Write LA Names Top 5 Finalists
Write LA has announced the top 5 finalists of the Write LA Screenwriting Competition:
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.
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.
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.
Updated: 09/15/2023
Additional Contest Info: Write LA Screenplay & Pilot Competition
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Post Your Script Here!583
A couple fights to save their home from demolition by the government after violating local ordinance 583 ‘Lawns must be mowed every 2 weeks’, even when buried under snow in December!
Bubbling Under the Surface
After an elderly Holocaust survivor is nearly murdered in her nursing home bed, her family and the Muslim carer who saved her are pulled into a widening chain of antisemitic attacks, domestic violence, and police investigation that threatens both communities before the hatred spreads further.
Zips bring me home
After loosing his owner and gaining a divine enlightenment, a devoted dog must navigate a hidden realm to stop an evil king from using God's magical crystals to alter the world and restore the natural order of a dying Earth.
The Bare Minimum
An unemployed thirtysomething turns his best friend's chaotic bachelor party into a desperate attempt to one-up the maid of honor who is hosting the bachelorette party on the same weekend, coming face-to-face with his try-hard tendencies and deepest insecurities.
The Turkey King
After failing to match his late father’s legendary Thanksgiving turkey, a suburban dad launches an increasingly unhinged quest to become the next “Turkey King,” dragging his family into a holiday showdown between obsession and connection.
FORBIDDEN PROVISIONS
A journalist goes undercover as an illegal migrant to get a story on how well the government is treating captured immigrants, only to uncover something grizzlier than he expected.
BUMPED
A deeply troubled man with little hope in life, is thrust into a world between life and death, which may provide the purpose he has long been searching for.
STRANGE
A man worried about his fading relevance agrees to the wrong favor for the wrong stranger, triggering a grimly comic nightmare that turns his anniversary celebration into a violent reckoning.
Rebels and Witches
Logline In a search for the missing Major Kateo Redwolf, an army squad falls through the same wormhole into a parallel world with a 13th century technology ruled by a fierce feline species and a powerful female led religion.
Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars
After a highly intelligent alien crash-lands in a small town before Christmas, he teams up with a fearless girl with Down syndrome to save the holiday spirit and teach their divided community that differences can be strengths.
