Contests: Screenplays 2016

Congratulations to the winner and finalists of the Fourteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest! From more than 1600 entries received, Judge Francis Coppola and the Zoetrope staff have selected a winning script. The winner and the top-nine finalists are listed below, as are the semi- and quarter-finalists.

The winner of the contest will receive the grand prize of $5,000.

The winner and nine finalists will be considered for representation by William Morris Endeavor, CAA, The Gersh Agency, Exile Entertainment, ICM, Oasis Media, UTA, The Radmin Company, Prolific Entertainment, Energy Entertainment, and Dontanville/Frattaroli. Their scripts will be considered for film option and development by leading production companies, including: American Zoetrope, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, IFC Entertainment, Paramount Classics, Verisimilitude, Lionsgate, Icon Pictures, Lleju Productions and Films, Second and 10th, Working Title, Dimension Films, Frelaine, Michael London Productions, Hope for Film, Kulture Machine, Number 9 Films, Folo Films, Pretty Pictures, Roserock Films, Benderspink, Astrakan Films, Industry Entertainment, Anonymous Content, Jim Wedaa Productions, Robert Evans Company, Fortis Films, Jean Doumanian Productions, Agape Media International, FX, and Ziskin Productions.

Our next contest will open in Summer 2017; check back at this website for details in June.

And keep an eye our for a new contest from Zoetrope: The Coppola Director's Short Film Contest, coming in spring 2017 at coppolashorts.com.

Grand Prize Winner

Poppy (Pilot)
by Munis Rashid
Sugar Land, TX

Finalists

Sunshine (Pilot)
by Adrian Casas
Los Angeles, California
Shumu
by Evan Cathcart
Brooklyn, New York
Miss Juneteenth
by Channing Godfrey Peoples
Fort Worth , Texas
Purify My Heart
by Kate Hackett
Glendale, CA
Undark
by Natalia B. Megas
Fairfax, Virginia
Before Life
by Edson Shundi Oda
Los Angeles, CA
Give up the Ghost
by Tarik Karam and Peter Bognanni, Peter Bognanni
Brooklyn, NY
Esperanza
by Bret Polish
Los Angeles, California
Face Value
by Gretchen Somerfeld
Los Angeles, CA

Semi-Finalists

Intruder
by Susan Ashley
Sherman Oaks, California
Matryoshka
by Angela Berliner
Los Angeles, CA
Sideways Down the Sky
by Barry Brennessel
Silver Spring, MD
Downtown Rod Brown
by Kyle Christopher Cadman, Kyle Cadman
Sherman Oaks, California
For What It's Worth
by Charlotte Cameron
UK
Dreem Pussy
by Winnie Cheung, Olen Holm
Brooklyn, NY
Love And Heroin
by Katie Cocquyt
Moorpark, CA
Marlon
by Marc Cubelli
Boonton Township, NJ
The Green Detective
by Dominic J. DeJoseph
The Wild Ones
by Chris Dingwall
Sydney, Australia
Black Conflux
by Nicole Dorsey
Los Angeles, CA
Lily's Ghost
by Cheryl Drake Harris, ERIN Drake-Prior
Menlo Park, CA
CORNER KING
by Mono Ghose
London, U.K.
Mingus
by David Liu
Los Angeles, California
Casually Dying
by Aviva Peltin
Seattle, Washington
Eunice
by Keith Planit
New York, NY
AT RISK
by Robbie Robertson
Columbia, SOUTH CAROLINA
Bluebirds
by Simon Wilkinson
Thornton le Dale, England
California City
by Emma Williams
Redondo Beach, California
A Quiet Woman
by Jack Zafran
Granada Hills, California

Quarter-Finalists

The Nations
by Jill Bayor
Los Angeles, CA
The Jungle
by Rachel J Beard
Bangkok, Thailand
DARKLING
by Anya Beyersdorf
OTFORD, Australia
The Property
by William Patrick Bourne
San Francisco, California
One more day
by Jason Bowers
Great Britain
Moss Point
by Mitch Bradford
Los Angeles, CA
About Her
by Christopher Anthony Buerkle
Hilliard, Ohio
Kill or Cure
by Charlotte Cameron
UK
THE CAPTIVE HEART
by Michael Davies
Bristol, United Kingdom
The Warfield
by Lisa Christine Della Rocca
Pittsburg, CA
The Lighthouse
by Neal Dhand
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Americas
by Christopher Dye
Washington D.C.
The Winning Ticket
by Oliver Evangelista
Waikoloa, HI
Sundeep Goes Viral
by Amanda Farmer, Brent W. Graham
Austin, Texas
The Girl From San Francisco
by Annie-Laurie Gilsdorf
Denver, CO
Undeniable
by ARTEL GREAT
Elkhorn
by Hadley Griffin
Montgomery, Alabama
Virgin Killers
by Tannaz Hazemi
Brooklyn, NY
A Thinner Man
by Michael Jackson
Kingdom of Paradise
by David James
San Diego, California
Riding Halley's Comet
by Idella Johnson, Ann McQueen
GRANT'S CROSS
by Ernestina Juarez
Austin, Texas
BIG FIRE
by Daniel Judson
A Rembrandt in Brooklyn
by Monroe Katz
Napa, California
Eastern Son
by Young-Sun Kim
Oakland, CA
To The Children of The World
by Ken Kobayashi
Los Angeles, California
Sophie & Valentina
by Lucy Luna
Los Angeles/Mexico City, California/Mexico
RUB THE SPEED
by Amy C. Maki
SANTA FE
Zero Sum
by Iain Marcks
Brooklyn, NY
Hammer of Witches
by Michael Napoliello, Maria Frisk
Manhattan Beach, CA
Lomax & Leadbelly
by Eric Rawson
Pasadena, CA
In Aeternum
by Sean N. Riley
Project Athena
by Belinda Robertson
Oceanside, California
Lysistrata Cell
by Lisa Scott
Washington, DC
Rue Pigalle
by Jessica Dianne Shields
New York, New York
Cigar Box Letters
by Douglas Spaltro
Burleson, Texas
Crux
by David Carlo Steyn
Pretoria, South Africa
Covet
by Chris Tedrick
Astoria, New York
The Bonsai
by Jason Whiton
Mill Valley, CA
Empty Sleeves
by Robb Wilson, Phillip Rushing
Glendale, California

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