10 Years In 40 Seconds

Screenplay Semi-Finalist

10 Years in 40 Seconds

For three kids, a day selling water on the corner turns into a bloodbath when a zombie apocalypse breaks out in Atlanta. They must adapt quickly and leave childish things behind to survive.

Adrianna Carter

A native of the eccentric city of Atlanta, Adrianna Cherelle occupied creative spaces from an early age. Whether penning plays or shooting movies with the family camcorder, she could almost always be found dragging her younger siblings into her written utopias. Now, the twenty something, self-described cool ass weirdo, realizes her responsibility as a storyteller and vows that with her pen she will open minds, push progression and ensure that Black women are always at the forefront.

5-Star Review

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5 Star Review

Trust is shattered as a home share host exploits the assumed safety of her unsuspecting guests as she crosses physical and mental boundaries, leading to a terrifying descent into the abuses of confidence.

Kiley Rothweiler

Kiley Rothweiler is an actor, producer and award winning writer. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and has lived in New York City since 2004. She is currently a member of The Collective NY, a professional non-profit theatre and film production company founded by Amy Schumer, where she serves on the Board of Directors. Writing Awards & Recognition: Sundance Institute Episodic Writers Lab (2nd Rounder), Filmmatic Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship (Finalist), Oregon Scream Week Horror Film Festival (Best Dark Drama Screenplay Award Finalist), Horror Haus (Finalist), BlueCat Screenplay Awards (Quarter Finalist), Atlanta International Screenplay Awards (Quarter Finalist), Austin Screenplay Awards (Quarter Finalist), Austin Spotlight Film Festival (Official Selection) New York City International Screenplay Awards (Official Selection), Portland Screenplay Awards (Official Selection).

A Very Krampus Christmas

Screenplay Semi-Finalist

A Very Krampus Christmas

When a single-mother’s child is abducted by Krampus, she must endure a perilous journey to find the one man who can help her rescue her child, Santa Claus!

Matt Stedman

Matthew Stedman is the writer and director of B4 which is available for streaming on Amazon Prime. His screenplay, The Supplicant, was a finalist at the NOLA Horror Film Festival in 2018. He lives in Los Angeles.

Abandon

Screenplay Semi-Finalist

Abandon

A struggling family faces an apparent insurmountable evil ironically who’s presence is due to their own indifference and disregard for the abuse in their home.

Carmen Mosley

Carmen is a Utah native and participated in several years as a volunteer at Sundance where her love of film was reignited. Her love of film was cultivated at a young age watching Dracula, Poltergeist, and Psycho as if it were her religion. She will be pursuing a Master’s in Screenwriting in 2021. Her greatest influences are Stephen King, Hitchcock, and Tarantino. Carmen’s feature-length script was recently chosen Best US Screenplay at the Rocky Mountain International Film Festival. She loves spending time with her sweet family, traveling, and wine trips with her friends! She is currently working on her first TV Pilot Project, “Veiled”. Her screenwriting professor, at ASU, Justin Trevor Winters has inspired her and driven her to master her craft.

afterbirth.

Screenplay Semi-Finalist

afterbirth.

An entity brought into existence by grief haunts a woman in the wake of her first miscarriage.

Marko Pandza

I’m an author, illustrator, musician and advertising copywriter/creative director from Toronto. I wrote a horror/dark fantasy novel called Limbo, a collection of one sentence horror stories called Brief, Horrible Moments, a rock musical called The Silent City, I draw monsters as Mister Rotten and I come up with ideas at an ad agency called Anomaly. I’m really good at building IKEA furniture and waiting exactly where the subway doors open. I think I’m a good height, but sometimes I wish I were a bit taller.

Because the Night

Screenplay Semi-Finalist

Because the Night

In October 1977, seven students are murdered from Islands High School over the course of six weeks. After multiple failed attempts to stop the gruesome killings, the Chatham County PD send in a rookie female undercover cop as a high school senior in a last ditch effort to catch the killer.  

Lee Voelkel

Lee Voelkel is a New Orleans native who graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with a degree in film in 2003. He’s worked off and on in the New Orleans film industry for almost twenty years. Lee taught screenwriting, film, and art at both the New Orleans Video Access Center and for the gifted and talented program at Jefferson Parish Public School System. Lee is currently writing screenplays full time. He’s written seventeen feature length screenplays over the last 20 years. He’s had seven different screenplays place in over ten major screenwriting competitions in the last three years alone. Lee’s sci-fi script The Last Spear as well as his romantic drama, Delicious Kiss having placed multiple times.

Climbers

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Climbers

170 years in the future, a rag tag tribe of humans struggles for survival. After an apocalypse, they have lived for generations on the Eiffel Tower, where two levels are converted into farming and quarters. But an unusual drought has them starving. Many on the Tower have mutations. Monthly, a ceremony is held to decide if a child turning 4 years old is sufficiently human to stay “up top”. Kids found lacking are exiled to the ground, where they must live (or die) among the severely mutated At the ceremony, five, including tribe leaders Par and Jib, are voted to take an elevator down. They are joined by Nanky, a 4 year old girl with a long tail, whose fate hinges on her behavior on the ground. 

Alexander Julian III

Writer/Producer ALEXANDER JULIAN of Feedback Films (now Feedback Filmworks) is no stranger to winning awards on the festival circuit.  The majority of his projects have been based in NC, but he recently completed post production on his latest efforts, THE REUNION, a short drama he wrote that was shot in Austin, TX, and GIFT, a spiritual thriller he wrote, that was shot in Baltimore, MD. Al brings his lifetime experience in clinical psychology and law to the creation of teleplays, films, commercials and shorts for the past nine years. FEVER DREAMS, a full length feature film with Al as the principal writer, has won multiple awards since completion in 2019, including recently winning Best TV Series at the Peak City International Film Festival and best drama at the Long Leaf Film Festival this year. In addition, he optioned the full length thriller, THE PUPPETEER to LA-based Hammer Entertainment last year.

Consumed

Screenplay Semi-Finalist

Consumed

Buried beneath a collapsed building after an apocalyptic earthquake, an estranged husband and wife struggle to stay alive, praying that their companions rescue them before a horde of undead creatures tear through the rubble.

Don Stroud

Hailing from the wilds of North Carolina, Don spent his formative years drawing his own comic books, and crafting galaxy-spanning sagas with his homemade toys. After a lengthy detour with a career in the software industry, Don decided to dust off his artistic dreams and get back to creating. He became an editor in Hollywood, working on low-budget horror movies and award-winning documentaries. But after time spent playing with other peoples’ toys, Don decided to craft his own, and transfer the stories in his head to the written page. Over the last several years Don has dedicated his energies towards screenwriting, producing several almost-award-winning original screenplays in the process. His goal is a lofty one: sitting in a darkened theater and seeing his work up on the big screen.

D.F.W.

Screenplay Semi-Finalist

D.F.W.

Two young, successful female entrepreneurs gather new content for their web page.

Deirdre Patterson

Deirdre started writing at the age of fourteen with poems and short stories. Her love of horror, thrillers, exploitation and dark comedies also started young with watching way too many 1970s exploitation, 1980s slasher and foreign films. Obtaining a background in theater production during her college years, Deirdre then began writing staged plays. She has completed seven plays with topics ranging from a murder mystery set in the 1890s to a S/M themed disco musical. Three of her plays are in her book, Ladies and Whores: Three, Two Act Plays. In 2005, she started writing screenplays. She has completed a total of ten screenplays and has won or placed highly in over 70 competitions. Deirdre likes to mix the genres she grew up watching and putting her unique spin on the horror genre.

Earth Angels

Screenplay Semi-Finalist

Earth Angels

Danny Candless, a young man with unique abilities, finds himself unwittingly thrown into a world that he’d long forgotten, the story of everyone’s origin, and the determination of a cult that fights for human demise and the rise of their gods to rule the Earth.

Dedra Stevenson

Dedra L. Stevenson is a multi-genre author, filmmaker, and award-winning screenwriter originally from Alabama, USA, but now residing permanently in the U.A.E. Her novels include a fantasy fiction trilogy for young adults, known as The Hakima’s Tale, a controversial courtroom drama called Desert Magnolia, a horror called The Skinwalker Resurrection, a collection of fantasy short stories called Tales of the Lantern, and a children’s book called Little Loud Beatrice and the Magic Painting. She’s currently assembling a science fiction anthology called Human Horizons and working on her new novel, The Buchanan Bastard. Both are projected to be published in 2021. In addition to writing stories, Ms. Stevenson enjoys writing movies. She won Best Short Screenplay for Desert Magnolia, based on her novel of the same name, in Mediterranean Cannes, 2018. Ms. Stevenson intends to keep on writing, as long as her genre hopping keeps her fresh and in the zone. Many more stories to come.