Good news!
My short screenplay, The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms, has been named:
- Winner, Best Short Script, Cambridge Script Festival, 2024
- 2nd-Place Winner, Vail Film Festival Short Screenplay Competition 2024
- Finalist, Best Script, New Hope Film Festival, 2024
- Top 2 Best Short Screenplay, New Hope Film Festival, 2023
- Finalist, Dallas International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, 2024
- 4th-Place Winner, Pittsburgh Shorts Competition with Staged Reading at Film Festival, 2023
- Official Selection, Quarterfinalist, Honey Writes Short Screenplay Competition, 2023
- Official Selection, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, 2022
- Official Selection, HollyShorts Film Festival, 2022
- Official Selection, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards, 2022
- Top 3% of Discoverable Projects on Coverfly, 2023
- Top 10 Finalist, Cinequest Screenwriting Competition, 2022-23
- Finalist, Sunvale Screenplay Contest, 2023
- Finalist, Dallas International Film Festival Script to Screen Competition, 2023
- Finalist, Reno-Tahoe 100 Short Script Competition, 2023
- Finalist, Atlanta Screenplay Awards, 2022
- Finalist and “top writer and honorable mention of the week,” Reno-Tahoe Screenplay Contest, 2022-23
- Finalist, Diverse Writers Outreach, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards, 2023
–Here’s a short interview SBISA posted about me: https://www.santabarbarascreenplayawards.com/david-sanders-interview.html - Semifinalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards, 2024
- Official Selection/Semifinalist, HollyShorts Film Festival, 2022
- Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition, 2022
- Semifinalist, San Francisco Indie Film Fest Screenplay Competition, 2022
- Semifinalist, Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards, 2022
- Official Selection, Quarterfinalist, Honey Writes Short Screenplay Competition, 2023
- Quarterfinalist, Sedona International Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2022
- Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay Short Script Screenwriting Lab, 2022
PLUS…my short screenplay, Melody, was named:
- Official Selection, Honey Writes Short Screenplay Competition, 2024
- Official Selection, HollyShorts Screenplay Competition Festival, 2023
- Semifinalist, New York City International Screenplay Competition, 2023
- Quarterfinalist, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest, 2024
AND… my holiday feature screenplay, A HemidemisemiQuaker Christmas, was named:
- Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriter Family and Holiday Screenwriting Competition 2022
Previously, my screenplay, Busara Road, based on my novel of the same name, was named:
- Semifinalist in the Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition, the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition, and the Filmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
- Quarterfinalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Competition
- One of the Final 35 in the UK Film Festival Script Competition
- One of The Top 100 in the Table Read My Screenplay 2020 Screenplay Competition, and
- Award Winner in the Script category of the 89th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition.
Many thanks to these competitions, and congratulations to all honorees!
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