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Screenplay Winners

Best Overall Feature Screenplay & Best Dramatic Feature Screenplay

SERENADE OF THE VULTURE – JOSEPH DIONISIO

AFTER A PALM BEACH BILLIONAIRE KILLS A MAN IN A HIT-AND-RUN ACCIDENT, THE ONLY WITNESS — A HOMELESS ASIAN-AMERICAN WOMAN WITH A GENIUS IQ — EMERGES TO BLACKMAIL HIM.

Best Story Aching To Be Told

THE MULLIGAN CAPER – HENRY P. GRAVELLE

LEAVING A HARSH LIFE FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE RAILS, A YOUNG MAN LEARNS THE IMPORTANCE OF SURVIVAL, FRIENDSHIP, AND LOVE WITHIN AN EVER-CHANGING WORLD, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PAST CATCHES UP.

Best Comedy Feature Film Screenplay

MILKWEED MANOR – ALEXIA KOSMIDER, MARIANNE MESSINA 

THE ARRIVAL OF SMOLDERING VIETNAM VET CHARLES BRINGS DISRUPTION INTO THE ORDERLY ROUTINE OF MILKWEED MANOR, ASSISTED LIVING. RECOVERING FROM RECENT KNEE SURGERY, CHARLES ATTRACTS THE RESIDENT HUSBAND-HUNTER, DOROTHY, WHO SETS HER WILES ON HIM, EVEN AS HE BECOMES INTRIGUED BY A FELLOW BIBLIOPHILE LIVING AT THE MANOR, EMILY. EMILY’S TENTATIVE STEPS TO CLAIM A LIFE AROUND SIMPLE PLEASURES ARE REPEATEDLY INTERRUPTED BY THE CAJOLING PRESENCE OF HER WELL-MEANING BUT DISCONNECTED DAUGHTER ELIZABETH WHO WISHES TO RELOCATE EMILY TO FLORIDA, FAR AWAY FROM THE MANOR, HER BELOVED GARDEN, AND ITS PRECIOUS MONARCH BUTTERFLIES. AS EMILY AVOIDS ELIZABETH AND THE TOPIC OF FLORIDA, SHE AND CHARLES STRIKE UP AN UNLIKELY ROMANCE. BUT LIKE THE MILKWEED EMILY PLANS TO PLANT IN THE MANOR’S GARDEN, THEY MUST FIRST WEED OUT A SERIES OF HILARIOUSLY RIOTOUS MISUNDERSTANDINGS FOR THEIR ROMANTIC COMMITMENT TO FLOURISH.

Best Short Screenplay (tie) 

CHERRY SORBET – DANIEL LATCH 

A GUY GOES INTO A CONVENIENCE STORE AND PRETENDS HE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT TO BUY.

AISE 18 – MADELINE TSAI 

A COLLEGE STUDENT GOES TO HER COLLEGE LIBRARY ONLY TO FIND A SECRET. SHE ENDS UP IN A MYSTERIOUS HALLWAY WHERE SHE WITNESSES THE LIBRARIAN MURDERED AND NEARLY MURDERED HERSELF. SHE MANAGES TO ESCAPE THE HALLWAY, ONLY TO FIND THAT THE LIBRARIAN IS ALIVE.

Script Accessible Awards

Best Script Accessible Feature Screenplay

THE IMPASSIONED BUCKLER – ROB BYRNES

WHEN HIS DAUGHTER IS ACCEPTED TO A PRESTIGIOUS HIGH SCHOOL, A SINGLE DAD SUFFERING FROM THE PSEUDOBULBAR EFFECT RESORTS TO ENTERING AN ELIMINATION BOXING TOURNAMENT TO PAY HER TUITION.

Best Script Accessible Short Screenplay 

CALL ME NEVADA – ALEXANDER JULIAN III 

AN OLD ALUM REMEMBERS A MOST UNUSUAL CLASSMATE…

Play/Musical Winner

Best Play/Musical

WILDA – HALLIE JANE STEPHENSON

IN THE HEART OF THE WILDERNESS, HENRI, A BELOVED WOODCARVER, AND HIS WIFE RAISE THEIR CHILDREN WILDA AND ROBIN IN AN ISOLATED TOWN CALLED WOODSMUFFEN. ONE NIGHT THEIR COTTAGE IS SET ABLAZE SUDDENLY, KILLING HENRI’S WIFE AND FATALLY WOUNDING HIS TWO YOUNG CHILDREN. USING HIS MAGICAL AXE, HE CARVES HIS CHILDREN OUT OF WOOD, BRINGING THEM BACK TO LIFE. THE TWO TEENS FIND IT DIFFICULT TO NAVIGATE THEIR NEW LIVES, AS PEOPLE MADE OF WOOD ARE FROWNED UPON BY THOSE FOLLOWING THE CRUEL TOWN BLACKSMITH FOWLER. WILDA AND ROBIN MUST NAVIGATE THEIR NEW CHALLENGES, CONFRONT A SINISTER FORCE LIVING IN THE TOWN, AND FIND HOPE, LOVE, TRUTH, AND REDEMPTION.