2019 Virginia Screenwriting Competition Winners

• Marlene Free

  Mad House

  Noelle and Simone, a pair of dysfunctional sisters with a knack for taking bad situations and making them worse, must put their differences aside and work together or watch their lives fall apart around them.

• Bruce McClelland

  Balkan Ghost

  A young Bosnian woman comes to Virginia to study the war that left her an orphan. When she discovers a war criminal hidden among refugees, her struggle to bring him to justice unlocks a terrible secret from her past.

• Justina Mitchell

  Great Aunt Virginia's Gifts

  Upon inheriting her family’s Virginia farm, a young woman hopes to find the happiness she knew there in the past.

Finalists