This year features 70 screenplays. Here are the next 8, indexed alphabetically, from S toT.
We continue our look at the scripts which are considered as some of the best "2014: Top unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them.
For Your Consideration, we have the next 8 screenplays indexed alphabetically, from S through... S! (we thought by adding additional content to this section would slow your browsing experience.) Read Spencer Mondshein's "The Search," Mark Heyman's "Syndrome (E)," and everything in between.
If you're a young writer looking for study guides, you've found the right place. Let's go through some of Hollywood's future writers, and read what they're writing.
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Screenwriting is like any other art: it's subjective. So is it worth paying for someone's opinion about your writing? A professional script reader can read your screenplay and hate everything about it. On the flip side, a different person can read the same script and love every word. The end result is you'll get conflicting advice about how to "improve" your writing, and their opinions may have nothing to do with the fundamentals of screenwriting.
That's the problem with subjectivity when an artist is looking for advice. Not everyone is the same, and not all script readers are created equally. The point is this: keep writing, keep revising until YOU are happy. If you've got what it takes to be a writer, to be a good writer, then everything else will fall into place.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2014 Unproduced Screenplays.
Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
Also, like all of the screenplays on this site, copyrights remain with the writer(s). 8FLiX does not claim ownership of any screenplay, nor were we involved in voting for, or choosing what makes them the "best of" a particular year.
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The Search
Written by: Spencer Mondshein
Votes: 13
An expert tracker battles his demons while on a journey to rescue his estranged older brother who has vanished in the uncharted wilderness of the Northwest.
The Secret Ingredients of Rocket Cola
Written by: Mike Vukadinovich
Votes: 10
Twin brothers with opposite personalities are separated at a young age and go on to live drastically different lives, eventually being reunited in the effort to save the company 'Rocket Cola' despite their love of the same woman.
Seducing Ingrid Bergman
Written by: Arash Amel
Votes: 6
Based on Chris Greenhalgh’s eponymous novel. Ingrid Bergman and war photographer Robert Capa engage in a passionate, life-changing romance in post-World War II Paris.
Shadow Run
Written by: Joe Gazzam
Votes: 8
A viral attack puts lives in danger, forcing a CIA agent to initiate a secret prisoner exchange of Russia’s most notorious spy for the American scientist who can create a cure.
The Shower
Written by: Jac Schaeffer
Votes: 10
At a baby shower for their longtime friend, the attendees suddenly find themselves in the middle of a different type of shower: meteors that release a vapor turning men into blood-hungry aliens.
Situation Comedy
Written by: Cat Vasko
Votes: 24 (9th overall in 2014)
A young woman, feeling directionless, stumbles upon a mysterious courtyard where she is transported into a sitcom-like universe, becoming a major character on this 'TV show.'
The Swimsuit Issue
Written by: Randall Green
Votes: 35 (3rd overall in 2014)
A nerdy high schooler, who fancies himself an amateur photographer, attempts to create a “Swimsuit Issue” featuring his high school classmates in hopes of raising enough money to go to summer camp.
Syndrome (E)
Written by: Mark Heyman
Votes: 12
A detective solving the case of a disturbing film with subliminal images that is killing people who come in contact with it discovers a greater evil.
