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Screenplay Contest Winners

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Screenplay Contest Winners

SHORT SCREENPLAY CONTEST
FEATURE SCREENPLAY CONTEST

FIRST PLACE

MANNY - SOFIA NELSON

FIRST PLACE

STAR - ROBIN DUNN

SECOND PLACE

SECOND PLACE

MIND YOUR BEESWAX - DAVID BLAKE

SPECIAL DELIVERY - MARK KENT

THIRD PLACE

OUT LIKE A LIGHT - D'ANDRE HENRY

THIRD PLACE

THE RUBE - JO HARVEY

10 x ADDITIONAL WINNERS

10 x ADDITIONAL WINNERS

Facewarmerz - Rives Elliot

Project Infinite - Warren Lane

Fire Tower - Haley Marie McCoy

The Screens Of The Damned - Anton Ballard & Felicity Bolitho

Reactive - Claudia Civinini

Oh No You Don't - Ben Cessna

The Cool Embrace of Lady Muck - Jason Boaden

The Glass Coffin - Mark C. Scioneaux

You Already Know - Susanna Clarke

Touch Me, Pinch Me, Squish Me, Squeeze Me - Joe Michaels

Nefarium - Jerrod D. Brito & Jeff M. Zook

Scale 35 - Joanna Lee Ramos

The Devil At Bay - Robert Wooldridge

Old School - Melissa Freedman

Trespass - Tommy Gabriel Cresta, Ian Hershey & Ryan Foran

Malachi - Rebecca Black

Escape From Hell - Felicity Emery

Tick - Davina Beaumont

Possessed - Michael Cook

First Impressions - Graham Stenhouse

Massive congratulations to our overall winners and to those of you who placed in the top 20% as finalists!

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Making the final decisions was extremely difficult because the standard of screenwriting and the quality of films on display was absolutely phenomenal. We were overwhelmed by the brilliant ideas, fantastic story-telling, mesmerizing dialogue and memorable characters which were presented. 

 

A huge thank you to every single one of you who entered. Although we are sorry for your disappointment if you didn't make it as a winner or place as a finalist, we sincerely hope you still enjoyed taking part in the contest and found your judge's feedback constructive.

 

All screenplay winners will be contacted via email with full details of their prizes.

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For the full list of Finalists who scored in the top 20%, see the Finalists 2025 page.

 

If you were selected as a screenplay finalist, we will also be contacting you regarding your entitlement to an exclusive publishing offer.

 

Selected film-makers who placed as winners and finalists will be contacted shortly regarding a film distribution offer via 13Horror.com's Amazon Prime Video collective.

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We hope to see you again for our next Film & Screenplay contest, which is open for entries now!

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SHORT FILM CONTEST

Best Film - Horned

Best Director - Justin Albertini, Nonfiction

Best Actor - Francesco Torre, The Barn

Best Actress - Kat Eaton, Let Us Out

Best Baddy - Chiroptera

Best Special Effects - Vivir

FEATURE FILM CONTEST

Best Film - Contamination

Best Director - Vishesh Manka, Bawla

Best Actor - Neil Chase, Contamination

Best Actress - Lena Glass, The Priory

Best Supporting Actor - William Hinson, Black Theta

Best Supporting Actress - Kenzie Phillips, Slice

Best Baddy - Son of Gacy, directed by Pete Jacelone

Best Special Effects - Slice

ABOUT US

13Horror.com started out as a short story mail order magazine in 2004. Our subsequent horror anthologies topped the charts in three continents.

 

We are now home to one of the best rated horror film and screenplay contests in the industry. As well as being the leading publisher of horror screenplays, we are also a distributor and producer of independent horror films.

 

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