SUMMER 2026 THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival Screenplay Winners & Honorable Mentions

The THRILLER/SUSPENSE 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

TV Script: A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Pamela R. West

THRILLER Festival TV Script: A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Pamela R. West

Short Script: Wrong Right, by Alexander Peterson

TRAGEDY Short Script: Wrong Right, by Alexander Peterson

Short Script: CUT BAIT, by Michael Meyers

THRILLER Festival Short Screenplay: CUT BAIT, by Michael Meyers

HONORABLE MENTIONS – 14

The German Execution at Camp Papago
Writer John Eden Heather
Short Script

The Best Candidate
Writer Nathan A Pengel
Feature Script

The Kitchen
Writer Earl Crittenden
Feature Script

Seer
Writer Ashland Menshouse
TV Pilot

The Last Escape
Writer Amy M Kinney
Short Script

The Seneca Dolls
Writer Agim Morina
Feature Script

Spring Heeled Jack
Writer Joe Mello
Feature Script

CLOSING IN
Writer Reba DeRuiter
Feature Script

Six Teats
Writer Bradley Brian Custer
Short Script

Chopper Gun
Writer Montgomery Haines
Short Script

BEFORE THE FALL
Writer Pablo Catalan
Short Script

Who Killed Truelove?
Writer Robert Adam Lifton
Feature Script

Wolfeboro
Writer Duncan B. Putney
Feature Script

The Cheating Vaccine
Writer Duncan B. Putney
Feature Script

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