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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
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!ALTA CALIFORNIA
A young mixed blood, determined to avenge his mother’s brutal death, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates through the oppressive and inhumane colonizers of California's “Mission Era.
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.
ENDLESS COURAGE ( formerly Drop In Squad)
There’s the family you’re born into and the one you choose: Aging out of foster care meets elder aging in place when a sharp-witted teen and a feisty elder activist team up to conquer the housing crisis in a world stacked against them.
THE QUISLING
A young lawyer defends a wanted terrorist from international extradition.
MIRACLE BOY
After dying from meningitis and glimpsing Paradise, a troubled seven-year-old mountain boy is sent back to Earth with a promise of eighty more years—but when he wakens with no memory of his past, he must struggle through a lifetime of doubt, hardship, and temptation to rediscover his purpose and fulfill a divine mission that could save not only his family, but his soul.
Dark Latitude
When a young woman discovers a hidden photograph in the family album of a murdered WWII survivor, she becomes the target of a decades-old conspiracy linking Nazi fugitives, a secret escape flight from Germany, and a deadly cover-up that kills to protect its secrets.
Knock on Wood
To survive a week against a vengeful universe, a legendary hitman must trade his "Celestial Mathematics" for genuine morality after a botched job fractures his luck and begins to liquefy reality.
Ilium Ridge
To brothers Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, the First World War is but a game to stave off the boredom of immortality.
Christmas Island
Sissy and Kenneth return to their home in the northern woods for their mother's funeral, to find that their parents plan to snatch their bodies.
Tam Lin
In a modern romantic fantasy based on an ancient Scottish fairy tale, a strong young woman risks everything to save her mysterious lover from the evil Fairy Queen, and bring him back to a world he's never known.
