ScreenCraft and Script Chix have selected 48 semifinalists for its 2013 Pilot Launch TV Script Competition, the companies announced Thursday. The screenwriting consultants picked 25 scripts in both the drama and comedy categories.
Two screenwriters, Lily Blau and Scott Wascha, landed two scripts on the list.
ScreenCraft and Script Chix will select one grand prize winner in each category, and those amateur scribes will earn a free trip to Los Angeles for meetings with agents, managers and TV executives.
“Our mission is to help connect talented emerging screenwriters with top companies and producers who need good scripts,” ScreenCraft co-founder John Rhodes said in a statement.
ScreenCraft and Script Chix received more than 500 entries for the competition, which is its third competition of this nature. It already launched contests for horror and comedy film scripts. The winners of this contest will get to stay for free at the Culver Hotel, a site once home to Frank Sinatra and Clark Gable.
The first and second place winners will also receive free subscriptions to the PowerGrid.
Here are the entrants:
DRAMA
Side by Side by Lily Blau
Hot Geek by Daniel Calvisi
Stolen by Nancy Chan
Mahogany Hall by Ashley Charbonnet
Jumpers by Kathleen Cromie
Static by Keith Davidson
Cold Hard Candy by Nick Dykal
Final Freedom by Nevena Fairclough
The Erikson Project by Kevin Harvilla
D-I by Kimba Henderson
Deliver US by Vanessa King
Cape Spirit by Angela LeRoy
The Spectrum by Jonathan Light
ESQ by Jennifer Lotz
The Gifted by Ubah Mohamed
Leviathan by Jeffrey Pfeiffer
Czar of Detroit by Arthur Rains-McNalley
Revelations by Victoria Rau
One Hill by Richmond Riedel
Ordnung by Aaron Rollins
Credible Witness by Anne Sagel
Nightwatcher by Scott Shoemaker
Nexus by Christopher Sloan
Connexion by Scott Wascha
Peril by Scott Wascha
COMEDY
Heroines for Hire by Paul Benson
Everything Is Better in Buttonwillow by Lily Blau
The Julie Maloney Curse by Alex Brodsky
Retail Jail by Jamie Bryan
Proud Mary by Mary Conroy
Dixie Land by Dwayne Conyers
Cannonball by SB Edwards
Out of Her League by Micah Goldman
West Dakota by Chris Goss
A Lying Shame by Sundae Jahant-Osborne
Castle of Wonders by Matt Manser
Vig by Bisanne Masoud
My Three Boyfriends by Katie Mathewson
Uniformed Grace by David Minaskanian
Pasted by Erin Mitchell
Upstaged by Michael Naylor
Justine’s Got It Covered by Stephanie Norton
Deliberations by Amanda Parham
Wonder World by Desiree Proctor
Born Crazy by Desiree Proctor
Full-Time Dad by Scott Reynolds
Black Sheep by Josh Sorokach
MILFS by Carrie Stet
Living History by Andrew Thompson
BFF and a Baby by Annie Wood