Screenplay Competition
2025 Screenplay Competition
Brick City
Written by: Wil Cuba
Four scalawag kids growing up in the dysfunctional ghetto housing projects of Newark, New Jersey (also nicknamed “Brick City”) are confronted by frequent out of the ordinary adventures, dilemmas and life experiences that are filled with absurdity and irrational reasoning.
Hotel Puerto Rico
Written by: Juliana Philippi
By a stroke of fate, a type-A, perfectionist and over-the top Latina hotel manager encounters her true love at her hotel, forcing her to face her real, natural self, and confronting her with the choice to either continue to play on old, racist cliches and furthering the hotel owner’s colonialist dream, or to take a stand, and finally, walk, talk, and live in her real voice.
La Doña
Written by: Reneida Ferraro
When a Halloween séance awakens a bloodthirsty spirit, a group of friends must survive the night or be consumed by her wrath.
LOLITA
Written by: Aida Negrón
Based on the life of Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón, this historical drama follows a Puerto Rican woman who led an armed protest in the U.S. Capitol — shaped by love, loss, colonial injustice, and resistance.
Malignant
Written by: Ehsan Shahhosseini
When a doctor is called to a house to save a patient, he is confronted with dark secrets that trap him between duty, conscience, and disgrace.
Respirar
Written by: August Joaquim Soto
A group of friends camp out at a relative’s cabin in Colorado to care for their friend recovering from top surgery—only to discover something menacing inside.
Remain
Written by: Thomas Newman
When a tight-knit group of beauty salon workers in Los Angeles discovers a corrupt land grab threatening their livelihoods, they hatch a daring plan to expose the conspiracy and save their community, one bold act of resistance at a time.
The Fourth Psalm
Written by: John Martins III
Dire consequences ensue when two Catholic priests at a New Mexico parish clash during the 1980s Sanctuary Movement, endangering the lives of three innocent Central American refugees.
Bruja
Written by: Joey Florez
Mojito
Written by: Ruthie Marlenee
Mojito is a comedy about five college-girl alums from the University of Houston Swim and Dive Team who reunite in Puerto Rico only to find themselves in hot water and a little wet ( Mojito) after they cross paths with the Cuban Mafia.
Deep Wound
Written by: Farnaz Anvari