This year features 70 screenplays. Here are the final 7, indexed alphabetically, from T to Z.
These scripts 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 final 7 screenplays, indexed alphabetically, from T through Z. Including Julia Cox's "The Takeaway," Daniel Kunka's "Yellowstone Falls," and everything in between.
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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 Takeaway
Written by: Julia Cox
Votes: 8
A young, play-it-safe, art restorer is swept up in a whirlwind romance with her charming boss, who turns out to be a world-class thief.
Tau (2018)
Written by: Noga Landau
Votes: 23 (10th overall in 2014)
A woman held captive in the futuristic smart house of a serial kidnapper realizes that her only hope of escape lies in turning the house’s sentient computer against its creator. IMDb
Uncle Shelby
Written by: Brian C. BrownElliott DiGuiseppi
Votes: 7
The little-known personal, heartbreaking, and darker side of cartoonist/author Shel Silverstein.
The Wall (2017)
Written by: Dwain Worrell
Votes: 30 (6th overall in 2014)
A sniper and his spotter must kill and avoid being killed, separated from an enemy sniper by only a 16x6ft prayer wall. IMDb
The Wild Ones
Written by: Tyler Shields
Votes: 6
In a corrupt Southern town, a dangerous sociopath runs bareknuckle boxing fights that pit its youths against each other.
Wonka
Written by: Jason Micallef
Votes: 9
A dark, reimagining of the Willy Wonka story beginning in World War II and culminating with his takeover of the chocolate factory.
Yellowstone Falls
Written by: Daniel Kunka
Votes: 13
After an apocalyptic event, a mother wolf is separated from her mate and the rest of the pack, and has to protect her cubs from swarms of mutated humans.
