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For further information regarding screenplay rights, contact:

​    Hudson Agency

    Susan Giordano

    sue@hudsonagency.net

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Do No Harm

A convict must escape prison and find cash hidden during a bank robbery 15 years ago if he’s to save his family from the ex‑partner that holds them hostage.

GENRE: Action/Thriller

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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The Ambassador

A disgraced politician relegated to an ambassadorial post in a third world nation rediscovers the principles that began his career and stands off a tyrant's besieging army to protect the political refugees that sought shelter within embassy walls.

GENRE: Political Thriller

FORMAT: Screenplay and Series Bible.  Also available as Fiction.  First of the Jackson Ford Mystery Series (Genres: Mystery, Action, Political Thriller).

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SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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FINALIST - Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards - 2025 December

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Jan. 16, 2026

Posted Results:

https://lascreenplayawards.com/result/ (On the site, select: 2025 December - Finalist)  

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QUARTER-FINALIST - 2025 Table Read My Screenplay - Hollywood

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Sep. 4, 2025

Posted Results:

https://tablereadmyscreenplay.com/hollywood-winners/

Man in the Mist

Heroes

The estranged son of a B-List movie star uses fantasy techniques to enlist the greatest film stars from the age of cinema to reunite with his father and to battle the forces that shattered his family.

GENRE: Drama, Action/Adventure.

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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Black Dragon

When a renegade Russian nuclear missile submarine sinks a ship during US fleet exercises with Japan, an American observer stationed aboard the Japanese attack submarine, Black Dragon, must work with the crew to locate and destroy the Russian submarine before it reaches a launch point and unleashes a nuclear arsenal.

GENRE: Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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TOP 50 FINALIST - 2026 ISA Student Fellowship

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Jan. 15, 2026

Posted Results:

https://www.networkisa.org/screenwriting_articles/view/meet-the-2026-isa-student-fellowship-selections      

 

OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2026 American Story Showcase

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Feb. 23, 2026

Posted Results:

https://www.rebelseedstudio.com/blogs/showcases/american-story-showcase

 

QUARTER-FINALIST - Red Flight Pictures Screenplay Awards

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Nov. 11, 2025

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Purgatory

Ever since he gunned down the drunk driver who killed his daughter, former Detective Gabriel Case’s grief has distanced himself from fellow inmates and from the remnants of his own family, but when rioting prisoners take Gabriel’s sister and nephew hostage during a parole hearing, Gabriel realizes he must act before the last of those he loves are lost.

GENRE: Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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Bonebreakers

A woman brutalized and left for dead by her pro-boxer husband finds power, vengeance, and redemption in the tutelage of a hired killer.

GENRE: Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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QUARTER-FINALIST - Wiki Screenplay Contest - January 2026

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Feb. 16, 2026

Posted Results:

https://portal.wherehollywoodhides.com/contests/wiki-screenplay-contest?season=wiki-screenplay-contest-2026-01               

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Emissary

It’s 2055 and a humankind on the verge of exploring the solar system is forced to learn fast when they are discovered by warring alien races and must choose sides in a conflict where all the participants consider humanity as either cannon-fodder, or vermin that must be exterminated.

GENRE: Science Fiction, Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay. Also soon to be available as fiction. 

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SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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QUARTER-FINALIST - Page Turner Screenplays

Sci-Fi & Fantasy - Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Sep. 29, 2025

 

QUARTER-FINALIST - Wiki Screenplay Contest - January 2026

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Feb. 16, 2026

Posted Results:

https://portal.wherehollywoodhides.com/contests/wiki-screenplay-contest?season=wiki-screenplay-contest-2026-01   

Star Cluster

Ghostdance
(in writing partnership with Michael Stern)

The star that was posthumously named after his mother is too far and too dim for young Eli Swisher to view from sea-level, so he embarks on a journey that will carry him through danger, heartache, and fear in order to view his mother’s heavenly legacy. 

GENRE: Drama, Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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Nuke

The survivors of an international team that was ambushed and left for dead in the Libyan desert must recover a trove of weapons-grade nuclear material before it is used in an attack, and before warring factions realize they survived.

GENRE: Thriller, Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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FINALIST - Hollywood Genre Action Screenplay Competition - Round 3 2025

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Aug 31, 2025

Posted Results:

https://hollywoodgenre.com/winner/action/2025/3/finalists

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FINALIST - Wiki Screenplay Contest - January 2026

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Feb. 16, 2026

Posted Results:

https://portal.wherehollywoodhides.com/contests/wiki-screenplay-contest?season=wiki-screenplay-contest-2026-01

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QUARTER-FINALIST - Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Nov. 26, 2025

Crystal Ball

Atonement

A federal agent whose life has been framed by the tragedies of his past, must pursue a serial killer whose crimes are determined by his ability to foresee tragedies in the future.

GENRE: Police Procedural, Action

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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AWARD WINNER - Wiki Screenplay Contest - January 2026

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Feb. 16, 2026

Posted Results:

https://portal.wherehollywoodhides.com/contests/wiki-screenplay-contest?season=wiki-screenplay-contest-2026-01

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QUARTER-FINALIST - The 2025 Great Pitch Competition

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Nov. 5, 2025

Posted Results:

https://www.networkisa.org/screenwriting-articles/view/meet-the-2025-great-pitch-competition-selections   

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Promise

When a hardened convict makes a promise to a dying U.S. Marshal, he finds himself in a race to find a ruthless killer, a kidnapped girl, and redemption, before law enforcement can bring him in, dead or alive. (Die Hard and The Fugitive, on a Harley.)

GENRE: Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

 

FINALIST - Desertscape International Film Festival - 2026

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Mar. 16, 2026

Posted Results:

https://www.fmasu.com/2026diffofficialselections   

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FINALIST - Wiki Screenplay Contest - January 2026

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Feb. 16, 2026

Posted Results:

https://portal.wherehollywoodhides.com/contests/wiki-screenplay-contest?season=wiki-screenplay-contest-2026-01   

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FINALIST - Hollywood Genre Action Screenplay Contest - Round 4 2025

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Oct. 31 2025

Posted Results:

https://hollywoodgenre.com/winner/action/2025/4/finalists

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This Time

A grieving scientist uses untested time travel technology to prevent the murder of his wife and daughter, only to find that survival demands sacrifice across multiple timelines.

GENRE: Science Fiction, Thriller

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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RUNNER-UP – HollywoodGenre Sci-Fi Screenplay Competition - Round 1 - 2026

Feature Screenplay Competition – Mar. 31, 2026

Posted Results:

https://hollywoodgenre.com/winner/scifi/2026/1/runnerup

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QUARTER-FINALIST - Wiki Screenplay Contest - January 2026

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Feb. 16, 2026

Posted Results:

https://portal.wherehollywoodhides.com/contests/wiki-screenplay-contest?season=wiki-screenplay-contest-2026-01               

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Pup's Angel

Chain Williams is a Secret Service agent consumed by grief over the murder of his son, but when the first lady chooses him, Chain must fight to overcome his loss and carry out his assignment... as bodyguard to the President's infant son.

GENRE: Thriller, Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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FINALIST - Wiki Screenplay Contest - January 2026

Feature Screenplay Competition - Award: Feb. 16, 2026

Posted Results:

https://portal.wherehollywoodhides.com/contests/wiki-screenplay-contest?season=wiki-screenplay-contest-2026-01               

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