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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
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
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
Two hitmen take on the radical Right Wing establishment through black on black crime.
Writer(s): Fr3deR1cK Taylor
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series
Fred Deeble, the host of the most successful children’s television show of the 90’s, has never recovered from the cancellation of his show and longs for the glory days as leader of the fictitious world. When Fred mysteriously ends up back in Puppetland and everything is real, he finds himself embroiled in a murder and desperate to return home.
Writer(s): Dominic Abeyta
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film – LGBTQ+
At an elite prep school, a gay misfit obsesses/crushes over his new school’s seemingly perfect, and likely closeted, golden boy. When one of their classmates is killed in a freak accident, he suspects the object of his desire/loathing could be a violent psychopath— albeit a very swoon-worthy one.
Writer(s): Daniel Hirsch
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film – LGBTQ+
A brief encounter bears witness to the darker impulses of the human nature.
Writer(s): Andrew Klaus-Vineyard
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
When an unlikely man-child who foot doubled for Elijah Woods in “Lord of the Rings,” becomes the Hail Mary subject of film student Lisa Yao, will he derail her entire project, or will she learn that some things are more important than deadlines?
Writer(s): Lauren Holiday
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series – LGBTQ+
Newly out and eager to explore her pansexual identity, Marley is swept into West Hollywood’s Pride scene, where a wild night with a vibrant chosen family challenges her boundaries and opens her heart to the power of community.
Writer(s): Chanessa Richa’rd
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series – LGBTQ+
Three millennial women with big dreams realize the deck is stacked against them, and enter into the world’s oldest profession… marrying rich.
Writer(s): Alex Rubin
