2020 Screenplay Official Selection

The 20th annual Beverly Hills Film Festival is proud to present the following screenplays

LEGACY OF BEATRICE MCSCROOGE

By: Jeffrey M Adkins & Averi Grace Adkins

HAWK MOON

By: Cal Athan

HE IS RISEN

By: Matthew J. Avant

WALKS THE BUFFALO

By: Larry M. Baer

BABY IN THE BASEMENT

By: David-Matthew Barnes

BRIDES OF JESUS

By: Joseph Bartone

SAINT IN THE SHADOW OF BLUEBEARD

By: Frank Baruch

THE SUN RISES ON ANOTHER DAY

By: Chelese Belmont

RAINBOW COWBOY

By: Leslie Bloom, Callum Trevitt, Todd Nayor

LOVOPOLY

By: Nadja Bobyleva

MESCALERO

By: Anderson Boyd

GLITTERDOME

By: Steven Brack

THE LAST TREE STANDING MOTEL

By: Howard Casner

JESSY

By: Sally Champlin

BALL OF FIRE

By: Sean Coleman

GUNS A BLAZING

By: Tiffany Colling

SINS OF YOUR FATHER

By: Greg Cottrell

HOMECOMING

By: Robert Leo Cox

WALKIN’ ON TO FREEDOM’S LAND

By: Julie Daniels

CARRY ON

By: JD Dorfman

DEAR AVERY

By: Jeanne Dukes

FAREWELL BARLEY JUNE

By: Jeff Eagle

TRANSCENDENT

By: Thomas L. Ferguson

SHAMAN

By: Anthony Ferguson

THE EMPEROR OF THE UNITED STATES

By: David Francis

Modern Art

By: Laurence Fuller

AND THEN THERE WAS US

By: Chandra Gerson

THE DAY SHE TURNED AROUND

By: G.N. Giovanni

UNSTOPPABLE

By: Cory Wexler Grant

BROKEN HALOS

By: James Grayford

MEAT QUEEN

By: Alan Harrington

WICKED WRETCHED WRAITH MEN

By: Raymond Leon Harrison

THE RUN

By: Joseph Harrison

LAND OF THE CREED

By: Keon Hedayati

RED ROVER

By: Kevin Hickey

A COZY LITTLE TOWN

By: Edward Hicklin

BENNY B

By: Michael Hogan

LETTERS IN BARBED WIRE

By: Chad Hutson

JUST SHOOT ME NOW

By: Sundae Jahant-Osborn

THE LETTERS

By: Michael Angel Johnson

THE MURDER OF PROFESSOR CULIANU

By: Julia Jones

SAINT PETER’S SNOW REMOVAL

By: Aram S. Katz

THE BREAK UP DINER

By: Stephen Kessen

5 DAYS IN LA

By: Terry Kinane

ROAD OF GOD

By: Hideki Kiyota

SISTERS

By: Shelley Krawchuk

MALICK

By: Armelle Lajus

PERIGEE HEART

By: Robert Languedoc

CRAZY

By: Sophia Louisa Lee

CAGE

By: Keri Lee

THE ZEN OF LAGOS

By: Ned Edmund Liebl

MASSACRE AT PILGRIMS’ PASS

By: Thomas M. Lister. Ed.D.

BURN HARD V2

By: Stefan Löfgren

ROADRUNNER

By: Josh Madden

FIELD TRIP

By: Claudio Martinez-Valle

SELLING DEATH

By: John Maslowski

THE MERCHANT

By: Jesse Mattson & Bobby Davison

BILLY DUKE

By: Mike C McCarthy

INCANTATION OF THE FROZEN SUN

By: David J. Meister

REIGN OF BLOOD

By: Peter Mellado

THINGS WE DID FOR FREEDOM

By: Marcos Moreno

THE PELICAN

By: Monika Naidoo

THE MARCH

By: Richard Neher

YOU CAN’T ESCAPE YOUR PAST

By: Scott Nelson

JIM DANDY

By: David Nickerson & Barry Opper

DERBY DOLLS

By: Patrick Norman

PARADISE UNBECOMING

By: Jim Norman

COLUMBUS AVENUE BOYS

By: Maria O’Bryan, Kevin O’Bryan, David Carraturro

THE EVANGELICAL CELL

By: Timothy Patrick O’Neill

NORAH’S ARK

By: Thomas Pace

THE BUSY AND THE TIRED

By: Randall Palmer

SOUL REAPERS

By: Owen Palmiotti

STAGING ACCIDENTS

By: Charles Parello

VISCERAL FATHERLAND

By: LeLe Park

SQUADRE

By: Charles Petrilla

A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS

By: Joshua Nicolás Prits

FOR A FEW ATMS MORE

By: Tadgh Quill-Manley

THE FORGE

By: Howard W. Robertson

THE ROAD OF ROSE

By: Annette Rodig

MANO (A BRAZILAN TALE)

By: Donald Ross

GHOST RIDE THE VIC

By: Benjamin Sarno

SHORES OF A NEW BLOOD

By: Mark Schmitz

Dam Determined

By: Philip Sedgwick

A MOST DANGEROUS CHILD

By: Julian Shaw

In love With Einstein

By: Linda Shayne

THE CEMETERY PLOTS

By: Donahue B. Silvis

BECKY IS OUR GOD

By: Tulica A Singh

HONOUR

By: Richard Sloggett

THE JOYMAKER

By: Tara Grover Smith

IN YOUR DREAMS

By: Arteta Stephane

THE WIDOW DAREDEVIL

By: Rich Talarico

FLOAT ME UP

By: Daniel Talbott

THE L.A. KID

By: Robert Tartell

HAL, THE SPUD KING OF JAPAN

By: John Thibault

LUCKY – LOVE AND BLOOD IN THE TIME OF JAZZ

By: Tyler Turner

BERMUDA

By: Laura P. Valtorta

PHANTOM EFFECT

By: Michael Vaynberg

GLADYS & DEE DEE: SECRETS

By: F. Thomas Vincent

BLEED JUST LIKE US

By: Ezekiel Jeremiah Walker

INTOLERANT

By: Billy E. Ware

EL CHUPACABRA (THE BEGINNING)

By: Aaron Willett & Jayesh Patel

PROPHET OF THE THIRD REICH

By: Ian Patrick Williams, Vicki Palatas, Julia J Pierrepont III

RESILIENT

By: Todd E. Wise

FULL MOON BLUES

By: David Wolff

MORE REMOTE THAN BAVARIA

By: J. Woodard

WORKAHOLIC ROMANCE

By: Michael Zeilinski

GRIDLOCK

By: Alvin Ziegler

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