Here is the list of 2023 screenplay winners from the WILDsound Festival.
Watch the 18 winning screenplay best scene readings:
6 Winning Short Scripts:
The Debt He Never Promised
Short Script
Writer Daniel Foster
When a lone rancher learns of his impending death, then he must find homes for his six beloved Labradors before he pays the debt he never promised
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/the-debt-he-never
Cleansing Acts
Short Script
Writer Carlos Perez
A young man contemplating suicide calls a prostitute to keep him company before he commits the act.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/cleansing-acts-screenplay
The Hollywood’ll Eat
Short Script
Writer Jeffrey Riley Kazanjian
A dark coming of age satire about a young boy trying to break into Hollywood.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/the-hollywood-ll-eat-screenplay
Papalotzin
Short Script
Writer Fernanda Cabarcos
In Mexico on average, 10 women or girls are killed daily nationwide. These rampant murders are attributed to machismo, gender inequality, domestic violence and a problematic justice system.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/papalotzin-short-screenplay
Kill the Competition
Short Script
Writer Will Altemeier
Andrew Brooks is a recent college grad who’s desperate to break into the entertainment industry but struggles to get his foot in the door. Over the course of three critical days, Andrew comes to realize what he must do to obtain his dream job: kill his competition.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/kill-the-competition-script
The Light At The End
Short Script
Writer Lynda Simmons
A woman caring for a husband with Alzheimer’s must choose between a treatment that will extend his life or let the long goodbye and the existence that has become her new normal come to an end .
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/the-light-at-the-end-screenplay
5 Winning TV Pilots:
Southern Elite Law
TV PILOT
Writer Clifton McMillan Jr.
A former JAG attorney starts a new life as a private sector lawyer and gets caught up in a class action lawsuit against a crooked pharmaceutical company.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/southern-elite-law
Goofy Foot
TV Pilot
Writer Richard Redlo
Eliot Glassman, 15, openly gay and precocious, becomes emancipated from his suburban parents and friends, following incidents of physical abuse. Freed from his troubled suburban origins, he navigates (often on a skateboard) the dangers and delights of his new urban surroundings.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/goofy-foot-tv-pilot-reading
Snail Miller: Criminal Confessions
TV Pilot
Writer Tony Faria
Follow the adventures of SNAIL MILLER, Toronto’s most unorthodox serial killer tracker, as he spearheads the RCMP’s groundbreaking Victims Confessions Unit.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/snail-miller-criminal-confessions
A Dangerous Gamble
TV Pilot
Writer André Meira
A woman with mental health issues, pressured by the insults of her own mother, attempts to stage the kidnapping of her daughter to prove she can make money… but the stunt goes wrong.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/a-dangerous-gamble
Losing It
TV Pilot
Writers Victoria Wojick, Deborah Wojick
After moving with her family to a small town, a teenager faces the town’s fear of the recent missing girls cases and senses mysterious invisible forces that awaken old legends.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/losing-it
7 Winning Feature Script:
The One Hit Wonder
Feature Script
Writer Bob Dawson
When his one and only hit song from the 80s unexpectedly becomes a viral hit on social media, a washed up rock and roller finds his family life turned upside down.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/the-one-hit-wonder
Ahoy for Joy
Feature Script
Writer Keith Reilly
Amidst unrest in 1970s Belfast, troubled teenager Michael meets Dutch tourist Anna, and a whirlwind romance begins. Anna is enchanted with the Ireland Michael showcases in his letters, but he is shielding her from the truth. As Michael’s recovery from the trauma of his childhood progresses, events take a disastrous turn – and it will be three decades before Anna recognises the significance their union had on the scarred country.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/ahoy-for-joy
Down At The Val
Feature Script
Writer Neil Goodchild
The grandson of a golf course owner loses his job and has to return to the dilapidated family business, where his grandfather and two surprising new employees inspire him to try and help save it from bankruptcy.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/down-at-the-val
Cheap, Sexy, and Shocking!
Feature Script
Writer Janna Jones
Cheap, Sexy, and Shocking! is loosely based on the career of Louise Downe who played a significant role in the exploitation cinema movement in the 1960s and early 1970s
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/cheap-sexy-and-shocking
Monday’s Hero
Feature Script
Writer Larry Downes
In a college football-crazed town, after the big game, three of the players are accused of a hate crime of beating a gay man to death. The task of defending them falls to the school’s former All-American football star turned lawyer.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/mondays-hero-screenplay
End of Scene
Feature Script
Writer Jen Butler
A resentful housewife fights to wake her husband from a mysterious trance after discovering they’re stuck in a house built entirely out of things left unsaid.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/end-of-scene-script
The Fox
Feature Script
Writer Marc Castaldo
A morally conflicted mafia captain reflects on his dark past when he spends the day teaching his troubled nephew that the mob life is not worth pursuing while amid a vendetta.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/the-fox
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