NexTV's 2024 Writing & Pitch Competition winners announced

GRAND PRIZE:

LARK

by

Matilda Corley Schulman

A young horse trader finds herself entangled in the world of a secluded West Texas Cattle Ranch, navigating the desires of its inhabitants, both human and animal, while trying to honor her own secret motivations for being there in the first place.

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CATEGORY WINNERS:

Screenplay:

DOUBLE DARE

by

Jeff Reno

A raucous and irreverent Action- Adventure through the jungles of Nepal. When a globe-trotting adventurer and his long-estranged fiance are kidnapped, they must find a way to get along, while searching for the mystical land of Shangri-La and the secrets of Alchemy.

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TV Pilot (Drama):

SAWBONES

by

HF Crum

A struggling Afghan War vet finds new life as a shotgun doctor on the streets of Los Angeles seeing patients who can't afford - or risk - treatment in the city's failing health system.

Comps: HOUSE meets REACHER.

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TV Pilot (Sci-Fi):

PRECURSOR

by

Steve Brown

As a series of natural disasters and unnatural phenomena wreak havoc across the globe, a neurologist and his family save as many people as they can. But their efforts may be all for naught up against a mysterious group determined to engineer the very end of the world.

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Pitch:

RESISTANCE

by

Minquell Ramone

Set in 1943 WWII, RESISTANCE chronicles the true story of 22-year-old Jewish med student Rudi Bloemgarten as he joins forces with lesbian conductor Frieda Belinfante and sculptor Gerrit van der Veen‘s resistance group led by gay painter/author Willem Arondéus, to pull off the most daring resistance attack in Dutch Nazi-occupied territory.

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Short Story:

DEATH AT THE SUNDIAL MOTEL

by

Aaron Clark

When a Border Patrol Agent is set free after killing an undocumented man, the dead man's mother seeks revenge and inadvertently uncovers a human trafficking ring in her apartment building.