DUBAI INTERNATIONAL CINEVERSE WINNERS

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SEASON 8 — SEP 2024

WINNERS AND FINALISTS

WRITER OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

Winners are judged & results will be available in the final quarter of the year in December for Tahiti International Screenplay Biennale sponsored by SCREENCRAFTS.

WOTY Nominees:

  • The Sponsor - Sophie von Rheden

WINNERS

WRITER OF THE YEAR

  • JUDGED IN FINAL QUARTER

BEST TV / PILOT SCREENPLAY

  • AGE OF THE EMPATH — Steve Brown

BEST MIDDLE-EAST WRITER(S)

  • بطاطا حلوة — Georgio Nassif [Lebanon]

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

  • SWINGMAN — Zeki Turgut Gezgez

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

  • بطاطا حلوة — Georgio Nassif

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER

  • Les larmes écarlates — Eddy Dépollier

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

  • Like a Sheep Named Dolly — Helga smit

  • BLOOD LUST — Peter Andrew Sacco

  • Family Betrayal: Our Last Night In Baghdad — Al Raif

  • Divorce Story — Vanessa Li Wang

  • VIEWING — Ruslan Ulukhanov

  • Sidd and Nance — Tim Kohn, BK Lyon

  • THE TWO OF US — TAPASH KUMAR DUTTA

  • Seemingly Simple — Jatin Dinesh

  • Mind the gap! — Ciro Russo

  • Echoes of Ringing Bells — Oleg Condrea

FINALISTS

  • Ambient Light — H.Cherdon Bedford

  • Escape from Karelia — Wade Donovan Prozeller

  • In the Cards — Christan van Slyke

  • Bad Axx — Susan kelejian

  • Path of Liberation — Mansoor H Laghari

  • An Ozark Mountain Christmas — Carrie Lynn Agee

  • The Seven Seals — Ny Ando Ambinintsoa Simon

  • Pitch — Philip Sedgwick

  • Organ Donor 3 – John Armstrong

  • KENNEDY — Darren K Hawkins, Lauren Hamilton Neill

  • Eva's tango — Roselida Porrello

  • Fear Movie — Haritha Gogineni

  • Open wide — Martin Richmond

  • Final Answer — Robert Alexis Velez

  • The Perfect Son — Joey Medina, Joseph Palau

  • He/She/Us — susan kelejian

  • Dealing with Crippen — Ronald Martin Moger

  • Lemmings — Cathy McCullagh

  • The Art of the Matter — Janna Jones

  • Unconquered: The John Hollins Story — Phillip Hollins

  • CHARLIE X - ISSUE # 1 - It's To Die For — Laura Barbato

  • Moment of Glory — Ben Fiore

SEASON 7 — JUNE 2024

WINNERS AND FINALISTS

WRITER OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

Winners are judged & results will be available in the final quarter of the year in December at SCREENCRAFTS

WOTY Nominee

  • N/A for Season 7

WINNERS

WRITER OF THE YEAR

  • JUDGED IN FINAL QUARTER

BEST TV / PILOT SCREENPLAY

  • ANSHEL — ITAI ADAM VAGNER, NURIT ASHER VAGNER

BEST MIDDLE-EAST WRITER(S)

  • ANSHEL — ITAI ADAM VAGNER, NURIT ASHER VAGNER

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

  • I’ve Been there — Natallia Bulynia

  • Death Arrives Uninvited — Vidal D'costa

  • RoboCapo — Michael Cipiti

  • 24 HOURS SINS — Lia Bulynia

  • Celestial — Timothy Kohn, BK Lyon

  • Grandpa Tell Us a Story — THE KING ALAKAZOONIE LOST DIAMOND MINE

  • the old man — majid farzolahi

  • NO SMALL PARTS — Melanie Villines

  • On The Boulevard — Mel Nieves

  • FARAH? FAYA? FARAH? — NARGIZ BAGHIRZADE

  • FLY BY NIGHT — James Sutherland

  • José & Lysa — P.H Silva

  • BEERVANA — C.S. Talbott

  • NANCY'S GAME — Vitaly Sumin

  • HOLLYWOOD GHOSTWRITER — Melanie Villines

  • Legends of the LORD - The 18 Missing Years — JEAN GALLIANO

  • Delete — Lisa A Maydwell

  • Chasing Avicii — Ross Langill

  • Mia — Matt Townsend

  • PURGATORIO — Hakan Ünal

  • the curse of the village without memory — Michele Azzarito, Roberto Pareschi

  • The Bad Coach — Sepehr Golmakani

  • TAKAO — James Sutherland

  • SPOILED — Guillaume Campanacci

  • Death Noise — Esabella Strickland

  • The Garden of Earthly Delights — Steven Howard

  • Insolence, a Million Bucks or go Bust — Rick Mannoia

  • The Pickleball Killer — Jim Carroll

  • Pocketful of Mondays — Lindsey Morrison Grant

  • Tortured Existence — Jeremy Stinson

  • A Hell of a Time — Sebastian Zavalatitle

  • Morph — Maryam Bahrololumi

  • Just Jump ! — Sarah SOILIHI

  • Light in the Sunset — Martin Agudelo Ramírez

  • A house in Greenland — Pedro Henrique da Silva Ferreira

  • The Cabbie — Scott Eldridge

  • María José — Pablo Mellado

  • Danito — Soledad Cáceres

  • To My Father... — İzem Ayşegül Topal

  • SALVATION — Amirhossein Makouei

  • The Raven — Tobey Alexander

  • Crime and Punishment, LA — Vitaly Sumin

FINALISTS

  • Dramatis Personae — Tobey Alexander

  • Somewhere over the Rainbow — Helga Smit

  • Sirens of Silence — Matt Townsend, Ellana Blacher

  • The Luncheonette — Robert LoBianco

  • GRUB — Dylan DeMarkotitle

  • The Last Time — Leyla Omran

  • Naughty by Nature — Viktorija Samardzic

  • Three Women — Toyin Taiwo

  • Yazmin & Malik — Mel L. Nieves

  • Shells — Lavinia Lazzaro, Veronica Neulichedl

  • Wreakin havoc in 1999 — Simona Mancini

  • A childhood memory of mine — hussain alahmed

  • MY WIFE DISAPPEARED — SUNHEE KIM

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

  • Forces of Decadence — Phillip Hollins

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

  • KABUK (THE SHELL) — HAKAN ÜNAL

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER

  • THE 16TH JUDGE — IAM TYPN

  • The boy — Eyüpcan Yanar

  • Escape To Nowhere — Jerry Wilson

  • Shadow of Star — MITRA Raeesmohammadii

  • Stranger lovers in Paris — PH

  • FIFTH STREET — James Sutherland

  • Out of the Past — Anthony Culanag

  • Changing Rooms — Tammany Jane Ross-Barton

  • Stationary Traveller — Hadi Sheibani

  • The last bet — Hovhannisyan

  • the crow — majid farzolahi

  • Hold My Girl — Naasha Bulsara

  • MoonFu — David Santo

  • Once Upon a Pool — Adam Swimmer

  • Poor Little Boy — Luca Mannea

  • Omada — Guido Pecorelli

  • The word — Masoud Babaei Dehshaei

  • Qui sait? — Rocco Anthony Giuliano

  • THE STANDING OVATION — Sepehr Golmakani

  • Gazelle — Saman Hosseinpuor

  • Georgia And Peter Or The Metabolism — Adam Stålhandske

  • Minotaur — Maroun Rached

  • Crossing Horizons — anantha krishnan

  • ÑUÑUYACHIY: BREASTFEEDING WITH AFFECTION AND CARE — Jose Miguel Soriano

  • Vested — Jay Stamatis

  • The Battle of Stockton — John Armstrong

  • Where Dandelions Grow — Erika Apelgren

  • The Legend Of Sky City — W. W. Mitchell

  • Los Hermanos Dela Cruz — Mary Perez & Me Nieves

  • Maya — Vishnu K Thilak

  • Wings of Stone — Calliopi Villy Kotoula

  • MONO NO AWARE — Lydia Schreibikus Suslova

  • The Source — John Duignan

  • The Crimson Scarf — Elliot Stanton

  • The Story of Genus — Dwayne Robinson

  • We Want Your Baby — Leah Rowell

  • Dream Studio in Madagascar — Sunhee Kim

  • The Night War — Teodoro Francesco Liberto

  • The Light Under The Door — Robert LoBianco

SEASON 6 — MARCH 2024

WINNERS AND FINALISTS

WINNERS

BEST WRITER

  • CODE 10 — Matthew Margo

BEST TV / PILOT SCREENPLAY

  • Aris — V.P. Evans

BEST MIDDLE-EAST WRITER

  • Mon Meilleur Ami — Bruce Robert Notman

NOMINEES

  • I Dream Analyze Genie

  • One fragment

  • The Almighty Warriors

  • The Enlightenment.

  • Contamination

  • Mistresses of Sleep

  • A VERY ORDINARY DAY

  • Mon Meilleur Ami

  • CODE 10

  • Steve's Law

  • Robot Asteroid

  • SACRED SUN

  • Hollywood Adjacent

  • The Moon Has Left the Heavens

  • Glass Stars

  • Rose Among Thorns

  • Aris

FINALISTS

  • In the times of my general

  • Season 1 - Him For Once - Episode I - Remember Me

  • Smart Seed

  • The Short Escape

  • Little Anya or True Stories from

  • The City of Children Series Pilot

  • Ava's New World

  • Spidersilk

  • Review

  • Hollywood Ghostwriter

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

  • Steve's Law — Paul May

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

  • A VERY ORDINARY DAY — Chris Fell

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER

  • SACRED SUN — Michael Louis Gould

  • Cuernavaca

  • The Brahmins of Taylor Street

  • Brothers and Sisters

  • Castle

  • Penumbra

  • Scroll Back

  • Sugar Coated Cocaine

  • A tale of an East End Exorcist

  • Sidd and Nance

  • PLACEBO

  • On the End

  • She Likes Me Not

  • Closing Costs

  • Agency

  • THE BASEMENT REMAINS

  • Jewish for Lunch script

  • Dog Gone

  • Silence of Fury

  • Celestial

  • The Ikarius

SEASON 5 — AUGUST 2023

WINNERS AND OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

WINNERS

FINALISTS

  • THOREAU'S TAXES // Charlie Canning

  • The Thursday whaler // Damien Mulvany

  • Broken Waters // Pat Boyle

  • Red Road // Jourdan Michael Prince

  • Pagan's Forfeit // Greg Austin

  • The Lion Doesn't Sleep Tonight // Theresa Cornelia

  • King of Blades // Paul Hikari

  • SVEN // Jesse Dorian

  • The Pickleball Killer // Jim Carroll

Best Hybrid Genre Screenplay // The Adventuress // Damien Mulvany

Best Genre Screenplay // The Flop // Matthew Spach

Best Screenplay // SMORGASBORD // roshan hill

Best Writer // Red Road // Jourdan Michael Prince

Honourable Mention // Pagan's Forfeit // Greg Austin

Honourable Mention // Pheromone City // Bruno Starrs

  • Attack of the Horny Killer Monkeys! // Bruno Starrs

  • A Mother's Love // Thomas Stephen Hibberd

  • Voyager // Damien Mulvany

  • Sphincter // Jack Langford

  • The Flop // Matthew Spach

  • The Guy Upstairs // Ethan Steele

  • SIAN // Greg James Austin

  • As Scared As You // Jesse Dorian

  • Song of the Shadows // Les Zig

  • SMORGASBORD // roshan hill

  • The Shadow Chronicles // Christian Caputo

  • New Holland // A. K. Woods

  • Pheromone City // Bruno Starrs

  • Yellow Curtains // Charlie Milne

  • Donavan Emery, The Android & Himself // Jesse Dorian

  • The Shadow King // Kipp Howard

  • The Adventuress // Damien Mulvany

SEASON 4 — AUG 2022

FINALISTS & SEMI-FINALISTS

Offical SHORT SCRIPT Semi-Finalists

Delta // Daniel Cory // USA

Spun Out! // Anton Ballard & Felicity Bolitho // AUS

Offical SHORT SCRIPT Finalists

Winter Bird // Stephen Delos Treacy // USA

ROUGH CUT // Matthew Margo // USA

Offical FEATURE SCRIPT Semi-Finalists

Pleasure Girl // Estelle Asmodelle // AUS

Invasion Day: A Blackfella Love Story // Bruno Starrs // AUS

Offical FEATURE SCRIPT Finalists

Code 10 // Matthew Margo // USA

2nd Date // Jaik Andino // USA

SEASON 3 — AUGUST 2021

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

— Prophet

— Dino Pirates

— The Future Force

— Acceptance

— Deadfolks

— A Special Kind of Wonder

SEASON 2 — MAY 2020

WINNERS AND FINALISTS

Gold Screenplay: Starhopper

Silver Screenplay: Double FF

Bronze Screenplay: The Lost Girls

Judges Choice Screenplay: The Real Thing

SEASON 1 — MAY 2019

WINNER

Best Screenplay: Desposyni