Whidbey Island Screenwriter Retreat

 

This post is an extension of the last post but this time showing the bedroom choices for the April retreat on Whidbey Island, WA

Private King Rooms with Full Bath and Fireplace: $900, Shared $700 each

Private Queen Room with Full Bath and Fireplace - $900 Shared $600 each

*Private Queen Room with Fireplace, Kitchenette and Shared Bathroom - $850, Shared $500 each

Shared Large Room - $600 each (First Come, First Served)

Queen Bed in Private Cubby -Shared Bathroom with Queen Room

Double Bed in Private Cubby - Shared Bathroom with *Queen Room

Twin Bed - Shared Bathroom with *Queen Room 

BEDROOM 3 - King Bed, Fireplace, Full Bathroom, Desk

Bedroom 4 - King

Bedroom 5 - QUEEN ROOM

Bedroom 6 - KING ROOM 

Bedroom 7 - Queen Room

Bedroom 8 - Queen, Double, Twin, Shared Bathroom

Whidbey Island Screenwriters Retreat

 Join us on Whidbey Island April 24-27, 2025, for a Writers Retreat you’ll always remember!

Set on 3 acres of wandering property with a giant pond and outdoor fire pit, the house where you’ll stay is 5,0000 square feet of gathering spaces, cozy writing nooks, fireplaces and sumptuous bedroom suites to guarantee your every need will be met while you create. With 8 bedrooms and 7.5 bathrooms, there’s room for everyone.

If you’re one of the lucky few to attend the Whidbey Island Screenwriters’ Retreat, that is!

You choose your own degree of privacy and seclusion. Book a King Bed suite with fireplace, full bathroom and view, or book a bed in a shared bedroom with shared bathroom for a lower rate.

Retreat Costs $900 - $600 Each Attendee

Catered meals around the 14-person country table as well as optional workshops on writing and marketing will give the focused writer periodic breaks to recharge and network. Workshops on Script Dialogue by The Editor Devil and from Script to Distribution by a Guest Speaker will have you inspired to finish your screenplay and get it filmed, if not film it yourself.

An optional visit to the historic seaside village of Langley for browsing shops, galleries, whale museum and wine tasting room is part of the fun. Seal and whale watch from downtown Langley while sipping a local merlot. Or head off for a craft cocktail break to the Skein and Tipple, a yarn shop by day and English pub by night!

A final night PARTY and buffet dinner at Kim Hornsby’s acreage home, Woodhaven, is part of the itinerary to celebrate your writing success and wrap up the retreat. 

All rates include your room/bed, meals from Thursday dinner to Sunday brunch, optional workshops, transportation to and from ferry, shuttle, town.

One of the gathering areas in the Retreat House.

Another gathering area on a different floor at the Retreat House.

Catered meals around the 14-person country table as well as optional workshops on writing and marketing will give the focused writer periodic breaks to recharge and network. There are two dining areas and two full kitchens.

An optional visit to the historic seaside village of Langley for browsing the shops, galleries, whale museum and wine tasting room is part of the fun. Seal and whale watch from downtown Langley while sipping a local merlot. Or head off for a craft cocktail break to the Skein and Tipple, a yarn shop/pub located close by.

A final night buffet dinner party at Kim Hornsby’s acreage home to celebrate your writing success on Saturday evening. After dinner, we'll goal set and plan for a successful year!

Bonus: Workshops on *Script Dialogue by The Editor Devil and *From Script to Distribution by a Surprise Guest Speaker will have you inspired to finish your screenplay and get it filmed. 

Join us at the Whidbey Island Screenwriting Retreat 2025

How to Get to Whidbey: Fly into SeaTac Airport, jump on the Whidbey Shuttle on Baggage Claim level that leaves every hour and takes you front of the line at the ferry dock and over to Whidbey. 

Transportation from the Whidbey drop off point to the retreat is included.

Or, drive to the Mukilteo Ferry for Whidbey Island and on to the house when you dock.

RATES

Private King Rooms with Full Bath and Fireplace: $900, Shared $700 each

Private Queen Room with Full Bath and Fireplace - $900 Shared $600 each

*Private Queen Room with Fireplace, Kitchenette and Shared Bathroom - $850, Shared $500 each

Shared Large Room - $600 each (First Come, First Served)

Queen Bed in Private Cubby -Shared Bathroom with Queen Room

Double Bed in Private Cubby - Shared Bathroom with *Queen Room

Twin Bed - Shared Bathroom with *Queen Room 

Registration will be Limited 

KING ROOM (There are 5 King Rooms) $900 for package

 

Typical Ensuite Bathroom (with shower)

The QUEEN ROOM - Private Bathroom with shower $900 for package

 
Queen Room - Fireplace, Kitchenette, Shared Bathroom $850 for package

Shared Room - Double, Queen and Twin - Shared Bathroom $600 each

 

Let Us Know If This is Your Dream! We'd love to see you on Whidbey in April.

paisleyhatprod@yahoo.com

Kim Hornsby - Portfolio of Scripts

I have a web site but honestly, it's hard to manoeuver that thing so I'm listing all my script log lines here to refer to like I'm having a yard sale, which basically I am.

As a PRODUCED Screenwriter with two features coming out this fall and three others in development, I have a reputation of fast rewrites, easy to work with, no ego. If you don't believe me, feel free to ask Compassionate Disaster Films, Canvas Media or MJMG, companies I work with.

Find all finished scripts available for download at https://www.networkisa.org/profile/kimhornsby

where I'm one of ISA's TOP 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2024

These are the finished, polished screenplays and loglines that I have for sale, or for option.

Anything I have currently optioned (or sold) is NOT included here.

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SUSPENSE/THRILLER 

Necessary Detour – Suspense Romance

After an attempt on her life, an internationally beloved Rock Star hides from a psychotic stalker at her remote lake house hoping to protect her newfound pregnancy but when a suspicious neighbor moves into the abandoned house across the small bay, and she suspects a crime is in the making, she can't look away to save her own life.

Deadly Resemblance – Adapted from Novel

A deaf single mom moves to an island off Seattle in hopes of a quiet life but when she becomes the target of a threatening secret stalker, suspicion is cast on the author in residence who writes thrillers and whose deceased wife was a dead ringer for her.

One Sheets and Scripts Available on Request 

CHRISTMAS ROMANCE 

Waltzing Through Christmas – Romance

A down-on-her-luck dance teacher must convince her estranged dance partner, now an out of shape ad executive, to resurrect his dance skills to enter a Christmas competition that could revive her career and redeem him from quitting their championship duo.

Lighting Up Christmas/Christmas on Candy Cane Lane – Family and Romance Screenplay

A single mom with hearing loss worries that the Christmas Light Extravaganza and charitable event on her cul de sac might be ruined if she can't convince their new neighbor to participate in the tradition before a news team arrives on opening night to feature their charity.                                                                                          

Slippery Slope Christmas – Romance Screenplay and Novel

On a Christmas vacation, a helicopter single mom without her kids falls for a dashing man who turns out to be the deciding vote on her chance to resurrect her career as a costume designer, a dream job she needs as much as a holiday fling.        

The Christmas Challenge – Screenplay and Bestselling Novel

A psychologist who hasn't left her apartment in over a year must take her podcast's Christmas Challenge to overcome her social fears and attend her best friend's lavish holiday destination wedding in spite of her fear of weddings and handsome men.

Maui Kalikimaka - Romance Screenplay and Novel

When a divorced mom without her children for Christmas joins her girlfriend to house sit a beachfront Maui home, they accidentally end up sharing the house with two men with whom they both have questionable romantic history.

Comfort & Joy – Romance Screenplay

A famous handbag designer working on deadline to complete her special edition holiday line for charity finds her newest designs stolen in a company data breach and calls in an IT expert only to find they have embarrassing romantic history from last year’s Christmas party.

Starry-Eyed Christmas – Romance

A painfully shy small-town sheriff falls for a handsome astronaut when he arrives in town to observe a once in a lifetime meteor shower, but when her beautiful and shallow friend wants to flirt with him, the shy sheriff agrees to coach her through the courtship regardless that her own feelings for the astronaut are blasting off.

One Sheets and Scripts Available on Request 

ROMCOMS

The Husband Hunt – Rom/Com Adapted from a Novel

When a TV restaurant critic is dumped by her Seattle NFL quarterback boyfriend for not being spontaneous and fun, she joins a reality dating show thinking he's on the show and she’ll win him back but ends up having to date his NFL nemesis and falling for an unlikely suitor.

Hurricane Season – Comedy with Romance Elements

Desperate to save his job, a neurotic Rolling Stain reporter ventures to a remote tropical island for an interview and takes refuge at a free-spirited pop star's beach house in a hurricane while hiding his phobias for water, wind, and girls.

Daring to Love – RomCom (The Christmas Challenge converted without Christmas)

After being humiliated from a viral video that made her famous for being left at the altar, podcaster Torie, must accept her own podcast’s social "dares" as she sets out to attend her BFF’s wedding where a potential love interest shows up and both helps and unintentionally hinders her success.

Second Chance Dance – Romance

A down on her luck dance teacher convinces her estranged ballroom partner, now an out of shape ad exec, to resurrect his dance skills to win a prestigious Dance Competition so her mother, their former coach, will get an honorary achievement, but injuries, miscommunication, and expectations threaten their win in both dancing and love.

One Sheets and Scripts Available on Request 

ALSO

TV PILOTS

The Wild Harts – Pilot

Conservationists and parents, Sunny and Mac Hart run the Hart Wilderness Center in the remote Pacific Northwest, promoting respect of the earth as they battle invasive logging, climate change, and financial ruin while raising five diverse kids in a wilderness community.

Moody & The Ghost – Pilot and Novel Series

After a car accident that takes her sight, a kickass ghost hunter with a YouTube show is left without telepathy but finds both senses restored in the presence of a sea captain ghost from 1850 who strikes a deal to stick around to enable her if she'll investigate his death.

One Sheets and Scripts Available on Request

 ALSO Available:

11 - One Sheets for Christmas Romances (not yet written), Plus 10 Log Lines/Concepts

4 - One Sheets for Lifetime Thrillers (not written), Plus 8 Log Lines/Concepts

I generally take 2 weeks to write a script that is ready for reads.

FIND ME AT KIMHORNSBY @ YAHOO.COM  (no spaces)

or DM me on Twitter www.twitter.com/KimHornsby

ScreenPit Trends all day on Twitter! What???

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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Phoenix Black: screenwriter, fostermom, aid worker

@PhoenixBlackNow

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Mar 6

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

Dana Braziel-Solovy

@DanaBraziel

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Mar 6

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

Sarah Granger

@sarahgranger

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Mar 6

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

Todd Foley 

@toddfoleywrites

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Mar 6

Hey #ScreenPit peeps! Female-driven thriller w/2 killer leads. Who’s the hero? The villain? Nothing’s as it looks in this cat-and-mouse chase when image is top currency. #Fe #Th #IP GONE GIRL meets PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

Zack Morrison

@ZackMorrison18

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Mar 6

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

Melody Herr

@Write_Herr

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Mar 6

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

Kim Hornsby

@kimhornsby

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Mar 6

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.

Adapted from a Bestselling Novel #Screenpit #Fea #TH #IP

Nicole Jones-Dion 

@novaris

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Mar 6

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

Katie Haskins

@khascat

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Mar 6

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

Aimee Dansereau

@dansereau_aimee

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Mar 6

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

Christina Auriana

@ChristinaAuria

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Mar 6

#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.

Brad M Johnson

@RWWFilm

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Mar 6

BLOOD MOON As the sun sets on the American Old West, a young priest and a grizzled bounty hunter must work together to save a small frontier town under siege by vampires. 1st Page: https://bit.ly/3TnRrkp Pitch Deck: https://bit.ly/4c5xqGy #screenpit #Ho #Ac #Wes #Fea

Leah Saint Marie

@leahwelch19

All the Things We Could Not Carry: Dot, middle-aged and suicidal, leaves messages to her dead son on an answering machine, but when her son starts answering her back she reevaluates whether or not she's still a mother now that he's gone. #screenpit #screenwritingtwitter #writerslife #writingfeatures #indiedrama #magicalrealism #literarymanagers

James Oden is Ready to Staff

@Official_Oden

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

Lisa Michelle Lutes

@LisaLueyLutes

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

David Wales

@DavidWalesNM

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Mar 6

BLACK DOG A corrupt sheriff in 1930’s era West Texas seeks redemption after killing the federal agent closing in on his heroin trafficking ring. Based on true events “8” rating on http://blcklst.com #ScreenPit #Dr #Hi #Fea #SeRe #Cov #Western #Crime

J E Swainston (Swanie Productions) 

@UnicornFilmsLtd

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Mar 6

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.

#ScreenPit #Fea #Spec #SeRe #Cov #HoCo #WrWo #WrDis

Leon Thomas Braun

@LeonThomasBraun

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Mar 6

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

Dawn Prato

@DawnPrato

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Mar 6

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

Shawn Corridan

@HNLGuy

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Mar 6

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

@theblcklst

Josh Fox

@JoshTFox__

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Mar 6

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

@ScreenPit

Rudi O'Meara

@rudiomeara

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Mar 6

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

Mere

@merewalton

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Mar 6

#screenpit #Ho #Sho #PG #WoWr #40Up Is Shawn is destined to be a wannabe boyfriend forever? #killershortsalum #killershorts #shortfilm

Wendy

@WappelH

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

Jennifer Grand

@jennifersgrand

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Mar 6

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

Dana Van Allen

@danablake

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Mar 6

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

Tom Schrack

@tschrack

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Mar 6

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

Renee N. Meland, #Screenwriter and #Author

@Reneenmeland

·

Mar 6

THE LOOKING GLASS

Seven strangers must each admit to a murder they don't believe they committed in order to escape a mysterious hotel with supernatural elements.

#screenpit #PN #fea #Th #Su #Ho #WrWo #ScriptRev

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

Dave 'the  goose' Goossen

@davegoossen

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Mar 6

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

San Fran Bar Man = Stephen Krespel

@stevemoth

·

Mar 6

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

Colin Matthews

@colinwmatthews

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Mar 6

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

Kyle Writes

@KyleWriteStuff

·

Mar 6

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

Cindi Woods

@cindifromindy

·

Mar 6

SIDESHOW Some shows shouldn’t be taken on the road. “This is Where I Leave You” meets “Little Miss Sunshine” #ScreenPit #Fea #Drdy #40up #WrWo

Simon Laurence Doyle

@simondoyle87

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Mar 6

#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

@killershorts

Semifinalist

Collin Lieberg

@collinlieberg

·

Mar 6

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

Jade Shine

@JadeShine2

·

Mar 6

#screenpit 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.

Laura Skopec

@LauraSkopec

·

Mar 6

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

Lauri Jon Caravella

@LauriJon

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Mar 6

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

Kay Tuxford

@kay_tux

·

Mar 6

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

Leah From South Dakota

@leah_from

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

Mitch Bechtold is Building 

@MitchBech

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Mar 6

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

Kim Hornsby

@kimhornsby

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Mar 6

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

Rudi O'Meara

@rudiomeara

·

Mar 6

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

LeeAnn Patrick

@thisisLeeAnn

·

Mar 6

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

@faetrouble

for general vibes of this pilot. #ScreenPit #Pi #Ac #Drdy #Re

Ash Willeby 

@AshWilleby

YOUR EXTROVERTED SUPPORT HUMAN An aimless extrovert avoids finding her own passion by helping introverts tackle the tasks that have held them back from flourishing themselves. #ScreenPit #Co #Div #Procedural #Pi #SeRe #WrDis #WrWo #WrLGBTQ

𝙴𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚞𝚎 

@eileenmontague

·

Mar 6

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

Julia Campanelli (she/her) 

@jcampanelliNYC

·

Mar 6

THE PAISLEY WITCH TRIAL Top 1%

@Coverfly

A White midwife and a Black abolitionist form an uneasy bond when both women are arrested for witchcraft in the true, untold story of the last witch hunt in Scotland. #Screenpit #Pi #Ho #Hi #Su #CWin #Div #Se #PG #40up #Cov #WrWo #SeRe

Jeremiah Lewis

@fringeblog

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Mar 6

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

Michael Dean

@mikewritesalot

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

Paul Zeidman

@maximum_z

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Mar 6

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

Considerate Content

@Consider8Media

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Mar 6

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

Stacey Russell (she/her)

@staceycrussell

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Mar 6

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

Alyssa Stevens

@AlyssaVStevens

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Mar 6

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

Sean Azze

@SeanAzze

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Mar 6

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

Kathryn Orwig

@katorwigauthor

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Mar 6

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.

Michael Boaks

@MikeBoaks

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Mar 6

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

Jessica Brown

@JessBrownMP

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Mar 6

"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

Gene_D27 ginadewriter.bsky.social

@Gene_D27

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

Laurie Ashbourne

@LaurieAshbourne

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Mar 6

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

Tim Westland - Screenwriter

@timwestland

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Mar 6

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

Anna Koukouli Born

@akoukouli

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Mar 6

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

Obryantcj

@obryantcj

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Mar 6

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

Clint Williams

@ClintW3

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Mar 6

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

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Suzanne Griffin

@SuzanneGriffin1

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Mar 6

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

Andrea Berting

@andreaberting

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Mar 6

BREAST IN SHOW A young breast cancer patient helps her senior support group members learn to love their bodies again by teaching them the art of burlesque. #ScreenPit #Fea #Drdy #Re #CFin #CWin #WrWo #Cov #SeRe

Lynn Esta Goldman

@LynnEstaGoldman

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Mar 6

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

Danny Baram

@DannyBaram

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Mar 6

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

Gillian Fritzsche

@fritchbeetle

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Mar 6

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

Mindy Strouse

@mindys_madness

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Mar 6

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

Tay-nanea

@tay_nanea

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Mar 6

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

Wes Cambron

@Yes2Wes

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Mar 6

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!

David Draper

@DrunkDracula

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Mar 6

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

josh barkey

@joshbarkey

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Mar 6

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.

Laura Kroeger 

@Reel_Insight

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

Megan is @ americanmegalo everywhere

@americanmegalo

𝑯𝙤𝒕 𝑭𝙡𝒂𝙨𝒉 1/2 hour comedy pilot A self-sacrificing psychologist’s first hot flash ignites her witch powers, admitting her into a coven of museum robbers whose holy grail heist unearths an ancient evil. #ScreenPit #Co #Pi #Fy #Div #LGBTQIA #40up

Toni Cunningham

@turtle7313

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Mar 6

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

Robin Fusco

@robinfusco

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Mar 6

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

Paige Kay

@Paige_Klaniecki

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Mar 6

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

Tyler Clair Smith 

@tclairsmith

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Mar 6

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

Jon Enge

@MarsRisingFilms

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Mar 6

MURDER MIKE A burned-out, magic-obsessed assassin pledges to combine his skills to protect the less fortunate... in need of a killer. #ScreenPit #Co #Ac #40up #Pi #WrLGBTQ #SeRe #Cri

rich orstad

@richorstad18

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Mar 6

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

Daniel John "Dijon" Carey

@JohnDijonCarey

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Mar 6

#ScreenPit NICKING GOLIATH Family drama. Uplifting. Motivating. One for the global #wrestling fans. A multi-billion dollar market. Sometimes a challenge turns into more than you had ever imagined. #Screenwriting #screenplays #ScreenwritingTribe

Dayna Noffke

@DaynaDirector

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Mar 6

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

Alex George Pickering

@AlexGPickering

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Mar 6

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