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Link to Winners Announcement is below!!
The Florida Script Challenge is an online screenplay contest dedicated to showcasing the best screenwriters. We celebrate creativity, storytelling, and the art of screenwriting through our annual competition.
2025 Award Winners
Hurricane 'Samuel' Award
Adieux by Hew Brown
Screenwriter of the Year
Akelarre Under the Sun by Shane Hallawa
Alligator Award
Grandma Dee and the Lost Continent by Mark Perlick
Sandhill Crane Award
The Influencer by Tamara Shane Kagel
'Tampa Award' - Feature Screenplays:
Of Gentle Lions by John Christopher Klauder & Christine Berardo Klauder
'Miami Award' - Pilot Screenplays:
Billy's Singing Bass by Nathan M. Scrivens
'Orlando Award' - Short Screenplays:
Our Team by Joshua Holtzman
2025 Finalists
'Tampa Award' - Feature Screenplays:
Angels Desired by Lukas Scheja
Of Gentle Lions by John Christopher Klauder & Christine Berardo Klauder
Two Wolves by Sue M. Swank
Grandma Dee and the Lost Continent by Mark Perlick
Adieux by Hew Brown
'Miami Award' - Pilot Screenplays:
The Influencer by Tamara Shayne Kagel
Follow the Leader by Jonathan Almanzar
Billy's Singing Bass by Nathan M. Scrivens
The Age of the Empath by Steve Brown
Akelarre Under the Sun by Shane Hallawa
'Orlando Award' - Short Screenplays:
First and Last by Lukasz Krzeminski
Serena & Dakota (W.T.) by MC Brouder
Our Team by Joshua Holtzman
Locked In by Mary S King
Alterations by Elena Stofle & Jimmy Lucarz
2025 Semi-Finalists
'Tampa Award' - Feature Screenplays:
Where I Go When I'm Gone by Rebecca Denise Robinson
The Monday Descent by Phil Peyton
Surviving by Olivia Flynn Green
Inside Roderick Kayne by Louis Alvarez
Bear Day by Marshall Critchfield
'Orlando Award' - Short Screenplays:
Death Drives a Tercel by David Yanovich
Carry Me to Death by Bryanna Grace Roberts
Detention: Room 107 by Joseph Michael Leone
Loretta by Terri Kauffman
Rick and I by Anthony Cuomo
2025 Official Selections
'Tampa Award' - Feature Screenplays:
Box Step by Daniel J Byrd
The Fourth Psalm by John Martins III
Moms vs Kids by Nate Worrell
All In by Jeffrey Theisler
Voodoo Valentinos by Michael Louis Gold
Fight the Fear by David Siracusa
Eternal Schizoids by Cooper Ray Donald Dearborn
Cave Dwellers by Francis Indigo
'Miami Award' - Pilot Screenplays:
Portholes by Jonathan Almanzar & Daniel Morris
Paired by Liz Anderson
More Going Down by Dennis J Manning
'Orlando Award' - Short Screenplays:
I Silence You by Courtney Elvira
The Apology Index by Troy LonNigro
Up Helly Aa by Jonathan Silva
The Show-Pilot Episode by Ross Alloway & Ross Thompson
Hurricane 'Sue' Award Winner:
At the Mercy of Faith - Terror Version - Samuel Lee Taylor
Screenwriter of the Year Award:
The Yellow Sea Lioness - Kelly Ann Guglietti
Short Screenplay Category:
1st Place - The Pirate's Wife - Laurance Davis
2nd Place - Mayhem & Mahalo - Bethany Maines
3rd Place - Donor - Wesley Boone
Feature Screenplay Category:
1st Place - Silence of Fury - D. Hunter Fein
2nd Place - What Momma Wants - Mark Clark
3rd Place - The One-Eyed Monkey - Adam Poulos
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