15th Annual StoryPros Awards Winners Circle

Grand Prize Winner
PLANET PRETTY KILL by David Meister   (CONTACT)
In a vibrant cyberpunk future ruled by a race of machines called the Luminary, an undercover cop finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes conspiracy amidst a gang war in the Pretty Kill district.

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1st Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
OF ALL THE GAMES by Ellis Bahl   (CONTACT)
A paraplegic young woman competes online against toxic players in the brave new world of esports. When her teammate is killed IRL in a devastating and game changing SWATTING, she takes it upon herself to find the killer or risk meeting the same fate

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1st Place - Comedy
BATTLE OF THE EXES by Matthew Hoch   (CONTACT)
After being dumped yet again, a man drunkenly wishes on a magical statue for his ex to want him back. The next day, he is shocked to find all of his exes are back and fighting each other for his heart.

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1st Place - Drama
LIEBE LISE by Luke Hart-Moynihan   (CONTACT)
The true story of Austrian-Jewish physicist Lise Meitner as she struggles to escape 1938 Nazi Germany while her work leads towards an earth-shattering discovery -- nuclear fission, the key to the atomic bomb.

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1st Place - Family/Teen/Animation
UNHAUNTED by John Bruno   (CONTACT)
A family that flips haunted houses encounters a stubborn spirit that threatens to make this flip their last.

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1st Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
CUFFING SEASON by Jon Bershad   (CONTACT)
Looking to get over a break up, a woman visits her quaint hometown for the holidays. Unfortunately, the town is being stalked by a monster that only eats single people.

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2nd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
HARPER MASON by Isabella Bodnar   (CONTACT)
A kidnapped 19 year-old impregnated by her alcoholic captor fights tooth and nail to escape her prison before she gives birth.

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2nd Place - Comedy
INCONCEIVABLE by Lesley Fera   (CONTACT)
After a long fertility journey ends in miscarriage, a Midwest first-grade teacher embraces motherhood in another, bloodier fashion and discovers her true calling: saving abused children from the monsters who prey on them.

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2nd Place - Drama
ROSES ON THE VINE by Jon Shaivitz   (CONTACT)
Over the course of one scorching Los Angeles summer, a single-dad food delivery gig worker with a checkered past and his mischievous six-year-old daughter criss-cross the city on his scooter day after day as they barely manage to scrape by and strive for a better life.

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2nd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
IMAGINE by Jeffrey Barton   (CONTACT)
When Imaginary Friend BeeZoo is forgotten and sent to the Imagine Nation she does everything in her power to escape and return to her best friend Max on Earth.

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2nd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
MOSSHART by Alec Gutherz   (CONTACT)
A troubled children's book author suffering from an autoimmune disease reunites with his fragmented family at their country home, only to become plagued by escalating visions of his dead nephew.

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3rd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
BLOTTER by HF Crum   (CONTACT)
A martial-arts-obsessed teenager finds a library book checked out by several missing students, and believes she'll be the next target unless she can locate the boy she's had a crush on since the third grade.

3rd Place - Comedy
MATTHEW THE ANGRY ELF by David Gray   (CONTACT)
Santa sends a North Pole elf with a foul mouth and a chip on his shoulder to instill the spirit of Christmas in a rude New Jersey family. Will the elf fulfill his task or use this opportunity to escape Santa's tyranny and make a new life for himself?

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3rd Place - Drama
ASTEROID by Alec Whittle   (CONTACT)
After a young musician learns of his estranged father's death, he seeks to gain closure by immersing himself in the dangerous homeless camps along Seattle's waterfront and carrying on his legacy of supplying them food and water.

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3rd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
ESCAPE FROM PET HEAVEN by Avery Koenig   (CONTACT)
When a singing cat dies, he and his misfit friends escape from pet heaven and go on a journey to be reunited with their piano playing owner.

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3rd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
THE LAST KILLIAN by Craig Effrain   (CONTACT)
A mother must rescue her son from an augmented human who believes the boy represents the key to humanity's future.

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