Austin Fest Names Screenplay Contest Winners
The 2023 Austin Film Festival Script Competition winners were chosen from a record field of 11,500 scripts entered in the Screenplay, Digital Series, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions. The winners were selected by a distinguished panel of industry judges including, Tatiana Suarez-Pico (Hunters, Penny Dreadful, Iron Fist, Snowfall), Christina Hodson (Bumblebee, Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, The Flash), Tripper Clancy (Stuber, I Am Not Okay With This, Die Hart), & Herschel Weingrod (Trading Places, Kindergarten Cop).
2023 SCRIPT AWARDS
- Drama Feature Screenplay Award presented by The Writers Guild of America, East - T-Minus Zero by Troy Anthony Miller and J.R Smith
- Drama Teleplay Pilot Award - State of the Art by Austin Elliott
- Drama Teleplay Spec Award - The Great: “Death Becomes Him” by Marguerite Spellman
- Comedy Feature Screenplay Award - A Forest Through The Trees By Ryan Ederer
- Comedy Teleplay Pilot Award - Arthur and Lancelot by Victoria Zeutzius
- Comedy Teleplay Spec Award - What We Do in the Shadows: “The Chupacabra” by Jordan Obey
- Scripted Digital Series Award - Psychic by Aiden Moretti
- Fiction Podcast Award - The Crime at Camp Ashwood by Laura Hunter Drago
- Short Screenplay Award - Good Evening, Marshall (Good Evening, Geraldine) by Jessica Mosher
- Playwriting Award - The Housing Situation on Neptune by Nijae Draine
- Horror Screenplay Award presented by Vertigo Entertainment - Paradise by Daniel Byers
- Sci-Fi Screenplay Award - ROY G. BIV by Sebastian Davis
- Rooster Teeth Fellowship Awards, BIPOC category - Turn the Heat Up by Helen K Thomas
- Rooster Teeth Fellowship Awards, Women & Animation category - Ulster by Allison Mick
- Enderby Entertainment Award - Black Mouth Cur by Kai Kido
- AMC One-Hour Pilot Award - Blind Mice by Aaron Milus
- Josephson Entertainment Screenwriting Fellowships - Black Waters by Kate Imy (Feature Film) and The Hellmouth by Francesco Staluppi (TV)
Updated: 11/07/2023
Additional Contest Info: Austin Film Festival Script Competition
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Xanadu Shores II: All That Glitters
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Xanadu Shores - "The Pilot" - First 10 Pages -Screenplay
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My Greatest Enemy--Myself! Episode 3: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
Howell's rising doubts about his friends have disastrous results.
The Imbalance
Two best friends in their fifties leap back into acting — and dating — only to find an industry obsessed with youth, a culture addicted to reinvention, and a brutal truth: starting over is harder when you actually know who you are.
Waiting for the Apocalyse
When a respected judge’s lover is kidnapped, he’s forced into a race against time that dismantles his faith in justice — and exposes how far a man will go when the system that empowered him turns against him.
Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars
A gentle, highly intelligent alien crash-lands in a small town just before Christmas and forms an unlikely friendship with a girl with Down syndrome.
Twenty Last Summers
When a longtime group of friends in their fifties and sixties jokingly ask themselves, “What if we only had twenty summers left?”, the question unexpectedly detonates their comfortable routines, sending each of them into a spiral of hilarious missteps, overdue confrontations, and clumsy attempts at self-reinvention.
