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Wiki Screenplay Names August, 2023 Contest Winners
Louis Lehrman's Under the Influence has been named the Wiki Screenplay Contest "Best Screenplay" winner for August, 2023. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script winners have also been announced.
Best Screenplay
Louis Lehrman
"Under the Influence"
A U.S. Congressman is found dead at an exclusive ski resort, and a troubled father in recovery must save his son from the killer and exact revenge on the man who unjustly sent him to prison many years before.
Best TV Script
Suzanne Birrell
"Don't Tell"
A spoiled rich brat who believed he would inherit all discovers he is not the only child and sole heir of his mother's wealth but in fact, has to fulfill expectations or loses all
Best Short Script
Deanne Gittens
"Dangling Carat"
A woman in her 20s tries to navigate life and love, and avoid being sucked back into a toxic relationship, but there are certain temptations she finds she just cannot resist.
Updated: 09/15/2023
Additional Contest Info: Wiki: The World's FASTEST Screenplay Contest
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!A LITTLE FAVOR
A former fighter pilot is asked, by the colonel who blackballed him, to do a little favor: use his quick reflexes to fly to the Sun, reach in and pluck out 2 off-course, discarded doomsday bombs before next Wednesday evening when they’ll explode, nudging the Sun, causing major global warming.
La Hacienda
An inter-racial Latino/White couple arrive in Mexico, during the Day of the Dead, to renovate a hacienda just purchased by her rich, white parents, they soon discover its haunted by the former residents who lived during the Mexican Revolution; they must figure out how to transform their crippling grief over losing a baby girl, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past.
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 bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her gorgeous girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable 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 absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest shot in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
