Cinequest Screenwriting Competition

2023-2024 SCREENWRITING - FINALISTS & WINNERS

Please join us in celebrating this year's finalists!

FEATURE FINALISTS
1st Place:She Becomes Pedro Infante by J.K. Zepeda
2nd Place:The Promised Letter by Alexander Yakobovich
3rd Place:The Many Deaths of Wallace Badger by Nicky Calloway
Good News Gary by Chad Hutson
Detective Claus by David Zeltser
The Further Adventures of Jimmy Lynch by Robert F Rossetti
By The Hour by Jeanine Barone
JUST IN TIME by Robbie Robertson
Drama Queen by Stephanie Scott
Package Thieves by Robert Husted

SHORT-FILM FINALISTS
1st Place:Ghomeeda by Aya Mheidly
2nd Place:You Are Going To Die Today by Elise Feber
3rd Place:Iron Fist by Kagure Kabue
4th Place:Metal Box by Brayden Dalmazzone
A Violent Flammable World by JC Farris
The Damage Done by Robbi D'Allessandro
The Guilt by Giovanni D'Amaro
Mattress-cide by Michael Johnston
Linen, Lippity by Sari Arambulo
Intruder by Catie Loth, Ossey James
   

TELEPLAY 60-MINUTE FINALISTS
1st Place:Death Kindly Stopped by Don Cabreana
2nd Place:HYPERBOWL by Fiona Christine Mackenzie
3rd Place:I Want To Be Evil by Vanessa Magic
Heavy by Collette Legault
Jewel of Oakland by Carter Stewart
Influential by Laura Walls
Jenny Appleseed by Joe Tripician
The Age of the Empath by Steve Brown
Brother’s Keeper by David Zeltser
A Lost Lady by Holly Michelle Swenson

TELEPLAY 30-MINUTE FINALISTS
1st Place:Wild Life by Robert La Rocca
2nd Place:Tragically Greek by M.M. Gumbin
3rd Place:Jack Hammer: Male Stewardess by N. Fituri Scown
Heathens by Bri Kaisen
Wellness by Ian McClellan
Roommate Trouble by Michael Lucid
The Wrestling Show by Julie Harrison-Harney
CRUDE by Amber Simpson
Disgraced by Grace Hanson
Bubbe Fraud by Kate Herzlin

 

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