2024 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition Winners

Listed below are the Winners of the 2024 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 500 submissions. Congratulations to these writers and thanks to all for submitting!

Grand Prize Winner

Time-Rex by Dezi Gallegos

Abandoning his time travel tour, an 11-year-old boy risks the spacetime continuum to reunite a baby T-Rex with its dad. (Feature)

TV Pilot Winner

Simon’s Guide to Everything Scary (Including Ghosts, Zombies and Girlfriends) by Stian Hafstad

Sick of being scared of everything, Simon (11) decides to write a self-help guide to conquer his fears, but as a soon-to-be teenager, he’s about to discover that there are scarier things to worry about than the supernatural – like how do you even talk to girls? (Half-Hour Pilot)

Feature Winner

Old Money by Nicholas Wenger

A brother-sister team con their way into an old man’s will, only to find that he won’t die. (Feature)

Lisa Alford Mentorship Prize Winner

The Christmas Jinx by Jamie Wesley

Unwilling to tempt fate, an event planner nicknamed the Christmas Jinx avoids all holiday activities. However, to receive a promotion, she must organize a TV station’s toy drive with the station’s hotshot reporter…the same person who gave her the nickname. (Feature)

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