Here is the list of 2023 screenplay winners from the FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival.
Watch the 16 winning screenplay best scene readings:
2 Short Screenplays:
UNCHOSEN, by Alexander James Dingeman
Short Script
When the Chosen One abandons their quest, the world turns to… someone.
SCI-FI/FANTASY SHORT Script: UNCHOSEN, by Alexander James Dingeman
OKORO, by Gregory Earls
Short Script
A scientist explores the choice between benevolence and hostility as he tries to guide his artificial human toward humanity.
4 TV Pilots:
PHAEDRA’S ODYSSEY, by Julie A. Thornton
TV Pilot
In a universe where Chaos and Order compete for supremacy, a group of wayward other-worldly beings abandoned on a primitive planet make a deal with Chaos in exchange for their freedom.
FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival BEST Scene: PHAEDRA’S ODYSSEY, by Julie A. Thornton
Hunt Man’s Land, by Ryan Skinner
TV Pilot
When A TV star finds out his best friend is dead it leads to uncovering a world of alternate realities, monsters, fantasy and more.
SCI-FI/FANTASY TV 1st Scene Script: Hunt Man’s Land, by Ryan Skinner
THE DEVIL PULLS THE STRINGS, by J. W. Zarek
TV Pilot
THE DEVIL PULLS THE STRINGS, described as The Librarians meet The Magicians is a 76,000-word urban fantasy with series potential, set in modern-day Wentzville, MO, New York City, and 1813 Genoa, Italy, where time travel, twisted history, secret societies, Slavic mythology, Paganini’s music, and one haunted hero collide.
FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: THE DEVIL PULLS THE STRINGS, by J. W. Zarek
Department of Disinformation, by Justin McLachlan
TV Pilot
When a manipulative intelligence agent is abducted by aliens, he turns to his hapless brother — a once well-regarded journalist who now hosts a conspiracy-laden, low-rated cable TV show — to help him expose a coming alien invasion.
SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: Department of Disinformation, by Justin McLachlan
10 Feature Scripts:
MOKSHA, by Saurin D. Lakhia
Feature Script
In the late 22nd century, a queer Indian-American man uses psychedelic science to lead humanity to its new interstellar home, but must first confront his past after finding out a secret from Earth involving his estranged mother and her mass ritual suicide cult.
FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: MOKSHA, by Saurin D. Lakhia
Love and Other Bloody Messes, by Brian McGrath
Feature Script
Zombies are on the attack! The fate of humankind is on the line. Can two high school loaners team up to save the planet? Will anyone come to their aid? Yes, and you’ll never believe who!
FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: Love and Other Bloody Messes, by Brian McGrath
UNDER VANISHING SKIES, by Gregory Fields
Feature Script
After a solar flare nearly destroys Earth, a man who’s lost the will to live must battle rapacious scavengers to give a young boy a chance to survive.
SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: UNDER VANISHING SKIES, by Gregory Fields
THE MOONSTRUCK, by Tanya Wheelock, Will Phillips
Feature Script
A military power couple suddenly finds themselves at the center of a lunar phenomenon turning ordinary people into zombies and must work together to save the world, their daughter, and their marriage.
SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: THE MOONSTRUCK, by Tanya Wheelock, Will Phillips
The Agreement, by Jared Stuart
Feature Script
Young US Air Force wife and mother realizes that she is a part of an alien hybridization program through an abduction and hypnosis, and that her son along with her husband and his family may not be who she thinks they are.
SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Agreement, by Jared Stuart
THE GOD MACHINE, by Michael J Bowler
Feature Script
Using an antique machine, a grieving boy hopes to apologize to his deceased mother, but instead unleashes an interdimensional being that wreaks havoc in San Francisco. With the aid of his detached father, some friends, and a tough female detective, he determines to stop the creature, even at the cost of his own life.
Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival Best Scene: THE GOD MACHINE, by Michael J Bowler
Mysterious Island, by Don Thompson
Feature Script
Upon doing some independent research, Laura stables upon an island on Google Maps that cannot be seen on other maps. The only other place the island has been documented is in Jules Verne’s “fictional” book, Mysterious Island, where the island appears just as it does on the satellite image. Laura shares her discovery with her dad, Dr.Peabody, a tenured professor at the university she attends who is a known but controversial figure in archeology research.
SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival Best Scene: Mysterious Island, by Don Thompson
RAP VERSE, by Rickey Teems II
Feature Script
Michael Green loves hip hop… but loathes what it’s become. The introvert rapper, slash spiteful blogger, has grandiose plans of returning the genre to real artistic purpose. Unfortunately he’s failing miserably, which also summarizes his life in general.
FANTASY/SCI-FI 1st Scene Reading: RAP VERSE, by Rickey Teems II
PERFECT WORLD, by Emil Faithe
Feature Script
SARAH CAHILL went missing two years ago. Her grieving husband, ROB CAHILL hasn’t gotten over it. But he has gotten his fill of crap as an E.R. doc at a stately Napa, California hospital, where he routinely sees things he’d rather not see. Until he sees the one thing that changes everything. His first extra-terrestrial patient.
FANTASY/SCI-FI 1st Scene Reading: PERFECT WORLD, by Emil Faithe
Harrowed, by Aaron A. Moore
Featue Script
A P.I. is hired to investigate the disappearance of a homeless man. During the investigation he discovers the truth about his family and his planet.
FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival BEST Scene Reading: Harrowed, by Aaron A. Moore
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