh Jain |
| Under | by | Karan Mirchandani |
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