John Kestner

Phoenix, Arizona

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Amsterdam World Int'l FF Official Selection
(2021)

Military Script Showcase Official Selection
(2021)

Big Sur FF Best Short Screenplay Winner
(2021)

Big Apple FF and Screenplay Competition Award Winner
(2021)

Independent Shorts Awards Gold Award Winner
(2021)

Night of Comedy Shorts (Italy) Award Winner (Hon Mention)
(2021)

Hollywood Int'l Golden Age Festival Award Winner
(2021)

The Wild Bunch Film Festival 1st Place Feature Horror Western
(2021)

L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film, and Script Festival - Official Selection
(2020)

CARE Awards (Parkersburg, WV) - Official Selection
(2020)

Boobs and Blood Int'l Film Festival - Official Selection
(2020)

PLAY Film Festival (Paris, France) - Finalist
(2020)

Prague Int'l Monthly Film Festival (Czech Rep) - Winner
(2020)

Nightmares Film Festival (Columbus, OH) - Finalist
(2020)

It Came From the Sky Film Festival - Official Selection
(2020)

Show Low Film Festival (AZ) - Best of Scripts Award Winner
(2020)

Houston Comedy Film Festival - Best Horror Comedy Feature Screenplay
(2020)

Worldfest Houston Platinum REMI Award Winner for Action/Adventure Screenplay
(2017)

London Independent Film Awards Best Original Screenplay (August)
(2017)

Las Vegas int'l Screenwriting Competition Official Selection
(2017)

Cannes Screenplay Contest Official Finalist
(2017)

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The App Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror A group of high school friends all download an app on their phones that claims to see ghosts and check into a haunted bed & breakfast, unaware that the ghosts can now see them as well.
Hanging Buddy Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy The first successful sex change operation between a biological female and a dead man's sex organ takes a shocking turn when the sex organ's voice speaks up in the trans person's head.
Shut Eye Revival Budget: $1M - $5M | Western A scarred Civil War Veteran is mistaken for a preacher by a desperate town under assault from a dying land baron.
Happy Camp Nine Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy The year 2040. The first woman is elected as US President. On her first day in office, she orders all men rounded up and taken to concentration camps for "sensitivity training." The Battle of the Sexes just went nuclear.