2024 Screenwriting Contest Winners and Honorable Mentions!
The WriteMovies 2024 Screenwriting Contest winners…
Script Pitch Contest 2024 Winner Announced!
Thanks for all your entries to our Script Pitch Contest 2024, which closed on November 10th. We’ve enjoyed judging your One-Page Pitches and are excited to announce that our Script Pitch Contest 2024 winner is: MOAN A BIT MORE by Edweine Loureiro!
Congratulations to Edweine for delivering a pitch containing a sharp and distinct story world, with interesting plot turns that have great cinematic potential! We’re really looking forward to helping develop your full screenplay and pitching it to the international entertainment industry through TalentScout International Management.
Congratulations once again to our Script Pitch Contest 2024 Winner!!
Edweine Loureiro
There is still time to enter our 2024 Screenwriting Contest – the extended deadline is this Sunday, November 24th!
Don’t regret it later by missing out! We’re serious about selling our winners’ scripts. Just like Edweine, the winners of our 2024 Screenwriting Contest will receive a year of script development worth $3200, representation from TalentScount International Management and pitching of their developed script to the international entertainment industry.
Our results – with up to 50+ Quarter-Finalists, 25+ Semi-Finalists, 3 Winners and 4 Special Prize Winners – show you where your project currently sits in comparison to others. We will show you its potential through our studio-quality tiers of script mentoring and script consultancy, whilst also advising how to remove the obstacle to success, without compromising the things that matter most to you about your script!
The winners of our contests are due to continue being announced over the next few weeks, so stay tuned!
Enter here before the deadline on November 24th!
Pitch: The Land of Broken Sky by Jeremy Thompson
Pitch: The Land of Broken Sky by Jeremy Thompson – a WriteMovies Award Winner!
Our world, Heaven and Hell are ready to fall in this visually stunning horror, as angels of good and evil distort our reality in a final battle for existence. We’ve begun to pitch THE LAND OF BROKEN SKY, a WriteMovies award-winning script, and others, to the international entertainment industry.
Pitch: DEATH IN VENICE BEACH by Nicholas Horwood!
Pitch: DEATH IN VENICE BEACH by Nicholas Horwood! Another WriteMovies award winner…
A curmudgeonly English vampire is sent to 1980s LA to stop an undead serial-killer but is forced to team-up with an upbeat pathologist and a cop who wants him dead… We’ve begun to pitch DEATH IN VENICE BEACH, a WriteMovies award-winning script, and others, to the international entertainment industry.
THE REVOLT OF THE WHALES by Michael Rhodes
Pitch: THE REVOLT OF THE WHALES by Michael Rhodes, our 2023 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award Winner.
A musician, grieving her sister’s murder, returns to the sea of her youth and reunites with her beloved whales to fight a brutal whaling armada. Introducing THE REVOLT OF THE WHALES by Michael Rhodes, a WriteMovies Award Winner!
Standby by Patrick Tierney – Pitch
Pitch: Standby by Patrick Tierney – After their friend’s death, three friends set out to see their favorite band’s final performance on Saturday Night Live – even if it means breaking into the studio…
After becoming an award-winning script in the 2022 WriteMovies Screenwriting Contest, we’re now inviting approaches from the industry to take it to the widest audience possible!
About the pitch: Standby by Patrick Tierney:
Gail’s life is going nowhere. Single, barely employed, and rudderless, Gail approaches 40 with a terrifying realization — that she hasn’t accomplished anything. What’s worse, she’s drifting apart from Beth, Mallory, and Sheila — her best friends since childhood.
When Beth dies unexpectedly, Gail convinces Mallory and Sheila to finish Beth’s bucket list. The only item left unachieved? Seeing their favorite band, Manic Pixie Dream Girl, perform live in concert. Turns out, it’s now or never — the band is breaking up, and their final performance is only days away… on Saturday Night Live!
Since tickets are notoriously hard to come by, they have no choice but to tackle the legendary SNL standby line — a grueling all-nighter on the streets of Rockefeller Center. If our heroes (and their bladders) can survive the inane rules, territorial superfans, and a brewing nor’easter, the tickets will be theirs by morning.
But even then, standby tickets are no guarantee. If Gail, Mallory, and Sheila *really* want to see Manic Pixie Dream Girl perform “live from New York,” they’ll have to do whatever it takes — even if it means breaking into Studio 8H.
But when NBC Studios throws down the gauntlet, the obstacles may be more than our heroes can handle. Beth was always the “glue” that held their group together — can their friendship survive without her? Can Gail finish anything she starts? If our heroes have any chance of succeeding, they’ll have to give it all they’ve got — with a little help from a psychotic stand-up comedian, a telepathic zoomer, a shotgun-toting boomer, and the ever-elusive ghost of Ellen Cleghorne.
To be considered for representation and pitching to industry yourself, buy any of WriteMovies’ services today using the options in the sidebar on the right!
With our Anytime Entry service, you can enter your script at any time for just $45 and receive:
- An analysis of the crucial first ten pages of your script, focusing on its key strengths and weaknesses.
- A writer evaluation, where our analyst considers its potential for our representation and pitching to industry (guaranteed to all writers who earn a Recommended rating!).
- Free entry to any relevant contest we open this year – which can also be for your next draft, if your writer evaluation gains a Consider or Recommend!
Pitch: Internal Security by Stefan Alexander
Pitch: Internal Security – Another award winner from WriteMovies that has been developed with our input since becoming a winner with us.
We’re inviting approaches now from the industry to take this script to the widest audience possible!
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About Internal Security by Stefan Alexander:
This is the near future. Since the war in Ukraine and the war in Gaza, not only the West and Russia have been engaged in a new Cold War, but also Islamic terrorism is rising. Right-wing populist movements are coming to power all over Europe. Germany is the focus of attention as last beacon of democracy. Until now.
Tensions are high across Germany; a right-wing populist faction led by Interior Minister Jörg von Stahl has placed itself at the center of public discourse, and a wave of bloody Islamic extremism is causing panic.
Ina Schmidt sees past the fear and rhetoric, but she feels powerless to stop it. Her reputation as an investigative and influential journalist has been sullied by a story gone badly wrong. She still carries the guilt and contempt for her country it has burdened her with – even as her Father is killed in a terrorist attack, she sees no reason to sacrifice the little that remains in her life to help.
Her past comrades, still remember her fondly. Bernd Muller for one, an-ex love and operative of the intelligence services, who helps her following a trail of duplicitous disappearances from refugee camps around the country.
With Bernd’s help, Ina trawls over the evidence he’s amassed and uncovers a shattering truth. The radical political movement on the rise owes their popularity and considerable resources to a foreign backer. Their power and influence extends far beyond a protest march. These acts of terrorism plaguing the nation are in fact their handiwork, using the fear they create to further their own cause.
With the security and government institution’s around them evidently compromised Ina and Bernd find themselves alone, trying to prove and publicize their discovery, in a race against the rising popularity of fascists.
But their meddling puts them in the cross hairs of the shadowy forces at play. Bernd is kidnapped as a former colleague and informant is killed. Fearing for her own life Ina must outrun the security forces that pursue her.
Cut off and afraid, can Ina find and free her only accomplice? Can the evidence they’ve collected show the world the truth behind a wicked new regime? Or will their rise to power continue – is it possible they’re just too late?
Timely and thought-provoking, INTERNAL SECURITY challenges audiences with a plausible and terrifying future where a new Cold War challenges the West. It combines the ingenious political gamesmanship of The Post and Argo, with the lighting fast action beats and thrilling suspense of The Bourne Identity. Berlin’s answer to Atomic Blonde with world changing consequences.
To be considered for representation and pitching to industry yourself, buy any of WriteMovies’ services today using the options in the sidebar on the right!
With our Anytime Entry service, you can enter your script at any time for just $45 and receive:
- An analysis of the crucial first ten pages of your script, focusing on its key strengths and weaknesses.
- A writer evaluation, where our analyst considers its potential for our representation and pitching to industry (guaranteed to all writers who earn a Recommended rating!).
- Free entry to any relevant contest we open this year – which can also be for your next draft, if your writer evaluation gains a Consider or Recommend!