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
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Though haunted by the childhood memory of the lynching of his father for leading a slave rebellion, an American slave risks his life to join Mexico's struggle for independence after witnessing the execution of the author of the first law against slavery on the North American continent.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an AI Bot to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of 'Fake'.
The Rulers Of The Islands
World-shaping for the fourth time, they sight Hawaii, a crown jewel in the Pacific: a prize to fight for? or to bring peace to our world from, instead.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their baffling neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other despicable souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A tongue-in-cheek view of the inept state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an amazing magician at securing compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest shot in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
