Here is the list of 2023 screenplay winners from the LA Feedback Festival.
Watch the 10 winning screenplay best scene readings:
NAZI NUKE, by Eamonn Eeles
Feature Script
Harvey Hardaz, special forces, must choose duty over love in order to rescue a nuclear scientist from being used by the Nazi’s to build an atomic bomb and destroying London.
BABY, by Maggie Arias, Conor Hanney
TV Pilot
“In a career that often offers no validation, an aspiring actress finds a side-hustle that does: sugar-babying. Based on absolutely nothing at all you can’t prove anything back off.”
Winning LA Festival 1st Scene: BABY, by Maggie Arias, Conor Hanney
WITHIN THE WALLS, by Juan Belardi
Short Script
In 1914, a thief masquerading as a nurse uncovers a sinister presence when she attempts to steal from a hospital that was once home to a mysterious baroness.
LA Festival SHORT Screenplay: WITHIN THE WALLS, by Juan Belardi
IN SILENCE, by Jeff Sommer-Zervos
Short Script
The story follows Jamie Rommen, a man suffering in silence with grief, loneliness, and depression. The loss of his family weighs on him heavily a year later; still reliving the events of their death, alone in the new world of COVID quarantine. He’s out of work. Bills are piling up. His life falling apart.
THE GOLDEN, by Luke LoCurcio
Feature Script
One year after the tragic death of their young daughter, an estranged husband and wife must come together again to survive in the face of mysterious global menace.
DAD ASSES, by Michael Harris
Feature Script
Falling Down meets Dude, Where’s My Car? Over 24 hours, a recently divorced accountant loses his job, his Jeep and accidentally traffics Heroin. His only escape? Become a beige pants badass aka a Dad Ass.
BLOCKHEAD, by Garrett Nicholson
Feature Script
When a mid-30’s concrete truck driver injures himself at work, he partners up with some friends to pursue his passion as a magician in order to separate himself from the constraints of his father’s business.
DEADLINE TO DEATH, by Elliot Stanton
Short Script
Author CJ Billings is under pressure from his publisher to finish a novel. He has an idea that a few days away in the setting of the finale will give him the inspiration he so desperately needs.
Kubrick’s Waterloo, by Mike Mann
Feature Script
In 1969 Stanley Kubrick attempts to make his dream film, an epic about Napoleon Bonaparte. If Napoleon doesn’t unmake him first…
LA Festival BEST Scene Reading: Kubricks Waterloo, by Mike Mann
BLOOD MONEY, by Dominic Flanagan
Feature Script
Howard Swan, a doctor with a severe drinking problem, loses his medical license, his wife, his house, and is on the verge of losing his daughter as well. In a desperate act, he enlists the help of Caspar, his drug dealer brother, to make some easy money. After a deal goes wrong, Howard uses his medical expertise to save the life of Snake Eyes, a psychopathic drug kingpin. Howard and Caspar fall deeper into the world of organised crime than they ever intended, and they may not be able to make it back out.
Los Angeles feedback film festival 