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Write LA Announces 2023 Semifinalists

Semifinalists and Honorable Mentions have been announced for the 2023 Write LA Screenwriting Competition.

The 2023 Write LA Semifinalists

Jack Aupperle – Sonoran | Action Thriller Feature
A young dancer and a tough old woman flee through the desert, pursued by murderous cops.

Jeff Bower – 93% Chance of Happiness | Drama Feature
After being cast as the lead in a controversial play, a reserved math major with a latent imagination must overcome death threats, a politician with a vendetta, and his crushing self-doubt to impress his brilliant co-star.

Jack Canfora – Upstate | Drama Pilot
A man haunted by the tragic choices of his past is given a chance to atone for them by working with the people who've been hurt the most by them.

M.K. Ching – Electric Road | Action Thriller Feature
When an autistic boy is inadvertently taken during a carjacking, his parents give chase, remotely connecting to the car's dashcam in order to follow their son.

Sarah Deakins – Violet | Drama Feature
Two attendants working in an underground public bathroom in the seediest part of town develop a friendship with a sex worker who forces them all to face their secrets, as they form the world's most unexpected book club.

Steven Demmler – Kill Them With Kindness | Horror Feature
Fed up with a life pockmarked by disappointment and unfulfilled dreams, Jordan Monaghan turns to the teachings of an ancient and mysterious book that enables her to kill her enemies...with kindness.

Howard Emanuel – Shortstop | Dramedy Pilot
Newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, former minor league baseball shortstop Coyote Ledger learns his ex-wife has bought his rival team, which is being coached by his arch nemesis. To inflame her and impress his baseball phenom son, Coyote maneuvers to become the coach of his former team.

John Enright – Masters and Servants | Historical Drama Feature
On a Long Island estate in the summer of 1939, an American tycoon and a British aristocrat reenter the lives of an Irish chauffeur and his wife, forcing them to confront personal demons and shameful secrets that they thought had been put in the rear-view mirror.

Evan Laughlin – The End of the Pier | Action Thriller Feature
An armed group storms onto a fishing pier, takes all the fishermen hostage, and demands a huge ransom for their release. As the world watches, it begins to appear that there is something deeper going on that this straightforward, if somewhat bizarre, act of criminality.

Brian Koukol – Rooted | Action Drama Feature
In 1989, a restless teenage punk finds herself trapped in a sinkhole on a North Carolina barrier island with only a young paraplegic homebody and his deaf uncle to save her.

Susan Marks – All That Glitters | Drama Pilot
A quintessential 1950’s housewife becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder in her pristine suburb, leading to the discovery of a sadistic Nazi doctor hiding in plain sight and the subsequent unraveling of her own life.

Lea Pascal – The Greatest Joy | Dramedy Feature
In this darkish comedy, restaurant professionals Sammy and Bruce test the limits of their partnership when Sammy's miscarriage rocks their foundation, and their lives.

Roses Urquhart – This Is My Body | Drama Feature
When a reluctant vampire rediscovers her human soulmate, now elderly and in need, she poses as the woman's carer, but their passionate connection threatens to expose her secret life.

Rachel Ward – Typhoid Mary | Historical Drama Feature
A brilliant but headstrong Irish immigrant cook unintentionally spreads typhoid to some of the wealthiest homes in Gilded Age New York, until relentless investigators hunt her down, feed her to the tabloids and make her name infamous even to this day.

Rebecca Workman – The Other Side | YA Drama Feature
After discovering her best friend is terminally ill, a young girl embarks on a journey up the coast in an attempt to save him.

The 2023 Write LA Honorable Mentions

John Cerrito – Road Closure | Drama Feature
Ali Gordon-Goldstein – Ridgeland | Drama Pilot
Jerry Gundersheimer – The Nexus | Drama Feature
Finnegan Haid – Rumspringa | Comedy Feature
Ian Hill – Finding Normal | Dramedy Pilot
A.J. Jones – SPF 30 | Comedy Pilot
Brian Koukol – Museum Piece | Western Feature
Katy McClellan – IRL | Comedy Pilot
Steve Mitchell – Worms | Comedy Feature
Brandon Morganstern – Diss Hit Crazy | Comedy Pilot
Stan Moroncini – Raise Iron | Western Feature
Thomas Thonson – The Commentator | Dramedy Feature

Updated: 09/01/2023

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