The Golden List of 2017
The Best Unproduced Screenplays of the Year
Features
01
CHURCHILL IN SUDAN
By Callum Bryce
The adventurous young Winston Churchill is serving as a cavalry officer in India, but the infamy his journalism has brought him prevents him from joining the campaign to crush the Dervish uprising in Sudan. He must fight against time and the military establishment if he is to report on and take part in one of the last great battles of the British Empire.
- Genre
- ADVENTURE
- Country
- UK
- Representation
- NONE
02
THE BOY WHO SHOT THE SHERIFF
By Nancy Bartley
In 1931, a 60-pound 12-year-old boy is sentenced to life in an adult prison for murder. In this true story based on a book, the boy must learn how to navigate deadly politics amidst dangerous men.
- Genre
- N/A
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
03
overwatch
By Dallas Gibson
“Overwatch” is the story of Marine Scout Sniper Scott Taggart, a man that has been in the Marine Corps since he was eighteen and is driven by duty, honor, country and extreme loyalty.
- Genre
- war, action, adventure
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- Tammie Smith and Smith International Productions
04
THINK forward
By David Keogh
A man with terminal cancer, an ex-army pastor and a homeless teenage girl, become unlikely allies when they stumble across some drug money. But a local Russian Crime Lord wants the money and the girl, back.
- Genre
- drama, thriller
- Country
- Uk
- Representation
- NONE
05
MALIKA
By Carlos Mesber
Malika is a tumultuous love story heavily divided by ethnic racism. Malika, a six years old Lebanese girl, suffers from her first family’s loss when her younger brother, Issam, passes away at four years old from a gunshot wound during the civil war in Lebanon in the late 1980‘s. An exhausted and heartbroken family, Malika and her parents, Waffa and Amir, both in their 30s, decide to emigrate to Mexico.
- Genre
- N/A
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
06
chocolate potato
By Neil O'Neil
An illicit spam email arrives at the wrong time and pushes a man over the brink when his wife thinks he's having an affair. Unable to convince her otherwise, he inflicts an horrific death on the spammer. The story turns from a raunchy 'British black comedy' to a dark tale of murder, copycat killings and revenge.
- Genre
- N/A
- Country
- UK
- Representation
- NONE
07
THE MEDAL
By Tom Weck
In the First World War, a British officer, having fallen in love with an army nurse, must forsake her to confront his own cowardice under fire, the ghost of his highly decorated father, and a legacy he never knew.
- Genre
- war
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
08
Second best bed
By Terri Kauffman
Historical fiction about Christopher Marlowe as the true author of the Shakespeare Canon. The story follows Marlowe and Shakespeare as their lives become intertwined in a web of lies, betrayal, murder, and – finally – redemption.
- Genre
- N/A
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
09
the last vikings
By David Thorndill
In the Middle Ages when the Little Ice Age causes famine and conflict in the doomed Greenlandic colony a desperate Viking clan leader attempts to escape by sailing to Iceland, but pirates, storms and treacherous sea ice force them to sail to North America. With the help of a native Micmac woman and a Huron ally they battle Mohawk warriors on their journey to a new homeland beyond the mighty falls of Niagara.
- Genre
- historical action, adventure
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
10
ONLY MAKE BELIEVE
By Benjamin Owens
A university professor is terrified to find that the shadows that pervade his dreams are beginning to manifest in his family's life.
- Genre
- N/A
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
11
The Chessmaster, The Artist, The Priest and The Gypsy
By Robert Cole
In the summer of 1943. Russian chessmaster, Alexander Petroff seeks refuge from war in Barcelona with his friend, terminally ill artist, Pippi Sanchez.
- Genre
- N/A
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- Alexandra Maramenides, Reve agency
12
Missing persons
By Chris Bieszk
A one-legged detective with PTSD must convince a teenage prostitute to return home before her pimp kills them both.
- Genre
- Drama, human rights
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
13
END OF LINE
By Paul Hunt
It’s summer 1996 in an isolated Welsh valley town. A teenage boy with a dead mother and father at risk of redundancy must overcome his obsession with romantic comedy tropes to win his first love.
- Genre
- COMEDY, coming of age, Drama
- Country
- United kingdom
- Representation
- NONE
14
CADEBY
By David Keogh
When Vikings invade the village of Cadeby a small band of desperately unprepared people must defend it or lose everything.
- Genre
- historical, action, drama, Romance, war
- Country
- United kingdom
- Representation
- NONE
15
The Ballad of Horace & Baby Doe
By Tom Weck
The wealthy Silver Baron of Colorado, with Presidential ambitions, risks all by divorcing and marrying a beauty, decades his junior, and they ultimately together face a catastrophic collapse into poverty.
- Genre
- N/A
- Country
- United States
- Representation
- NONE
Shorts
01
SPACE MAN
By Taiyo Yoshida
Carwyn does everything he can to help his best friend, Kemena, confront her biggest fear.
- Genre
- DRAMA
- Country
- UK
- Representation
- NONE
02
THE CHILDREN of lir
By Ian Robinson
WWII. Two injured British soldiers are caught behind enemy line, trying to get back to friendly territory. But when dying woman gives them her baby girl, the soldiers must decide whether they can make it with a child to protect.
- Genre
- Drama, war
- Country
- UK
- Representation
- NONE
03
LOST FOR WORDS
By Helen Watson
A short comedy movie about a dystopian world where communication suffers when people start buying words.
- Genre
- COMEDY
- Country
- UK
- Representation
- NONE
04
PURGED
By Philip Dorr
When a sexual abuse victim drags a Priest down to the river to absolve him, the Priest declines so the victim has to absolve himself.
- Genre
- N/A
- Country
- UNITED STATES
- Representation
- NONE
05
PERSPECTIVES
By Nir Shelter
Based on a true story, after a suspiciously dressed Palestinian boards an Israeli bus, an IDF soldier must choose between a risk to the lives of the other passengers and a potentially innocent man, in order to keep the peace.
- Genre
- Drama, military
- Country
- australia
- Representation
- Kristen Hodges, Bird Eggs Films
06
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