Here is the list of 2023 screenplay winners from the DRAMA Festival.
Watch the 5 winning screenplay best scene readings:
Paths We Lead, by Sandon Yahn
Feature Script
An aspiring screenwriter who struggles to support his family becomes successful after he uses a mysterious writing software that alters reality. But, with that comes a price that he never imagined he’d have to pay.
CALF ROPE, by Jake Stetler, Bradley Hawkins
Feature Script
When in 1966 a nine-year-old boy from suburban Pennsylvania asks his grandad from Oklahoma if he was ever “a real cowboy,” the retired cattle auctioneer is forced to take stock of his blessings and confront his unrealized dreams.
DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: CALF ROPE, by Jake Stetler, Bradley Hawkins
DEATH CLOAK, by Markus Meedt, Catherine O’Shea
TV Pilot
Khalida, an asylum seeker in Liverpool, comes into possession of a cloak that resets time by 1 hour, every time she dies.
DRAMA Festival BEST Scene: DEATH CLOAK, by Markus Meedt, Catherine O’Shea
BILLIE THE KID, by Tom Michael Jennings
Feature Script
The day before she is to be sent to boarding school, a rebellious teenager named Billie steals a million-dollar horse from her father and rides off into the New Mexico desert to find the grave of her namesake, Billy the Kid. Along the way, she learns the truth about her past and how she and her father have never dealt with the greatest tragedy of their lives.
DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: BILLIE THE KID, by Tom Michael Jennings
STILL PERFECT, by Michael Fitzer, Karin Partin Wells
When a young single mother’s baby is murdered by a close friend, she and her family struggle with each other and regret about the past before they find peace through the sound of a beating heart.
DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: STILL PERFECT, by Michael Fitzer, Karin Partin Wells
Festival for Drama in Film, Screenplays, Novels 