2026 Feature Competition - TOP 10

The Top 10 Are In!

You voted. Here they are.

After five weeks of reading, debating, and voting, the community has narrowed the field to 10 scripts. These are the ones you chose.

DUE

Logline: Years after making a mysterious deal during a near-fatal overdose, a new mother must navigate the deceptions of a shapeshifting entity that has returned to claim its due.

VIOLET

Logline: Two underground bathroom attendants in the seediest part of town develop a friendship with a sex worker, who forces them all to face their secrets, as they form the world's most unexpected book club.

X Marks the Spot

Logline: Three siblings tasked with settling their grandfather's affairs after his death, discover shocking evidence implicating him as the real killer of Malcolm X. Now they have ninety minutes to uncover the validity of these claims.

POACHERS

Logline: When a Ugandan tracker's father is killed by frightened rangers, his grief-fueled vengeance pulls him into a billion-dollar wildlife trafficking empire where he must choose between violence and the testimony that could dismantle an entire network of corruption.

Unique

Logline: When a widowed grandmother loses her husband’s military pension, she discovers in the adult film industry a way to overcome her financial problems.

Override

Logline: When the self-driving car he created traps him inside, a young tech executive must survive a high-speed game of life and death to uncover who’s really in control.

Mapped

Logline: During the hottest summer on record in a small suburban town in America, five young kids quest to find the town’s ancient treasure, but it’s not just the wilderness they have to face; it’s each other.

Prisoners of Air

Logline: It’s 1850. Two explorers form an unlikely friendship as they search the Arctic for a missing expedition. But can their new bond survive the discovery of its terrible fate?

Corked

Logline: A kind-hearted genie, desperate to prove herself, accidentally grants three wishes to the wrong twin, an egotistical man-child. Magical mayhem explodes, sibling rivalry spirals, and supernatural red tape tightens as she races to untangle the chaos before both worlds collapse.

Lenten Season

Logline: After a series of miracles follow the death of its patriarch, a remote Colombian town pushes for his beatification. But his teenage daughter’s changing body threatens to expose the truth about the saint everyone believes in.

Now it's in the judges' hands.

Our panel reviews all 10 and selects the Top 3 by May 17. Then the community gets the final say! One last vote to crown the 2026 winner.

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