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The First 5 Pages

Get It Made & The Writers Lab are excited to announce the selected screenplays for The Writers Lab: The First 5 Pages Workshop.

Congrats, Screenwriters!

(alphabetical by project name)

Cage Life by Keri Lee

Punk Girl Shaman by David Rasch

Snake by Marilynn Loveless

The Hive by Kristine Scruggs

Turquoise Mountain by Diane Joy Schmidt


The Writers Lab & Get It Made presents: “The First 5 Pages”

Join co-founders Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon as they workshop the selected screenplays and work interactively with the writers.

Everyone will benefit from attending the workshop. All participants will learn the key principles of screenwriting and how it can be applied to a Proof of Concept script.

Five rules for a standout story:

  1. Know why YOU are writing THIS story and what it is about for you.

  2. Introducing the main character(s)

  3. Clarify the world, genre and tone of the story

  4. Indicate the theme or message (Good vs. Evil, Man vs. Nature, etc.)

  5. Intrigue (or tension) and Concept satisfaction (reader investment)

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Note: this event is no longer accepting submission.

Top 15 - Shortlist

(alphabetical by project name)

  • Cage Life by Keri Lee

  • Evicted by Patti Coxx

  • Four Stars Out of Five by Cote Bellard

  • Letters from Abroad by Margarita Gokun Silver

  • Nadia by Nadine Milad

  • Pararescue by Lawrence Whitener

  • Punk Girl Shaman by David Rasch

  • Rigged by Alan J. Field

  • Snake by Marilynn Loveless

  • Starfighter Baby by Carolyn Saunders

  • Tattoo by Elizabeta Betinski

  • The Hive by Kristine Scruggs

  • The Wind Chimes by Laurie Hoover Whitaker

  • Turquoise Mountain by Diane Joy Schmidt

  • Zadie, Queen of Burlesque by Nancy Bannon

Honorable Mentions

(alphabetical by project name)

  • Asylum by Pierre Lalancette

  • Beautiful Game pilot: "Welcome to Mars" by Keri Lee

  • Beyond All Odds: The Cindy McCoy Story by Tina Field Howe

  • Destiny's Vessel by Suzanne Lutas

  • Disposable People by Alex Moreno

  • First of July by Andrea Cabanas

  • Full Smite by James Lewis

  • Him & My Family by Alison Benson

  • On the Street by Suzanne Weinert

  • September Gurls by Karen McDermott

  • The Alexandrite Ring by Harker Jones

  • The Black Sea Of Roses by Vanessa M Chattman

  • The Former It Girl by Melissa Ragsly

  • To Be Continued by Monique Hayes

LOGLINES

Cage Life 

While training for a must-win fight against a trash-talking sociopath, MMA’s most beloved and self-destructive bad boy must take on an even fiercer opponent — his long-repressed past — with the help of an equally dysfunctional female therapist.

Punk Girl Shaman

After experiencing unusual visions, a homeless punk rock drummer sets off to find the ex-con Navajo father she’s never met, but a corrupt sheriff is determined to stop her as she uncovers dark secrets from the past.

Snake

When her home is ripped apart by a tornado, a well-meaning family adopt the elderly homeless woman, a cunning sociopath who gradually takes over their lives in this demented, "Little Miss Sunshine" meets "Parasite," world.

The Hive

Exiled from a radical feminist cult, a former foster child must face her demons and recruit an unlikely accomplice to defeat the cult's all-powerful leader and save the baby she left behind.

Turquoise Mountain

When a troubled female photojournalist now Chicago cabbie meets a Navajo scientist fighting GMO corn, she follows him out West to pursue romance, spiritual healing, and possibly staving off an apocalyptic Navajo prophecy, but their greatest challenge is their improbable mix of cultures which forces them both to change.

Eligibility:

  • Logline (no more than 50 words)

  • Must have full-length feature (90-120 pages) or pilot (30-60 pages) written/completed

  • All genres welcome

  • Must be in screenplay standard formatting

Optional materials

  • Synopsis

  • Treatment, Pitch Deck / Bible

  • Evaluation from The Black List

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