2024 Virginia Screenwriting Competition Winners

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Finalists