Here is the list of 2023 screenplay winners from the CRIME/MYSTERY Festival.
Watch the 6 winning screenplay best scene readings:
The Seeds We Sow, by Scott Harbison
Feature Script
A former hitman returns to his hometown of New Orleans and reunites with a former girlfriend. Trouble catches up with them and they have to fend off the demons of their past and the mafia who wants them dead.
CRIME/MYSTERY Best Scene: The Seeds We Sow, by Scott Harbison
CONCEPTUS, by Brian Herskowitz
Feature Script
Homicide Detective Laura Drummond, a survivor of a brutal assault in her youth, must track down a serial killer that’s tied to her past.
Winning CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Best Scene: CONCEPTUS, by Brian Herskowitz
AMERICAN BREAKDOWN, by Gary Porpora
Feature Script
At the mercy of an accelerating dementia, Jonas Flemming, aka, America’s Coroner–the state’s lead witness in yet another high profile murder trial–melts down on the witness stand, setting a psychopath free.
CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene: American Breakdown, by Gary Porpora
PRIVILEGED DECEIT, by Annette C. Hull, Warren R Hull
TV Pilot
By using a series of relationships with corrupt politicians, crooked cops, notorious gangsters and powerful businessmen, Gaynell Moretta and Archie MacDonald rise to the pinnacle of Southern California’s socially elite society.
CRIME/MYSTERY Festival: Privileged Deceit, by Annette C. Hull, Warren R Hull
CARNEGIES CALL, by Ryan J. Skinner
Feature Script
Two friends rob a bowling alley which leads to a night of violence, love, rage, meth heads, insane dogs and cherry pie.
CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene Script: Carnegies Call, by Ryan J. Skinner
QUASH, by John McCarney
TV Pilot
Inspired by true events… A homeless Vietnam Vet loses custody of his children and to get them back is forced to take a job with a diverse group of community workers in the middle of a gang war.
Crime/Mystery Film & Writing Festival 