SHELL, THE

Charlie Neubauer

MINORITY REPORT meets TRANSCENDENCE

In a future where death has been eradicated thanks to a revolutionary technology that allows people to be resurrected, a petty criminal is tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of its inventor – his mother.

Sci-Fi
Thriller

Overall Winner
Bellevue Entertainment Selection
ESA Entertainment Selection

SUBMERGED

Dan Hall

THE SHALLOWS meets OPEN WATER

Trapped in a shrinking air pocket deep beneath the ocean's surface, the survivors of a plane crash battle to stay alive long enough for the rescue teams to locate them.

Thriller

Top Drama

DERBY CITY

Alexis Perkins

SAVED meets LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

A bartender (and small-time con artist) fleeing a criminal gambling charge convinces a naive Mormon missionary to drive across country with her, but when their truck and money are stolen, they have to resort to hustling pool in order to make it to Utah.

Comedy

Top Comedy

VIOLET

Scott Thomas

INSIDIOUS meets ORPHAN

Fleeing from her abusive husband in the dark of night with her young daughter in tow, a woman moves back into her childhood home. But it's there she realizes the horror isn't over, and that the sadistic imaginary friend she had as a child is very real, and plans to trap her in the house where they can play forever

Horror
Supernatural
Thriller

Top 25
Vertigo Entertainment Selection

JESSE'S GIRL

John Wikstrom

THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN meets SHE'S THE MAN

In a bid to make his ex jealous and win her back, a high school senior invents a girlfriend on social media, but runs into trouble when he falls for the real-life girl he based her on.

Comedy
Teen

Twin Padres Selection
Top 25

SHELL, THE

Charlie Neubauer

MINORITY REPORT meets TRANSCENDENCE

In a future where death has been eradicated thanks to a revolutionary technology that allows people to be resurrected, a petty criminal is tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of its inventor – his mother.

Sci-Fi
Thriller

Overall Winner
Bellevue Entertainment Selection
ESA Entertainment Selection

BLOOD INK

Gia Gordon

AMADEUS meets ANNA KARENINA

Franz Schubert's struggles to be recognized as a composer as dissension rises against the oppressive government of the 19th Century Hapsburg Empire.

Biopic
Drama
Period

Mentorship Selection | Cormac Wibberley & Marianne Wibberley

EDGE OF ETERNITY

Steve Isles

PASSENGERS meets EX MACHINA

A solitary prisoner sentenced to work in isolation mining precious metals on a remote asteroid creates a synthetic female companion for himself, and life gains meaning for him when the two fall in love. But when an emergency brings another astronaut to rescue them, he instead lays claim to everything the prisoner has.

Romance
Sci-Fi
Thriller

Top 10
Mentorship Selection | Gary Graham

DOUBLE INDIANA

David Keith Miller

THE NICE GUYS meets RAISING ARIZONA

Two mobsters running a delivery from Los Angeles to Las Vegas discover that the money in their briefcase, which may or may not have been there in the first place, is missing, and consequently kidnap a woman, who may or may not have stolen it, to try to track it down before their boss has them killed.

Action
Comedy
Drama

Mentorship Selection | Andrew Baldwin
Top 75

105 ROYAL AVENUE

Victoria Armstrong

PRIDE meets GOOD VIBRATIONS

In the dangerous conflict zone of 1979 Belfast, a strong willed punk strives against persecution to create her own nightclub. A safe haven for her misfit friends who, united by their love of music and fashion, are desperate to escape the violence and despair of their war torn city and find their own place to belong.

Comedy
Drama
Period

Top 50

420 MINUTES

Jody Gehrman

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS meets JUNO

When a college student and aspiring detective meets a guy who claims he has only 420 minutes to live, she infiltrates a series of increasingly dangerous underworlds to help him save his sister from a biker gang.

Action
Comedy

Honorable Mention

A CHRISMISCUE

Gregory Harty

SCROOGED meets THE GOOD PLACE

In this reversal of the classic "A Christmas Carol" story, the nicest guy in town gets accidentally "Scrooged" and is forced to see how poorly everyone else treated him in Christmases past, present, and future, all the bureaucratic system of heaven attempts to right the mistake before any damage is done.

Comedy
Fantasy

Top 75

A MISSISSIPPI MURDER

Mark G. Anderson

MISSISSIPPI BURNING meets TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

The true story of two African American reporters who travel to Mississippi in 1955 to cover the trial of Emmett Till, the young black man whose brutal murder ignited the Civil Rights Movement. After discovering the existence of several key black witnesses, they work with the prosecuting attorney to bring the witnesses to testify amongst threats and racial prejudice.

Drama
Period

Top 25

A NECESSARY ACT OF VIOLENCE

John Torma

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE meets TAKEN

When an army vet is framed for his wife's murder, he must to go on the run with his stepdaughter to protect her. But when he discovers that both the police and a local fracking tycoon are responsible, he must turn back and avenge his wife's death.

Action
Thriller

Top 50

ACTUAL VAMPIRE KEANU REEVES

Ashley Moon

THIS IS THE END meets BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

When her coworker disappears, a pop culture nerd discovers that Keanu Reeves is a murderous vampire who may have something to do with her mother's death, and that she is his next target.

Comedy
Horror

Top 75

ADAM & EVE

David Kushner

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS meets CHILDREN OF MEN

In a future where all men and women are unable to reproduce, a stoner accidentally grows a strand of weed that allows him to fertilize the first human embryo in years, and must team up with a straight-laced procreation scientist to combat the android forces determined to annihilate the human race.

Action
Comedy
Sci-Fi

Top 75

AMARA, 15

Hannah Leshaw

SHORT TERM 12 meets PRECIOUS

A 15-year-old Bronx teenager struggles to escape her father's sexual abuse without leaving her two little sisters behind.

Drama

Top 10

ANGELS OF THE DEEP

James L. Head

TOP GUN meets CRIMSON TIDE

In the near future, a submarine war games exercise turns into an all-out battle for the fate of the world when one side unexpectedly starts fighting for keeps, and an elite squadron of North American sub-fighter pilots are the last line of defense.

Action
Sci-Fi
War

Top 25

APPLE TREE, THE

Matthew Arnold-Ladensack

ST. VINCENT meets THE NOTEBOOK

A closeted high school football player is forced to volunteer at a retirement community after getting in trouble with the law, where he forms an unlikely friendship with an elderly veteran mourning the loss of his long time male partner.

Coming-of-Age
Drama
Romance

Top 50

BABY ROULETTE

Lindzi Scharf

TRAINWRECK meets BRIDGET JONES'S BABY

A 32-year-old divorce attorney desperate to have a baby starts bedding random men in order to get pregnant, but her plan backfires when she meets the man of her dreams, and her actions could come back to haunt her.

Romantic Comedy

Top 75

BAD REVIEW

Patrick Connelly

HORRIBLE BOSSES meets ENVY

After he posts a negative review of a laxative online, causing the company that produced it to go bankrupt, a young go-getter is hunted down by the product's creator, who wants to ruin his life.

Comedy

Honorable Mention

BAIT NIGHT

Timothy Grant

TO CATCH A PREDATOR meets SAW

The producers of a show that baits sexual predators and exposes them on television are violently targeted by a group of pedophiles they previously caught, and one of their young "decoys" must survive a deadly game of cat-and-mouse after she reels in a psychopath that may be her sister's kidnapper.

Drama
Horror
Thriller

Top 50

BLOOD INK

Gia Gordon

AMADEUS meets ANNA KARENINA

Franz Schubert's struggles to be recognized as a composer as dissension rises against the oppressive government of the 19th Century Hapsburg Empire.

Biopic
Drama
Period

Mentorship Selection (Cormac Wibberley & Marianne Wibberley)

BORDERLINE

Clyde Tom Bennett

FARGO meets LOCAL HERO

A small South Carolina town loses its only employer when a mill closes, causing the town council to try to find a way to move the state line in order to take advantage of tax breaks in Georgia that would bring them a new car plant and save their livelihoods.

Comedy
Drama

Top 75

CATHARSIS AND THE CATFISH

Dillon Michael White

GONE GIRL meets CATFISH

A young widower who runs a business catfishing people on behalf of disgruntled exes, luring unsuspecting strangers into online romantic relationships, and hits it off with a woman who finds his job fascinating, but their romance is derailed when he's hired to catfish someone who appears to be his dead wife.

Drama
Romance
Thriller

Top 50

CHAPERONE, THE

Robert Remy

TROOP BEVERLY HILLS meets DADDY'S HOME

Determined to spend more time with his daughter, a bumbling divorcee volunteers to chaperone a camping trip for her Girl Scouts troop, but is quickly in over his head when they get stranded in the wilderness and run afoul of dangerous felons.

Comedy
Family

Top 50

CHARLIE REDSTAR

George Gier

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL meets CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

When a disgraced ex-cop witnesses the alien abduction of his son, the government frames him for murder in order to cover it up. Now, pursued by a relentless agent from a shadowy organization, he must work with his estranged wife to break into a top secret warehouse filled with recovered alien technology in order to expose the truth and get his son back.

Action
Sci-Fi
Thriller

Top 50

CLASH

Andrea Jaag

ARGO meets NO ESCAPE

After their teenage son accidentally kills a woman with his car, an estranged American family living in Saudi Arabia must cover up the crime and attempt to get out of the country before the local authorities and the victim's sister catch up to them.

Drama
Thriller

Top 25

COLOUR ME JANE

Elisa McRae

SHORT TERM 12 meets SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

A high school counselor with a large facial birthmark attempts to help a student who was disfigured in a fire while simultaneously dealing with her own reluctance to accept love after meeting the man of her dreams.

Comedy
Drama
RomanticComedy

Top 25

CONSTANTINOPLE

Rachel J. Beard

KINGDOM OF HEAVEN meets 300

A Byzantine captain escapes his long enslavement at the hands of the Ottoman Empire just as the city of Constantinople prepares to defend itself against an Ottoman siege, leaving him to prove his loyalty to those that had given him up for dead.

Action
Period
War

Top 25

DAN & FRANKIE SAVE THE WORLD

Alan Wood

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS meets HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE

A couple of young, down-and-out stoners living in Las Vegas join forces with a covert alien slayer and her team to save the President of the United States from being possessed by an alien slug.

Action
Comedy
Sci-Fi

Top 50

DANCE OF THE VANDALS

C. Marie Robinson

EMPIRE OF THE SUN meets UNBROKEN

When a Dutch mother and her three daughters are sent to a Japanese work camp after the invasion of Indonesia in World War II, she finds innovative ways to keep her children and fellow prisoners alive as they battle starvation and the sadistic guards.

Drama
Period
War

Top 50

DEMON'S TRAIL

C. Marie Robinson

THE EXORCIST meets DRAG ME TO HELL

A disgraced former priest turned private investigator must team up with a psychic to solve a series of mysterious deaths across Los Angeles, which might be related to an exorcism he performed on the psychic's brother decades earlier.

Horror
Supernatural
Thriller

Top 10

DERBY CITY

Alexis Perkins

SAVED meets LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

A bartender (and small-time con artist) fleeing a criminal gambling charge convinces a naive Mormon missionary to drive across country with her, but when their truck and money are stolen, they have to resort to hustling pool in order to make it to Utah.

Comedy

Top Comedy

DEVIL IN THE DARK

Ben Kermode

PRIMAL FEAR meets PRISONERS

With her father's execution only three days away, a cop agrees to be hypnotized in order to find out the truth about the crime he's charged with – her mother's murder from 20 years earlier.

Drama
Thriller

Honorable Mention

DISGRASIAN

Ted Youngmin Sim

MASTER OF NONE meets 500 DAYS OF SUMMER

A young Korean-American who fears that his white girlfriend is only interested in him because she has an Asian fetish must reconcile his own ethnic prejudices when he finds out the truth of his father's long-lost love.

Romantic Comedy

Top 50

DO KNOW HARM

Jim Goode & Scott Hawthorne

JACK REACHER meets SAFE HOUSE

A CIA psychologist working in Syria is suspected of harboring treasonous information from a session and must go on the run with the help of one of her most dangerous patients in order to find out exactly what the government thinks she already knows, and why it is worth her life.

Action
Thriller

Top 25

DOUBLE INDIANA

David Keith Miller

THE NICE GUYS meets RAISING ARIZONA

Two mobsters running a delivery from Los Angeles to Las Vegas discover that the money in their briefcase, which may or may not have been there in the first place, is missing, and consequently kidnap a woman, who may or may not have stolen it, to try to track it down before their boss has them killed.

Action
Comedy
Drama

Top 75

EDGE OF ETERNITY

Steve Isles

PASSENGERS meets EX MACHINA

A solitary prisoner sentenced to work in isolation mining precious metals on a remote asteroid creates a synthetic female companion for himself, and life gains meaning for him when the two fall in love. But when an emergency brings another astronaut to rescue them, he instead lays claim to everything the prisoner has.

Romance
Sci-Fi
Thriller

Top 10

ENDRA

Oskar Tellhed

STRANGER THAN FICTION meets THANK YOU FOR SMOKING

A frustrated painter is thrust into the spotlight overnight after he inadvertently invents a brand new color, but he soon finds this newfound fame and fortune isn't everything he had hoped for.

Comedy
Drama

Top 50

ESTEVAN THE BLACK

Karl Bauer & Michael Choi

THE REVENANT meets 12 YEARS A SLAVE

An African slave with a gift for languages travels with Spanish Conquistadors to Florida on a doomed quest to find and conquer the legendary city of gold. In this remarkable true story, he emerges as the unlikely hero on a journey that begins with 600 men, and ends with only left four alive.

Adventure
Period

Top 25

EULOLOGY

Martin Williams

TRAINWRECK meets THE WEDDING RINGER

A reserved single father who works as a professional eulogist risks embracing a new love with the help of a terminally ill client.

Romantic Comedy

Honorable Mention

FELLOWSHIP, THE

Brendon Udy & Victoria Rau

FANBOYS meets THE HANGOVER

Just days before his wedding, a man's friends surprise him with a trip to New Zealand for the world's biggest Lord of the Rings role playing battle. But the adventure goes awry when one of their tour guides drugs everyone so he can swipe the valuable ring the groom bought for his fianc_e, leading to an epic journey to get it back before the big day.

Adventure
Comedy

Top 25

GAME-CHANGER, THE

Patrick Sherman

RUDY meets MILK

A gay linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys deals with his life on the down low while struggling to make his mark in the most macho of professional sports, and the consequences of becoming the first active NFL player in history to come out of the closet.

Drama
Sports

Top 25

GARGOYLE

Brendon Udy & Victoria Rau

PAN'S LABYRINTH meets BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

When Nazis raid a children's home, two young sisters flee into the forest where they discover an ancient creature under an evil spell. As their partisan parents fight to find them, the girls agree to help the creature break the curse in return for his own protection.

Adventure
Fantasy
Period

Top 50

GFE

Rizwanul Haq

PRETTY WOMAN meets DEMOLITION

Five years after the death of his wife, a man refuses to get back into the dating world, too afraid of becoming emotionally attached. But when he takes the first step in overcoming his fear by exploring the no-strings-attached option of hiring a professional escort, he finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of the women he hires.

Drama
Romance

Honorable Mention

GLITCHES

Kelly Byrnes

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER meets WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE

An 18-year-old girl struggles with her place in life when she and her father are forced to leave California for Iowa to live with her fundamentalist aunt in Iowa, and she soon finds herself attracted to her autistic cousin.

Drama

Honorable Mention

GROW HOUSE, THE

Miley Tunnecliffe

WEEDS meets ERIN BROCKOVICH

When a woman unable to get a job with a felony conviction hanging over her head gets hired to live in a suburban marijuana grow house, she struggles to build a normal life for her and her daughter while falling for the house drug dealer, and keeping her new best friend, his wife, from finding out.

Action
Comedy
Drama

Top 75

HITCHCOCK MURDERS, THE

Andy Maycock

SUNSET BOULEVARD meets HITCHCOCK

After the apparent suicide of a movie producer, a private eye follows a trail of clues, and bodies, that lead to the great Alfred Hitchcock himself. But much like in one of the director's films, there are no easy answers, and no one can be trusted.

Mystery
Period
Thriller

Top 50

HONEY TRAP

Juhana Lumme

HITCH meets THE WEDDING RINGER

A woman who runs a fidelity investigation business – testing men's loyalties to their girlfriends and collecting the reward when they cheat – finds herself falling in love with her latest target, an aspiring politician who's blind to her charms.

Romantic Comedy

Top 50

HUNGER PAINS

Farrin Rosenthal

SANTA CLARITA DIET meets BRIDEZILLA

After suffering a savage bite from an escaped genetics experiment, a sweet, innocent, vegan planning her dream wedding must hide a sudden craving for living flesh or risk losing her one true love.

Comedy
Horror
Romance

Honorable Mention

HYBRID, THE

Richard Turgeon

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND meets MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

Six years after their first son went missing, a troubled private investigator and his estranged wife come to realize their long-missing son may have been abducted by aliens… and that their youngest son is next.

Sci-Fi
Thriller

Top 75

INDI THE UNICORN

Darren Moroney & David Smith

PETE'S DRAGON meets MY LITTLE PONY

When a shy and isolated girl struggling to accept her parents' recent divorce finds a lost unicorn, she discovers her inner courage by helping him evade capture and return to his family in the clouds.

Animation
Family
Fantasy

Honorable Mention

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS

Patrick Wiegers & Scott Marshall Taylor

FIELD OF DREAMS meets THE BUCKET LIST

A dying man takes a road trip with his best friends and former high school teammates to see all 30 Major League ballparks before he dies.

Drama
Sports

Top 75

JACARANDA

Ryan W. Smith

TSOTSI meets WINTER'S BONE

In apartheid South Africa, a young black freedom fighter sets out to rescue her father, who has been wrongfully arrested for a bombing she caused. Through her pursuit, she comes face-to-face with the grotesque underbelly of the apartheid regime, and forms an unlikely friendship with the son of her enemy.

Drama
Period
Thriller

Top 50

JESSE'S GIRL

John Wikstrom

THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN meets SHE'S THE MAN

In a bid to make his ex jealous and win her back, a high school senior invents a girlfriend on social media, but runs into trouble when he falls for the real-life girl he based her on.

Comedy
Teen

Twin Padres Selection
Top 25

LAST BADASS, THE

Adam Draves & Paul Colahan

EQUILIBRIUM meets LETHAL WEAPON

In a future utopia where citizens must take a daily pill that makes them euphoric, one resident skews the balance by accidentally going off his meds, committing the community's first murder, inspiring a sexual reawakening or two, and leading a revolt against the "perfect" society.

Action
Comedy

Top 75

LAST YEAR'S MAN

Tim Glister

THE AMERICAN meets BOURNE

On the rugged, remote Faroe Islands, a disgraced former CIA agent connects with his long lost son, a burnt-out reporter who could set the story straight, while luring in those who betrayed him for one last game of revenge.

Action
Mystery
Thriller

Top 75

LEGENDARY

Dana Brawer & Sean Lee

SUPERBAD meets BROAD CITY

Two senior girls want to score a ton of weed for their last high school party to cement their legacy, but their plans take a crazy and hilarious detour after they wind up scoring more than they can handle.

Comedy
Teen

Honorable Mention

LOVE ME TOMORROW

Kent Moran

JUST LIKE HEAVEN meets IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

After dying of a broken heart, a widowed man gets a second chance to be with the love of his last life when they are both reincarnated.

Drama
Romance

Honorable Mention

MAJOR TAYLOR

PW Valentine

RACE meets CHASING LEGENDS

Based on the true story of cyclist Major Taylor who, in the 1890s, battled racism and the world's top riders to become the first ever African American to be recognized on an international level for his athletic achievements

Biopic
Period
Sports

Top 50

MANZANAR

Ian Hayden

EMPIRE OF THE SUN meets UNBROKEN

A Japanese-American family struggles to maintain their identity and stay together after they are relocated to the Manzanar internment camp during World War II.

Drama
Period
War

Top 25

MARIAN

Pete Barry

ROBIN HOOD meets SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

When Robin Hood is killed, Maid Marian must take on his mantle in order to seek revenge on his murderer and save England from a secret French invasion.

Action
Adventure
Period

Top 25

MARKING TIME

Darrin Reed & Tom Crehan

OCEAN'S ELEVEN meets INSIDE MAN

A billionaire and master thief takes on his biggest job yet, stealing the famous clock from New York's Grand Central Terminal. But it's a race against time when his greatest enemy enters the picture.

Action
Comedy
Thriller

Honorable Mention

ME & KIP

Carlotta Harlan

DEATH AT A FUNERAL meets RACHEL GETTING MARRIED

Two years after disowning her family, and shortly after the death of her addict brother, a young woman is forced to reunite with the very people she despises for the celebration of her other brother's wedding.

Comedy
Drama

Honorable Mention

MISS LIBERTY

Craig Paulsen

MISS CONGENIALITY meets THE SANDLOT

In order to get money to take care of his grandmother, a boy and his friend kidnap a beauty queen and hold her for ransom, but the crime quickly escalates to capture the attention of their entire small town.

Comedy
Drama
Period

Top 75

MISSING TIME

Philip James Booth

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU meets 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE

A blue collar worker in Northern Florida wakes up with no memory of the past two years to find the world has moved on without him. When his loved ones refuse to believe his problems are anything other than self-inflicted, he tries to unravel what happened to him with the help of a woman who has experienced the same phenomenon.

Mystery
Sci-Fi
Thriller

Top 50

MR. MOON

Mike Langer

STRANGER THINGS meets E.T.

A wisecracking kid and his friends investigate strange happenings in their town, which he thinks might be tied to the disappearance of his father years earlier. With the help of a salesman who claims to own the moon, they must outsmart a rogue government agent and rescue an alien rover stranded on earth.

Adventure
Family
Sci-Fi

Top 75

MURPHY'S CREEK

Carol Mulholland

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN meets THE BOURNE IDENTITY

The sheriff of a remote town falls for the prime suspect in a murder case – a woman who wandered in from the desert with no idea who she is or where she came from – only to discover that she is involved in a dangerous conflict between the FBI and a group of violent drug dealers.

Action
Thriller
Western

Honorable Mention

NOSTALGIA

Michael Aloyan

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND meets ENEMY OF THE STATE

A man who works for a black market company that erases people's memories without their knowledge finds himself embroiled in a political conspiracy thanks to his latest job, which also brings to light a dark secret from his own past.

Action
Sci-Fi
Thriller

Top 75

OFF THE HOOK

John Arvai

TOY STORY meets NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

In a world where a Christmas tree's star is actually a secret transmitter used by Santa Claus to identify all of the active Christmas homes throughout the world, a toy soldier must lead a group of ornaments in a desperate race against time to find their missing star so Santa doesn't skip their house.

Animation
Comedy
Family

Top 75

ON THE SIDELINES

Sam Greisman

ALMOST FAMOUS meets G.B.F.

The teenage son of a famous actress steps into the spotlight and catches the eye of his movie star crush after giving a speech at a gay rights event, soon finding himself torn between his new boyfriend and his overbearing mother

Drama
RomanticComedy
Teen

Top 75

ONE WHITE CROW

Pippa Hinchley

THE X-FILES meets JANE EYRE

An arch skeptic and brilliant academic, famous for debunking fraudulent mediums, and an unassuming Bostonian housewife with an extraordinary ability scientifically prove there is life after death. This is a true story.

Drama
Period
Romance
Supernatural

Top 50

PAST TIME

RC Miles

ABOUT TIME meets ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

A man wins the chance to visit three important moments from his past, giving him the potential to alter the direction of his life as he knows it and make a better future for himself.

Drama
Sci-Fi

Honorable Mention

PENNY

Arthur Panoyan

THE WAY, WAY BACK meets GARDEN STATE

A socially awkward coin collector plans a trip upstate to acquire a rare penny that has eluded him for years, but finds his dream hindered when a loud-mouthed girl forces herself into his plans and tags along.

Comedy

Top 50

PINOCCHIO WARS

Damian Knoll, Jay Murphree, & Ryan Oyler

I, ROBOT meets WESTWORLD

Seeking to uncover the truth behind her mother's suspicious death, a tech-savvy journalist discovers a secret island of abandoned, malfunctioning robots that possess sentience, and must navigate their uprising while surviving the brutal retaliation of an AI corporation attempting to silence her.

Action
Sci-Fi

Honorable Mention

PLAN C

David Ngo

ROUNDERS meets HOT FUZZ

After the Chinese Mafia threaten to harm his family if he doesn't make good on his gambling debts, a detective does the only logical thing he can think of – he hires two petty criminals to help him rob an illegal poker tournament. The plan is foolproof, until people start dying. When plans A and B fail, it's time for Plan C.

Action
Comedy

Honorable Mention

POACHER, THE

Travis Opgenorth

BEASTS OF NO NATION meets ROAD TO PERDITION

A Serengeti native and haunted former guerilla soldier, forced into poaching ivory to feed his starving family, finds himself gaining unwanted notoriety after shooting his estranged brother – a ruthless warlord who comes looking for revenge.

Action
Drama

Top 10

POST SCRIPT

Ariadne Shaffer

GRACE AND FRANKIE meets SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE

When they win a free rent contest together, an elderly woman is compelled to share an apartment with a man she has harbored a 50-year grudge against. When they become more than just roommates, they must find a way to work around disapproving family, ancient insults, and damaging secrets.

Comedy
Drama
Romance

Honorable Mention

PURGATORY HIGH

Edward Somers

HEAVEN CAN WAIT meets SIXTEEN CANDLES

After dying, an immature, life-long partier is sent to a unique kind of purgatory where he has to relive his senior year of high school to atone for his teenage sins. If he passes all his classes, he'll move on, but if he fails, he'll be stuck in the 1980s attending high school over and over again.

Comedy
Period

Honorable Mention

RED THREAD

Leif Johnson

THELMA AND LOUISE meets THE HANDMAIDEN

An anxious American in Tokyo befriends a mysterious woman who became famous for committing murder as a girl, and find they complete each other in the worst way. When their relationship blossoms into murder, they go on the run, embarking on a bloody journey of self-discovery across Japan.

Drama
Romance
Thriller

Top 75

RED WINTER

Evan McNamara

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD meets THE MARTIAN

When her parents are killed, a young woman living in an isolated colony on Mars must trek across the planet to find other colonists, avoiding the dangerous feral humans roaming the red sands

Action
Sci-Fi

Top 25

SAND CREEK

Jane Paulson & Marcy Kelly

DANCES WITH WOLVES meets LINCOLN

The tragic true story of an idealistic Union officer stationed in the remote Colorado territory during the Civil War who struggles against cultural misunderstandings, politics, and greed to navigate contentious peace talks with the local Native Americans, and to protect the tribe from the extermination orders handed down from his superiors.

Period
Western

Top 50

SANGUINE

Emma Fissenden

PENNY DREADFUL meets PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

A 17-year-old amateur detective, who must tread carefully between the upper echelons of Victorian England society and her work assisting the police in secret, attempts to uncover the truth behind a rash of mysterious deaths in London, in which the bodies have all been drained of blood.

Horror
Period
Romance
Supernatural

Honorable Mention

SAVAGE, THE

Christopher Yeazel

THE NEW WORLD meets LAST OF THE MOHICANS

After being kidnapped from his lands as a child, the Patuxet Indian Squanto spends his life fighting impossible odds to return home, setting in motion a series of events that changes the course of history. The epic true story behind one of America's most endearing myths.

Adventure
Biopic
Period

Top 10

SECRET WEAPON

Peter Limm

LEGALLY BLONDE meets 21 JUMP STREET

A dim-witted, failing actress is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a powerful crime syndicate by going undercover as the daughter of a major crime lord, who just happens to be her doppelganger.

Action
Comedy

Top 75

SENIOR CAMP

Kenny Wright

NEIGHBORS meets GRUMPY OLD MEN

After being put in a senior resort, an elderly grouch rallies his fellow seniors to fight back against the rival youth party resort next door that's opened next door.

Comedy

Top 10

SHADOWS OF OZ

Nathan Wilcoxen

ALICE IN WONDERLAND meets THE WIZARD OF OZ

When a wicked witch of Wonderland invades Oz in search of a legendary all-powerful scepter, the Mad Hatter recruits Alice's granddaughter, a teenage convict, to stop her.

Adventure
Fantasy

Top 25

SHELL, THE

Charlie Neubauer

MINORITY REPORT meets TRANSCENDENCE

In a future where death has been eradicated thanks to a revolutionary technology that allows people to be resurrected, a petty criminal is tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of its inventor – his mother.

Sci-Fi
Thriller

Overall Winner
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SHORE BREAK

Anthony Guidubaldi & Keith Strausbaugh

OUT COLD meets DODGEBALL

After inheriting a bankrupt watersports company, two slackers and a group of castoffs challenge the encroaching developer hell-bent on privatizing the beach to the ultimate showdown: a jet ski competition that will determine fate of their beachfront community.

Comedy
Teen

Top 75

SIDEWAYS DOWN THE SKY

Barry Brennessel

ATONEMENT meets THE NOTEBOOK

An elderly Japanese man brings two young gay men together to tell them the story of his childhood romance with another boy during World War II, attempting to provide them the chance at true love he never had.

Drama
Period
Romance

Top 75

SLAMMIN'

Brandon Martin

BRIDESMAIDS meets A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

Inspired by true events, two struggling actresses join the first all-female pro wrestling league at the height of the wrestling hysteria of the 1980s.

Comedy
Period
Sports

Top 50

SOFT MACHINE, THE

David Lawrance

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST meets CHANGELING

In order to unravel the truth about her lover's supposed suicide, a young nurse goes undercover at the psychiatric hospital that treated him, discovering that the doctor in charge is performing dangerous experiments that may be killing patients.

Drama
Period
Thriller

Honorable Mention

STEP MOMSTER

Chase Caldwell

STEPMOM meets LOOK WHO'S COMING TO DINNER

When her recently widowed, soon to be 70-year-old father starts dating her former high school classmate, a woman decides she has to break up the relationship before it's too late.

Comedy

Top 50

SUBMERGED

Dan Hall

THE SHALLOWS meets OPEN WATER

Trapped in a shrinking air pocket deep beneath the ocean's surface, the survivors of a plane crash battle to stay alive long enough for the rescue teams to locate them.

Thriller

Top Drama

TECH & STRYKER

Odin Ozdil

THE NICE GUYS meets CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

After getting into a fight at work, a CIA tech guy drunkenly orders a hit on his Cold War throwback colleague, but in the attempt to shut it down, the two men get caught up in a dangerous international conspiracy.

Action
Comedy

Top 75

THEMBI

Tom Glasson

THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS meets AMERICAN SNIPER

Haunted by her experiences in Afghanistan, a young American soldier finds hope and salvation when she joins a small band of veterans fighting the war against illegal ivory poaching in South Africa.

Action
Drama

Top 50

THESE WOODS ARE LOVELY

Tyler Theofilos

SIDE EFFECTS meets V/H/S

After agreeing to take part in a psychology study for the extra cash, a Yale freshman begins to experience strange blackouts, making him realize he's either losing his mind, or his entire identity.

Horror
Thriller

Honorable Mention

THREE HUNDRED YEARS IN PARADISE

Stephen Graf

HUNGER meets CASABLANCA

A widowed American diplomat is plunged into IRA intrigue when he travels to Belfast to help negotiate a treaty to end The Troubles, only to find himself falling in love with the lonely wife of an informer at the heart of the conflict.

Drama
Period
Romance

Honorable Mention

TRICKSTER AND THE DEMON, THE

A.M. Sanchez

THE EXORCIST meets DRAG ME TO HELL

A brother-sister con artist team pretending to be witch doctors find themselves in need of real help when one of them gets possessed by a very real, very dangerous demon.

Horror
Thriller

Honorable Mention

TWILIGHT TOURIST, THE

Charles Hopkins

SPRING BREAKERS meets REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

When a reserved college freshman orders party drugs over the deep web from a dealer who resorts to extreme measures when his customers do not pay, he triggers a chain reaction that embroils his impressionable girlfriend, his closeted buddy, and a local detective with criminal fetishes.

Drama
Thriller

Honorable Mention

UN-CROWD, THE

Scott Thomas

WARM BODIES meets DAWN OF THE DEAD

After an explosion at a nearby military base turns a teenage boy and his neighbors into zombies with no cannibalistic tendencies, he and the others are reluctantly reintroduced to society. But when one of his undead friends goes "full zombie" and eats a girl, their uneasy truce is put in jeopardy, and he fears he may be destined to be a monster after all.

Comedy
Horror
Teen

Top 75

VILNA

Matt Huston

THE PIANIST meets DEFIANCE

After the Nazis invade Lithuania, a band of rebels comes together in the capitol of Vilna to resist the massacre of their country's people. Inspired by the true story of the man who formed the resistance, and his descent from a man of peace to a man of vengeance.

Drama
Period

Top 75

VIOLET

Scott Thomas

INSIDIOUS meets ORPHAN

Fleeing from her abusive husband in the dark of night with her young daughter in tow, a woman moves back into her childhood home. But it's there she realizes the horror isn't over, and that the sadistic imaginary friend she had as a child is very real, and plans to trap her in the house where they can play forever

Horror
Supernatural
Thriller

Top 25
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WHERE DEVILS ROAM

Nathan Wilcoxen

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS meets ZODIAC

A scarred Pittsburgh cop turned private detective is brought back to his West Virginia hometown to investigate the disappearance of a reclusive heiress's granddaughter 30 years earlier after, when the girl's body is finally discovered.

Drama
Thriller

Top 50

WHISPERS FROM THE WATCHTOWER

Jai Brandon

GONE BABY GONE meets PRISONERS

When his daughter goes missing, a popular radio talk show host and professional skeptic must work with a psychic in a last ditch attempt to get his child back.

Drama
Thriller

Top 10

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Kenlon Clark & William Rubio

HIDDEN FIGURES meets THE UNTOUCHABLES

The incredible true story of one of the nation's first African-American female lawyers who overcame racism and gender bias, risking both her job and her life, to bring down the most infamous gangster in New York City's history.

Drama
Period
Thriller

Top 50

WOE TO THE WICKED

Chris Dennis

THE LAST STAND meets HIGH NOON

When the arrival of a mysterious stranger leads to the death of a drug lord's brother, the residents of a small town must band together to survive by standing up to the drug cartel that has been abusing and killing them for years.

Action
Thriller

Top 75

WORLD LIFEGUARD CHAMPIONSHIPS!, THE

J.J. Wheeler

BAYWATCH meets DODGEBALL

A washed up competitive diver whose greatest failure made him a Youtube sensation attempts to rehabilitate his image by entering a lifeguarding competition with a team of misfits.

Comedy

Honorable Mention

WOULD YOU LIKE AN EXTRA SHOT?

Johnny Griffith

BURN AFTER READING meets GO

After an unsuccessful robbery, a thief accidentally kidnaps a woman with Alzheimer's, leading the woman's daughter on a wild chase to save her.

Action
Comedy

Top 75