Screenplay Award 2022

A charismatic young boy who lives on a rubbish dump in Zimbabwe must convince a reclusive boxing coach to teach him to fight in order to find safety and strength in a world that has left him behind.

The outer limits of government’s influence on race policies are tested when the political pendulum dramatically swings far left to extreme right in the not-too-distant future, and a group of young idealists fight to hold on to their human rights.

Triggered by her son's illness, a determined mother journeys through fantasy, dreams, and reality as she tries to save his young life.

A college graduate on the way to her first big-city job is abducted when an infamous serial killer escapes during a prisoner transport—to survive, she must overcome her debilitating fear of confined spaces or become his next victim.

After the unexpected illness of her mother, a young girl finds solace in an international R&B star, risking her real life relationships.

"Mankind's rebirth continues after the conflict between the Oil and Technology industries power struggle for control of the planet an outlier's family legacy is all that stands against Earth's final extinction!"

The horrible lives of a few troubled young people link together on their quest to search for a device that can answer any question in the world.

Three boys at a sleepaway summer camp discover an abandoned, Old West town that is home to a dark spirit with intent on vengeance.

A woman who goes to great lengths to contain the trauma from her past, despite the constant gaslighting from her estranged family, ultimately realizes that it can’t be controlled.

When a mysterious woman shows up at his Maine home, an elderly survivor of America’s indigenous boarding school system must reckon with his supernatural past, while trying to convince his daughter that it even happened at all.

Two teenage boys, one grieving the recent death of his neo-Nazi father, and the other the son of a prophetic Jewish rabbi, must bury their hate for each other when they become the unlikely survivors of a mass extinction event.

A journalist crosses the line to stop Argentina's brutal dictatorship in 1976.

Twenty years after a mysterious event split reality and destroyed data records, a woman contends with quantum weirdness and a shadowy government agency to find the daughter she gave up for adoption.

A spunky Holocaust survivor journeys down the Mississippi River with her teenage caregiver to fulfill her dying wish of returning home to New Orleans. Despite her dementia, she recovers memories from her tragic past that give new meaning to her life.

When a school outing goes horribly wrong, introverted teen Valeria must save herself and her obnoxious classmates from a giant man-eating creature who lives in the heart of a sinister forest.

When a Jewish pathologist Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, is sent to work for 'Angel of Death' Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz, he struggles to maintain his humanity as he is forced to endure the horrors of the Holocaust.

After moving to a xenophobic town in the boonies, a young boy must make a heartbreaking decision: reunite his estranged parents and return to his old life in the city, or save a town that never wanted him from a very real alien threat that could change the fabric of our universe.

After a prophecy destroys a kingdom, a new generation of diverse Greek and Indian heroes and heroines emerge to confront a mythical foe and pursue a new reign of peace—or terror.

After accidentally killing a convenience store robber in Brooklyn and becoming an overnight hero, Eli must navigate his offbeat journey through stardom and guilt with the spiritual guidance of Sandy Koufax, the pitcher for the 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers.

A disgraced and out of work private detective scores a case that can redeem him, but must rely on his ex, a master thief, to solve it before the police do.