2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series
The rise, fall, and rise of the comic genius Buster Keaton
Writer(s): Paul David Lisy
GASP
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
In a house with a fiery past, a group of friends gather for bonding, unaware that one’s severe OCD and fear of fire could be a dark omen. As old relationships are tested and the night grows strange, they realize something sinister lurks within the walls.
Writer(s): Steph France
All the Wrong Ingredients
2024 Official Selection: Feature Film – Comedy
Desperate to win a high-stakes dessert contest, chef Ben unintentionally cooks up an imaginary friend to help him reinvent the meaning of delicious. But what happens when his ambition becomes a monster?
Director(s): Nicholas Livanos
Writer(s): Nicholas Livanos
Producer(s): Tanya Musgrave, Nathan DeWild, Michael Moyer
Key Cast: Joshua Trevilcock, Jonathan Bouvier, Emily Gesi, Jude Timothy Harris, Sydney Shea Barker, Aris Juson, Timothy Perez-Ross, Mark Ashworth
Country: USA
Sorta Rican
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series
Emilio, an artsy Puerto Rican raised in a white world, has fallen hard for a working-class Latina activist, who both fully sees him and sees right through him.
Writer(s): Eric Rivera
Transitions
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series
A gender non-conforming young adult embarks on a journey of self discovery with help and — at times — hindrance from their family
Writer(s): Rachael CG Cudlitz
Country: USA
Spitting Fire
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
A hip hop fairy tale about the profound effect a rebellious poetry teacher and rap music has on a student with a severe stutter.
Writer(s): Angie M. Comer
Country: USA
Talia
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
Amy works through the grief of losing her best friend with the help of an unexpected visitor.
Director(s): Lindsay Harbert
Writer(s): Joe Golc
Producer(s): Amy Shaughnessy, Lindsay Harbert
Key Cast: Amy Shaughnessy, Elizabeth Guest
Country: USA
Bev and Beauregard Simon
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
Narrated in the style of a children’s tale, Bev and Beauregard Simon chronicles the story of the enigmatic duo seeking revenge against a Ministry of Defense target.
Writer(s): Alysha Haran
Country: USA
They Eat Their Own
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
In 2045 the U.S. was split in half after losing WWIII. Rebels fighting to reunite the country face mind-bending interrogations when caught that threaten the resistance.
Writer(s): Steven Smith
Country: USA
Vortex Pax
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series
Molly, is a Filipino / American, grad student in Marine Biology she accepts an Internship at a lab in Morro Bay, CA, while driving for Lyft a quirky passenger asks her to join an unusual group of travelers, VTA, Vortex Travelers association, who prevent people from using Vortex energy fields ( portals) based on Native American petroglyphs to alter history, the climate and technology.
Writer(s): Virginia Travers & Melanie Hyde & Ruben Maria Soriquez
Country: USA