Write LA Announces Top 5
The Top 5 Finalists have been annnounced for the 2024 Write LA Screenwriting Competition.
Kathy Benjamin, Jenn Bradford, Katie Stober - Yanks | Comedy Pilot
Three brilliant American women navigate bad sex, binge drinking, and grad school in 2000s-era England, where “American” may as well be a four-letter word.
Jamie Campbell – Kirby in Limbo | Drama Feature
A retiree's perfect life is shattered when a tragic car crash takes the lives of his wife and daughter. After an insurance settlement leaves him the world's most miserable millionaire, he attempts to pick up the pieces and find a reason to keep going.
Brian Koukol – Sad Gopher | Drama Feature
A disabled man sets his eyes on a regional chess tournament in pursuit of self-worth, but the trans woman he meets along the way might just turn his ambitions from check to mate.
Bernhard Pucher – Oxygene | Historical Drama Feature
In the late 18th century, while Paris is on the brink of social unrest, a printer’s son dreams of becoming a scientist. But when his mentor and hero shatters those dreams, he stokes the flames of the French Revolution to take him down.
Daniel Weber – Provenance | Thriller Feature
A gifted apprentice sommelier is taken under the wing of an enigmatic wine legend bent on high-stakes deception. This modern crime caper immerses the audience in the rarefied world of luxury wine sales.
Updated: 09/15/2024
Additional Contest Info: Write LA Screenplay & Pilot Competition
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Post Your Script Here!The Cajun
When a notorious pirate, made immortal by the curse of a Voodoo Queen, is invited to a mysterious poker game in modern day New Orleans, he discovers a clue to find the treasure that can set him free.
Xanadu Shores III Rescuing Atlas
The Xanadu Team, their credibility restored after rescuing Natalia and the painting, are recruited to recover the plans to save the world from a rogue aerospace engineer.
Xanadu Shores (20pgs) -
This Proof of Concept showcases the central characters being introduced with sex appeal, all quite happy, in an office reception area, before the heist, kidnapping and chase.
Xanadu Shores: 10 Minute PoC for The TV Pilot
This Proof of Concept showcases the central characters being introduced with sex appeal, all quite happy, in an office reception area, before the heist, kidnapping and chase.
Xanadu Shores Introducing SEAN LANDERS
A recently discharged Navy pilot returns home anticipating matrimony, soon learning his fiance has cleaned out their wedding account and moved to Las Vegas.
Xanadu Shores II:
Four friends form the "The Xanadu Team" offering security and transportation, land, sea and air when they become deceptively involved with a nefarious jeweler and his charming assistant during an island gem heist, eventually escalating to international espionage in Xanadu Shores III - "Rescuing Atlas".
Xanadu Shores I:
Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
THE ANDREW JACKSON DEFENSE
A reformed prisoner with a violent past frames his clemency petition using the biography of Andrew Jackson, arguing that like the seventh president, a man forged by violence can still become a force for good.
MASTER OF STATECRAFT
Booker T. Washington risks his reputation and his life to outmaneuver those determined to erase Black voices from democracy.
MEDICARIA
A barren paramedic, desperate to be a mother, turns from healer to killer to protect a homeless boy she adopts, only to uncover his ties to a cartel — and they want him back.
