2024 Virginia Screenwriting Competition Winners
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Gina DeAngelis
The Knocking At The Marsh
When her widowed mother vanishes during a blizzard in 1850s Virginia, a biracial teenager must defend herself, her vulnerable little sister, and their isolated farm against their slaveholding uncle and the torments of an angry spirit.
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Kenneth Maitland
Lynnhaven
A pill-popping, professionally irresponsible young doctor, assigned to a Richmond public housing complex in the early 1980s, must make a moral choice when a 10-year-old confesses to her his murder of an elderly neighbor.
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Kayla Helmkamp
Setting Up Elwin
In the romantic wasteland that is her mother’s third wedding, a wannabe matchmaker tries to keep things on course, but a case of mistaken identity threatens to upend everything.