Douglas Spaltro

Douglas Spaltro

Filmmaker, Director, Screenwriter and Musician

Fort Worth, Texas

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September 2012
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About Douglas

Born in Portland, Maine, Spaltro is a retired USAF Veteran turned screenwriter/filmmaker. He’s since written 9 features, 4 TV pilots, and 6 shorts, earning over 86 awards, with accolades from the Nicholls, Page International, Final Draft, Austin Film Festival, American Zoetrope, and more.

​His dark thriller feature, COMPASS, is a Coverfly Top 1% of its platform’s over 100,000 projects, with his 2022 Page Finalist Award. His drama feature, STILL, trails at Coverfly’s Top 2% of all projects, and his TV pilot, WASHED a Top 4%, a Shore Scripts Winner in 2018.

He produced his first short film, APPLE: When the last two alive on Earth are a ten-year-old boy and girl, compromise and navigating through their differences is the only chance for humankind.

He just wrapped on his 2nd short film, MILLY & MILO, a proof of concept for a feature adaptation: A trans woman Vietnam Veteran seeks an old Army friend she’s always loved.

Unique traits: Webbed feet but a wooden leg and I may or may not have remnants of a tail.

Badges

Awards

  • 2023 InRoads Fellowship Semifinalist
    (2023)

  • 2023 Page International Feature Semifinalist
    (2023)

  • 2023 Nicholls Academy Fellowship Semifinalist
    (2023)

  • 2023 Final Draft Big Break Quarterfinalist
    (2023)

  • 2022 Page International Feature Finalist
    (2022)

  • 2022 Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Semifinalist
    (2022)

  • 2022 Outstanding Screenplays Feature Semifinalist
    (2022)

  • 2022 Page International Quarterfinalist
    (2022)

  • 2021 Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Quarterfinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Page International Feature Semifinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 InRoads Fellowship Quarterfinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Page International Quarterfinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 The Script Lab TSL Semifinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder
    (2021)

  • 2021 Shore Scripts Semifinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Wescreenplay Diverse Voices (short) Semifinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Nashville Film Festival (short) Quarterfinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Page International (short) Quarterfinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 HollyShorts Screenplay Quarterfinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 HollyShorts Screenplay Semifinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Vail Screenplay Contest (short) Semifinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 HollyShorts Screenplay Quarterfinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Outstanding Screenplays (shorts) Finalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Raindance Film Festival (short) Semifinalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Dallas Internl Script to Screen (short) Finalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Dallas Internl Screenwriting Competition (short) Finalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Austin Film Festival (short) 2nd Rounder
    (2021)

  • 2021 SWN Screen Writers Network (short) Finalist
    (2021)

  • 2021 Barnstorm Fest-Top 150 )short) Shortlist
    (2021)

  • 2022 Nashville Film Festival (short) Quarterfinalist
    (2021)

  • 2020 Vail Film Festival Semifinalist
    (2020)

  • 2019 Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder
    (2019)

  • 2019 Shore Scripts Feature Semifinalist
    (2019)

  • 2019 Vail Film Festival Feature 9th Place
    (2019)

  • 2019 Screencraft Fellowship Quarterfinalist
    (2019)

  • 2019 Stage32 TV Pilot Semifinalist
    (2019)

  • 2019 Wescreenplay Shorts Semifinalist
    (2019)

  • 2019 Vail Film Festival Semifinalist
    (2019)

  • 2019 Stage32/Gidden Feature Semifinalist
    (2019)

  • 2018 Creative Worlds Feature Quarterfinalist
    (2018)

  • 2018 Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship Feature Finalist
    (2018)

  • 2018 Austin Film Festival Feature 2nd Rounder
    (2018)

  • 2018 Austin Film Festival Pilot 2nd Rounder (2 pilots)
    (2018)

  • 2018 Page International Feature Semifinalist
    (2018)

  • 2018 Near Nazareth Film Festival Feature Quarterfinalist
    (2018)

  • 2018 Page International Feature Quarterfinalist (2 features)
    (2018)

  • 2018 Los Angeles International Awards Feature Quarterfinalist
    (2018)

  • 2018 WeScreenplay TV Pilot Quarterfinalist
    (2018)

  • 2018 Shore Scripts Feature Semifinalist
    (2018)

  • 2018 Shore Scripts Pilot Winner
    (2018)

  • 2018 Stage32 Feature Quarterfinalist
    (2018)

  • 2018 WeScreenplay Quarterfinalist
    (2018)

  • 2017 American Zoetrope Feature Quarterfinalist
    (2017)

  • 2017 Academy Nicholls 1st 100
    (2017)

  • 2017 Academy Nicholls Top 10%
    (2017)

  • 2017 Page International Feature Quarterfinalist
    (2017)

  • 2017 Final Draft Big Break Feature Top 10 Drama
    (2017)

  • 2017 Austin Film Festival Feature 2nd Rounder
    (2017)

  • 2017 Austin Film Festival Pilot 2nd Rounder
    (2017)

  • 2017Oaxaca Film Festival Feature Finalist
    (2017)

  • 2017 California Film Awards Feature 3rd Place
    (2017)

  • 2017 Maine Film Initiative Feature Finalist
    (2017)

  • 2017 California Film Awards Feature GOLD Award
    (2017)

  • 2016 Shore Scripts Feature Quarterfinalist
    (2016)

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