2026 Official Selection Scripts, Podcasts & Songs
SHORT OR EPISODIC SCRIPTS
Champagne In The Basement
Written by Despina Moraitou
Synopsis: After trapping the assassin she hired inside her basement, a dying novelist reveals that he may not be real at all, but a fictional companion she created to keep her company at the end of her life.
Head (less)
Written By Jenny Popovich
Synopsis: Using deepfake tech for her dissertation research, PhD candidate Brittany Clarkston and her brother Mike try to fake evidence of the “Elmore Rider,” a headless motorcyclist allegedly haunting Mud Creek Bridge near Elmore, Ohio, but on the 110th anniversary of his death, eerie glitches, a disturbing video, and ghostly WWI sounds reveal the legend is real. Trapped and hunted, Brittany and Mike struggle to use the rules of the underworld to destroy the malevolent revenant.
Signal
Written by Shannon Denise Evans
Synopsis: On a desolate Washington back road, Constance Flynn picks up a teenage hitchhiker. Over breakfast at a local diner, their strange encounter spirals as the boy seems determined to alter Constance's carefully laid plans. When he vanishes as mysteriously as he appeared, Constance discovers that the boundary between our world and another may transcend death—and some doors, once opened, can never be closed.
The Guides
Written By Katherine Griffin & Jon Bachmann
Synopsis: Five people are summoned to a room and learn they’ve died suddenly. In this room, they’re told that three of them get to return to their lives and loved ones, but only if the other two willingly choose to be at peace with moving on. They are given seven minutes to decide who should ‘move on’ and who should not. But, is something more powerful going on than they’re led to believe?
FEATURE SCRIPTS
Beyond The Yellow Brick Road
Written by J. M. Sorensen
Synopsis: A closeted gay man, trapped in a rural nursing home, seizes a chance at freedom when his free-spirited estranged sister whisks him away on an unexpected journey across northern Minnesota.
BRACERO
Written by Lea Keepler
Synopsis: BRACERO chronicles the daily struggles and victories of minorities in 1940s Los Angeles, where racism, sexism, and segregation defined the era. Told through the eyes of 18-year-old Joaquin, a young Mexican bracero who becomes a suspect in a murder he did not commit, the story weaves resilience, love, and sacrifice against the backdrop of the Zoot Suit Riots.
Bright Belt
Written By Don Angelica Silva
Synopsis: BRIGHT BELT is a historical drama set in rural North Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, where land, family, and freedom are shaped by the same force: Nature itself.
Fly Time
Written By Susanne Björnsdotter Steen
Synopsis: Latèer, a highly theatrical and flamboyant housefly, who accidentally gets trapped inside a huckleberry pie takeout box at a diner and is transported to a sprawling Montana cattle ranch.
This Is How He Survives
Written By Trisha T Pritikin
Synopsis: A medic with the American Occupation Forces in Nagasaki in 1945 meets his magical, shape-shifting Japanese crane wife, whose love may be his only avenue to survival from radiation exposure.
PODCASTS
Seduction
Written and Directed by bud rebel
Synopsis: Seduction is a gripping tale of morality tested by passion. The story centers on Tony, whose mundane routine is disrupted when he meets Maria. As their relationship intensifies, Tony is forced to confront the blurred lines between right and wrong, love and lust, loyalty and self-interest and ultimately the cost of following his impulses. As tension builds and lives are lost, Seduction explores how a single decision can alter the trajectory of one’s life – and how desire, once awakened, can almost become an addiction, a vice.
Website | @seductiondramapodcast
INGLENOOK: The Guinea Pig Odyssey
Written By Catherine Chen, Aki Cao, Rosaline Tiger Chen, Diego Yanez
Synopsis: A mouse named Pippy the Bard tells stories in the Inglenook Inn. The first 11-min episode has two original songs, and is about a guinea pig’s odyssey home to her beloved human. The goal is to eventually create this into an animated series. Please follow to stay tuned!
SONGS
Colours Of Life
Written and performed by Celine Egan
Celine Egan is a 25 year old German/Irish Composer & Musician. She is a Grade 8 Classical Pianist and a Royal Television Society Scholar. Celine started scoring films, performing and releasing her original music over the past 5 years. She also performs her music with her trio music group ans writes and plays Keytar in a Rock/Metal band. She is most recently known for scoring short film ‘Sins of Sinclair’ which was a nominee in Cannes World Film Festival and featuring/composing on film composer James Everett’s original Song ‘From Above’ from Channel 5 TV Series ‘Ellis‘.
Scars
Written By Shannon Denise Evans
Synopsis: We all have a story; but we are not our story. We are what we choose to do with our experiences, and how we alchemize them. “Scars” is about learning to live with what’s happened to us without being consumed by it.
She Sang
Written By Dona Nichols, Robin Ruddy and Wood newton
Synopsis: This song is an anthem and tribute to the women of country music. Co-writers Robin Ruddy and Wood Newton are Grammy award winning songwriters. The song was recorded at The Parlor Studio in Nashville which is owned by a woman. All performers and musicians on this song are women.