Write LA Names Top 5 Finalists
TV Pilot and Feature screenwriting competition Write LA has revealed its top 5 finalists for the 2021 competition.
These five writers will now have their scripts read and considered for representation by 5 Literary Management companies: Circle of Confusion, Zero Gravity, Fictional Entity, Grandview and Forward.
The finalists also receive a second screenwriting book courtesy of Michael Wiese Productions, and the latest version of Final Draft screenwriting software courtesy of Final Draft.
"I'm excited, tired, and grateful to everyone who entered" says Head Judge and Write LA co-founder Tim Schildberger.
"We focused on selecting scripts with strong, unique and emotionally compelling characters. Each of our finalists have clearly spent a lot of time really fleshing out the people in their stories, and we are thrilled to introduce them to Managers. Our fingers will be tightly crossed."
The Write LA '21 Finalists
Michi Broman – Recovering - TV Pilot
Mads Gauger & Christan Mary Leonard – That Woman - TV Pilot
Brandon Morganstein – Crutch - TV Pilot
Joel David Santner – Tunnel Rat - Feature
Steve Trebilcock – The Mirage of Normal - Feature
The Grand Prize Winner - who will have their script read by professional actors, and posted on Youtube - will be revealed on October 7.
Updated: 10/01/2021
Additional Contest Info: Write LA Screenplay & Pilot Competition
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Triggered
After a failed assassination attempt on a populist politician, two mismatched London detectives uncover a conspiracy using augmented-reality glasses to manipulate ordinary people into violence, pushing an already divided Britain toward civil collapse.
Fish Fetish
What happens when you mix compulsion with alcohol? A horrific, fast paced story of abuse and revenge inspired by "Tales From The Crypt"
Eternal Blessings
After suffering a head injury that leaves her suspended in an altered state, a woman with a troubled past time travels back to 1980 to warn her younger self of the dangers ahead.
Lucy vs. The HOA
After uncovering a million-dollar fraud in her neighborhood HOA, a precocious 11-year-old enlists her Private Detective father to help finish the investigation her deceased mother started years ago.
Wounds of Love and Conspiracy
After an accident cripples his civil rights activist wife, a guilt-ridden young man becomes obsessed with earning her love by helping change America—until his fixation on JFK and civil rights draws him into a delusional quest to stop the President’s assassination.
Virgin, Warrior, Priest, Hero
Across three decades, one actress embodies Lucy as virgin, warrior, and priest—a woman who repeatedly transforms suffering into identity, reinventing herself to survive a world that misreads and confines her, until she finally achieves redemption by saving someone other than herself.
Keep The Doctor Away
When an anonymous graffiti artist smokes weed from an apple and has a premonition of a wildfire that will destroy Los Angeles and leave her dead on her golden birthday, she must become famous enough for the city to take her seriously—before she turns 22.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
In a fractured future where aggression and hate spread like viruses, seventeen-year-old Rebecca, afraid of the violence inside her, reaches across time to the gentle grandmother she never knew - and discovers that their bond is humanity's last defense against an emotional apocalypse.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
