After receiving nearly 4,000 scripts this season from writers across the globe, Slamdance is honored to recognize the following writers as the official winners of the 2025 Slamdance Screenplay Competition. These screenplays are divided into five submission categories: Feature, Horror/Thriller, Pilot, Short, and Mentorship Recipient.
QUARTERFINALISTS
FEATURES
Amanda Holland
Dangerous Fruits
Amir Zargara, Gabe Berry
Vital
Benny Goldenhour, James Case
Tarrare
Brent Triff
Gooseneck Killer
Callie Marie Bloem, Christopher Jay Ewing
Bounce House
Carole Ryavec
Tulare Basin
Cody Ashford, Eric Vue
Exo
Dan Kim
Chairman
Dean Jaloudi
11:59
Dwayne Colbert
Who’s The Dummy?
Edith Storm
Burn Her Slowly
Jade Leo Yurich
ROADS
Jane Ballentyne
S p a c e
Jenna Dorian
Memory is a Fish
John Graney
The Van
Katherine Dudas, Giovannie Cruz, Elisabeth Ness, Carly Christopher, Kenneisha Thompson
Lady Kings of Texas
Parm Saini
The Gateway
Pavel Sanaev
HAFFKINE
Renn Tan
The Gift of Rain
Rose King
The Speechwriter
Rosie Nisanyan
The Taraz Heist
Serena Dykman
BABKA
Shiva Ramanathan
Demons
Tien Chi Fu
The Sheep
Tony Gandia
Backen
Vincent Essid
Maladh
Will Link
Delma
HORROR/ THRILLER
Aaron Warner
Cling
Adam Meridan
Whitewood
Alex Vlahov
Dark Rooms
Angelo Pitsillis, Sebastian Ibarra del Castillo
The Monk
Byron Mason II
SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH GRANNY
Clarissa Brandeis
Ezili
Deborah Richards
Scissor Mouth
Edson Jean
Sea Spirits (Lespri Lanmè)
Eric R Lotter
Frozen Lies
Grant Chauncey
The Apartment
Jared Piller
The Rabbi and the Golem
Jordan Tragash
Cinghiale
Joshua Labata
Many Dead, More Taken
Kristian Hager
Blood Hallows
Marcos Meconi
Muscle Memory
Matthew Troy
The Dark Room
Max Rissman
IMMOLATION
Mike Scherschel
The Dowry
Pam Covington
MESA
Pauline McAlonan
The Scorched Face
Saurin Lakhia
Never Let Her In
Shayna Weber
Sadie Hawkins
Tijuana Ricks
Home Bound
Tye Nelson
FORSAKEN
WIlliam Tyler Wiseman
Fear Not
Winnie Soldi
Night Father
SHORTS
Alex Mehta
The Inheritance of Purpose
Angelo Rocha
TICS AND STONES
Ben Hirschhorn
The Nose Whistler
Carmine Carpenito
Let Me Think For You
Cédric Friedli
Clouded Memory
Devi Bhaduri
Psychomanteum
Erick Torres
Cucuy
Gádor Camacho Cervantes
Sourdough (Masa Madre)
Haili Fransham, Roderick Fransham
The Snack Shack
Jameel Scott – Muhammad
The Right Way
James Newman
Inbetweening
Jason Stefaniak
Homewrecker
Jaz Moore
MY BELOVED MONSTER
John Gonzales
Calico
Jordan Troublefield
Stuffing
Keith Moore
The Confession Room
Kiril Shmidov
The Losing Game
Kyung-Ja Lee
The Comfort Woman Statue
Leon Masters
DEAD DAUGHTER
Matthew Brooks
Birdwatching
Ness Wilson
North
Rob Watts
Until the Lemon Drops
Sam Pinnelas
Shotgun
Steven McMichael
Signal
Tate Wilde
Treehouse
Xin Liu
Fenghuang
PILOTS
Adam Meridan
Frostbite
Alan Canode, Justin Rossbacher
Beware Miracles
Alison Whitney
The Heavy
Brennan Cusack
The Badlands Women’s Clinic
Chanel Downey
The Findings of Sunny & Rah
Christina Keach
Entre Nous
Cindy Lee
American Rhapsody
David DeGusta
PAST TENSE FUTURE PERFECT
David Herman
Gorilla
Dawn Kalani Cowle
Thumpers
Jas Kandola
Broker
Julianne Korogodon
The One Anothers
Kasi Brown, Brandon Walter
Sober Living
Kelsey Harper
The Mouse
KiAnna Dorsey
UNHEARD
Lindsay Carpenter
Imagining Practice
Lizzie Logan
Baker High
Matthew A Sprosty
Our Thing
Mehrnaz Mohammadi
Burned Secrets
Najy Kamal
The Haus of Mirth
Nick Jack Pappas
Haka
PJ Landry
Extraction
Robert Dewey
Labyrinthians
Ruth Trippitt
Siren
Steve Brown
The Age of the Empath