Write LA Announces Short Script Competition Winner
Burning Questions by Tova Swartz has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the Write LA Short Script Competition.
The 2022 Write LA Shorts Grand Prize Winner
Tova Swartz – Burning Questions | Comedy
After accidentally inviting over a non-witch to their coven meeting, two witches must decide what to do with the non-witch who now knows their location and existence.
The 2022 Write LA Shorts Finalists
Ted Bronson - Bury Me | Comedy
Still not over his divorce, a heartbroken man digs up his recently deceased ex-husband and interrogates him about why their marriage failed.
Brian Cohen - Conversations on a Couch | Comedy
A man on the autism spectrum endures extreme social anxiety to attend a New Year's Eve party, driven by an imperative to confront his best friend with a confession of love.
Mark Dollard - Weeping Wall | Historical
Berlin, 1987. A rebellious artist attempts to paint the forbidden side of the Berlin Wall.
Lexa Hayes - Sweet Sorrow Pie | Drama
A musician finds the courage to perform again after the loss of her muse in a journey that takes place from backstage to mic.
Ed Johnson - The Santero | Drama
An old man revisits ghosts of his past while on a pilgrimage from an old church to the top of a great mesa.
Hunter Morris - Old Dog | Drama
After being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a kind-hearted man decides to take up guitar in order to take back control of his life.
William Neary - Perks Include Non-Dairy Creamer | Drama
A frustrated architect sets his aspirations aside for more stable employment, until a homeless woman challenges his decision.
Bernhard Riedhammer - Love To Go | Drama
A lonely retiree mourning his late wife tries to find new connections and turns to a dating website called “Love to Go.”
Jacqueline Schaefer- Bottomless | Comedy
All Michelle wants to do after a long week is to relax and watch reality TV. However, her plans are disrupted when her roommate Dina unleashes a wave of anxiety while getting ready for a meet-the-parents dinner date.
Updated: 11/01/2022
Additional Contest Info: Write LA Screenplay & Pilot Competition
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It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
Second Opinion
When a renowned child-abuse pediatrician’s family member is accused in an infant’s death, he’s confronted with the possibility that his certainty may have helped put innocent people in prison.
A Bullet For God's Bounty
In a small Arizona town in the 1880s, a righteous French bounty hunter agrees to track down a violent fugitive, only to discover he has been hunting the wrong man.
Greenman
A rising rock star strikes out for Iceland in search of inspiration, only to discover a centuries-old horror that threatens to use her gifts to take over the world.
Morbidly
A young physical therapist slowly loses his grip on reality as he succumbs to the seductiveness of his only patient, a morbidly obese woman with a grisly secret.
Restoration
As an introverted art restorer succumbs to the evil temptations of an ancient painting, otherworldly forces attempt to stop her from unleashing the painting's unholy power.
Misfortune Cookies
Accidentally killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, an oafish redneck teenager and her misfit friends begin dying one by one when the chef's ghost returns from the grave, killing them in gruesome fortune cookie-themed ways.
Consumed
Trapped in a basement after an apocalyptic earthquake, a grieving wife fights off a horde of parasitic monsters, unaware that her God-fearing husband has already decided her fate.
Splashdown
A mysterious space capsule adrift in the Pacific Ocean pulls a disillusioned Air Force pilot into battle against a shadowy paramilitary force hell bent on utilizing the astronauts' otherworldly cargo to enslave humanity.
Pretty Baby: The Tragic Death Of Marion Parker
Based on a shocking 1927 crime, a grieving woman exposes the decades-old truth about her twin sister's murder to prevent the killer's lawyer from publishing his own skewed account of the tragedy.
