Hall of Fame
Welcome to our Rocaberti Writers’ Hall of Fame! This page is designed to celebrate Rocabertians’ (all those who’ve attended a retreat) successes - and also to inspire and encourage other writers!
If you’d like to share your success stories with us: - awards, projects in development, representation found - then please contact [email protected]
Christine Williams
WHEN POMEGRANATES HOWL
Hewad is an irrepressible kid hustling everything from pomegranate juice to protection from the evil eye in the streets of Tehran. His real ambition is to be a movie star, and this comes a step closer when he meets an Australian photographer.
Australia’s Official Selection, Academy Awards 2022
DeAnn SanVal
THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN
When life deals you a shit hand, grow a garden.
2nd Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2021 (out of 15,000 submissions, THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN is noted amongst the top 20% in the Comedy division)
Quarterfinalist, STAGE 32 Comedy Pilot Contest 2021
Quarterfinalist, Shore Script Comedy Pilot Contest 2021
Quarterfinalist, Screencraft 2022
Gregor Nicholas
MEETINGS WITH MARTY
Forced to choose between the career he craves and the father who abandoned him, a Kiwi film director wreaks havoc on his personal and professional life as he pursues a project with a Hollywood legend.
Top 3 Finalist, Raindance Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
Semi-finalist, Blue Cat Screenwriting Competition
Semi-finalist, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
Quarterfinalist, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
Quarterfinalist, Titan International Screenwriting Awards (Industrial Scripts)
Quarterfinalist, We Screenplay Feature Screenwriting Contest
Quarterfinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Quarterfinalist, Miami Screenplay Awards
Top 20 Dramas on The Red List, Coverfly database of unproduced screenplays
Finalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
#5 Drama Feature, Coverfly’s international database
Quarterfinalist, 2022 Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship
Finalist, Outstanding Screenplays Competition
Joshua Young
SOAKED
A diverse group of cruise ship employees from around the world must battle each other’s idiosyncrasies, guests who’ve abandoned common sense on land, and crazy celebrities, all the while trying to make this the vacation of a lifetime for everyone else.
Quarterfinalist, The Script Lab - TSL Screenplay Contest 2021
Semi-finalist, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards Season 6
Finalist, Screencraft Virtual Pitch 2020
Quarterfinalist, Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2020
Semi-finalist, Filmmatic - Pitch Now Screenplay Competition 2020
Official Selection, Rocaberti Retreat Logline Competition 2019
Official Selection, Toronto Cold Read Series 2019
LUCKY PRATT
When three lazy best friends (two British and one American) discover they’ve won the lottery, they’re forced to embark on a perilous journey across the state to claim their winning ticket, all the while being hunted by the most cunning creatures on the planet: their mothers.
Quarterfinalist, Screencraft Feature Competition 2021
Linda Caryn Jenkins
LOVE AND OTHER GUISES
An actor with a reputation for being a womanizer masquerades as a woman to trick a wealthy man out of his fortune, but finds love getting in the way.
Semi-finalist, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship 2013
Semi-finalist, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship 2015
Semi-finalist, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship 2016
Quarterfinalist, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship 2017
Finalist, Final Draft Big Break 2019
Semi-finalist, The Script Lab Free Screenplay Contest 2021
Special Mention, FilmMarketHub UK PitchBox 2022
MURPHY
A once brilliant surgeon suffers from agoraphobia, triggered by the death of his wife.
Quarterfinalist, Final Draft Big Break 2017
Mac McCord
THE LIGHT AT THE EDGE (AN TOBAR DORCHA)
Quarter finalist, Season 7 Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards
Official Selection, The Pittsburgh Moving Picture Festival
Mark Dispenza
THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN
A hardened small-time criminal without prospects helps kidnap two small children for a ransom and discovers that he’s the only person who can protect them from their abusive stepfather.
Semi-finalist, Atlanta Screenplay Awards 2021
Finalist (Best Feature Script), Beyond the Curve International Film Festival 2021
Semi-finalist, NYC Screenplay Awards 2021
Honorable Mention, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards 2021
Semi-finalist, Stage 32 Feature Drama Screenwriting Contest 2021
Finalist (Feature Screenplay), San Francisco Indie Fest 2022
Third Place, Hot Springs Screenplay Competition 2022
CYCLE LUNAIRE
A young boy in backwoods Louisiana tries to stop his mother’s drinking, only to discover that he is the legacy of an even greater horror.
Winner (Best Short Script), Beyond the Curve International Film Festival 2021
Quarterfinalist, Creative World Awards 2021
Finalist (Short Script), GenreBlast Film Festival 2021
Semi-finalist, Hollywood Just4Shorts Film & Screenplay Competition 2021
Best Short Horror Script, International Indie Gathering 2021
Quarterfinalist, Raindance Script Competition 2021
Honorable Mention, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards 2021
Best Short Script, Siren Screenwriting Festival 2021
Best Horror Short Script, Summer in the South 2021
Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay Short Script Screenwriting Contest 2021
Semi-finalist (Short Screenplay Competition), San Francisco Indie Fest 2022
Mary Wiebe
HOLOCAUST OF A SOUL
A ‘hidden in plain sight’ German-Jewish scientist finds that even working for Hitler cannot save his family from the horrors of war, or the machinations of the enemies of his own making – himself and his best friend.
Quarterfinalist, Stage 32 Drama Screenwriting Contest
Mira Olsson
THE MERCIFUL
A Nordic crime writer becomes a recluse after the disappearance of her daughter racks her with guilt.
Years later, she finds a lead on who might be responsible and goes on a cathartic quest to uncover the truth.
Quarterfinalist, TWL US 2022 supported by Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep
Top 11% Discoverable Projects, Coverfly 2022
THE ERRAND
When a young girl hitchhiking is picked up by a stranger, who ends up taking whom for a ride?
Best International Short Movie, Ischia Global Fest 2022
Best Dramatic Short, South Dakota Film Festival 2022
American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase, 75th Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection, Hollyshorts 2022
Official Selection, TIFF 2022
Official Selection, Riffa 2022
Official Selection, DC Shorts 2022
Official Selection, Cinequest 2022
Official Selection, Pasadena Film Festival 2022
Mugs Cahill
NANTUCKET
After her daughter tragically dies, a trauma psychologist withdraws to the seclusion of a mysterious lighthouse, abandoning her wife and practice to strike a bargain with a 19th century whaling captain who claims her daughter is alive.
Grand Prize Winner, Table Read My Screenplay
Finalist, Vancouver International Womens Film Festival
Finalist, Big Apple Film Festival
