2023 Screenplay Competition Winners

ON OCT 22, 2023, THE MYSTIC FILM FESTIVAL NAMED ITS 2023 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION WINNERS DURING AN AWARDS CEREMONY AT MYSTIC LUXURY CINEMAS IN MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT.

Screenplay Competition Grand Prize Winner
AMERICAN HEROINE
Written by Nico Raineau

Screenplay Competition Runner Up
DANCING BEYOND
Written by Sarah Daly

Screenplay Competition Runner Up
THE RUBY CLOAK
Written by Halli Lorenzato

Screenplay Competition Runner Up
WILKINS WILL
Written by Jonathan Westbrook

Screenplay Competition Runner Up
ASYLUM
Written by Kathryn Orzech

The grand prize winner of the 2023 screenplay competition has won a one year membership to Connect ISA, one month’s access to Roadmap Writers On-Ramp program, and a virtual Table Read organized and sponsored by Women in Film and Video New England (exact date to be coordinated with the winner). The four runners up have won a six month membership to Connect ISA. 

2023 Screenplay Competition Finalists

• American Heroine, written by Nico Raineau
• Asylum, written by Kathryn Orzech
• Cool New Town, written by Julie Sharbutt
• Coup of Me, written by Hunter Ridgway
• Dancing Beyond, written by Sarah Daly
• Daughter, written by Joanne Hudson
• Halo, written by Bryce Breen
• Megan’s Island, written by Jennifer Bernard and SoYun Roe
• Moksha, written by Saurin Lakhia
• Nine Tenths of the Law, written by Nick Gambino and Koura Linda
• Red Eye, written by Theodore Carl Soderberg
• The Grand Parents, written by Christian Pendered Zur
• The Final Reel, written by Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid
• The Labyrinth, written by Mark Paul Mamalakis
• The Last Yard Sale, written by Marie Ginga
• The Resurrectionists, written by Duncan Putney
• The Ruby Cloak, written by Halli Lorenzato
• Wilkins Will, written by Jonathan Westbrook