Here is the list of 2023 screenplay winners from the THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival
Watch the 10 winning screenplay best scene readings:
THE PASS, by Graham Northrup
Feature Script
Deep in the forest near a mountain pass, Darren Reed’s life is turned upside down – first from the terrible accident that took his family – and now from their ghosts, whose appearance threatens to drive him to madness. He must find the courage to face them and learn to listen – before it’s too late.
THE PASS. – Thriller Festival Best Scene. by Graham Northrup
Murder on Mars, by Patrick McKinley
Feature Script
During the early days of humanity’s colonization of Mars, two police detectives investigate the first death on the red planet. As the investigation unfolds, the detectives realize not all is what it seems as they uncover a vast conspiracy that questions human civilizations’ place on Mars.
THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival: Murder on Mars, by Patrick McKinley
HENRY’S STARE, by A.M. Vasquez
Short Script
After her stalker goes missing and is presumed dead, Violet McBride’s dreams suggest that he may still be alive, threatening to shatter her newfound peace.
One Mad Apple, by Laurie Asbourne, Tom Pratt
Feature Script
A dark comedy feature inspired by a true story and based on the book of the same name. After a man moves to small town to care for his dying father, he embraces the community and his new life as a stepfather and husband, until he finds himself in the crosshairs of an unhinged townswoman who challenges him in a school board election and makes him look like the crazy one.
THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival 1st Scene: One Mad Apple, by Laurie Asbourne, Tom Pratt
INKWELL, by Dante Mathias
An unskilled artist discovers a pen that will draw whatever he wants at the cost of his talented friend.
Winning THRILLER Fest SHORT Script: INKWELL, by Dante Mathias
THE COVENTRY DECEPTION, by Michael Thomas Holliday
Feature Script
Following the President’s suicide, a reluctant Vice President discovers a covert operation that compromises national security.
THRILLER Festival BEST Scene: THE COVENTRY DECEPTION, by Michael Thomas Holliday
ZOOM HIT, by Laura Puccia Valtorta
TV Pilot
When idealistic attorney Silvia Moretti watches her obnoxious doctor/lover get assassinated during a Zoom meeting, she travels to California with her housemate, Wyshonda, to find the killer.
THRILLER Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: ZOOM HIT, by Laura Puccia Valtorta
BLOOD MONEY, by Dominic Flanagan
Howard Swan, a doctor with a severe drinking problem, loses his medical license, his wife, his house, and is on the verge of losing his daughter as well. In a desperate act, he enlists the help of Caspar, his drug dealer brother, to make some easy money. After a deal goes wrong, Howard uses his medical expertise to save the life of Snake Eyes, a psychopathic drug kingpin. Howard and Caspar fall deeper into the world of organised crime than they ever intended, and they may not be able to make it back out.
THRILLER Festival 1st Scene: BLOOD MONEY, by Dominic Flanagan
Infinite Man, by Greg Robbins
Feature Script
The consequences of a society that no longer ages and a journey to revive death.
AS SCARED AS YOU, by Jesse Dorian
A twenty-something male “drifter” antihero, and a young blind woman become caged prisoners at a bed and breakfast in small-town northern California, where the drifter’s violent, malignant actions prior, push a group of malicious locals– along with their two animalistic, basement-held zombified residents, dressed as a dog and a clown– to seek vengeance.
THRILLER Festival 1st Scene Reading: AS SCARED AS YOU, by Jesse Dorian
Thriller/Suspense Film and Writing Festival 