Screenplay Award 2022

A Psych Prof specializing in relationships, gets schooled on love by a new hire.

A young, Orthodox Jewish woman finally breaks free from harrowing domestic abuse and reclaims her true sexual identity and life purpose.

Four lovable friends set out to change the game of chess at the biggest tournament in the world, but the pretentious old guard will stop at nothing to see them fail.

When hustler-preneur Omar Richards struggles to find investors for his new sneaker resale business, he and his coworkers at their shitty-day-job as tele-fundraisers raise capital by creating a scam nonprofit that alleges to teach underprivileged kids how to sail.

Two hapless men start doing favors for each other.

When a Queen chooses her lover over the King, her daughter is kidnapped to provoke a war.

A realm torn apart by royal conflict is struck with a plague worse than the Black Death.

Two ambitious docotors have just launched the world’s first nano-robotic birth control. One doctor is set on liberating women while the other is out for revenge.

Intergenerational members of the Finch family love one another. But their world is tough. Too often, their experiences fall short. Rape. Addiction. Abuse. They buckle and fall prey to sabotaging each other’s happiness. Yet their will to do good is strong. When the time comes, they sacrifice hard.

A newcomer production assistant finds her family in a group of eclectic crew members working on a TV show, and together they navigate the pressure, silliness, and magic of filmmaking, one dead-eyed smoke break at a time.

An accident on a balcony plunges 12 year-old Ante into the Underworld, together with her worst enemy, Florence, and a ghostly boy, Gil. Descending the circles of Hell with her enemy, set upon by monsters and demons, she must fight for both of their lives - if Florence isn't dead already, that is.

Conducting a dangerous, adventurous, unexpected journey by making a deal with a supernatural being makes a man learn a simple truth that sometimes the ordinary things define a hero not the extraordinary one.

Màiri Maguire teaches in top schools all over the world, but on days like today she wishes she had never left Glasgow! Narrowly escaping murder by terrorists, Màiri boards the Express to Istanbul, only to face still deadlier danger. Is she doomed to be caught up in the Major's intrigues forever?

Màiri Maguire teaches in top schools all over the world, but on days like today she wishes she'd never left Glasgow!
8:10 a.m. 15th August 1970. They’ve been in Paris only 12 hours. Màiri's best friend Lianna is locked up in jail, charged with murder. Màiri is being hunted by murderous criminals

Alya Manning, a nine-year-old girl, tries to unfold the mystery of a stone cylinder that was left by her late mother
with her best friend, Ben.

When a serial killer targets London's gay community in the 1980s, Kev Harris, a young rookie detective in a vehemently homophobic police force, pieces together clues from his internal struggle with his sexuality to find the killer and save gay London.

A young British soldier suffering from PTSD deserts the army and hides away in an inner city housing estate. Now, can his unlikely friendships with a frightened old woman and a troublesome young tearaway halt his deadly descent into darkness?

A dissolute runaway stumbles into a world of cloak and
dagger politics. Staging a coup will turn out to be a lot less fun
and a lot more dangerous than he initially imagined.

After his father destroys his childhood, a film-obsessed young man grows up in the picture-perfect worlds of his beloved films until he’s forced to confront reality and his traumatic past or face losing the woman he loves.

A meticulously planned contract cancelled, a disgruntled hitman goes AWOL, wanting a break at the resort instead, but needs to see its bright lights cast mean shadows.