2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
With her twilight years on the horizon, a Filipina grandmother ditches her eightieth birthday party to summon the spirit of her long-dead granddaughter.
Writer(s): Shea Formanes
La Esposa
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
If you make a habit of luring migrant day laborers into your home to satisfy the evil slimy forces that creep inside, you better not mess with Hector Ramirez. Because his wife will definitely come looking.
Writer(s): Matthew B.W. Sheehan
Sitting at the Edge of the World Staring at the Mice
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film – LGBTQ+
A late-night rooftop encounter between two young women unravels the tangled threads of their past, as grief and guilt blur into one last chance to say what was never said.
Writer(s): Guadalupe Birkbeck
The Experience
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
A failed actor turned culture writer attempts to live out her dream of being a star performer by reviewing an immersive play, but discovers that turning that dream into a reality comes at a heavy price.
Writer(s): Olivia Haller & AK Long
Crossroads
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series – LGBTQ+
When three young lovers from families tangled for generations in a fading small town make a desperate dash for freedom, they unknowingly steal from the wrong man setting off a karmic chain reaction that unearths family secrets, old betrayals, and a reckoning with the man who was supposed to protect them.
Writer(s): Laura Winter
Keeping Tabs
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series – LGBTQ+
A 1950’s sitcom actress leads a double life: by day, she hits her marks and makes people laugh; by night, she’s a hitwoman who kills her marks with cold-hearted detachment.
Writer(s): Michael Montgomery
Horizon
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
Where the known and the unknown meet. A mother battling severe postpartum psychosis must distinguish between reality and hallucination as she struggles to connect with her newborn daughter, leading to a devastating event that forever alters their relationship.
Writer(s): Karen Campion
Saint Lucifer
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film – LGBTQ+
When Alessandro returns to his Italian hometown with his partner to welcome their first child via surrogate, a wave of unexplained deaths, fear, and religious hysteria spirals into madness – forcing him to choose between his faith and his family as the town whispers that their unborn baby is the Devil.
Writer(s): Joseph D’Urso
Wildflower of the Valley: Carnal Bloom
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series
When the dead body of the city manager is found in a pond, struggling assassin, Layla, decides to falsely claim him as her kill to collect his high bounty.
Writer(s): Hannah Vernot
Please Kill Robinson Scott Thomas
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
Two hitmen take on the radical Right Wing establishment through black on black crime.
Writer(s): Fr3deR1cK Taylor
