2023 ScreenCraft Drama Competition Winners

Listed below are the Winners of the 2023 ScreenCraft Drama Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,200 submissions. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all for submitting!

Grand Prize Winner

Ostrich by Taylor Tejada

In order to escape death row, a murderer and an arsonist are forced to become government agents and clean up the mistakes, missteps, and murders of crooked politicians.

Feature Winner

The Larson Episode by John Norton

After exploiting a flaw in the 1980s edition of Press Your Luck, perennial loser Michael Larson becomes the biggest winner in game show history, only to find himself battling the CBS legal team as well as his own personal demons to avoid having everything taken away from him.

TV Pilot Winner

Breaker by Bob Oltra and Addie Manis

BREAKER is a Rust Belt crime drama in which two families find themselves caught in a triangle of cash, corruption and convicted children after one of their sons falls victim to a powerful judge’s campaign to be hard on crime. Inspired by real events, BREAKER peels back the skin of one American town in order to ask — Whose sins can we forgive?

J. Holtham Mentorship Prize Winner

Ostrich by Taylor Tejada

In order to escape death row, a murderer and an arsonist are forced to become government agents and clean up the mistakes, missteps, and murders of crooked politicians.

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