2023 Film & Music Competitions

An ambitious businessman, who is haunted by an abusive foster home, struggles with his past while desperately climbing the corporate ladder by using his co-workers as stepping stones - pushing him into a spiraling mental breakdown.

This is the tale of a young pianist with big dreams, whose quest for glory and fulfillment brings her up against intrigue, sexual harassment, and the tough realities of building a career in a cutthroat world. A drama wrapped in a comedy, with easy-on-the-ear music, it's a story for everybody — especially for women who try to balance ambition, love, independence, and tradition. Essentially a director’s piece, the screenplay offers brilliant roles for actors 25-60.

A terrorist attack on the space station embroils a young scientist, Lowry Walker, into a political nightmare. In a world drowned by rising seas, territorial battles erupt across the globe, with strong governments stealing land from the weak. Canada and America have merged into the United States of Amerada, with a corrupt political ring in control whose members utilize the assault for their own political purposes. And Lowry is the inconvenient witness...

“Ghost Town, NM” is a romantic comedy in which a young girl, in order to avoid an arranged marriage, escapes with a boyfriend to a ghost town. A motley band pursues them: the young woman’s father, convinced that ghostly serial killers still inhabit the place, a video recordist who sees ghosts through his camera, and a D&D fanatic who cannot distinguish truth from fiction. And then there are the host of characters who inhabit the ghost town: an aged hippie who worships The Great Saguaro Cactus; ghostly painted Ladies living in the Sassy Ladies Cat House; gunslingers; and many more! All occupy a place in which reality and imagination merge. Somehow, in this cocktail mix of the Bard’s plots, incompetent investigators, and the ghost town’s inhabitants (real and imaginary), all’s well that eventually ends well.

Set in a not-so-distant future where period tracking is state-mandated, abortion is now punishable by death, and reporting abortion suspicions is a lucrative way to earn cash, a young woman follows the cascade of coverage on Texas’ first death-penalty case from the solitude of her bathroom. After falling in love, our girl's cyclical life is abruptly jeopardized as she tries to outsmart the system using an unwilling and potentially deadly source: her own mother.

Sometimes what you think is an end, is really a middle. The lives of six people intertwine in a story about how it's never too late to make a fresh start and to never lose sight of the possibility that things do happen for a reason.

Brigg, an aging pickleball sensation, with supernatural speed, and dark mysterious origin, becomes the target of the Cartel after he inadvertently rescues a young trafficked girl from their clutches. In an attempt to give Amy a better life, he becomes her father figure and she his daughter. The two develop a touching relationship that turns dangerous when they rescue her sister and other enslaved girls. The cops are closing in, but the cartel beats them and reclaims the girls. Brigg must use his special abilities and all his resources in a suicidal mission to free the girls.

Plagued by his mistakes as a father, a billionaire widower from Jerusalem sends his seven vain children on a life changing quest across seven continents.

In the criminal world of the entertainment industry, a clown must find a way to get information out of a mime.

Sold to a wealthy family at birth, Elvis Presley’s twin, Jesse Garon, grows up as Davis Delongpre, a successful horse breeder. Without knowing they are related, the brothers become close friends just before Elvis’ death. ELVIS & JESSE is adapted from the novel, Elvis Presley’s Twin, Jesse Garon:: The Records Show He Died, But Did He? by Stan Knight.

A young woman discovers that the Viking genes she inherited give her amazing powers in any confrontation, but threaten her ability to pursue a normal career and family life.

A woman caring for her husband with Alzheimer's must choose between a treatment that will extend his life or letting the long goodbye and the existence that has become her new normal come to an end.

When idealistic attorney Silvia Moretti watches her obnoxious doctor/lover get assassinated during a Zoom meeting, she travels to California with her housemate, Wyshonda, to find the killer.