2025 Winners

Emerging Screenwriters Thriller Screenplay Competition

Grand Prize Winner

Red State by Brian J. Leitten

Finalists

(Alphabetical Order by Title)

Conundrum by Mark Bourbeau
Dire Streets by Alessandro Incalza
Fatal Detour by Stephen Blackburn
Giggling Gallows by Warren Lane
Oasis by John Jacobsen
Postmark: Havana by Matthew Doherty
Red State by Brian J. Leitten
The Alexandrite Ring by Harker Jones
The Red Light Lady of 42nd Street by Samantha D’Amico
The Resistance by Leandrio Plaatjies and Leo Moon

Semi-Finalists

(Alphabetical Order by Title)

13 Stones by Brett Orr
Addendum 13 by Don Lorincz
All the Way Down by Mark Netter
Alligator Chow Mein by Paddy Doheny
Black Phoenix by Cortez Law III
Blessed Blood by Maria Soriano
Bonnie and Hyde by Robert Tartell
Buried in Light by Lorraine Flett
Can’t Stop the Rain by Richard Garry
Capital by Robin Fusco
Chusei (Allegiance) by Phillip Hollins
Conundrum by Mark Bourbeau
Conviction by Lee Chambers
Cries of the Dead by John Radtke
Dead Witness by Jon Miller
Dead, Yet? by Jacqueline Fisher
Deprivation by Steven Bolia
Dire Streets by Alessandro Incalza
Disrepair by Clayton Tony Au
Farang by Laurence Rosier Staines and Michael Richardson
Fatal Detour by Stephen Blackburn
Feral Mountains by Terry Podnar
Forced by Erin Dooley
Foster Home by Patrick Bohan
Frame 37 by Roger Winstead
Gaurdrails by Eric Lotter
Giggling Gallows by Warren Lane
Heartbeat by Jan Westbrook
Honey Hill by Genevieve McDevitt
Is There Anybody There by Adam Libarkin and Mike Fasolo
Isolation by Brian Whiteman
Jacob’s Bully by David Brandt
Keres by Vikki Harris
Killing Time by Jack Warner
La Castañeda by Sandra Becerril
Lackey Draft by Francis Rose
Lola Price by Elle Resendes
Lucid by Brian Schwab
Macbeth Tames a Shrew by Samuel Marx and Hayden Marx
Meet Him In Hell by Janine Meston
Mine by Todd Foley
Newton and the Locker Monster by Anthony Miller
No More Good Girls by Shahine Ezell
No Peace I Find by Hyten Davidson and Christian Missonak
Numbers Game by Fiona Westwell
Oasis by John Jacobsen
Organica by Valerie Telnack
Perspectives by Jasen Heffner
Portland, 1988 by Michael Weinreb
Postmark: Havana by Matthew Doherty
Precursor by Steve Brown
Project Dark Liberty by Samuel Marx and Hayden Marx
Red Alert by Chris M. Rutledge
Red Ball by Phillip Hollins
Red State by Brian Leitten
Rock Bottom by Kevin Barney
Rot by Ray Petrolino
Serving Justice by Paul Thornhill
She’s Not There by John Walker
Shutter Bug by Joshua Barkdull
Slumtown by Adrian Grieb
Snowdrop by Judith Bunting
Standardized by Aaron Sutch
Storm Currents by Richmond Riedel
Swiss Clean by Jim Wurst
The Accidental Terrorist by Stewart Fergus
The Alexandrite Ring by Harker Jones
The Art of Lies by John Cooney
The Bartender by Cara Reinard
The Beast by Joshua Carback
The Block Captain by Coli Sylla
The Encounter by Jerzy P. Suchocki
The False Seminarian by Tobias Nathe
The Frau Driver by Kevin Felix
The Hard Silent by Larry Whitt
The Hole by Rade Mileusnic
The Housewife by John Woodard
The Killing Fields by Phillip Hollins
The Linguist by Maggie Tsavaris
The Mask of the Dragonfly by Kai David
The Olive Grove by Ivan Germano
The Phrogger by Joel McElvaney
The Radio Programmer: Jack’s Revenge by Carol I Hoffman
The Red Light Lady of 42nd Street by Samantha D’Amico
The Resistance by Leandrio Plaatjies and Leo Moon
The Silence Devours by Alyssa Jefferson
The Soulless Ones by Kevin Ruiz
The Unraveling by Melvin Madero Moore
The Village Phantom by AE Guaaker
The Word on Friends by Erica Fagan
Trace by Matthew Davis and Hillary Stringer
Trick Selfie by Chad Wellinger
Uncanny Valley by Pablo Riesgo Almonacid and Pablo Cervera
Unconquered: The John Hollins Story by Phillip Hollins
Venetian Undertow by Giles Brown
Wall of Fire by Mario Waller
Web by David Blacker
What Do You Fear by Stephanie (DeWitt) Tungate
Whisper Mountain by Sean Plemmons and Jeff Hassen
Would You Kill for Me? by Ronald Ecker

Quarter-Finalists

(Alphabetical Order by Title)

#CustomerRage by Marty Howe
13 Stones by Brett Orr
44 by Amber Marsh
A Dark Song by Matthew Scott Myers
A King and A God by Vincent Sgro
A Little Death by Joshua Lederman
A Mansion of Many Rooms by Daniel V Carbone
A Native Land by Caitlin McCarthy
A Nice Place to Visit by Jack Warner
A Place of Madness by Garison Piatt
A Safe House on Rue Abel by Peter R Feuchtwanger
A Walk With The Wicked by Robert Gallegos
Addendum 13 by Don Lorincz
All the Way Down by Mark Netter
Alligator Chow Mein by Paddy Doheny
Appearances by Guy Castonguay
Bear in Mind by Roy Edmondson
Beneath the Surface by Erika Knight
Beneath the Valley by Lee Hanson
Between These Walls by George Johnson
Beyond Sacrifice by Alicia Dill
Bind by Stephen Dudycha
Black Phoenix by Cortez Law III
Blessed Blood by Maria Soriano
Blood Oil by Neringa Bryant and Maureen Sheehan
Bloodlines: Origins by Phillip Hollins
Bloody Ascension by Till Silvio
Boarders by James Hereth and Rhonda Smiley
Bonnie and Hyde by Robert Tartell
Born Again by Joe Becker
Buried in Light by Lorraine Flett
Can’t Stop the Rain by Richard Garry
Caos by Felix
Capital by Robin Fusco
Carver by Patrick Murphy
Caught in the Undertow by Pavel Christian
Cheapfake by Jason Lajoie
Children of the Eternal Summer by Jerzy P. Suchocki
Chusei (Allegiance) by Phillip Hollins
City of Masks by William W. Holland
Clementine by Thomas Castiglione and Apple Yang
Colt by Allen Sircy
Conscription by Jennifer Milne
Conundrum by Mark Bourbeau
Conviction by Lee Chambers
Corrina by Thomas Castiglione
Cries of the Dead by John Radtke
Dark Mother by Josh Miller
De La Luz by Denise A. Agnew and Marie D. Jones
Dead Man’s Hand by Richard Cullen
Dead Witness by Jon Miller
Dead, Yet? by Jacqueline Fisher
Death Curse by Esabella Strickland
Deprivation by Steven Bolia
Detritus by Derrick Edmond
Dire Streets by Alessandro Incalza
Disrepair by Clayton Tony Au
Dollface by Ronson Duncan
Doors Open by Alicia Dill
Downfall by Travis Myles and Darrick Evenson
Drums of Freedom by Gabriel Mora Rodriguez
Due by Kathryn Zizek
Dust on Dirt by Adele Smaill
Elijah by Jared Raman
Executed and Risen by Salvatore Bono
Fangless by Fernando Bencomo
Farang by Laurence Rosier Staines and Michael Richardson
Fatal Detour by Stephen Blackburn
Feeling Gravity’s Pull by Mark Brown
Feral Mountains by Terry Podnar
Forced by Erin Dooley
Foster Home by Patrick Bohan
Frame 37 by Roger Winstead
Gaurdrails by Eric Lotter
Geneva by Genevieve McDevitt
Giggling Gallows by Warren Lane
Going Under by Brandan Jones
Granger by Mary Sandell
Gunner Wolf by JB Dunn
Handbasket by D D Doble
Harmony Lane by Alison Weaverdyck
Heartbeat by Jan Westbrook
Heavy Driver by Chad Magnant
Here Comes the Night by Al Lefcourt
Honey Hill by Genevieve McDevitt
Hyozan by Robin Lebeau
If I Were a Fool by Kennedy Brabham
Into the Light by Jack Zafran
Is There Anybody There by Adam Libarkin and Mike Fasolo
Isolation by Brian Whiteman
Ivy by Pippa Blackmore
Jacob’s Ballad by Kaloyan Gueorguiev
Jacob’s Bully by David Brandt
Karma Kat by Katz Entertainment
Keres by Vikki Harris
Kill Me If You Can by Janelle Lee
Kill Switch by Jaclyn Powell
Killing Time by Jack Warner
La Castañeda by Sandra Becerril
Lackey Draft by Francis Rose
Lady Pardot: The Monte Carlo Gambit by B Clarke
Land Eater by Zachary Tyler Vickers
Letters for Sarah by Ernest Dempsey
Lola Price by Elle Resendes
Loveland by Michael B. Snow
Lucid by Brian Schwab
Macbeth Tames a Shrew by Samuel Marx and Hayden Marx
Magliocco by Jim Wurst
Meet Him In Hell by Janine Meston
Mina’s Violence by Amirreza Safaee
Mine by Todd Foley
Mirror Games by Tom Browne
Miss Diagnosed by Shahar Ben Halevi
Monkberry Moon Delight by Jerzy P. Suchocki
Mortal Illusion by Mark Kift
Murder Most Virtual by Ted Chastain
Nanobots of Love by Robert Secreti
Newton and the Locker Monster by Anthony Miller
No More Good Girls by Shahine Ezell
No Peace I Find by Hyten Davidson and Christian Missonak
Noah is Lost by Robert Soloway
Non-Binary by Robert Tobin
Not Now!! by Leon Mintz
Numbers Game by Fiona Westwell
Oasis by John Jacobsen
On Pins and Needles by Katie Jung
Organica by Valerie Telnack
Overrun by Miguel Gervais
Payload by Phillip Cook
Perception by Pauline McAlonan
Persistense of Vision by Marc Spiegel
Perspectives by Jasen Heffner
Poison Ivy by Pippa Blackmore
Portland, 1988 by Michael Weinreb
Postmark: Havana by Matthew Doherty
Precursor by Steve Brown
Project Dark Liberty by Samuel Marx and Hayden Marx
Promise / New York by Patrick Kirkland
Psych/o by Solomon T. Osayande Jr.
Raised in God’s Country by Ian P Causer
Red Alert by Chris M. Rutledge
Red Ball by Phillip Hollins
Red State by Brian Leitten
Refuge of Mine by Charlie Ricottone
Remote by Phillip Hollins
Repatriation of Paradise by Samuel Marx and Hayden Marx
Return of the Salesman by Clay Fusco
Rock Bottom by Kevin Barney
Rot by Ray Petrolino
Sattelite Lovers by p.h Silva
Seekers by Mark Turner
Serving Justice by Paul Thornhill
Shadow’s Playlist by Stephen Elwain Barber
She’s Not There by John Walker
Shutter Bug by Joshua Barkdull
Slumtown by Adrian Grieb
Snowdrop by Judith Bunting
Southern Justice by Harris Freedman
Sry by Morgan Reese
Standardized by Aaron Sutch
Still Alive by Rosemary Griggs
Still, Small Voice by Aaron Mason
Storm Currents by Richmond Riedel
Survival by Stephen Leach
Suspended by Tammy Olsen
Swiss Clean by Jim Wurst
Sympathetic View of a Killer by Aimee Baird
T.O.T.E.M. by David Angelelli
Tëme by Sean Cookson
Thanatophobia by Carolyn Joyce
The Accidental Terrorist by Stewart Fergus
The Age of the Empath by Steve Brown
The Alexandrite Ring by Harker Jones
The Art of Lies by John Cooney
The Bartender by Cara Reinard
The Beast by Joshua Carback
The Betrayal of Sweet Molly Malone by Danny Matier
The Block Captain by Coli Sylla
The Blood Compass by JK Kelly
The Blue Crystal by Curt Liska
The Bothy by Garry Lawrence
The Call by Benjamin Ryan
The Carrot Cake by Iman Davari
The Circle by Craig Urquhart
The Circle in the Sky by Andi Lipo and Arun Croll
The Delinquent by Jay Hannah
The Encounter by Jerzy P. Suchocki
The False Seminarian by Tobias Nathe
The Fates of Teenage Men by Chris Ristic
The Female Agenda by Genna Rivieccio
The Firedogs by Lit Kilpatrick
The Frau Driver by Kevin Felix
The Hard Silent by Larry Whitt
The Hole by Rade Mileusnic
The Housewife by John Woodard
The Hunting Grounds by Parker Sack
The Killer Among Us by Álex Bandeira
The Killing Fields by Phillip Hollins
The Last Supper by Iman Davari
The Linguist by Maggie Tsavaris
The Lost Seoul by Leandrio Plaatjies and Leo Moon
The Love-Struck by Iman Davari
The Lyon of Times Square by Christopher Loveland
The Mask of the Dragonfly by Kai David
The Medievalist by Harvey Yazijian
The Narcissist by Lawrence Daly
The Olive Grove by Ivan Germano
The One by Kent Moran
The Outlier by Francisco Castro
The Penguin by Cali Pat
The Phrogger by Joel McElvaney
The Pipeline by Eric Murphy
The Postwoman by David Schwartz
The Radio Programmer: Jack’s Revenge by Carol I Hoffman
The Realtor by Jack Newsome
The Red Light Lady of 42nd Street by Samantha D’Amico
The Resistance by Leandrio Plaatjies and Leo Moon
The Silence Devours by Alyssa Jefferson
The Soulless Ones by Kevin Ruiz
The Stopover Between Life and Death by Gabriel Cuny
The Treasure of Lake Vaihiria by Christine Lara
The Unraveling by Melvin Madero Moore
The Village Phantom by AE Guaaker
The Wavelength by Peter Gaewski
The Woman Called Thursday by Peter Hardy
The Word on Friends by Erica Fagan
Thoughts & Prayers by Bob Ingraham
Trace by Matthew Davis and Hillary Stringer
Trick Selfie by Chad Wellinger
Truth Be Damned by Richard Vadimsky
Uncanny Valley by Pablo Riesgo Almonacid and Pablo Cervera
Unconquered: The John Hollins Story by Phillip Hollins
Undertow by Gabrielle Nehring
Up River by Eric Miller
Upstate Girl by Julie Gervais
Venetian Undertow by Giles Brown
Wall of Fire by Mario Waller
Web by David Blacker
What Do You Fear by Stephanie (DeWitt) Tungate
Wheels of Rebellion by Alessandro Incalza
When Darkness Knocks by Nicholas Gerasimou
When Jim Met Tim by Thorsten Schade
Whippoorwill by Loren Davis
Whisper Mountain by Sean Plemmons and Jeff Hassen
Who Should I Kill? by Ali Sabokbar
Who’s Minding Malcolm by Linda Marr
Would You Be My by Ja’mal Jones
Would You Kill for Me? by Ronald Ecker
Write Off by Maria Santiago
Your Turn by Jessie Gill
Zabih by Seyed Morteza Sabzeghaba