Top Ten Finalist - Emerginging Screenwriter Competition
(2026)
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Profile for Murder
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Film
by David Winning
Writer A female police psychiatrist develops sexual fantasies involving a patient accused of murder.
Brothers in Arms
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by George Bloom
Writer Two brothers on a hike in the woods, one of them with a hidden motive, get in trouble with hillbillies when they save a girl from rape.
The Woman Inside
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Film
by Joseph Van Winkle
Writer (uncredited) Viet Nam veteran decides to undergo a gender reassignment operation in the 1970s.
The Last Flight of Professor Finch Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy When a reclusive ornithologist’s precious field journal is stolen by bumbling art thieves who mistake his bird observations for clues to a lost treasure, he teams up with an intriguing travel writer to recover it — while a determined French detective pursues them across Europe — all as he quietly searches for an extinct golden bird and a long-overdue second chance at life.
The Glass House Budget: $10M - $30M | Science Fiction In the year 2080, a London journalist is invited to document the life of an famous architect who vanished after a family tragedy, but as she delves deeper into his mysterious world, she uncovers unsettling truths about his past and the experimental technologies that led to his disappearance.
Nightingale Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama In 1930s Vienna, with German nationalism and antisemitism on the rise, a repressed classical pianist and a rebellious young violinist begin a forbidden romance, awakening buried desires and forcing them to confront the emotional repression imposed by societal norms and a controlling husband, all set to the haunting backdrop of music, unspoken desire and a world holding its breath as Hitler prepares to take over Europe.
Flashpoint Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller / Suspense When a Chinese professor is kidnapped and renditioned back to China from the U.S., days before the start of international trade talks in Hong Kong, the ill-timed action turns a pro-democracy rally deadly and forces a young American diplomat and a veteran journalist to uncover the truth and help avert a global crisis.
Paris Blue Budget: $5M - $10M | Film Noir ⋄ Thriller / Suspense Fleeing scandal in 1960s New York, a jazz musician seeks refuge in Paris—but the murder of a young woman’s brother drags him into a deadly underworld of drugs and violence, threatening to destroy what’s left of his life.
University of Iowa