Award Winning Scripts
While you can always go to the main script listing and filter lists by awards received, here's a quick and easy list of every script that's placed in either the Academy Nicholl screenwriting competition and the Austin Film Festival Screenplay and Teleplay competition.
There are currently 24 award winning scripts available to read.
Rough Water by Clint Williams
A weekend canoe trip becomes a perilous game of hide-and-seek when a suburban dad and his young son stumble across a cartel-operated marijuana farm hidden in the wilderness of northern California.
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95pp
2 readers love this script
Midway Kid by Kyle Art
A dishonest teen runs away to join his mother’s traveling carnival, where he uncovers the reason she abandoned him years earlier.
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102pp
2 readers love this script
Damaged by Kimberly Britt
Desperately seeking closure, a pair of dysfunctional siblings risk opening old wounds when they return home following the death of their abusive father.
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93pp
6 readers love this script
Rolling Dark by Paul J. Williams
From immigrant to U.S. soldier, “Guyanese Eddie,” as he’s now known, returns home from war and adopts a life of crime, assembling a crew of criminals to help search for his missing daughter.
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96pp
Territory by J.E. Clarke
Even killers should respect *certain* boundaries.... A glimpse into what happens when the Filipino sex industry and traditional mythos collide.
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10pp
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Madame Cavell by Phillip Ramati
Based on a true story, English nurse Edith Cavell helped 200 British and French soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium during World War I.
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120pp
1 reader loves this script
Freedom Fort by Clint Williams
Two runaway slaves meet en route to a sanctuary that draws escaped slaves from across the South. But, before they can build new lives as free men, they must defend the settlement against invading troops.
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115pp
1 reader loves this script
Pray For Me by Paul J. Williams
Over the past twenty-five years, a series of horrific events have struck the town of Smithfield, Virginia. This documentary searches through the secrets, conspiracy-theories, and ugly truths for the answers.
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83pp
Through the Shifting Stars by Michael Norland
Through the Shifting Stars is a psychological drama about Kara, a space captain travelling on a mysterious mission with only the manipulative A.I. voice of her ship as a companion.
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87pp
2 readers love this script
The Morning After by PJ Edwards
After a one night stand, the reluctant couple’s lives are disrupted by an inarticulate alien. After they get stuck on the alien's ship, it sets off a series of events that brings them into war.
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105pp
No Heroes Here by Clint Williams
After forming an uneasy partnership with Russian mobsters to save his failing lakeside bar, a combat veteran declares war to save the people he loves when the Russians' business crosses the line into human trafficking.
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99pp
Deliver Us From Evil by Clint Williams
A soul-sick and war-weary knight home from the Crusade is forced to fight again as he leads his comrades and a motley band of refugees in a battle for survival against an army of the undead.
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110pp
1 reader loves this script
Dagon by David Quiroz Jr
A young American naval officer in WWII must protect his crew from a deadly sea monster stalking their torpedo boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Based on the short story by HP Lovecraft.
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99pp
1 reader loves this script
Equal Retribution by Shawn Davis
A new law allowing convicted murderers to be executed and revived forces a killer to use what time he has while dead, to gather clues in the afterlife, to prove his innocence.
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120pp
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The Beginning of The End and The End by David Lambertson
A series of sophomoric pranks erupt when an arrogant divorce lawyer moves into an office next door to a strong willed marriage counselor. A building fire interrupts their battles and inadvertently sparks a relationship.
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118pp
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Territory by J.E. Clarke
A young girl volunteers for service in the Philippines, and finds herself embroiled in a world of sex, corruption and dark local legends...which may ultimately prove to be all too real.
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107pp
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Virtually Fine by Gil Saint
In the future, an experimental device can change anyone's worldview. But at what cost?
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10pp
4 readers love this script
The Red Triangle by Tim Auld
A disgraced warrior is obsessed with reclaiming his honour after he is reduced to being a butler for a princess betrothed to his cruel rival.
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90pp
Broken by Will Hare
A young man's fragile existence shatters when he's forced to care for the brother who abused him as a child.
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99pp
5 readers love this script
The Last Statesman by David Lambertson
An old and cranky local politician goes publicly bananas in an effort to draw attention to an important social issue. This inadvertently puts the career of his son, the Governor of California, at risk.
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120pp
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Pro-Gamer by Stephen Ko
A young, talented gamer becomes the captain of a new eSports team, but has a hard time getting his eccentric team to listen to him and cooperate with each other.
TV Pilot
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34pp
1 reader loves this script
A Wish For Sophie by Kimberly Britt
A self-destructive actress, mired in guilt over the loss of her son, seeks redemption as she grants the wish of a young cancer patient.
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104pp
For Your Dreams by CJ Walley
A hardy country girl with nothing to lose is forced to transport drugs by a small town crook, but instead she double-crosses him in a last ditch bid to fulfill her sister's dreams in Vegas.
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93pp
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Mooned by Jeffrey Pollard
When a loner conspiracy-theorist and a skeptical reporter uncover the truth about the Moon landing they fall down a rabbit-hole of conspiracy theories.
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118pp
3 readers love this script
