SUMMER 2026 CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Screenplay Winners & Honorable Mentions

The CRIME/MYSTERY Festival had a surplus of submissions fo the first half of the season. Enclosed is the list of WINNERS, who had a best scene of their screenplay performed by professional actors and made into a video. Plus, the honorable mentions, who although they didn’t formally win at the festival, are a group of screenwriters in select company.

WINNERS – 3:

Feature Script: The Last Hunt, by Scott Joseph Cahill

CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Feature Script: The Last Hunt, by Scott Joseph Cahill

Feature Script: : THE HOLMES ENIGMA, by Russell C. Babcock

CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene: THE HOLMES ENIGMA, by Russell C. Babcock

Feature Script: FLIGHT 17, by Richard Geiwitz

CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Best Scene: FLIGHT 17, by Richard Geiwitz

HONORABLE MENTIONS – 16

SWEET DEADLY DREAMS
Submitter Walter Stewart
Feature Script

Blackjack Inc.
Writer Heath Erik Papkov
Feature Script

A Private Heaven
Writer Dave Eagleston
Feature Script

Daybreak
Writer Stephen Hiemstra
Feature Script

Peace, Undone
Writer Bob Dawson
Feature Script

IN MONSTER’S HANDS – A TRUE-CRIME HORROR STORY
Writer Darren W Burch
Feature Script

Webelos
Writer Travis W Bruyer
Feature Script

Skin Deep Blood Red
Submitter Cain Angelle
Feature Script

The Perfect Match
Writer Sammy Smedley
Short Script

The Grave Robber
Writer Ross Inman
Feature Script

Goldy
Writer Gregory Funaro
Feature Script

WeHo Story
Writer Tudor Munteanu
Feature Script

Monday’s Hero
Writer Larry Downes
Feature Script

High Time We Get Outta Here
Writers Daniel Ahmadi, Danny Taff
Feature Script

Who Killed Truelove?
Writer Robert Adam Lifton
Feature Script

Time Before the Fall
Writer Suzanne Birrell
Feature Script

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