Screenplay Award 2022

After losing everything when she left an abusive partner, a woman is determined to begin a new chapter only to find herself fighting against the Kafkaesque system of bureaucracy and homelessness in New York City.

The Great Awakening follows four brilliant, socially awkward bowling buddies who have been chosen by the Intergalactic Federation of Peaceful Civilizations to write a summertime blockbuster movie. Their assignment: Have fun while preventing an alien takeover of planet Earth.

Newly single mother of two teenage daughters is catapulted on a wild ride of healing after a mysterious illness takes over their lives. A story of resilience, courage, and hope while experimenting on the edge of healthcare.

Southeast Asian American tomboy can't escape her culinary heritage of cooking rice every day even as she matures into adulthood.

Jen decided she wanted to have a baby, but endured 2 miscarriages before deciding to adopt. She went to Vietnam where everything went wrong. She found her daughter in the most unexpected place! Along the way she learned to let go enough to allow the universe to guide her to her daughter.

Set in Thailand - the corruption and combat between two policemen.

To Lucy, a 1980's teenager, everything seems weird about the Victorian house caught in a time warp. Especially the mysterious housekeeper. With the discovery of a diary she is drawn in by the spirit of a Victorian girl and becomes obsessed with finding answers.

A found-footage horror meets workplace mockumentary about four people who hunt monsters, ghosts, demons, and fouler things from beyond the fragile limits of our reality. And on weekends, they go bowling.

Under the watchful eye of the KGB, a Soviet ballerina learns that her brother--the company's star dancer--is planning to defect during a tour to New York.

When Maiya's mother spends the rent money on a vaginal steam and they're evicted, Maiya has to face her worst fear to give her anxious sister a home - moving into the family crematorium and becoming the meat in the psycho sandwich between her narcissistic, hippie mother and controlling grandmother.

Four women with recently-acquired disabilities try to navigate the ups and downs of life and love after the events that altered their lives forever.

Inspired by real historical characters, a medieval tapestry of relics, prophecies, forbidden love, and political scheming. Set between Germany and Italy, with a cast of princes, popes, cardinals, and women who want to rule in a man's world. Hamlet meets The Medici and The Borgias.

Becoming a new stepfather or stepson is almost never easy, but with 12-year-old Tobias, who views the world as a terrible place to be, it is an extra pain to discover your new stepdad is a semi-bizarre newspaper columnist with an embarrassing sense of humor.

Emily Owen was a multi talented teenager with the world at her feet. Highly intelligent, athletic and a gifted musician, she was destined to excel in whichever field she chose to pursue. At the age of 16, Emily was diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis Type 2. It stole her hearing, and changed her life.

When Greek Cypriot man, Christos, falls in love Turkish Cypriot man, Taylan, during the summer of 1974, Christos can't break free from the shackles of religious and societal expectation to marry his fiancée Anna. But when Turkey invades Cyprus, he's forced to choose between obligation and love.

Flora returns to Madrid in order to find answers about her missing mother. Her father, who has been absent for many years, keeps the truth hidden. Flora dies in desperation after realizing all the unfathomable truths about her mother and herself from a stranger Flora loves.

When a Saxon earl risks all to shield Danelaw converts from the king's ethnic cleansing, his daughter, Elfyifa, must choose -- free will or freedom, principle or peace -- as England's new queen, Emma, maneuvers the kingdom ever closer to her own Norman conquest. Based on a true story.

Amelie and Benjamin have loved each other all their lives. Now their relationship exists only in dreams. But they’ll soon learn why they’re apart, and what horrors stand in the way of their reunion. No matter, they both must face their demons and defeat them to regain what they’d thought was lost.

Alexis Woods' violent brother has spent his life making sure she remained untouched by other men. But when his rash actions ensure her imminent death, her only lifelong friend must expose his deepest secret to save her. A secret that could put more than just the two of them in mortal danger.

An ex-drug dealer is put up in a safe house after turning state’s evidence, only to be betrayed by the police and left vulnerable to a vengeful drug lord. In order to survive, he’ll have to rely on the friends he’s made in his new home town. But his allies may prove a worse threat than his enemies.