The 2020 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival Screenplay Competition 

The Vancouver International Women in Film Festival Screenplay Competition champions English-language feature screenplays written by self-identifying women. The festival offers practicing screenwriters a forum for collaboration and networking.

The VIWFF Screenplay Competition is organized by Women in Film and Television Vancouver.

Special thanks to the volunteer readers, jurors and VIWFF Screenplay Competition Coordinator, Joan Macbeth, and to the International Screenwriters Association – ISA – for their sponsorship.

Congratulations to the Finalist:

The Ken Hayward Award for Best Screenplay was awarded to Fiona Curtis for the screenplay Small Fires at the VIWFF Awards Ceremony.

Congratulations to the Top Eleven Official Selections:

VIWFF 2020 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION QUARTERFINALISTS:

Jackie Agnew – The Undergraduates
Leanne Allen – The Park
Alexandra Amadio – All-Star
Sue Corcoran – Shooting Palmer
Fiona Curtis – Small Fires
Gina Lily D'Attilio – So We Do Everything? Together
Jennifer Dana Deane – Accidental Patriot
Laura De Girolamo – Hearing Things
Lara Deglan - Slump
Nicole Donadio – Upside-Downers
Aviva Dove-Viebahn - #votelove
Marisa Forrest – Skyfoxes
Kirsten Gauthier – The Last Caribou
Sam Griffin – Loud Mouth
A.A. Hein – The Teller
Holly Holstein – The Last Frontier
Kerry Kolbe - Swallow
Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris – After
Florencia Manovil – Star-Crossed
Helen Marsh – Safe House
Marianna Moneymaker – Hick
Bertha Baysa Pan – Taiwan Tiger
Katterina Powers – Stone Cold Crazy Mother Tucker
Deborah Syna – Talon
Jane Thompson – Deer Woman
Megan Turner – The Inimitable
Crystal Verge – Defiant
Terri Viani – Dirty Water Dogs
Carrie Wachob – Lost Lake
Elly Ward – The Faithful Departed
Donna Wheeler – Natalie Rising
Pat White – Hunted
Christie Will Wolf – MyMTV!
Mayumi Yoshida – Akashi