The WeScreenplay Shorts Competition is dedicated to connecting talented short film writers with Oscar-nominated short film directors and creators for advice on how to create emotionally impactful storytelling in short-form content. These finalists represent the top 4-5% of all entries after multiple reads from multiple readers.
They will be read once more and the top scripts will be read by our Oscar-Nominated and Oscar-Winning Jury:
Serena Armitage
Won Academy Award for her short film STUTTERER, and currently heads her production company Red Breast Productions.
Reed Van Dyk
Academy Award-nominated for his short film DEKALB ELEMENTARY before signing with his reps at Writ Large and CAA.
Vincent Lambe
Academy Award-nominated for his short film DETAINMENT and went on to sign with ICM.
A sincere congratulations to the writers who are advancing. Please make sure to congratulate these writers on the Facebook announcement and Twitter announcement — they deserve it!
We want to thank every entrant for submitting their work. And if you’d like alerts when this contest re-opens, sign up via Coverfly here.
And now, the 2019 WeScreenplay Shorts Finalists:
| A Crown for Queenie written by Tiffany Lin |
| A F*cking Starbucks on Bleecker Street written by zack r. smith |
| Ava written by Angelique Wilson |
| Constellation written by Anne Dagenais |
| Cream, No Sugar written by Alaina Pinkney |
| Death Sentence written by Kristen Joy Bjorge |
| deepwater written by Linda H. Codega |
| Floss written by Alexander Gustaveson |
| Ghosted written by Leah Wood |
| Greg the Puddle written by Shaun Radecki |
| Juana Pelos written by Maria MEALLA |
| Kid Midnight written by Mychal Sargent |
| LIBERTY written by Nikhil Kamkolkar |
| Lucky Kitchen written by WEI LIU |
| Making Up written by Ryan Paige |
| Mover: Loosely Based on an Alternatively Factual Account of My Life as a Data Trafficker written by Gerry Walker |
| Other People’s Lives written by Montgomery Burt |
| Possum written by Lyndal Simpson |
| Red House written by Holly Sereni |
| Reel Life written by Jeremy Span |
| Reset written by Emily McDermott |
| Say Yes written by Gabe Berry |
| The Astronaut written by Joey Connolley |
| The Cricket written by Gabe Berry |
| The Last Creation written by Brad Cooper |
| The Light written by Tony Ferrendelli |
| The Prospector written by Ross Denyer |
| This Land written by Riley Madincea |
| Winemaker written by Miriam Rahimi-Cholensky |
We want to thank every entrant for submitting their work. And if you’d like alerts when this contest re-opens, sign up via Coverfly here.
Congrats to all these fantastic writers! All placements have been updated on Coverfly.
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