IndieBoom SCI-FI Short Screenplay Contest

IndieBoom SCI-FI Short Screenplay Contest - Produced by the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival.

This contest isn’t science fiction… it’s science fact!

Enter your SCI-FI short screenplays of 40 pages or less. They can be hard sci-fi, sci-fi/horror, sci-fi/fantasy, or sci-fi/comedy and must be written in English.

PRIZES:

✍️ All entrants get a free educational webinar from Roadmap Writers

Semi Finalists

• Laurels
• Roadmap Writers webinar

Finalists

• Laurels
• Roadmap Writers webinar
• VIP Pass to the 2026 ART OF BKLYN Film Festival (attend in person or online)

Winner:

• Laurels
• Roadmap Writers webinar
• VIP Pass to the 2026 ART OF BKLYN Film Festival (attend in person or online)
• A consultation with contest judge Sean Mannion

SEAN MANNION

Sean Mannion is an independent filmmaker and writer who has worked across genres and media. His mind bending sci-fi feature film MEME won best narrative feature at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival in 2018, and Sean was invited to return to AoBFF as Guest Festival Director for 2019, curating the films for that season. In 2019 the short film he co-wrote, It’s Normal, won Best Screen Story at ZedFest.

Sean is the Founder of 4Mile Circus an award-winning Brooklyn-based production company that makes films, web content, podcasts, and he has had projects highlighted in IndieWire, Film Threat, and Forbes. Sean is currently in the latter stages of adapting one of his feature science fiction screenplays into a novel. He is the Education Director for the new Art of Brooklyn Film Festival Learning Center, and has presented at the Ax Wound Film Festival and at the Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric.