Feature Film Screenplay Award (must select one award category)
After unexplained tremors strike his suburban neighborhood, a newly retired software engineer teams up with his conspiracy-obsessed neighbor to investigate a growing environmental threat only to uncover a corporate scheme that could erase their community unless they risk everything to expose it.
Inspired by a true story, an elderly woman recounts the tales of her ancestors from the age of the Romanovs through today and how their struggles, sacrifices, and perseverance influenced her decision to have an operation to save her life.
After being erased at birth by a hidden underground civilization, an elite commander discovers she is the living key to an ancient intelligence beneath Earth—triggering the collapse of the system that created her and a descent into a reality where memory, time, and humanity begin to unravel.
Martín Espinoza is a house-arrested drunk in Los Angeles who thinks he can fix everything — until his pregnant wife walks out and the only person left is a mailman who brews matcha and shows him the difference between being dry and living sober.
An ill-fated letter draws a troubled man to Colombia in search of his past, where he’s caught between a ruthless street gang and a band of unlikely outsiders when an alien invasion erupts across the city.
Professional woman is diagnosed as neurodivergent and then starts work in a chaotic law firm. She encounters comical, enlightening and tragic characters, while learning about her ‘new’ disabilities in an unconducive environment. Prepare to experience a gamut of emotions from start to finish.
Nashville musician Bart Bryars started his career as an inmate with a tendency to run, or rabbit. Prison turned him into a songwriter capable of preventing race riots.
A twenty-something, free-spirit who ditches East Coast Ivy league for West Coast Massage school falls for a famous and flawed musician just as she begins hearing an Inner Voice helping to guide her path, which forces her to question whether surrendering to love and embracing your identity can...
She’s an emotionally scarred agent with a dilemma. Her mission, find a downed airman behind enemy lines and then decide whether to be his savior or his assassin.
In 1943, three Japanese American sisters, interned at the Amache Colorado internment camp, helped two German prisoners escape their POW camp in Trinidad, Colorado. A true story, they met picking vegetables and a photograph of them in a romantic embrace, led to the sisters being arrested for treason.
Alexandria, 1942 Rachel, a Jewish seamstress, lives with her husband and infant son, Dan, in a house shared with Linda — a British Christian nurse — and Fatima, an Egyptian Muslim housewife. During the intense air raids, the three women make a solemn vow to raise each other’s children should any of...
It is 1960 in the small Northern California town of Redding, California. A mysterious man in his late sixties is living alone in a remote mansion and hires two teenage boys to help him take care of his home. The boys suspect he is a former Nazi in hiding, and his past reveals an even darker secret.
In a town where politics and organized crime mingle over a glass of whiskey, grave robbers uncover the corpse of a missing activist, pulling an idealistic detective into the town's dark underbelly where she must learn to adapt or die.
