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AFF Names Screenplay Contest Winners
The 2022 Austin Film Festival Script Competition winners were chosen from a record field of 10,000 scripts entered in the Screenplay, Digital Series, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions. The winners were selected by a distinguished panel of industry judges including, Jim Hart (Hook, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Contact), Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, Pokémon Detective Pikachu), Tripper Clancy (Stuber, I Am Not Okay With This, Die Hart), & Kelly Edwards (Living Single, Girlfriends, The Parkers, Clueless, Two Guys and a Girl).
THE FOLLOWING SCREENPLAY AWARDS WERE SELECTED BY CATEGORY:
Drama Feature Screenplay Award presented by The Writers Guild of America, East: The Fuck-It List by Nick Gambino
Drama Teleplay Pilot Award: Wayward by Christopher Cramer
Drama Teleplay Spec Award: The Crown: “Last Looks” by Claire Winters
Comedy Feature Screenplay Award: Sense & Sensibility by Sal Neslusan
Comedy Teleplay Pilot Award: Untethered by Charlie Frazier & Chris Frazier
Comedy Teleplay Spec Award: Curb Your Enthusiasm: “JEFFREY” by Clayton Jordan
Digital Series Award: Walk Into a Bar by Cassandra Rose
Fiction Podcast Award presented by Voyage Media: Celeritas by Alexander Adell
Short Screenplay Award: Slayfest by Mark Renshaw
Playwriting Award: Talk of the Town by Mike Bencivenga
Horror Screenplay Award: The Psycho Killers Guide to Love by JP LeRoux
Sci-Fi Screenplay Award: Paschar by Jennifer Burns
Rooster Teeth Fellowship Awards, BIPOC category: Momentous by Ana Maria Defillo
Rooster Teeth Fellowship Awards, Women & Animation category: Allegra Sparkle’s Guide to the Great Composers (You Might Not Have Heard Of) by Lillie Gardner
Warner Brothers Pilot Award: Tin Can Alley by Thomas Schoch
Enderby Entertainment Award: Three Faces of Hunger and Thirst by HF Crum
AMC One-Hour Pilot Award: Souvenir, Alaska by Mac Smullen
Josephson Entertainment Screenwriting Fellowship: Untethered by Charlie Frazier & Chris Frazier and The Gold Fish by Barbara Ward Thall
Updated: 11/09/2022
Additional Contest Info: Austin Film Festival Script Competition
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!The Fighting Wagners
Log line – It’s the early 1900’s in Greenwich Village.
Traverse Envizib. Invisible crossings. Episode 6: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
Howell and friends enter the tunnels that lead to the central kiva.
Willowbrook C Building (based on a true story)
An entitled college student is assigned an internship at Willowbrook, the Asylum in Staten Island 1972.
Not About Money
A competent late forties corporate gal gets promoted into management, is soon demoted, and faced with a battle of resilience, justice, and a lawsuit while an unexpected ally attempts to redeem himself and discloses the unscrupulous ruler behind the scheme to oust her.
End It On This
A toxic on-again, off-again couple heads to a remote cabin to save their relationship-only to find themselves trapped together when the apocalypse hits, forcing them to choose between breaking up - or surviving each other.
FURGROW BIRDS SPIRITUAL ROSE
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
Furgrow Birds back to the beginning
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
The Cajun
When a notorious pirate, made immortal by the curse of a Voodoo Queen, is invited to a mysterious poker game in modern day New Orleans, he discovers a clue to find the treasure that can set him free.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale, a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators of the nation's greatest corporate crime to turn or hide - no 'out'.
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.
