“DON’T EAT PAPER!” is Finalist in the Indiewood Film Festival (Los Angeles)… decision pending 9-18-26

Previous honors for “…Paper” this year:

My play THE FRISCO FLASH was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill’s 2026 National Play Conference:

My one minute-ish play “TRICYCLE: A HEROIC LOVE STORY” was published in the THE FINAL SIXTY. Available to read online as well:

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My screenplay PRAY WITH A BULLET was honored a number of times

And my screenplay “THE LOST TREASURE OF THE MAYANS” also was honored.

The Los Angeles Film & Script Festival named “THE LOST TREASURE OF THE MAYANS” as BEST SCRIPT (Action/Adventure) while giving Honorable Mention to “DON’T EAT PAPER!”, “LIMPING TOWARDS BABYLON” and “PRAY WITH A BULLET” with the stage play “THE FRISCO FLASH” also got an Honorable Mention.

https://lafilmandscriptfest.com/LAFSF_Winners.html

ReelHeART in Toronto, Canada has honored my comedy script “DON’T EAT PAPER!” and comedy-drama “LIMPING TOWARDS BABYLON” as Quarter-Finalists in the 2025 competition (associated with the ReelHeART International Indie Film Festival. Additionally, “…Babylon” received the prize of a Script Consultation.

https://reelheart.org/en/2025/04/07/2025-reelheart-screenplay-winners-and-placements/

Festival Angaelica (based in Pasadena, CA) has named 4 of my full length scripts: “Don’t Eat Paper!”, “Limping Towards Babylon”, “Pray with a Bullet” and “The Lost Treasure of the Mayans” and 1 short screenplay “Hell Hath No Fury (Pi)” as Official Selections.

“Don’t Eat Paper!” is an Official Selection of Beverly Hills Film Festival which occurs in April 2025. My short script “Hell Hath No Fury (Pi)” is also an Official Selection at Hang onto Your Shorts Film Festival in Red Bank, NJ, which is also happening in April. Finally, Stage 32 has named “Limping Towards Babylon” as a Quarter-Finalist in the Comedy Feature Screenwriting Contest. It’s still in the running to move further up in placements.

The Moondance festival named THE FRISCO FLASH as an Award Winner in its category.

The “LIMPING TOWARDS BABYLON” script has moved up to Semi-Finalist in Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices competition

LIMPING TOWARDS BABYLON has placed in 3 competitions:

“DON’T EAT PAPER!” is a finalist in the Beverly Hills Film Festival:

My stage play “THE FRISCO FLASH” was an Award Winner at…

And “THE LOST TREASURE OF THE MAYANS” is essentially a finalist as it is one of five Official Selections. On Feb. 19, 2025, a scene from the script was read by professional actors:

“The Lost Treasure of the Mayans” is an Official Selection of the Beaufort International Film Festival. (Beaufort is the lovely historic town near the beach resort of Hilton Head in South Carolina. Effectively however, in this case, it means the script is a Finalist. As part of the selection, about 5 pages of the script will be part of a reading by professional actors during the festival.

Even though this is a “local” festival, it attracts participants from around the country and the world:

Also happening this month, “LIMPING TOWARDS BABYLON” was first named a Quarter-Finalist and then a Semi-Finalist (finalists should be named in February. Here is the full list of winners: https://www.emergingscreenwriters.com/2025-screenplay-competition-winners/

My comedy script “Don’t Eat Paper!” is one of 10 Finalists at VisionFest in NYC.

Short Synopsis: Roy is obnoxiously in love with his therapist, Joanie, whose attempt to “fire” her client unintentionally leads to his death, but Roy’s ghost expects to maintain their “relationship”; however, a wild road-trip with Roy leads Joanie to discover her true mission in life.

After all, sometimes dying is the best therapy!