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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
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It’s a race against time to save millions of Americans as Angela Garcia uses her premonition dreams to stop a ruthless cult leader who has unleashed a bio-engineered bacteria.
Frat Mom
A fraternity in trouble for using illegal schemes to fund their wild parties finds themselves in the hands of an ironfisted frat mom and vow to send her packing.
Gentrified
A White gay male couple move into a predominantly African American neighborhood and invite their new neighbors to their adopted African American daughter’s first elementary school science fair.
BROKEN
A witty, Two-Act dramatic play about mental illness in an African American family revolving around a woman suffering compulsive guilt, drug addiction, alcohol abuse and multifaceted visual and auditory hallucinations regarding the accidental death of her 17-year-old son.
The Sub
A dramedy, spotlighting the realities--comical, tragic, and inspiring--of the grossly overcrowded public school system and one off-centered substitute teacher’s journey through the bureaucratic, educational circus of urban public education.
The Longest Goodbye
A poignant look at an elderly mother's battle with dementia and her son's commitment to keeping love alive, as memories fade, and life on the road is rearranged to moments in time.
A Long Way From Sunday
An edgy, faith-inspired, drama about the relationships of Andre, a mischievous 11year old, and a series of family revelations that lead his grandfather, a working class, Pentecostal pastor, to question his faith, murder his friend, and burn down his church.
To Lie Beneath
An insidious succubus and her incubus partner, prey on the lives of Marcus, a recently divorced business man and his ex-wife Zora, a dormant witch, in metropolitan Atlanta.
The Passage of Sun
Three brothers challenge the Convict Leasing System of forcing African American men into prison in order to continue providing slave labor and county revenue in Alabama following the Civil War.
REFUGE
A woman has her husband arrested for assault and battery, only the husband has no memory of the event and depends on a young, inexperienced court-ordered attorney to discover what really happened.
