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2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series
A South-of-the-Mason-Dixon-Line good ol’ girl gets into legal trouble one too many times and is deported to Toronto, Canada on a technicality: she was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. American Import is a smart, unique, single-cam fish-out-of-water sitcom with a little edge and a lot of heart.
Writer(s): Steven Shehori
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
In a crumbling near-future where the anti-anxiety wonder drug Phobyx has turned fear into a forgotten instinct, a haunted self-defense instructor returns home to reconnect with her estranged family as the country spirals into crisis. But when her sister becomes a casualty of the drug’s chaos, she must confront buried trauma and fight her way through a city on the edge, determined to expose a deadly truth in a world where fear was the last thing keeping us human.
Writer(s): Rich Van Tine
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
