2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film – LGBTQ+

When Alessandro returns to his Italian hometown with his partner to welcome their first child via surrogate, a wave of unexplained deaths, fear, and religious hysteria spirals into madness – forcing him to choose between his faith and his family as the town whispers that their unborn baby is the Devil.

Writer(s): Joseph D’Urso

 

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2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series

When the dead body of the city manager is found in a pond, struggling assassin, Layla, decides to falsely claim him as her kill to collect his high bounty.

Writer(s): Hannah Vernot

 

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2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film – LGBTQ+

A brief encounter bears witness to the darker impulses of the human nature.

Writer(s): Andrew Klaus-Vineyard

 

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2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film

When an unlikely man-child who foot doubled for Elijah Woods in “Lord of the Rings,” becomes the Hail Mary subject of film student Lisa Yao, will he derail her entire project, or will she learn that some things are more important than deadlines?

Writer(s): Lauren Holiday

 

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2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series – LGBTQ+

Newly out and eager to explore her pansexual identity, Marley is swept into West Hollywood’s Pride scene, where a wild night with a vibrant chosen family challenges her boundaries and opens her heart to the power of community.

Writer(s): Chanessa Richa’rd

 

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