2025 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition Winners

Listed below are the Winners of the 2025 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!

Here are the Winners:

Grand Prize Winner

Golden Boy by Connor Martin
Feature | Historical

To save his cash-strapped soccer club, the owner of SSC Napoli stakes his reputation and the taxpayers' dollars on a mercurial, drug-addicted superstar named Diego Maradona.

Feature Winner

Different From the Others by  Ben Samuels

In the aftermath of World War I, sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld assembles an eclectic team to crusade for homosexual rights and overturn bigoted German law, founding the Institute of Sex and inadvertently discovering transsexual identity, until the rising Nazi Party threatens to destroy their pioneering work.

TV Pilot Winner

Dark Arts by Noah Lang & Harold "Blake" Hoss

When Lorne Michaels left SNL in 1980, only one person was audacious enough to replace him: Jean Doumanian. LIVE FROM NEW YORK will finally tell the true story of the woman who revolutionized late night forever.

Nic Gonda Mentorship Prize Winner

Exposition Girl by Sophia Drummond-Moore
Feature | Drama

An aging woman in a mental asylum experiences memories of her youth in the early 1900s when she was the most famous model in the world, until a grisly murder brought her career to its knees. Based on the true story of Audrey Munson