2024 ScreenCraft Comedy Contest Winners

Listed below are the winners of this competition 2024 ScreenCraft Comedy Competition. These outstanding scripts were selected from nearly 1,700 submissions. Congratulations to the authors so far, and thanks to everyone who submitted!

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Here are the winners:

Grand Prize Winner

Resurrectionist go through Jon Willenga and Jay Thomas

A period comedy about a talented nurse who aspires to become the first female doctor in Victorian London, robbing graves to master human anatomy and clashing with menacing gangs and misogynistic doctors. (half hour pilot)

Featured winners

Bliss by Zev Hussein

When exhausted single mother Kathy Keating visits her ex-husband at his remote northern home, she falls in love with him all over again, only to discover that he’s harboring a horrifying secret: his house has been possessed by an old witch. The love spell binds, and those who know its power are willing to kill for it.

TV pilot winner

mango go through Ariana Friedman

When Alice is blindsided by her long-term boyfriend’s proposal, she responds by demanding that their relationship be made public. But that’s one small step for a queer woman, one giant step for a queer woman, and it has immediate consequences — her relationship sinks when she realizes he’s also been dating other people confusion. Alice has made her bed and now she has to get fucked and sucked on it. (half hour pilot)

Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum Mentor Award Winners

change of pace Author: Gilda Hauser Boccari

An overachieving millennial who shows up with a fib on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is sent to a very trendy yoga retreat, where she learns how to deal with the emotionally charged world she’s been trying to escape her entire life. childhood. (half hour pilot)

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