Listed below are the Winners of the 10th Annual Launch Pad Feature Competition. Congratulations to these exceptional writers!
Overall Winner
Sleight of Hand by Annie Moorhead
A pair of Victorian con artists masquerading as spiritual mediums are summoned to a mysterious noblewoman’s country estate, in an effort to make a connection with her missing husband, supposedly lost at sea.
Top Drama
Skin by Urvashi Pathania
A body-positivity influencer enters a desperate bid to save her self-loathing sister when the latter becomes a test subject for their aunt’s plastic surgery racket.
Top Comedy
Cuffing Season by Jon Bershad
Looking to get over a break up, a woman visits her quaint hometown for the holidays. Unfortunately, it turns out the town is being stalked by a monster that only eats single people.
Bright Leicht Guaranteed Signing Selection
Sleight of Hand by Annie Moorhead
A pair of Victorian con artists masquerading as spiritual mediums are summoned to a mysterious noblewoman’s country estate, in an effort to make a connection with her missing husband, supposedly lost at sea.
Mentorship Selections
Selected by Zach Dean
The Keeper by Michael Hubbard
A struggling caregiver moves to a reclusive desert town in West Texas to tend to an elderly rancher, but she soon discovers the dark secret her patient has been harboring for years – an extraterrestrial creature living in his storm shelter with the power to revisit the past.
Selected by David Rabinowitz
The Amends by Amanda Cole
Estranged sisters go away on a woodsy vacation to sort out their past, but when a menacing stranger upends their plans, their problems are only just beginning as they ignite long dormant spirits in the pines, calling for an atonement of their own.
NOTE: The Development Prize is on hold until a resolution to the strike has been reached.
A huge thank you to all of our industry judges! If you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
A Note Regarding the WGA Strike:
Launch Pad stands in solidarity with the WGA and its essential efforts to ensure fair compensation for writers. We are communicating directly with the WGA and are committed to working with writers and the WGA to ensure all rules and procedures of the strike are followed.
Launch Pad is not sharing writers’ work with struck companies for the duration of the strike to support the guild and all writers entering our competitions. We will coordinate with the Launch Pad Feature finalists and winners to find alternate outreach post-strike to ensure everyone gets the Launch Pad experience as soon as possible.
