2025

2025 Award Winners

Murican Dream

Written by Claudia Barcena

Permanent Press

Written by Shaun Swift

2025 Official Selections

Short Screenplays

"Starved" by Courtney Emery
"La Cupacabra" by Brian Sanchez
"Quarter to Midnight" by Tyler Zibaie
"Zandaya" by Curtis Harrison
"Toilet Sharks" by Bruce Griffiths
"Girls Vs. Hell" by Juliette Roberts
"Southern Rites" by Brian Dorsey
"Necessary Predators" by Nicholas Holland
"Permanent Press" by Shaun Swift
"The Bachelor Party" by Alexander J. Hiers & Jonah Fujikawa
"Homecoming Scream" by Laurie Crompton
"Another Night at Beaver's" by Jeremy Sumrall
"Concrete Kingdom" by John Goode
"Murder Burger" by Cheryl Bealer-Wynton
"Soul Suckers" by Jessica James

Feature Screenplays

"Murican Dream" by Claudia Barcenas
"The Ultimate Breakup" by Zena Logan
"Love Santa" by Sarah Elizabeth Noe
"SMIZE" by Arielle Beth Klein
"Dysphoria?" by Anissa Matlock
"Black Nab" by Ben Harris
"Everyone" by Phillip Dishon
"AMBUSH" by Kenneth King
"The Babysitter Slasher" by Aaron Mendoza
"Gloomy Sunday" by Kevin Machate
"No Faces" by Michael Pisaturo
"The Crying" by Isaac Andres
"The Bog Man" by Arcadia Conrad
"Sight Specific" by Peter Hardy
"The Looking Glass" by Claudia Barcenas