American Import (TV Pilot)

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series

A South-of-the-Mason-Dixon-Line good ol’ girl gets into legal trouble one too many times and is deported to Toronto, Canada on a technicality: she was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. American Import is a smart, unique, single-cam fish-out-of-water sitcom with a little edge and a lot of heart.

Writer(s): Steven Shehori

 

 

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FEARLESS

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film

In a crumbling near-future where the anti-anxiety wonder drug Phobyx has turned fear into a forgotten instinct, a haunted self-defense instructor returns home to reconnect with her estranged family as the country spirals into crisis. But when her sister becomes a casualty of the drug’s chaos, she must confront buried trauma and fight her way through a city on the edge, determined to expose a deadly truth in a world where fear was the last thing keeping us human.

Writer(s): Rich Van Tine

 

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Sitting at the Edge of the World Staring at the Mice

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film – LGBTQ+

A late-night rooftop encounter between two young women unravels the tangled threads of their past, as grief and guilt blur into one last chance to say what was never said.

Writer(s): Guadalupe Birkbeck

 

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