The following screenplays are the Top 20% Short Screenplay Finalists and Official Selections for the 2026 FilmQuest Best Unproduced Screenplay Competition. These screenplays were the top 20% of the submitted short screenplays as scored by our screenplay judges. If you are a producer or filmmaker, collaborating with these writers may produce your next film, so feel free to explore these great projects waiting to be made. Featured here are some of the best unproduced genre screenplays on the circuit today and one of these screenplays will become our eventual Best Unproduced Short Screenplay Winner, with several others being recognized via awards.
If you are a lit agency, manager, or and/or producer and would like to find out more about the screenplays or to read them for consideration, please feel free to reach out to the festival director at jmartin@filmquestfest.com and he will put you in contact with the writers and help curate your needs.
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A COUPLE OF LIFETIMES
Written By: August Joaquim Soto
Synopsis: On a quiet night in a near-forgotten record store, two strangers meet by chance, or fate. As a mixtape plays from another life, they realize they might have danced this dance before.
Genre(s): The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: August Joaquim Soto is a trans masculine screenwriter and actor of Puerto Rican and Portuguese descent. He brings a palate cleansing kind of nuance and precision into their storytelling—whether that be on the page or screen.
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A THOUSAND TINY CUTS
Written By: Anna Long
Synopsis: A suicidal vampire returns to his childhood crush’s house to see her one last time. Old flames begin to spark again when she spots him and invites him in.
Genre(s): Horror, The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Anna is a director, actor, writer, and choreographer based in Los Angeles California. She is a proud alum of Filmquest 2025, where her screenplay won 2nd place in the features category. To learn more about Anna and her work visit thisisannalong.com
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BLOOD SUGAR
Written By: Travis Long
Synopsis: After the death of her mother, a young woman broke and battling medical issues inherits a house…and something far more sinister.
Genre(s): Horror
Screenwriter’s Bio: Travis lives and works in Columbus, Ohio where he has spent most of his life. He attended film school at Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio. His debut short film “Sick” premiered in 2023.
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BURNING
Written By: Kay Qiao & Gerard Howard
Synopsis: A lonesome woman living in a coastal town falls in love with a wounded bird she nurses back to life.
Genre(s): Fantasy
Screenwriter’s Bio: Kay Qiao is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles since 2019. She has continuously making short films following her graduation from film school. Her work has won awards and official selections for film festivals worldwide. In her free time, she works as a photographer. Her favorite movie directors are David Lynch, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Ari Aster.
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CANNIBAL CHRISTMAS
Written By: Michael Clifton
Synopsis: Todd pitches his madcap Christmas screenplay to HeartMark. Will they bite, or will he?
Genre(s): Horror, Comedy
Screenwriter’s Bio: Michael Clifton is an award-winning screenwriter and producer whose work spans horror, thriller, romance, and vertical microdrama. His films Bath Bomb and Gummies have screened at SXSW, Fantasia, FilmQuest, and Panic Fest, while his latest short, Kissyfoot, stars Emmy-nominated actress Dale Dickey. His screenwriting has been recognized by Austin Film Festival, HollyShorts, Cinequest, FilmQuest, Nightmares, and LA Vertical Fest, where Wrangler’s Heat won Best Vertical Screenplay.
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CHOKEHOLD
Written By: Spooky Madison
Synopsis: ChokeHold finds True Taylor washed ashore on the frozen edge of a riverbank. She wakes changed, ravenous, and driven by an almost feral need to defend her truth.
Genre(s): Horror
Screenwriter’s Bio: Spooky Spring grew up in the midwest, haunted by both the spirits of the land and also the mind. A queer, mexican, non binary little gremlin who likes to throw blood on their friends and win awards for it.
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COMFORT FOOD
Written By: Kristen Semedo
Synopsis: After Mars flees her life in pursuit of a dream, she stops a diner-turned-purgatory where she becomes trapped. Her flesh decaying and running out of time, Mars must answer for her choice to abandon her life and loved ones.
Genre(s): Horror
Screenwriter’s Bio: Kristen is an MFA student at Emerson College and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Studies. She is a screenwriter, director, and editor for multi-award-winning horror fiction podcast The NoSleep Podcast. Her directorial debut, Vermin, was an official selection of the Oscar-qualifying film fest, LA Shorts International. Her short screenplay, Deadlock, was an official Filmquest ’24 Top 10 Short Screenplay Finalist. Her writing is often existential and thematically driven. She’s based in Portland, Oregon, where she is currently keeping it weird.
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DEAD WATER
Written By: Kevin Machate
Synopsis: In the vast, unforgiving salt flats of the former Aral Sea, a fiercely determined local woman joins two outsiders on a high-stakes retrieval mission. Tasked with hauling a mysterious sealed Soviet-era container across hundreds of kilometers of toxic desert, the trio battles failing equipment, brutal isolation, and an invisible threat that begins to unravel them from within. What starts as a straightforward payday becomes a desperate fight for survival where trust is the first casualty and every choice could be their last.
Genre(s): Horror, Sci-Fi, The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Kevin Machate is an award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. A multi-talented creative and U.S. Air Force veteran, he transitioned from an initial acting career into extensive work behind the camera, accumulating over 50 production credits and numerous accolades worldwide.
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EVALUATION
Written By: Marian Siwiak & Marlena Siwiak
Synopsis: During the continuity evaluation of her husband, recently uploaded into a digital afterlife, a woman discovers layers of lies: about him, the world she lives in, and herself.
Genre(s): Sci-Fi
Screenwriter’s Bio: Doctorate scientists who write science fiction with the math intact. Their novel Pharmacon ranked among Poland’s best science fiction of 2021 and drew Stephenson comparisons; their short fiction won a Lem prize; and they have co-authored technical books for Manning.
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EVENFALL GARDENS
Written By: Dana Slotkin Wall
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FREDDY NALL
Written By: Presley Paras
Synopsis: After his brother disappears under the weight of the town’s fentanyl trade, a reclusive worker must confront the silence that shaped his life and decide if redemption is worth what little he has left.
Genre(s): The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Presley Paras is a Filipino American screenwriter and director in Los Angeles. He directed the slasher short QUAD, acquired by Hulu, and wrote and directed Buffalo and Trout, a jury award winner at La Femme, Anti-Hero & Sin City Horror Fest. He is an IATSE camera operator whose credits include Avatar: Fire and Ash.
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HAZEL
Written By: Julie Sharbutt
Synopsis: When Becca helps an old woman in need during a hurricane, she becomes a part of some deadly supernatural havoc.
Genre(s): Horror, Comedy
Screenwriter’s Bio: Julie Sharbutt is a writer, director and actor who uses pop highbrow Genre and Comedy to tell female-forward character-driven stories about contemporary issues. 2025 Almanack Screenwriters Colony fellow, 2018 Warner Bros Disc OneFifty New Storytellers Initiative Fellow. Feature screenplays included WOO GIRLS, GHOSTIES, HALLOWEEN PARADE, EXCELLENT FANCY and COOL NEW TOWN. Her Award Winning horror short films as a writer/director include SCAM (Omeleto Drama) and 3 DAYS (Alter), and co-written shorts include BOTTLECAP and CUPIDS (Tribeca Film Festival, 2022 NAACP Image Award nominee). Her debut comedy feature film MOVED (The Orchard) is on Vimeo. Julie was a TV, film and theater actor and comedy writer in New York, and her work can be seen in The New Yorker and McSweeneys. MFA NYU (Acting), BA Vanderbilt, member of Film Fatales, Women in Film, Alliance of Women Directors, and Creative Coalition. She loves hiking, volunteering, and taking pictures of birds.
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KEEP HIM COMFORTABLE
Written By: Justin Kohlas
Synopsis: When Robert Quinn is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, his family watches him decline while he begins seeing colors and shapes in the woods behind their house that no one else can perceive. As his condition worsens, his teenage son Zach becomes convinced the visions are more than hallucinations, and helps his father sneak out of hospice for one final walk into the forest before he dies.
Genre(s): The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Justin Kohlas is a screenwriter and producer and founder of Kimbermark, an independent production company. Kimbermark’s debut film, Hide, premiered at Screamfest and was nominated for Best Thriller at the Nightmares Film Festival. Justin is currently in pre-production on adaptations of two bestselling novels, one attached to an Academy Award winner, the other set up with Oscar-winning producer Evan Hayes (Free Solo). He wrote for CBS’s NCIS: Los Angeles under showrunner R. Scott Gemmill (creator of The Pitt). Justin is a member of the WGA West, represented by Affirmative Entertainment, Original Artists, and Feig Finkel.
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LET IT GROW
Written By: Alastair Train
Synopsis: A health-anxious game developer mods a VR headset to plug directly into his body, simulating his worst medical fears in pursuit of a diagnosis. Each session pulls him deeper into his own obsession, trapping him in a loop where relief never lasts.
Genre(s): Horror, Sci-Fi, The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Alastair Train is a London-based writer/director whose short films have screened at MOTELX, FilmQuest and the BAFTA-qualifying London Short Film Festival. His latest short, Pearls, won Best International Short at Nevermore Film Festival. Let It Grow is his newest screenplay.
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MISTER WOLF
Written By: MK McGehee
Synopsis: After a traumatic event leaves her son catatonic, a mother follows clues in his drawings into a dream world where she must confront the same monster that haunted her childhood.
Genre(s): Horror
Screenwriter’s Bio: MK McGehee is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Los Angeles. A queer child of the Deep South, she draws on her personal history to craft bold psychological and body horror. She holds a BFA from NYU Tisch and an MFA from UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse. Her debut short film, THE RE-EDUCATION OF JANE BROWN, screened at over 30 international festivals, winning multiple Grand Jury awards. Its feature adaptation screenplay was selected for Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman’s The Writers Lab (2025) and won Best Unproduced Screenplay at FilmQuest (2025). The project is currently in development with plans for production in 2027. She is based in LA and represented by Zero Gravity Management.
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MOOREHOUSE
Written By: Ryan Harman
Synopsis: At a wrestling tournament, Warren, a closeted teenage wrestler, is chosen to room with Bruce Mooreshouse, the frail old man who sponsors the team. What his teammates have built up as a rite of humiliation turns into an act of unexpected tenderness.
Genre(s): The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Ryan Harman is a filmmaker based in New York, NY . He grew up in rural northern Idaho. He has a BA in architecture from Columbia University, and worked in contemporary art before he began to make films.
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MORIBUND
Written By: KC Mussman
Synopsis: In a dying world with no tomorrow the last two people of their generation debate humanity, love, duty as they carry Earths last spark into the future.
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: N/A
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NIGHT SHIFT
Written By: John Osment
Synopsis: A man takes a mall security job to get back on his feet. The night has other plans.
Genre(s): Fantasy, Comedy
Screenwriter’s Bio: John Osment is a southern-born, Brooklyn-based filmmaker with a multidisciplinary background currently working as a commercial film editor.
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NO ONE TOOK HER SERIOUSLY AND NOW THEY’RE ALL DEAD
Written By: Brandon Mercer
Synopsis: As a mysterious illness spreads rapidly through her body and flock, a determined sheep farmer fights to be taken seriously by a dismissive medical system.
Genre(s): Horror
Screenwriter’s Bio: Brandon Mercer trained as a photographer before finding his voice in the expanse of narrative filmmaking. His work has since been recognized by international juries and awarded for its distinct visual language and psychological depth. Growing up queer and disabled in the American South, Brandon initially used storytelling as a tool for survival: an anxious impulse that eventually shifted into a deliberate creative exploration toward collective healing. He utilizes cinema as a mirror to explore how unresolved trauma and fear run parallel. The characters and stories he creates are often thoughtful reflections of what looms in the dark corners of unprocessed human experiences. Utilizing genre as a surreal way to externalize internal struggles and provide vital representation for marginalized communities.
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NOTHING CHANGES
Written By: Tyler Beveridge
Synopsis: A grieving mother kidnaps a U.S. Senator and blames him for the death of her son after he is killed in a school shooting. Their conversation on gun control escalates, and leads to a shocking end that neither of them could have expected.
Genre(s): Horror
Screenwriter’s Bio: Tyler has been writing short film screenplays since the pandemic, many of which have been produced through his own production company, Vicious Frames. Based in Los Angeles, he’s passionate about every aspect of filmmaking and is especially drawn to the art of genre storytelling. Constantly striving to refine his craft, Tyler is grateful for the unwavering support of his wife, his two wonderful children, and a goofy pitbull named Grady.
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OF IRON & INK
Written By: Sara Al Thani
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RAVENOUS
Written By: Jake Allgeier
Synopsis: During a 1950s zombie epidemic, a grieving housewife obsessively reenacts her anniversary dinner with her undead husband until a stranded survivor forces her to confront the horrifying lengths she’ll go to avoid losing him.
Genre(s): Horror
Screenwriter’s Bio: Jake Allgeier is an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter based in Colorado. Working primarily in horror, comedy, and genre-blending cinema, her work explores human emotion through inventive storytelling, practical effects, and a distinctive visual style. She is presently in pre-production for her zombie short film, “Ravenous.”
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RETROGRADE
Written By: Michael H. Moore
Synopsis: Facing a terminal diagnosis, a woman manipulates her husband into a radical medical procedure — then attempts to erase their memory of the fatal betrayal she committed to preserve her version of forever.
Genre(s): Sci-Fi
Screenwriter’s Bio: Michael H. Moore is a Nashville-based screenwriter, filmmaker, and corporate attorney whose work explores empathy, identity, and the human cost of the systems we build. Just over a year into screenwriting, his work has been recognized by the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (Top 2.5% of over 10,500 entries), Austin Film Festival, Final Draft Big Break, Nashville Film Festival, HollyShorts, and other competitions and festivals. He is currently developing several projects through his production company, Rosemoore Pictures.
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RIGHT IN THE FACE
Written By: Sean Kenealy
Synopsis: After a star teenage pitcher accidentally disfigures his father with a pitch to the face, the two try to reconcile and move forward, but it becomes clear the father is harboring a deep and possibly dangerous grudge.
Genre(s): Horror
Screenwriter’s Bio: Sean Kenealy is a writer and director whose work includes the award-winning feature In Action and the horror shorts Two Knocks on a Door, On Broken Glass, and Your Daughter Looks Pretty, which is currently screening at festivals. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications, and he has a one-act play published by Original Works Publishing. Sean holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The City College of New York and lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with his partner and their two kids.
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ROOT CAUSE
Written By: Isabella Theophanous-Maddison
Synopsis: When Casey begins turning into a tree she seeks medical help, only to be told she’s perfectly fine.
Genre(s): Horror, Comedy, The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Bella Theophanous-Maddison is an emerging Melbourne based writer/director with a passion for production design and peculiar stories with a lot of heart. Currently undertaking a Bachelor of Film & TV, Bella wrote Root Cause as a response to the institutional dismissal and gaslighting of women within the medical system.
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SAM/SAM
Written By: Troy DeWinne & David Bornstein
Synopsis: Two identical men, trapped and connected to umbilical cords, grow increasingly wary of each other as they realize their shared existence may be impossible.
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: David Bornstein is a writer, director, and an elusive SoCal native. Born and raised in Laguna Hills, California, he currently hails from Burbank and is an alumnus of Saddleback College and the University of Arizona’s film programs. David’s previous short film “Unholy ‘Mole”, featuring the voiceover talents of Ray Wise, screened at over 50 film festivals. Troy DeWinne is also a writer, director, and SoCal native. ALTER bought his short Boys’ Club which also screened at FilmQuest. He currently is working to make a pizza documentary, a goblin scifi novel, and sell any and all scripts.
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SIGNAL
Written By: Shannon Denise Evans
Synopsis: On a desolate Washington back road, Constance Flynn picks up a teenage hitchhiker. Over breakfast at a local diner, their strange encounter spirals as the boy seems determined to alter Constance’s carefully laid plans. When he vanishes as mysteriously as he appeared, Constance discovers that the boundary between our world and another may transcend death—and some doors, once opened, can never be closed.
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Shannon Denise Evans is an award-winning writer/director of dark, character-driven stories where human choice leads to supernatural consequence, and the founder of Storycraft Eleven. Her short All Cats Are Grey In The Dark premiered at the Big Apple Film Festival and won Best Drama Short at New York Indie ShortFest, and Best Editing and a Special Jury Award at Top Shorts. Her short The Black Door won Best Director and earned her Best Actress at Stockholm City Film Festival, and won Best Narrative Film at Top Shorts. Her feature screenplay Better Angels—winner of Best Feature Screenplay at the 2025 Lady Filmmakers Festival—has earned honors including the ISA Fast Track Fellowship in Suspense. Additional directing credits include the web series The Leveling, adapted from her published novel. Her third short, Signal—whose screenplay won Best Screenplay at Top Shorts and Best Short Script at the Big Apple Film Festival Women’s Spotlight Edition—is currently in post-production. She is a member of the WGA, SAG-AFTRA, the Dramatists Guild, and Actors’ Equity.
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SPIRITS
Written By: Kelsey Bollig
Synopsis: Rain returns to her estranged mother’s remote Colorado cabin after an unsettling phone call, only to find the house filled with liquor bottles and her mother speaking in tongues. As night falls, Rain must fight for her mother’s soul, but what do you do when the one you’re trying to save keeps inviting the demon back in?
Genre(s): Horror
Screenwriter’s Bio: Kelsey Bollig is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker known for crafting bold genre stories with a violent personal edge. Her work has screened at Fantasia, Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest, Hollyshorts, and she’s a proud alumna of FILM QUEST.
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STILL LOADING
Written By: Emily Faris
Synopsis: When a 35-year-old woman-child starts therapy, she discovers her new therapist has a revolutionary methodology: game her way through her own subconscious to finally confront her childhood trauma and grow up.
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comedy
Screenwriter’s Bio: Emily Faris is a Swedish-American creative based out of LA with an affinity for alternate-reality, horror, and violence.
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SUPRISE!
Written By: Jack Warner
Synopsis: We’ve all been there. A surprise visit from Mom, and the place is a mess. But what if you’re a serial killer and Mom just “drops by?”
Genre(s): Horror, Comedy
Screenwriter’s Bio: Jack Warner is an award-winning screenwriter whose work spans horror, comedy, thriller, romantic comedy, fantasy, drama, action, and suspense. He has earned recognition from prestigious competitions and festivals worldwide and was named one of the International Screenwriters Association’s Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2026 and recognized as well as a Top 10 Emerging Screenwriter by the Golden Script Competition. Industry insiders have called him an emerging voice with a distinctive talent for unforgettable characters and compelling worlds. His stories spotlight strong female protagonists, deeply layered villains, relentless challenges, and—at their heart—hope.
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SYNNOIA
Written By: J.H. Allely
Synopsis: After an accident leaves his wife in a coma, Marcos faces a heartbreaking decision when a mysterious company offers to preserve her consciousness inside him. How far is he willing to go to avoid losing her?
Genre(s): Sci-Fi
Screenwriter’s Bio: J. H. Allely is a Spanish screenwriter based in Seville, specializing in emotionally driven science fiction and psychological drama. His work has earned awards and finalist placements at international screenplay competitions and film festivals.
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THE CURRENT
Written By: Michael Ferrara
Synopsis: THE CURRENT follows Boris Knight, an abused sixteen-year-old branded in an occult ritual that connects him to a supernatural force flowing beneath human violence. The Current does not create cruelty. It reveals what is already there. As Boris discovers that his family has been marked by the same force for generations, he must confront an increasingly disturbing possibility: he was not chosen because he is a victim, but because part of him wants the power it offers.
Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy, The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Mike Ferrara is an independent screenwriter, filmmaker, editor, and disabled U.S. Army veteran with a background in broadcast journalism and audiovisual production. His work blends psychological tension, surreal imagery, and grounded character drama, often exploring fear, guilt, memory, and moral consequence through genre storytelling.
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THE ELEVATOR PITCH: OR HOW I GOT STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR WITH THE INCOMPARABLE DOUG JONES
Written By: Kieran Shea
Synopsis: A down-on-her-luck writer gets stuck in an elevator with the incomparable Doug Jones and pitches him the worst idea he’s ever heard. Will he cast her into the dustbin of failed Hollywood hopefuls or will he help her find the magical spark she was lacking, putting her on a path to cinematic greatness?
Genre(s): Fantasy, Comedy, The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Kieran Shea is a California native who’s lived on both coasts, in addition to having spent six years in the South American nation of Paraguay, his mother’s home country. He started off in the field of genetics but made a U-turn toward his dream of a career in the filmmaking industry. After moving to Los Angeles, Kieran immediately dove into production, working as a professional Assistant Director on numerous independent features. He eventually teamed up with his current writing partner, David Osorio, and began writing full time. Together, they’ve written many screenplays, ranging from comedy and adventure to drama and horror. THE ELEV ATOR PITCH: OR HOW I GOT STUCK IN AN ELEV ATOR WITH THE INCOMPARABLE DOUG JONES is a solo project that’s especially personal to Kieran.
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THE SURFACE CALLS
Written By: Matthew Kravchuk
Synopsis: Deep in the Jim Crow South, a grieving mother must fight to protect her son from the powerful men who lynched her husband — only for the drowned father to rise from the depths, dragging his family and their oppressors into a night of reckoning.
Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy, The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Matthew Kravchuk is a writer, director, and producer specializing in period horror films, weaving folklore and myth into haunting explorations of American trauma. His debut short film “The Lone Piper” (2025) premiered at HollyShorts, and was named an Official Selection of Palm Springs Int’l ShortFest, Indy Shorts, SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Flickers’ Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival, and ALTER, the horror YouTube channel. The screenplay for his follow-up short film “The Surface Calls” won the 2026 Tony Cox Screenplay Competition at the Nantucket Film Festival. Based in Brooklyn, his career began in production in 2018, where he honed his craft through osmosis before stepping behind the camera.
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UNTIL GOD LISTENS
Written By: Paul Frank
Synopsis: During the Black Death, a guilt-ridden serf clashes with his steadfast wife as they struggle to keep their plague-stricken daughter alive by feeding her human flesh.
Genre(s): Horror
Screenwriter’s Bio: Paul Frank is an editor and writer/director obsessed with honesty—much to his wife’s chagrin. Whether editing a comedy, writing a courtroom drama or a body horror, he grounds every story in reality and isn’t afraid to draw from his own personal (and often embarrassing) experiences. He received the Telefilm Canada New V oices Award, won the 2025 WeScreenplay Feature Lab and placed first in the 2026 Fade In Screenwriting Fellowship. His screenplays have also been semifinalists at Austin, PAGE, Big Break, ScreenCraft, BlueCat and CineStory. His editing credits include Sleeping With Other People, The To Do List and Prospect, with films premiering at Sundance, Berlin, New York, Toronto, SXSW, Tribeca and Woodstock, where he won the James Lyons Award for Best Editing. He holds an MFA in film from Columbia University and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two kids and a sheepadoodle.
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WHERE THEY WAIT
Written By: Walter Mirkšs & Shane Nolan
Synopsis: Summoned to an abandoned village haunted by an ancient force, a battle-worn demon hunger must face both his past and the evil that lurks in the forest.
Genre(s): Horror, The Beyond
Screenwriter’s Bio: Walter Mirkss is a Latvian filmmaker, based in Riga. After completing his masters degree in Film & Media, Walter has worked as a writer / director on multiple projects both in the commercial and narrative space in Latvia and the USA. He is currently writing “Bearslayer” – a TV series based on Latvian folklore and history that was recently pitched at Black Nights Film Market in Tallin, Estonia. Shane R. Nolan is an award-winning screenwriter known for his tense, suspenseful, and emotionally-charged narratives told through grounded characters and circumstances.
