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Brandon Shypkowski – 2025 Feature Screenplay Finalist

Brandon Shypkowski – 2025 Feature Screenplay Finalist

I’m an LGBTQ screenwriter and filmmaker from Los Angeles and a Graphics Reporter for National Geographic Magazine. I’m currently developing a half-hour horror/comedy with Hazy Mills and have directed several shorts that have won awards on the festival circuit. My...
Alexandra Lee – 2025 Short Film Script Finalist

Alexandra Lee – 2025 Short Film Script Finalist

I am a screenwriter, director, and actor based in Los Angeles. My pronouns are she/her. I discovered my love for screenwriting while attending the University of Michigan, where I immersed myself in script analysis. I wrote the first draft of Santoku in my childhood...
Leah Saint Marie – 2025 Short Film Script Finalist

Leah Saint Marie – 2025 Short Film Script Finalist

Leah Saint Marie is an investigative journalist turned filmmaker. During her time as a reporter for the Innocence Institute she helped exonerate a man from prison who had spent 25 years wrongfully convicted. As a filmmaker she wrote the award-winning documentary,...
Alia Zeid – 2025 Short Film Script Finalist

Alia Zeid – 2025 Short Film Script Finalist

Mine To Keep is an amalgamation of my Spanish grandfather, the film The Father, the reality show Hoarders, and the television series Severance. I wanted to write a script that portrayed dementia in a liminal and metaphorical space, one that could represent how it...