GPFO SIP Screenwriting Competition -WINNERS

Originally posted 3/23/22

SIP 2021 Finalists are announced! Awards will be presented at a virtual event on April 5, 2022 6:30-8PM

POST UPDATE 4.5.22

WINNERS:

Victoria Moser – Student Award Winner – All We Got -about the 2018 Eagles Winning Season

David Chang – Oscar Micheaux Award Winner “Enter the Kingdom”  Homeless Protagonist Action/Adventure

Sharon Spaeder  – Nina Lo Presti Award Winner – “Perfect to a Tee”  – rom/com female golf enthusiasts must face her HS crush who’s now a pro on the circuit.

Philip Malaczewski TV Series Winner – “Kenso Girl” – Girl from Philly’s Kensington section gets scholarship to prestigious Girls Prep school and makes friends by selling drugs.

Catherine Shefski GRAND PRIZE Winner “Serenade”  Logline: When a high-strung and ambitious Philadelphia lawyer returns to her family’s South Philly neighborhood to attend her goddaughter’s Wedding Serenade, she learns that secrets must be revealed and walls must come down if she’s ever going to live her life to the fullest.

SO EXCITED I know Cathy from when I thought I was going to be a screenplay writer and entered SIP way back in 2007.  We’ve kept in touch all these years!

SIP 2022 Now open for submissions as of April 6th!

The “Set in Philadelphia” Screenwriting Competition (SIP), which is presented by the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, is open to all screenwriters, world-wide, who submit a feature length screenplay OR an original TV pilot length screenplay that can be shot in the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. All genres will be accepted. Scripts will be judged on their overall quality, and the extent to which they project “shootability” in the Greater Philadelphia region. SIP Finalist Judges are high profile Producers, Writers and Actors who have a Philadelphia connection. MORE INFO