The Golden List of 2020
The Best Unproduced Screenplays of the Year
Features
01
First runner up
By Christine Pfeiffer Stocke
Seventeen years after losing the Miss Bay City crown the first runner up returns home to shake off her second place status and watch her best friend, who has reigned all this time, finally step down.
- Genre
- COMEDY, ROMANCE
- Country
- united states
- Representation
- NONE
02
THE O'MALLEY
By John F. Sarno
When England invades western Ireland, Grace O'Malley decides to confront the Crown in person. In London, both she and Queen Elizabeth learn that unrequited love conquers all.
- Genre
- DRAMA, HISTORICAL DRAMA
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
03
The OLD BUG
By BILL LABONIA
When the young and sheltered Jonah graduates from high school, he wants a car so he can be a "cool guy" to impress his crush Autumn. After finding out his Grandpa has an old car in the Garage, Jonah will count with the help of his best friend Rex to fix the car and get the girl before he is gone to college.
- Genre
- DRAMA, COMEDY
- Country
- BRAZIL
- Representation
- NONE
04
THE separating sickness
By Emily redinbo
In 1914 Hawaii, as war rages in Europe, an African American chemist defies her envious boss to seek a cure for the leprosy that’s condemned her best friend to life in exile. Based on a true story.
- Genre
- DRAMA, FAMILY, historical
- Country
- united states
- Representation
- NONE
05
W. SMITH
By Sophie Hexter
A coming of age historical drama about a transgender farmhand who goes on to become one of the country's greatest horsemen. When his birth gender is accidentally uncovered, however, Smith is forced to take his employer to court, fighting for equal rights and fair pay, and a new Australian hero is born.
- Genre
- Historical drama
- Country
- AUSTRALIA
- Representation
- NONE
06
THE NARRATOR
By Julia trofimova
Finn and Tera—two miserable employees at Onemind Corp.—are given the opportunity to have their own “narrators”: individuals who follow them around and express their innermost thoughts. While the narrators drastically improve their lives at first, Finn and Tera begin to realize there may be a much more sinister plot at play.
- Genre
- COMEDY, dark comedy
- Country
- united states
- Representation
- NONE
07
OUTCAST
By Sarah bellwood
An orphaned Roman youth is banished by the British tribe who raised him from birth. Marked by his Celtic tattoos, kidnapped and enslaved in the cynical, sophisticated Roman world, he must fight to survive in his quest for freedom and a place to belong.
- Genre
- ACTION, ADVENTURE, DRAMA
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
08
MAIDENS OF BABYLON
By Tony Grady martin
The remarkable true story behind W.T. Stead, an early pioneer of investigative journalism and suffragette Josephine Butler, who risked everything to expose the shameful trafficking of women in Victorian-era London. Inspired by W.T. Stead's highly controversial newspaper articles, "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon."
- Genre
- period drama, POLITICAL DRAMA
- Country
- United states, UNITED KINGDOM
- Representation
- NONE
09
GOD IS a butterfly
By adriana rosSaroLla
A British girl creates a story about a Celtic heroine, and must choose between her mother's oppressive concepts and her desire to destroy those views.
- Genre
- DRAMA, ROMANCE
- Country
- united states
- Representation
- NONE
10
the viciouses
By adam simmel
Infamous rock n' roll couple Sid and Nancy, now clean of drugs and in their 60’s, take in a wayward, 16-year-old Marilyn Monroe impersonator just as the couple begins undergoing a crisis of their own.
- Genre
- COMEDY, dRAMA
- Country
- UNITED STATES
- Representation
- NONE
11
THE SINS OF THE MANY
By ELLERY BOCK
Two contrasting detectives from neighboring jurisdictions must work together to solve a gruesome series of decapitations tied to a backwoods insane asylum that was shuttered 30 years prior.
- Genre
- psychological THRILLER, crime
- Country
- australia
- Representation
- NONE
12
OBSERVANCE
By Christopher Hooton
In a dystopian future where all violence has been eliminated, a sudden murder shocks society, leading an idealist lawyer to defend the genius who committed the crime.
- Genre
- SCI-FI, DRAMA
- Country
- united kingdom
- Representation
- NONE
13
Alec Guinness: A Kind of Victory
By bill baxter
Alec Guinness is born fatherless to an alcoholic mother. Struggling in early life, he lands a small part in Hamlet at the Old Vic Theater. The play is marred by an aggressive Laurence Olivier and they cannot finish a rehearsal. The Company travels to Denmark for a performance at Elsinore Castle, Shakespeare’s setting for the play. The weather, workers and nature are against them. A funny, thoughtful and true story of a gentle and shy man overcoming impossible odds to become one of the world's most successful actors.
- Genre
- DRAMA, comING OF AGE
- Country
- CANADA
- Representation
- NONE
14
BLOOD LAW
By Keith and Cassie Hayasaka
Orphaned after his father is murdered in the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, Bo helps his adopted family of sheep ranchers fight for their land in bloody range wars while struggling with his identity and reigniting a dangerous love affair.
- Genre
- WESTERN, dRAMA, HISTORICAL
- Country
- UNITED STATES
- Representation
- NONE
15
THERE IS NO ONE IN HELL
By Nijean Philippe
Once upon a time in slavery...In New York, a father of Haitian origin tells his daughter, six stories of slavery, the history of his family.
- Genre
- DRAMA, HISTORICAL
- Country
- martinique
- Representation
- NONE
TV Pilots
01
TRUE BLUE
By GIO FORLENZA
When the tech bubble bursts, a laid-off father starts a garage band with his 5 year old daughter as he searches to find work and balance his family’s happiness in Austin Texas.
- Genre
- drama, comedy
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
02
DAMAGE CONTROL
By Stephen Hoover
DAMAGE CONTROL is an edgy, animated comedy for adults about a public relations firm specializing in high profile disasters -- from oil spills to celebrity drunken rages. Led by type A+ personality Laird Parks, a diverse team of P.R. Specialists take on stories from tomorrow headlines and do DAMAGE CONTROL. The spin is in.
- Genre
- COMEDY
- Country
- UNITED STATES
- Representation
- NONE
03
THE CENTER
By Miles Woods
Valerie Ernst, a young, Black single mom finds herself caught up in one of Los Angeles' most notorious hellscapes -- the world of private pre-schools.
- Genre
- COMEDY
- Country
- UNITED STATES
- Representation
- NONE
04
7 minutes and about 20 seconds
By Marina Bendocchi Alves
A pair of teenagers rocked by the trauma of seeing someone they loved murdered during a school shooting cope in wildly different ways, trying to navigate the enmity that existed before the killing.
- Genre
- Drama, YOUNG ADULT
- Country
- GERMANY, BRAZIL
- Representation
- NONE
05
FEEDING THE ELEPHANT
By William Dobson
A collage of interconnected characters collide in violent and troubling ways as a corrupt lawyer operates an elaborate money laundering scheme at the heart of the British legal system.
- Genre
- DRAMA, CRIME
- Country
- united KINGDOM
- Representation
- none
06
I.Am.RANI
By Sathish Easwaralingam
After being raped by her own teacher, a high school girl becomes inspired by a world-wide movement of women retaliating against their abusers and decides to take action herself, unbeknownst to her a sinister conspiracy will further call her to action.
- Genre
- drama, THRILLER, SUSPENSE
- Country
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Representation
- NONE
07
VERSIONS
By Craig ReynoldS
When a student accuses three rugby players of rape and her university fails to act, she makes her story public, inciting a storm of media attention and fomenting a national debate in Ireland.
- Genre
- drama, THRILLER
- Country
- IRELAND
- Representation
- NONE
08
ANGELS OF WAR
By Natalie Bergman, Victoria Rau
The untold true story of a small group of American nurses trapped behind enemy lines for over three difficult years in the Philippines during World War II. Follow their heroism, relationships, endurance and survival as they fight to save lives and survive.
- Genre
- drama, HISTORICAL, ROMANCE
- Country
- UNITED STATES
- Representation
- NONE
09
Don't Change Your Husband
By John McCloskey
Three married couples are best friends. All six of them are successful professionals in their early 30s. They decide to switch partners, switching beds. They are led into this by a dreamy philosophy of erotic love that gains a cult-like hold over them. What they learn is how one person changes another person, through attachment, need, expectation, betrayal.
- Genre
- ROMANTIC dramEDY, MYSTERY
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
Shorts
01
DO OR DARE
By MAREN CURTIS
Three unsuspecting men are tricked onto a reality game show where they must say ‘I Do’ to their partners in front of a live studio audience…or else.
- Genre
- dark comedy, action
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
02
IN YOUR HANDS
By Carlo Liberatore
A priest, racked with guilt, takes refuge in a hermitage set in the mountains in order to escape the vindictive anger of a father.
- Genre
- Drama, FAITH, thriller
- Country
- ITALY
- Representation
- NONE
03
PONTUS
By nicolas diaz
Vanessa, the sole survivor in her family after a dog rescue gone wrong turns into a tragic drowning accident, grapples with grief, blame, and struggles to connect with her new legal guardian, Uncle Daniel, who is determined to get through their pain, together.
- Genre
- DRAMA
- Country
- United states
- Representation
- NONE
04
7:04 A.M.
By Sam Downey, James Grachos
Will, tired of feeling like a background character in his own life, decides for one momentous night to let a magic coin decide his fate.
- Genre
- Drama, thriller
- Country
- UNITED STATES
- Representation
- NONE
05
DEMON CIRCLE
By Robert Duncan
Two friends summon a demon to grant them their hearts desire. However their friendship is tested to the limit when the demon they summon isn’t what they expected.
- Genre
- Comedy, DARK COMEDY, HORROR
- Country
- united KINGDOM
- Representation
- none
06
UNINSPIRED MOMENTS
By Kristen Brookman
A chance encounter on a lonely night sparks the beginning of an unlikely friendship.
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- United kingdom
- Representation
- NONE
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