This year features 81 screenplays. Here are the first 12, indexed alphabetically, from C to D.
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Read and download some of the best "2015: Top Unproduced Screenplays" of the year, according to hundreds of industry professionals who've read and rated them.
For Your Consideration, here are another 12 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from C through D, for quick access. Including Alex Koplow's "The Canyon," Nicolaas Zwart's "Dreamland," and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2015 Unproduced Screenplays.
Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
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The Canyon
Written by: Alex Koplow
Votes: 6
When parents reunite with their grown children for a road trip to hike the Grand Canyon, the family conflicts on the way prove far more grueling than the twenty mile hike.
Carnival
Written by: Matías Caruso
Votes: 6
A deadly carnival knife-thrower hunts down the members of a powerful crime syndicate who murdered his sister.
Castle Drive
Written by: Matthew Scott Weiner
Votes: 14
Based on real events, the story of the writing of Fatal Vision, the 1983 bestselling true crime classic that chronicles the summer journalist Joe McGinness spent with "Green Beret Killer" Jeffrey McDonald while he was on trial for the brutal murder of his wife and children.
Chappaquiddick (2017)
Written by: Taylor AllenAndrew Logan
Votes: 14
A historically factual look at what really happened when Ted Kennedy drove off the road into a Martha’s Vineyard bay with Mary Jo Kopechne in the car. IMDb
Circle of Treason
Written by: Anna WaterhouseJoe Shrapnel
Votes: 14
Based on the book "Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and The Men He Betrayed" written by Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille. When two women in the CIA suspect there is a mole working there, they have to overcome the institution’s hierarchy and chauvinism to bring down the traitor.
Crater (2022)
Written by: John Griffin
Votes: 34 (5th overall in 2015)
On the moon, five teens take an unauthorized and adventure-filled road trip just before one of them is to be sent away on a seventy-five year journey to another planet, leaving behind his best friends. IMDb
Crimson Trail
Written by: Jeremy Shipp
Votes: 10
Based on a true story. Devastated by the cold-blooded murder of his family, a devout frontier preacher risks his soul to lead a posse in pursuit of the Harpe Brothers -- America’s first serial killers.
Crook County
Written by: Gita PullapillyAron Gaudet
Votes: 6
A whistleblower’s harrowing journey into an undercover FBI operation in 1980’s Cook County, Illinois, sending him toe-to-toe with corrupt judges, hustling defense attorneys, and Chicago mobsters; and ultimately resulting in the largest number of convictions of government officials in the history of the United States.
Cut and Run
Written by: Zoë McCarthy
Votes: 14
A female urologist and a retired hooker form an unlikely friendship when they team up to take down a notorious sex trafficker in Miami.
Damsel
Written by: Bryan McMullin
Votes: 6
After first being locked up in a tower and then hidden deep in the forest to prevent a prince from rescuing her, long-haired Rapunzel vows to get revenge.
Do No Harm
Written by: Julia Cox
Votes: 16
An ambitious surgeon’s life takes a dangerous turn when she indulges in an affair with a doctor whose god complex challenges her own.
Dreamland (2019)
Written by: Nicolaas Zwart
Votes: 18
With his family’s farm on the precipice of foreclosure, fifteen-year-old Eugene Evans is determined to capture a fugitive bank robber and collect the bounty on her head. Against all odds, he beats out the FBI and the local police to capture her, only to discover that all may not be what it seems. IMDb
