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For further information regarding screenplay rights, contact:

    Hudson Agency

    Susan Giordano

    sue@hudsonagency.net

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Promise

When a hardened convict makes a promise to a dying U.S. Marshal, he must race to find a ruthless killer, a kidnapped girl, and redemption before a dragnet brings him in dead or alive.

GENRE: Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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   

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   

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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Black Dragon

When a Japanese submarine is blamed for a Russian sub’s attack during war games, an American officer with the Japanese crew must help them evade the US fleet and hunt down the Russians before they launch a nuclear arsenal.

GENRE: Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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

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Nuke

After an ambush decimates a UN team on a mission to recover weapons-grade uranium from the Libyan desert, the survivors must recover the lost uranium before it is used in an attack, and before warring factions realize they survived.

GENRE: Thriller, Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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

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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Do No Harm

When his ex-partner escapes prison and takes his mother and sister hostage, an imprisoned convict must break out and find hidden cash to get his family back.

GENRE: Action/Thriller

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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Purgatory

When an inmate, distanced from his family by grief and years of incarceration, learns that rioting prisoners have taken his sister hostage, he must fight to free her before an attack by law enforcement kills everyone.

GENRE: Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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The Ambassador

When refugees seek shelter inside embassy walls, a disgraced politician relegated to a third world ambassadorial post must rediscover the principles that began his career if he is to stand off a tyrant's besieging army.

GENRE: Political Thriller

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

SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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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Bonebreakers

After a witness in police protection is hunted down and left for dead, she seeks out the tutelage of a hired killer and turns the cops and felons who pursue her into her prey.

GENRE: Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

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Remnant

When a Space Force pilot responds to an attack on America’s lunar base, he discovers warring alien races and must rally Earth’s forces in a fight where one side seeks to destroy all life, and the other views humans as cannon-fodder.

GENRE: Science Fiction, Action/Adventure

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

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Atonement

When an FBI agent tracking a serial killer is recruited by an elite task force, he must decide between advancement that will help him locate his father’s killer, or abandoning his code of justice to support a corrupt supervisor’s vendetta.

GENRE: Police Procedural, Action

FORMAT: Screenplay.

SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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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Pup's Angel

When a vengeful plot targets the President's newborn son, a bereaved Secret Service agent must navigate sorrow from the loss of his own son to protect the child.

GENRE: Thriller, Action/Adventure

FORMAT: Screenplay.

SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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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This Time

After a grieving scientist uses untested time travel technology to prevent the murder of his wife and daughter, he finds that his family’s survival demands the will to sacrifice himself again and again when time fights back.

GENRE: Science Fiction, Thriller

FORMAT: Screenplay.

SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

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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Lexie

After a former Marine and his working dog return from war to new roles as deputy and K9, their pursuit of heavily-armed felons makes their home as explosive and lethal as the sands of Afghanistan.

GENRE: Action, Crime, Thriller

FORMAT: Screenplay.

SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

TOP 50 FINALIST - 2026 ISA Student Fellowship

Feature Screenplay Competition - Jan. 15, 2026

Posted Results:

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

 

FINALIST - Wiki Screenplay Contest - January 2026

Feature Screenplay Competition - Feb. 16, 2026

Posted Results:

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

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Touch

When a teen with the power to heal is kidnapped from the Secret Service, he must escape his captors and evade “rescue” by the agency if he is to have a future where he controls his fate.

GENRE: Action, Science Fiction, Crime, Thriller

FORMAT: Screenplay.

SCREENPLAY/FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST RESULTS: 

FINALIST - 2025 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards

Feature Screenplay Competition - Oct.18, 2025

Posted Results:

https://portal.wherehollywoodhides.com/contests/sbisa?season=santa-barbara-international-screenplay-awards-summer-2025

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