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
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
Screenplay Pilot for Xanadu Shores: The Super Spy Series
Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
All That Glitters (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
The Xanadu Team in their second outing become pawns in a complicated gem heist, involving a beautiful Russian woman and her nefarious employer after a boat of stolen jewelry explodes.
Xanadu Shores: (PoC) The Super Spy Series
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
Neon
The life and sacrifices of a devoted father during the Korean War sets a preamble to a merging American dilemma.
Higher Divine
An extraterrestrial discovers the key to rebuilding his shattered civilization is in a southern Israeli town on Earth.
In Between The River
Katie (on the spectrum) thinks her nomadic family is normal but as she transitions from child to teenager; her father Donald is frequently absent, her mother Judy tries too hard to hold them together and her older brother Kyle hides a secret that eventually surfaces to expose the family illusion.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media.
She Curses Like a Sailor
The culture of women and cursing is discussed at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their eccentric neighbor over morning coffee.
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