2024 Screenplay Official Selection

The 24th annual Beverly Hills Film Festival is proud to present the following screenplays

HATTIE’S HOUSE

By: Dewane Alexander

NICARAGUA

By: Laurie Allen

SPOOKSHOW

By: Josef Anderson

THE FAR REACH OF YESTERDAY

By: Christine Echeverria Bender

HEARTRACE

By: Will Bermender

BRITT JOHNSON

By: Peter Bloomquist

ORGANIC ACT

By: Aprile Lanza Boettcher

HUNTER’S WISH

By: Steven Keith Bogart

WHERE’S GRACE?

By: Bill Brock

THE BRAIN INJURIES

By: Terence Brody

TERRITORIAL

By: Carroll Brown

THE MACCALLUM BROTHERS

By: H. Hunt Burdick

EXONERATED

By: Oliver Mack Calhoun

ANGELS TWICE DESCENDING

By: Cecile Callan

MIRANDA BLOOM

By: Marco Calvani

THE JOURNEYMEN

By: Travis Andrew Campbell

THE MEASURE OF SHE

By: Karen Dee Carpenter

TWENTY-SEVEN

By: Gregory Caruso

DEERFIELD BEACH

By: Erick Harvey Castrillon

A RED MADRASA SCHOOL UNDER MAO

By: Gang Chen

WHAT MOMMA WANTS

By: Mark Clark

TERRASINI

By: Michelle Conklin

ROYAL STREET

By: D’Ann Connelly

RISE OF THE ELEMENTALS

By: Robert Leo Cox

AN INNOCENT LIE

By: Sam Cromartie

WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND

By: Rachael Clementina Gonzaga Cudlitz

SMALL WORLD

By: Robert Cuen

WHITE MAN CAMOUFLAGE

By: DC Cummings

ANIMALL

By: Joseph DiFrancesco

TILLY’S PROMISE

By: James Patrick Dillon

DUDES RUSH IN

By: Lynn Downey

FALLING UP

By: Stephanie Drapeau

THE GHOST OF TROUBLE CREEK

By: Ronald Lawson Ecker

RODEO

By: Lynn Elliott

KETTLE BLACK

By: SHIRLEY FELDER

DYSCOPIA

By: Benjamin Feldman

CLOSER TO FINE

By: Marisa Forrest

A NEED FOR SOMETHING NEW

By: John T. Frederick

CUERNAVACA

By: Eliot Galán

THE BASEMENT REMAINS

By: Robert F Godwin

DOWN AT THE VAL

By: Neil Goodchild

PAT PRICE

By: Cory Wexler Grant

MICHAEL COLLINS: MY GENERATION

By: Patrick O’Sullivan Greene

THE TRACK

By: A lex Halpern

CROSSED

By: Peter R Herlan

PRINCE OF CHICAGO

By: Bruce Hickey

FOREVER YOUNG

By: Michael Thomas Holliday

BLACK SAND

By: Nathanial Dieter House

DON’T SAY GAY

By: Kevin J. Howard

L.A. COUNTY

By: Robert Howard

FIELD OF SCREAMS

By: Evan Hoyle, Shanae Winslow

GRAHAM

By: Stephanie Hutchinson

Good News Gary

By: Chad Hutson

ELDARAN: REINCARNATED

By: Mechelle Z. Johnson-Reeves

THE SHELL JACKET

By: Paul Kaiser, Logan Sparks

RUBY RIDGE

By: Lawrence Kane

FEET

By: Jaime Kawamoto

SHUT EYE REVIVAL

By: John Kestner

TEN MIRACLES

By: Harry Tyler Kleinman

THE LOST LION

By: Laura Koons

IDENTIFICATION: LAURA BRACKEN

By: Charles William Lane

WITHOUT ROOTS

By: Melanie Hope Lang

SECOND NATURE

By: Max Lebow

AVA AND THE AMERICAN

By: Maddy Lederman

ALMOST HUMAN

By: Sky Liam

THE SEDUCTION OF RUBY JEWEL

By: Donna Loehrer

BORDERLINE

By: Tony Lord, Jonathan Perkins

CATCH & RELEASE

By: Jenna Macari & Logan Russell

OLE KING COAL

By: Josh Marion

THE PERILS OF SHADOWBOXING

By: Hazen Brien Master

GODS OF THE FORGOTTEN

By: Anthony McBride

FARC

By: Shane McCabe

THE PIANO MAN

By: Mike McDonald

LOVE HAS NO GEOGRAPHY

By: Frank McDonnell

THE BEST MAN’S WIFE

By: Rob McNeil

JUVIE HALL

By: Michael Monteiro

CAN YOU DANCE

By: John Morrow

VOYAGER

By: Damien Mulvany

GARBO’S CUBAN LOVER

By: Odalys Nann

IF YOU’RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT PULL THE TRIGGER

By: Luyanda Minenhle Ngcobo

A NEW BEGINNING

By: Nam Nguyen

NESSELRODE

By: Jim Norman

MON MEILLEUR AMI

By: Bruce Robert Notman

VENOR

By: Matt Nye

AND THE DEVIL CALLED!

By: Patricia Poulos

EMERALD COURT

By: Daniel James Pressey

CHANCES

By: Parish – Rahbar

THE ANCIENTS

By: DK Renèe

SILHOUETTES

By: Dustin Richardson

THE MATCH

By: Crystal Rivers

THE OTHER SIDE

By: Fernando Rodriguez

AN UNEXPECTED PARADISE

By: Kanani Rose

HIGHLAND DRIVE PILOT

By: Rosalyn Rosen

F***BOYS

By: Adam Sandel

A BROKEN HEART & THE IMMORTAL HEN

By: Benjamin Sarno

WOLVES OF MIDTOWN

By: Anthony Sarracco

TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN

By: Diane Joy Schmidt

A HEART DIVIDED

By: Mark Schmitz

FALLING REIGN

By: Douglas Stuart Schofield

REVIVAL

By: Abby Selden

NOWHERE

By: Tim Seyfert

THE COMPLEX

By: Robert Calder Sheppard, Charlotte Mae Sheppard

CONFEDERATE GHOSTS

By: Robert Sherwin, Christopher Sewall Williams

THEY EAT THEIR YOUNG

By: Steven Smith

THOSE WHO KNOW

By: Steve Smith

BLAZE

By: Theodore Carl Soderberg

THE BENEFIT

By: Camille Solari

THE WORLD IS BLIND

By: Jeff Stacy

PRETTY BABY: THE TRAGIC DEATH OF MARION PARKER

By: Don Stroud

ALL GOOD

By: FredericTaylor

FUTURE STUFF

By: Cade Thomas

QUARANTINE IN THE GRAND HOTEL

By: Tom Vecchio

STUPID DEAD BOY

By: Alex Vickery-Howe

THE BIG PRINCE

By: Timo von Gunten

THE BANKSTERS

By: Marianda VP

HEXED

By: Althea Tines Williams

THE FAMILIAR FERRY

By: William Scott Williams

SYLVIA

By: Larry Woldenberg

ETERNAL LEGACY

By: Sandon Yahn

THE BARRACUDA ALCHEMIST

By: Myles Yaksich

SUMMER IN THE CITY

By: Eric Zoa

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