Here is the list of 2023 screenplay winners from the TV Festival.
Watch the 11 winning screenplay best scene readings:
7 YEARS AFTER by Melissa Skirboll
Seven years after a religious-nationalist sect has taken over most of the country, as the last of the sanctuary cities begin to fall, a poet and her friends fight the forces of oppression.
7 YEARS AFTER. TV Screenplay Festival Best Scene. by Melissa Skirboll
PALADIN, by Mark Andrew Pogodzinski
Paladin is a gun for hire in the new west in 1800. His current task is to collect Caleb Barnes and deliver him to justice. The Barnes Gang attacked a wealthy ranch, killing several people and burning the house to the ground. Paladin kills the gang with little difficulty, taking time to explain to the youngest member of the gang why he is so unimportant in the grand scheme of the world.
DIE: Deadly Invisible Enemies Series, by Harold L. Brown
A renowned computer security expert loses everything when security is breached at the highest level of government and he enters an invisible underworld trading state secrets to the highest bidder.
TV Festival Best Scene: DIE: Deadly Invisible Enemies Series, by Harold L. Brown
AR2, by Bree Wyrd
When a sociopathic billionaire sells a vaccine to the U.S. military that makes humans bulletproof, he loses everything and is forced to join a revolutionary group to defeat the fascist government his vaccine has empowered.
BROKEN, by Dathan Anthony Paterno
An unorthodox but gifted psychologist battles both a local psychiatrist and his own mental health struggles, jeopardizing his career and family.
I’M SO DONE, by Chuck Alley, Rachael Berman
When Pastry Chef, Rachael Berman bootstraps her bakery business, she relies on quick wit and biting humor to motivate eccentric employees, manage her quirky family and survive in Silicon Valley.
TV Festival 1st Scene: I’M SO DONE, by Chuck Alley, Rachael Berman
SHADOWS, by Michael Angel Johnson
SHADOWS begins with Reverend Josie Strickland (late 40s, African-American) entering her office at St. Thomas Church and finding her mother, Violet Audrey, (60), standing over a dead body and holding the bloody murder weapon.
SUBDIVISION, by Casey Leary
A tyrannical HOA wreaks havoc on a community until some “others” try to exist and then to rebel.
THE WATCHLIST, by Alex Vickery-Howe
A young man falls in love with an ecoterrorist and teams up with her to save the world.
CROWN POINT, by Joseph Anthony Francis
A scandalous event in their hidden past transformed the once-friendly Dalton and Alvarez dynasties into bitter rivals. Against the backdrop of the Crown Point skyline, members of these two empires scheme to gain the upper hand, leaving a path of broken dreams, broken promises, and broken hearts behind them.
TV Festival 1st Scene: CROWN POINT, by Joseph Anthony Francis
THE MURDERBOT DIARIES, by Keith A. LaCabe
On a distant alien planet, a security “construct” (half human, half robot) must decide between saving its clients from certain death or hiding out in safety watching its entertainment feed and an uncertain rescue.
TV Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Murderbot Diaries, by Keith A. LaCabe
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