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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
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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.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
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 - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
Burning Old Man
A group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration.
Attachment In (Pilot)
An ancient being is summoned to fight an evil entity but first both have to attach within a human body at birth, grow up and navigate life before meeting in an epic battle where winner takes all.
