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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Post Your Script Here!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.
THE NEO-PAGANS
A talented forensic sketch artist has the gift of “seeing” murderers with her hands.
THE BANNER
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'.
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.
