Screenwriting : Film + TV Drama Contest -- who submitted? by Pat Alexander

Pat Alexander So excited and grateful to be a part of this contest! I submitted a drama feature screenplay "A House for the Flowers", a poetic, living-ghost story, about a has been, almost forty year old woman who is called back to her hometown when her mother dies, to face not only the ghosts of her past, and her mother, but her living, breathing spectres: her failure to be a daughter, her failure to move forward, and at the moment she almost gives up, the L.A wildfires of 2025 ignite her willpower to put the dead to rest, and step up to the challenge, helping agriculturalists, botanists, and nurseries full of flowers, plants, trees, opening the old, family greenhouse her mother left her at her death.

I submitted my Courtroom Drama "Articles Of War" that follows an ex-marine competing as an amateur MMA fighter is embroiled in a court case against the man who sexually assaulted her. After deployment, Lieutenant Ellie Rodriguez returns home to a fractured life. She’s a hospital cleaner by day and amateur MMA fighter by night all while looking after her high school aged sister. When Ellie speaks out against her former commanding officer in court for sexual assault, she must confront the trauma she tried to bury and struggles to maintain her fragile new life. However, juggling all these battles at once might end up being her toughest fight yet.

It was selected for the Stowe Story Labs Remote Writers’ Retreat, a quarter-finalist in the CineStory Feature Contest & Retreat, and The Script Lab Screenwriting Competition and a semi-finalist in Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition.

Hi Pat — I submitted HOW I BECAME A FISH and ENIGMA to the Drama Contest. Both are character-driven dramas, one intimate and lyrical, the other more cerebral and tense, each focused on transformation and the cost of truth.

Thanks for creating the space — excited to see what everyone’s brought.

Hi Pat, I submitted a war drama called "BOAT PEOPLE."

Comps: It's "Platoon" meets "The Revenant," with the heart of "The English Patient."

Log: As Saigon falls, two American POWs escape on a refugee boat—only to face starvation, a mutiny, and their enemies hunting them down.

Fingers and toes both crossed that it makes the finals.

Hi everyone! I submitted my prestige drama TV pilot Jerry the Christ:

After a cynical EMT survives a near-death experience, he becomes an unwilling spiritual lightning rod when a viral video brands him “Jerry the Christ,” forcing him to choose between quiet self-preservation and the dangerous pull of meaning, faith, and fame.

Good luck to you all. Your projects sound intriguing!

Hi, Pat Alexander. Very excited and honored to be a contestant this year! I submitted my feature-length sports drama "RADIANT" which follows a wayward race car driver contracted to save a struggling race team. After his latest aggressive race victory, freelance driver and notorious loner Levin Lark, known in most circles as "the Werewolf", is recruited by his former agent turned manager of the once powerhouse IndyCar Series race team Radiant Motorsports, Amanda Bailey to help turn the tide of a four-year losing streak lest the team be dissolved. Initially reluctant, Levin accepts Amanda's offer and joins the team only to butt heads with its owner and lead driver, his former protege who lost his nerve, and the team's strategist once the one who got away. With each passing race, Levin must not only confront the trauma that pushed him to the ragged edge of speed and fractured his relationships but decide whether a win is worth the sacrifices of mind, body, soul, and people anymore.

This script has been six years in the making. RADIANT is a story about choice and combines well-chosen Americana-influenced Scorsese-style soundtrack placeholders with authentic portrayals of the world of modern IndyCar racing and costs of athletic success and constant scrutiny under pressure. I have no idea where this script will go or if it even places, but I had a great time creating it and I hope the readers enjoy it with every page turn.

Thanks again for creating this space to showcase our work. Can't wait to see what everyone's bringing to the table.

Hi Pat Alexander, thanks for posting this!

I submitted my feature script A Tale of Two Mothers, a grounded psychological drama with thriller elements.

It’s a female-driven, prestige-leaning story about a Brazilian immigrant mother and her Black American neighbor whose lives collide after a brutal crime, and how grief, faith, and systemic failure push them into morally impossible choices.

The script has been gaining strong traction recently, including:

• 6 Double Recommends from Stage 32 executives

• Finalist – Final Draft Big Break

• Second Round – Austin Film Festival

• Semifinalist – LA International Screenplay Awards

• Top 1% on the Coverfly Red List

• Quarterfinalist – Stage 32 + Color Farm Media Diversity Talent Accelerator

It’s very much in the lane of prestige, character-driven drama/thrillers, built for two powerhouse actresses over 45, and has sparked real conversations with producers and managers.

Excited to be part of this contest and looking forward to connecting with others who submitted!

Sounds amazing David Kane and best of luck!!

Good Afternoon Pat

I submitted my script for a Sci Fi Serise called ZON. It is the Pilot epsiode and the series is a character-driven, politically explosive prestige sci-fi drama set on a world on the edge of collapse.

Twenty years after their mysterious abduction, 130,000 humans return to Earth aboard a vast fleet of alien starships, changed, disciplined, and carrying a message from the Ylatchee Imperium, one of the most powerful civilizations in the galaxy. Now calling themselves the Tutatori, guardians and ambassadors, they deliver an ultimatum that will shake the foundations of the modern world.

Humanity must join the Imperium… or face the Dvora alone.

At its core, ZON is a story about humanity tested at every level politically, morally, emotionally, and existentially. It blends cosmic tension with intimate human conflict, exploring the battle between truth and narrative, loyalty and identity, power and survival.

This is a series about a world trying to save itself, and the returning humans trying to save a world that no longer recognizes them.

Prestige in scope. Humanity at its heart.

Hi Pat,

I submitted my script Misty Morning a crime drama.

Two New York City detectives investigate the gruesome murder of a well-known author. The lack of physical and forensic evidence at the scene makes the case difficult because there are no suspects. As they continue their investigation, a series of connected homicides makes the detectives wonder what's being covered.

The screenplay gained recognition in the Asian competitive circuit in 2025.

I'm hoping to achieve the same in the US as well.

Misty Morning New Jersey Film Awards Winner

Misty Morning Bangkok Movie Awards Winner

Misty Morning Krimson Horyzon International Film Festival Winner

Misty Morning Indie Cine Tube Awards Winner

Misty Morning India Chicago International Film Festival Winner

Misty Morning Asian International Filmfare Awards Winner

Misty Morning Mumbai International Film Awards Winner

Misty Morning Indo Dubai International Film Festival Winner

Misty Morning Indian Independent Film Festival Winner

Misty Morning Indo New York International Filmfare Awards Winner

Misty Morning Caravan International Film Festival Winner

Good luck to all who entered and keep writing. Just have fun with it.

Hi There,

I submitted Shadow. It’s a half hour crime drama.

After being exposed during a stage hypnosis show, a mild-mannered man discovers his suppressed alter ego is a ritualistic serial killer who’s tired of living in silence — forcing a relentless detective to hunt a murderer who doesn’t even know he exists.

Yikes - I got some fierce competition here.... wishing everyone luck for their projects. I hope there's success for everyone from this competition opportunity. I submitted my script 'In The House That Elle Built' - a dedication to the foster people in my family who grew up in horrible circumstances but learnt to thrive against the odds.

So many movies about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) are about male lead characters who want to hurt people or disrupt. My story is about a female lead who learns to overcome her inner battles and finds acceptance and love for herself. I owe it to my female family members who grew up in the system to tell this story. You can come out the other side.

Lauren Hackney I love this story Lauren, I want to see this : )

Thank you Juliana Philippi I appreciate the support!

Nope. But I'm writing a Family, Action, Crime, Drama set in the Philippines at the moment. - - Well, you did ask.

I come here with a project my partner and my wife of 20 years, Sari Armington, worked on over the years. Eilley, Queen of the Comstock, is a rags to riches to rags story. Sari started researching and writing this while with Miramax as script analyst and over the years she would revisit the project. When she passed suddenly in 2025, I picked up the script and completed it, which in itself was a challenge to match her voice. Five re-writes and I think it is there. Log line sums up the film, She struck the Mother lode,built an empire, lived like a queen, then her husband died and then the men took everything.

Feature film set in the Comstock, Virginia City Nevada in the 1870s. Eilley didn't inherit it. She didn't marry into it. She earned it washing miners' filthy clothes and accepting a ten-foot claim for unpaid rent. She built the mansion. She ran the operation. The young Scot survived polygamy, the Mormon Trail, and frontier poverty, revisiting her homeland wealthy. Eilley came back to Nevada and when her husband died, the men who ran Nevada took it all. Because in 1870s America, a woman, divorced, a second marriage and then a widow, could strike silver-but not keep it.

This is Sari's opus and I certainly hope it finds an audience that embrace it and enjoy it.