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 grieving, young widow and mother will fight through severe depression and panic attacks to protect her family from a somewhat inept intruder who breaks into her home with a gun, a bullet wound, and an oxy addiction.
Whirlabout
A man returns home to care for his father who’s riding a downhill early-onset Alzheimer’s spiral, but dark secrets revealed about the family patriarch’s past shock him to the core, dramatically altering the course of the old man's care.
WIZ KID
An 11 year old boy with a 180 IQ graduates from High School in Georgia, reluctantly leaves behind his wheelchair-bound mom, and heads off to a prominent university where he leaves his mark on the school, inside and outside the classroom.
End It On This
In a last-ditch effort to resuscitate their crumbling relationship, a feuding couple's glamping trip is upended by a sudden apocalyptic event that locks them in a survivalist's cabin-forcing them to face the end of the world, and each other, one can of Spam and emotional wound at a time.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest killed in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
Psycho-Hearts
A world famous heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A satirical view of the ineptness of modern day psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other wretched souls) after their third offense.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her college senior class project.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their questionable neighbor over morning coffee.