SCREENPIT is an all day Screenwriter Pitching Event on Twitter where high level screenwriters pitch their projects according to hashtags and then Industry Pros drop in to look!
The last ScreenPit, our hashtag #Screenpit trended all day with over 1.1M views ad 15K posts!!!
I've listed some of the tweets from that day below.
If you are a producer, executive or rep and see something you like here, this is just a small smattering of what's on the hashtag. Go peruse. For a deeper dive, use appropriate hashtags in the search bar by going to our website www.screenpit.org.
On Twitter, type in #Screenpit in the search bar. Or contact the writer for a read by going to their Twitter account.
We are at www.twitter.com/ScreenPit and open to questions.
LOOK AT THESE AMAZING LOG LINES!!!
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KEANU REEVES IS MY MUSE, MY SON IS A DRAGON
When a single, chaotic writer fosters a boy who thinks he's a dragon, she must embrace his imaginary world and share her own to heal them both and form a family. Based on a true story.
#ScreenPit #4Q #Feat #Dr #Fy #Bi #CWin #Co
NO GIRLS IN THE GANG
After being bullied by judgy suburban peers, a misunderstood 2000s high-schooler seeks acceptance - logically - from a punk gang in the city and tries everything to become the first girl in the gang. Inspired by a true story.
#ScreenPit #Co #Pi #WrWo #SeRe
WHITE HAT
Winner, Loreen Arbus Fellowship
On the brink of losing their funding, a female led startup of ethical hackers chase a long shot government deal in an attempt to show competitors and investors they have what it takes.
#ScreenPit #Dr #Pi #Div #WrWo #WrDis #SeRe #Cov
CANUSA STREET // World Premiere, Dances With Films
#CWin - Best Comedy, Catalyst Festival
Best Television Pilot, Big Apple Film Festival
Best Television Pitch, Stareable Fest
#CFin - Writers X Writers, Richmond, Almanack
DM for script + sizzle!! #ScreenPit #Co #Pi #SeRe
EXCESS BAGGAGE
RomCom (SET IT UP meets UP IN THE AIR)
LOGLINE:
A jaded airline pilot and her wheelchair-bound coworker's quest to help each other find love again sends them both on a series of turbulent dates and soaring right past their chance at true love. #ScreenPit
NECESSARY DETOUR
A beloved Rock Star hides from a psychotic stalker at a remote lake house to protect her newfound pregnancy but when a family moves into an abandoned house nearby, & she suspects an abduction, she can't look away to save her own life.
STILL WATERS
Black List 8
#TheGreyList24
The true story of rookie reporter on the trail of what he believes is a serial killer. Instead, he uncovers a coven of witches using ancient blood magic rituals to stop the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe.
#Screenpit #pi #LiSe #Hi #My Celtic Cross - After anonymously receiving tarot cards that appear to be related to a case, a nightmare plagued, skeptic detective must team up with an intuitive tarot card reader to solve the murder.
#ScreenPit #Dr #Pi #Su #SRV #Cov #ISA #SeRe #WrWo
The Ultimate Enchantment
A Type-A fairy and a laid-back vampire, who are at odds, are forced to team up to find a romantic match for a VIP client at the magical matchmaking company they work for, and end up falling in love with each other.
#RoCo #Fy #Fea #WrWo #WrCo #Screenpit
#screenpit #Pi #Dr #Div #Drdy #Ac #Ad Zero Light logline: After a female race car driver’s unexpected win in a male-dominated sport, a financial scandal threatens to stop her meteoric rise.
BANE OF THE MAGI
Half-Hour Pilot
Animation/Fantasy
A newly recruited knight and one of the last Elves in all the realms must learn to master their magical abilities to stop a dark, sinister force from destroying everything and everyone they love.
#screenpit
Neptune (half hour comedy)
A group of women navigate life on board the predominantly male world of an Alaskan fish processing ship.
Deadlist Catch x Superstore x Orange is the New Black
#Screenpit
Featured on #TheGreyList24
When shoppers at a mall become zombified, young mall workers and amateur filmmakers band together to fight them off, only to find themselves starring in their own monster movie.
Campaign
When two of the six Amulets of Power are stolen, Brogan and his ragtag band of outlaw adventurers set out on a campaign to retrieve them in order restore the balance of power in the realm.
A-Team/Mission: Impossible meets D&D
#ScreenPit #Div #40up #Fa #YA #Cov #Pi
OTHERWORLD
After inheriting an Irish estate, a young lawyer discovers that the legends of her family name are real. She must navigate ancient traditions and dark legends if she's to survive what's coming.
#screenpit #Fy #CFin #PG13 #Pi #Cov #SeRe #IsabelleBalkany
IMPACT ZONE
A naive East Coast surfer is lured to Hawaii to pursue his dreams only to get caught in the undertow of a North Shore crime wave, forcing him to choose between burial, the big house or a badge.
POINT BREAK meets THE WIRE…Hawaiian Style!
#screenpit Castle of Glass - When war breaks out, the Allies and Axis battle to win a war fought in the shadows, but when a British ex-pat is caught in the middle, everything changes.
#Dr #Th #Hi #Pi #PG #Cov #CFin #SeRe
#ScreenPit
BROKEN STONES
Three generations of thieves (one retired, one reformed, and one recently released from prison) travel to 1990 East Berlin to steal a painting and uncut diamonds seized from their family by Nazis during WWII.
#ScreenPit #Th #Ac #Fea #SeRe Peanut and Abigail's Journey - A Pet's Life meets Bolt
A recently adopted Shih Tzu whose penchant for chasing lights causes her to be separated from her family, must rely on her instincts and luck to find her way back home.
#screenpit #Fa #Fea #4Q #Cov
THE THIRD STAGE
A close-knit family, living off the grid in the Pacific Northwest, thinks they’re isolated enough to stay safe after a catastrophic societal breakdown, until a stranger arrives with information that forces the children to make a choice.
#ScreenPit #Fea #Th
THE GREAT RESET: A LOVE STORY
Nine years through a decade of global austerity measures to combat climate change, a jaded young woman with plans to see the world meets a handsome climate conservation officer looking to settle down. #ScreenPit
#Fe #Ro #SFi This is my COCAINE BEAR
THE STINK
Abandoned by her parents for being a freeloader in a post-apocalyptic world, a helpless 20-something woman must learn how to adult while surviving a dangerous threat that kills anyone who uses their nose to smell. #ScreenPit #Fea #SFi #Co #HoCo
Seven strangers must each admit to a murder they don't believe they committed in order to escape a mysterious hotel with supernatural elements.
𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐃𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐄𝐄𝐍
#FEA #RoCo #Drdy #YA #Div
2021 Nicholl Fellowship & FD Big Break SF, Finalist 2020 ScreenCraft Comedy & TSL Free plus 7 others. Featured on The Stunt List & The Grey List.
Coverfly Red List & Top 1% in all four categories.
After starting at a new high school, a charmingly quirky teen with a delusional disorder, or “daydreaming on steroids,” falls fast for another new student, but after discovering she has bipolar disorder, these two lovebirds struggle to find order in their disorders.
#Cov #ISA #SRV #SeRe #ScreenPit
HIGH MOON: Two pothead slackers assigned janitorial duty on the moon base inadvertently make first contact with aliens, but as a true galactic threat approaches, finding an interstellar dope alternative may be the only hope for human survival.
#ScreenPit #Fea #SFi #Co #PG13 #Div
THE SUBSTITUTES | Comedy Pilot
When former punk rock bandmates wind up substitute teaching at the same school, the singer (who everyone hates) tries to get the band back together to try and win NPR's Tiny Desk Concert.
SCHOOL OF ROCK meets WE ARE LADY PARTS
#ScreenPit #Co #Pi
Alice Diamond & the Forty Elephants is a female-led, series set during the roaring 1920s that shows gangland London as we’ve never seen it before. Inspired by actual people and events, it follows the exploits of an all-female criminal gang.
A female Peaky Blinders.
#Screenpit MY REAL IMAGINARY FRIENDS
Trapped inside a coma for eight years, a teen must navigate through a dangerous dreamscape filled with his favorite stories as told by his friends and family.
Goonies meets Inception
#ScreenPit #Fea #Fa #Fy #Ad #CFin #PG13
#ScreenPit #Fea #Ho #Re #Cov #SeRe
INPATIENT - Recovering from a traumatic birth and haunted by her past, a mother must protect her daughter from a malevolent creature that attacks her deepest vulnerabilities.
Proof of concept currently a Semifinalist
SENIOR'S GUIDE TO HOMICIDE
When a drug-dealing retiree realizes the man executed for her daughter's murder was wrongfully convicted, she takes law (and death) into her own hands to get revenge on the real killer.
#ScreenPit #Drdy #My #Pi #Div #LGBTQ #40up #SeRe
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BOSSY, DOMESTIC, & SKINNY
An overworked mom secretly clones herself so she can pursue a passion project at work, but when she becomes addicted to making everyone happy (including herself), she needs more clones.
FRAUDS
When their conman dad resurfaces unexpectedly with stage four cancer, two squabbling sisters are forced back into the con life in Florida's thriving elder fraud underworld to save him.
#screenpit #Pi #drdy #wrwo
Over The Edge: TV Pilot: Dramedy
After leaving her cheating husband, an ex-graphic designer opens an edgy greeting card studio. When her ex opens a competing studio she must take her studio Over The Edge! [Mad Men meets Just Shoot Me]
#ScreenPit #Pi #Drdy #SeRe #Cov
FEED FIFI
Stuck house-sitting for her mother’s friends, a failure-to-launch millennial tries to befriend the household’s elusive pet cat only to discover she’s actually bonded with a pint-sized demon hungry for human souls.
#screenpit #Ho #Fea #Re #WrLGBTQ #WrWo #SeRe #40up
TANDEM
When a suicide prevention officer at the world's largest virtual reality company discovers their devices are murdering its users, she must join forces with a nefarious hacker to implement a patch before the algorithm traps and destroys her, too.
#ScreenPit #Fea #SFi
H.U.A.W (1hr)
Trapped in his contract with the Air Force, an Emergency Manager with an unfortunate hero complex slugs through Military bureaucracy to discover just how hard it is to do the right thing.
(Catch22 meets MASH)
#ScreenPit #Vet #SeRe
#Pi #Mil #Drdy #Cov #ISA #Div
Slippery Slope Christmas
On a Christmas vacation, a divorced mom without her kids falls for a dashing theater producer who turns out to be the deciding vote on her chance to resurrect her costume designer career, a dream job she needs as much as a romance
#ScreenPit #RoCo
AMENDS
While in rehab, a washed-up 90s sitcom star finds out he’s dying of cancer and—together with his agent—decides to break out and mend fences with everyone he’s ever wronged (to varying degrees of failure)
#ScreenPit #Co #Pi #CWin #SeRe MAGICAL
Twenty years after saving the world as a kick-ass team of teenaged magical girls, five women reluctantly reunite when their powers unexpectedly return. Please refer to this iconic photo of cosplayer for general vibes of this pilot. #ScreenPit #Pi #Ac #Drdy #Re
In a private beach town, a lonely chef, who escaped an abusive relationship, begins a new romance, but when dead bodies begin surfacing, she's forced to confront her past and make a choice between risking her newfound love or her own life.
#Screenpit #Fe #Th
THE HOT KILLS (THE WARRIORS x SCREAM, 80's punksploitation)
On the way to a concert in 1982 NYC's underground punk scene, a group of friends find themselves hunted by a vigilante whose kills are inspired by punk's anarchist imagery.
#ScreenPit #Fea #Ho #SeRe #TheGreyList24
ELLA
After an abusive man unexpectedly marries her mother, an Oakland teenager struggles to save herself and escape their home, while circumventing the legal system to remove him from their lives.
HARD CANDY meets TRUE GRIT
#FEA #TH #RE #DIV
#COV #CFin #SeRe
#ScreenPit
THE IRON HORSE OF LUCY STEELE
After her locomotive is stolen by a gang of ruthless outlaws, a fiery female engineer relentlessly pursues them in order to stop them from pulling off the heist of the century.
#screenpit #Wes #Ac #Ad #Fea #4Q PARSONS
Lucy & Albert Parsons are an interracial couple in the 1800s who move from Waco, TX to Chicago. They join forces w German immigrant labor leaders. When a b*mb goes off during a protest, they must all fight to prove their innocence.
#Screenpit #Fea #WrCo #Div #Hi #Dr LIKE YOU STOLE IT
After a brutally oppressive regime seizes control of near-future America, a mysterious mercenary smuggles an abortion-seeking aristocrat away from the sadistic leader who bridges - and haunts - both their pasts. FIREFLY meets HANDMAIDS TALE.
#screenpit #pi #ls
THE CORRUPTION
A troubled couple living at an isolated ranch are torn apart after a fracking incident awakens an evil entity and turns husband and wife into hunter and prey.
Slamdance & Stowe SF
#ScreenPit #horror
CoverFly top 3%
Pitch deck available
THE HALF MAN
A sports executive haunted by the long-ago death of his twin encounters signs through the work of an anonymous graffiti artist that his brother may actually be alive, driving him on a dangerous path to find the truth.
LUTHER meets ATLANTA
#ScreenPit #Pi #Dr #My
NOT MY BROTHER #Hi #Ac #ScreenPit
A pragmatic Union soldier toughs out his injuries and embarks on an impossible rescue mission to free his reckless brother from a heavily-guarded Confederate POW camp. Inspired by my great (x3) grandfather and his younger brother’s experiences. THE DECOLONIZERS (a space heist!)
When Alien colonizers take Earth's most prized possessions for their galactic museum, Earth hatches a plan to steal them back
Ocean's 11 meets
Guardians of the Galaxy
#screenpit #Fea #Co #SFi #Ad #PG "Follow the Leader"
"A group of women escape to a cabin for a weekend of rejuvenation, but their itinerary quickly changes, when members of the party start to disappear."
"Friday the 13th" meets "Let the Right One In."
#ScreenPit
#40up #Fea #Re #WrCo #SeRe #WrWo
THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH: When her widowed mother vanishes in a blizzard, a biracial teenager must defend herself, her little sister, and their isolated farm against a slaveholding uncle and the torments of an angry spirit. #ScreenPit #Fea #Ho #Su #Th #CWin #WrWo #Cov #Div #SeRe
SANTARIA
A woman losing her grip on her marriage and teen daughter is desperate to have a joyous family Christmas, and fosters a refugee child, but the child comes with a Santeria spirit that plagues the family.
#Ho #Fea #WrWo #Div #screenpit FOR THE ARTICLES
Set in 1978, a young journalist takes a job writing smut for a porn mag to make ends meet. When people start buying the skin rag "for her articles", her personal and professional lives become... complicated
#ScreenPit #Fea #Drdy #Div #Pi #Re #SRV #Cov #CFin WHAT'S MINE... IS MINE
A penniless almost-heiress spirals into a manic chase for a chip-card to access her deprived wealth, which is allegedly hidden away in a mountain vault , against the better warnings of the rest of her family that insist this is all a lie.
#ScreenPit ANCHOR RIDGE (pilot)
A lawyer sent to a small southern town to tend to an eerie estate finds his sanity slip as the horrors of his past begin to repeat, because in Anchor Ridge it’s not just the house that’s haunted.
#ScreenPit #Pi #Hr #My #Th #SeRe Imagine standing in knee-high grass with literally no place to hide.
And men on horseback want to kill you.
That is the premise of ENEMY, a Nicholl Top 50 action-thriller set on the sweeping grasslands of the Comanche Empire. #screenpit THE SLEEPING HOUSE #Dr #Ro #Screenpit
When a grieving artist discovers that the Gulag survivor he desperately loves may be his late wife's daughter, he must risk his life to uncover her true identity - before the secrets of the past destroy them both.
BLACKLIST Recommended BUSTER AND TONY - Dramedy
When an attorney inherits her sister’s little terrier mix, she must care for an adorable mutt while juggling a nasty divorce and the sexist boneheads at work if she’s ever going to restore the sense of family she’s lost. PAGE Finalist. #Screenpit
SIMULATION THEORY (1 hr pilot)
Pete and Ayesha are two very different people with one thing in common: they've both long suspected we're living in a simulation. And they were right! And they're now Earth-Sim's last hope to prevent a reality-altering reboot!
#ScreenPit #SFi #Pi MURDER ON ROMANCE ISLAND
A shy journalist and a struggling stunt performer stumble into being undercover moles on a dating show, but when accidents start endangering the contestants' lives, they forge an alliance that becomes stronger than expected.
#ScreenPit #Co #RoCo #Fea POE & CO. DETECTIVE AGENCY
When a freak accident transports broke, melancholy Edgar Allan Poe and his wisecracking raven into 21st century Baltimore, they make ends meet by solving mysteries & crimes as private detectives.
#ScreenPit #PoeAndCo #DarkComedy #Animation Believer
A patient’s ramblings about alien abductions has him labeled as a schizophrenic until his psychologist witnesses an abduction herself; now, she must find a way to save herself from facing the same fate.
#Screenpit #SciFi SPRING BREAK UP
Road Trip x Interstate 60
When his girlfriend breaks up with him, an aimless college slacker recruits his misfit friends on a road trip to win her back during spring break of 1996.
#screenpit #Co #fea 90s! Two crushing teen counselors compete to see who can tell the scariest fireside story to their audience of young campers, only to discover their terrifying creations have magically become real, forcing them to fight for their lives. #Screenpit #Horror
Why the #ScreenPit not?
Here's my Nicholl Finalist script, MARLENE THE DIVINE:
A grieving widower's plans for bloody revenge are thwarted when a woman claiming to be the 150th incarnation of God Almighty knocks him out and drags him on a cross country road trip. DIVORCE RANCH
1 hr drama
It's 1934, and Reno is the divorce capital of the world. The owner of Reno's last all-female divorce ranch must keep her business afloat, help desperate women, and guard a secret of her own: she killed her husband.
#ScreenPit #Dr #Hi #Wes #Div #Pi #SeRe
GOOD LOOKIN' CORPSE - Pilot
High school in the 90s was never an easy ride, but when the new girl and the popular cheerleader battle it out over the role of cheer captain, no one gets out alive.
HEATHERS meets DEATH BECOMES HER
#screenpit #Ho #Su #Div #YA #HoCo #40up
DESCENT
Upon release from the mental institution in which she grew up, an emotionally erratic heiress becomes seduced by the illicit, murderous side of the family business and strives to claim her place as its rightful heir.
#ScreenPit #Dr #Pi #WrWo #SeRe #Cov WE SHOULD PROBABLY BE DEAD BY NOW (workplace zombie comedy)
In the early days of a zombie outbreak, a group of dysfunctional nitwits take refuge at a posh country club and must navigate clashing egos and harebrained schemes in order to survive.
#screenpit #Co #SFi #Su #Pi #SeRe HELL TO PAY
When four 1990s youth group kids start a Satanic metal band for shock value, they are targeted for sacrifice by a cult of devil worshippers seeking revenge for appropriating their religion.
Bloody nostalgia trip/constructive religious satire.
#ScreenPit
KODAMA
When their Pacific island village is slaughtered by mercenaries, three Elders transfer their souls into holy ancient Japanese Sugi pines, then seek revenge on all involved both on land and at sea. #Screenpit #Ho #Su #Fea #Cov #SeRe After witnessing her friend’s horrific suicide, an American grad student in Japan turns to the object of her study - a phone booth with a connection to the dead - to fight the grief-fueled spirit that threatens to consume all that she loves.
#ScreenPit #Fe #horror BOUNDLESS: An amateur fighter from a poor drilling planet dreams of competing in the Galactic Fighting Championship. But when the champion offers him a rare shot at the title, this underdog must find the strength and self-worth to swap fists with giants of other worlds.#ScreenPit
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