2024 ScreenCraft True Stories & Public Domain Competition Winners

Listed below are the winners of this competition 2024 ScreenCraft True Stories & Public Domain Competition. These outstanding scripts were selected from nearly 800 submissions. Congratulations to the authors who have written this far, and thank you to everyone who submitted!

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Here are the winners:

Grand Prize Winner

Princess of Holy Bones go through Cindy Lee

In an era ruled by men, a Korean princess survives plague and war to reach the Roman Empire, find a cure for her people and prove her worth as their first female king.

Featured winners

John Wayne must die! go through Blair Cosby

When Stalin sends KGB assassins to murder John Wayne, a black FBI rookie must get the star safely from New York to Los Angeles, despite a disgruntled Duke’s best efforts to become a real-life action hero.

TV pilot winner

Live from New York go through Hillary Gish, Caroline Getches

When Lorne Michaels left “SNL” in 1980, only one man dared to replace him: Jean Doumanian. New York Live will finally tell the true story of the woman who revolutionized late night forever.

Jenny Wood Mentoring Award Winner

end of line Author: Nicholas Gilbert

During the depths of the Great Depression, Henry Ford empowered his bomb repairmen to use any means necessary to keep the newly formed United Auto Workers out of his massive Red River plant—the largest and largest ever built in the world. The most powerful industrial complex.

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