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Eddie Prunoske – 2023 Grand Prize Winner

Eddie Prunoske – 2023 Grand Prize Winner

  I was an effeminate gay kid in the late 90s/early aughts, coming of age at a time when queerness was far from the mainstream. Homophobic and racist antagonisms ran rampant in school hallways, and juvenile bullying was not yet a hot button concern. Fantasy and...
Jannik Ohlendieck – 2023 Feature Winner

Jannik Ohlendieck – 2023 Feature Winner

“The Black Sheep” is a darkly comic take on brotherhood, family, extremism, violence and guilt. The screenplay takes place in rural Ireland and presents a dire situation that gradually gets out of hand. Innocent people are pulled into the undertakings of...
Zan Gillies – 2023 Pilot Winner

Zan Gillies – 2023 Pilot Winner

  I’ve been lightly obsessed with the rivalry between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh since I first heard about it in an undergrad paleontology class. Their history is simultaneously absurd and tragic – on the one hand a comedy of manners and on the other a Greek...
Eva Everett Irving – 2023 Short Winner

Eva Everett Irving – 2023 Short Winner

F*ck You: (Dark Comedy, Dystopia) Raisa teaches ballet to children–––24 years-old, a winning smile, perfect posture and intolerant to gluten, she is the picture of poise. Yet, the world around her tells a different kind of story. The sidewalks of her city are stained...
Guy Ducker – 2023 Fellini Winner

Guy Ducker – 2023 Fellini Winner

Saviours started out as a sideways look at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. How would we feel if we were being occupied by a superior power, if the Earth was declared a ‘failed state’ by an alien civilization? What if that alien power arrived in force and deposed...