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NYC Horror Fest Announces Screenplay Contest Results
The NYC Horror Film Festival has announced its Screenplay Finalists, Semi-Finalists and Official Selections:
2021 NYCHFF FEATURE SCREENPLAY FINALISTS:
BLOOD WINTER by Chris Bean
DINNER THEATER by Emil Terziev
FIRST GIRL by Kevin Sluder
HUNGRY by L.A. Hart
NIGHTMARE AT CAMP BLOODBATH by Dylan Arnow
OLIVIA'S WAR by Avishai Weinberger
SATAN'S PRIDE by Jon Chamis
SOMA by Ian Hand
THE BLOOD OF ALL by Michael Smallwood
THE VIRGIN by Trysta A. Bissett
2021 NYCHFF SHORT SCREENPLAY FINALISTS:
MATCHSTICK by Philip Tice
THE PRESERVE by Jason Rice
THESE FACES by Jason Rice
2021 NYCHFF FEATURE SCREENPLAY SEMI-FINALISTS:
BEWARE, WOLF! by David Lieberman, Jacky Revah, Itzik Revah
BFFS NEVER SAY DIE by K. Jennifer Ilagan
CARNEVIL by Frank Paul D'Angeli
DARK TERRAIN by Stephen Kayfish
FICUS REX by Emmet Loverde, Larry Maraviglia
GABACHO ROAD by Tyler Taylor
SING FOR ME by Veronica Felicity Johnson
SNARE by Neil D. Krolicki
SPARKS by Jon Freda
THE MAN IN THE HAT by Phyllis Allison
2021 NYCHFF SHORT SCREENPLAY SEMI-FINALISTS:
CYCLE LUNAIRE by Mark Dispenza
GRAVEN by Michael Clifton
VIRTUOSO by Zoe Jordan
2021 NYCHFF SCREENPLAY OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:
Features
APOLLO'S CURSE by David E. Tolchinsky
DARK OBJECTS by Dillon Douglas Slack
FORKLIFT GLADIATORS by Nik Wendelsdorf
NATALIA by Rosalyn Rosen
REVELATORY by Patrick Mediate
SILVER STATE by Andrew McAllister, Aaron Strongoni
THE AMERSAND INN by C.J. Arellano
Shorts
AFFLICTION by Laura Fielder
IMPRINT by Lee Bailes
LOVESICK by Michael Muchnij
SMILE MORE by Julianna Marie
ZOMBIES ON A BUS by Janet L. Loftis
Updated: 11/15/2021
Additional Contest Info: New York City Horror Film Festival Screenplay Competition
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.
DON'T GO IN
A Baton Rouge teen, haunted by a family tragedy, battles a malevolent Creolo Myth to save his brother and amend past mistakes.
The Sword's Awakening
When King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur is stolen from a museum, it awakens a dragon and the descendent of a legendary knight who must join forces to find the powerful relic before its dark magic falls into the wrong hands.
FAUSTIAN
After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
When a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate.
Fingertips
A Psychological Horror With a twist of a psychotic individual suffering from psychosocial issues has an imaginary friend that’s part of his hallucinations his Imaginary friend is his British father a young proud to be American, forgets his medication after collecting it from a Pharmacy he causes a lot of mayhem around his area he thinks the worlds in his fingertips he chases down social media Influencers and artists by hacking and tracking their location constantly talking to himself as he hallucinates thinking He can see his British Father is around him, Kevin ends up with a chainsaw and gets a few round kills with his Chainsaw he stole from an old granny.
A Cracker in East Harlem
JIMMY J is 50 and has lived in the same East Harlem building for more than half of his life.
Free Sports Radio
Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station.
Desert Quarry
Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them.
Perfect Contrition
A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys.
