Awake
Suburban teacher gets a rude awakening with reality.
Writer: Valentyn Korotkevych & Aury Barnett
Nominated for: Short Screenplay
Beauty IS the Beast
When Arabella Mercedes Monroe first learns she’s won a major award–becoming the senior representative for the state of Colorado–she’s ecstatic. She’ll be attending swanky events all over the state, doing press releases and news interviews. What’s not to love? Until she finds out she has to share the limelight with major nerd Maxton Davis. How will she ever survive being shackled with him the whole year?
Maxton can’t stand preppy princesses who think they’re better than everyone. He will guarantee Arabella gets knocked down a peg or two—and learn a few choice life lessons about being nice to others—even if it kills him. And being with her all year, just might. Beauty and the Beast meets Taming of the Shrew in this modern heartfelt teen family film.
Writer: Jenni James
Nominated for: Feature Screenplay
Golden Heights
During the week of her eighteenth birthday Justice recognizes she must use the power of the word to save the universe from chaos and destruction.
Writer: Shyina Crayton
Nominated for: Short Screenplay
Go For Broke
An interconnected web of 6 individuals (a narcissistic Christian singer, a depressed comedian, an insecure socialite, a porn-addicted marriage pastor, a youth minister with a prodigal, and a promiscuous pastor’s kid) desperately search for significance and wholeness in all the wrong places. Through a serious of tragic events, they are forced to come face to face with their own brokenness and it threatens to destroy everything they’ve ever known and worked for, UNTIL, they lay all their broken pieces at the feet of Jesus. It is only then, when they discover that their brokenness is a gift that God can use to unite and heal the world around them.
Writer: Stephanie Parker
Nominated for: Feature Screenplay
Kid Midnight
A young girl, obsessed with TV police procedurals, sneaks out to find her missing brother.A young girl, obsessed with TV police procedurals, sneaks out to find her missing brother.
Writer: Mychal Sargent
Nominated for: Short Screenplay
Robberettes
Life long friends plan the perfect robbery… but finding the past wasn’t on the list.
Writer: Thom Jensen
Nominated for: Short Screenplay
The Key of Gremory
On the Death of her Great Grandmother, Emma is given a key that begins to whisper to her. With it’s help she starts to unravel her family’s darkest secret. But can she really trust the voice?
Writer: Joseph Reidhead, Corey Roberson
Nominated for: Feature Screenplay
What I Should Have Said
Torn between love and a difficult past a young woman must decide what she needs to be happy, and what she’s willing to sacrifice to keep it.
Writer: Landon Kasten & Shelley Greene
Nominated for: Feature Screenplay