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]
Candace Lee Egan
Second Set
A tennis-loving grandmother takes her second chance to play community college tennis to thwart her spiteful ex-sister-in-law, the athletic director, from eliminating the women’s team.
Best Comedy Teleplay, Portland Comedy Film Festival, 2023.
Winner, Stowe Story Labs 2023
Best Television Comedy Screenplay, Golden State Film Festival 2023
Semi-finalist, Mad Wife Productions Fellowship 2023
Semi-finalist, Scriptmatix Fellowship 2023
Semi-finalist, Cinequest 2023-24
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition 2024
Semi-finalist, Scriptmatix Pilot Season 2024
Finalist Comedy TV Pilot, LA International Script Competition 2024
Winner Best Female Screenwriter, Los Angeles CineFest 2024
Winner Best Short Screenplay, California Women’s Film Festival Winter 2024
Winner Proof of Concept Short Screenplay., Atlanta Comedy Film Festival 2024
Desert Belles
A stubborn veteran off-road racer is determined to preserve her father’s legacy by competing in a grueling eight-day, 4-wheel drive desert auto rally. When her daughter drops her for another team, she’s forced to partner with a disgraced media personality and they battle deadly conditions, sabotage, and a shady former racing partner.
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft 2023 Action Adventure
Quarterfinalist, CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship 2023,
Finalist, Mad Wife Productions Fellowship 2023
Feature Winner, Wiki Screenplay Contest 2023
Quarterfinalist , ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2024
Finalist, Stage 32 Grown-up Movies Screenplay Contest 2024
Best Screenplay Feature, Switzerland Film Festival 2024
Winner Action Adventure Feature, LA International Script Competition 2024
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
Elaine Chang
Madam Wow
In this satire on high finance, a Korean American investment banker is wrongly framed with fraud and lands in a dominatrix’s dungeon frequented by Wall Street moguls, where she discovers her true powers: inflicting pain where pain is due.
Best Screenplay, LA Femme International Film Festival 2023
Semi-finalist , Stage 32 Female-Driven Screenwriting Competition 2024
Finalist, San Francisco Independent Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2024
Quarterfinalist, Stage 32/Catalyst Studies Empowering Women Screenplay Competition 2024
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
Jodie Anders
Wanagipi
A protective psychologist haunted by his recently deceased sister’s ghost must confront his ancestral gift of spirit communication and team up with her to unravel the mystery surrounding her murder and the past that puts him in danger.
Quarterfinalist , Raindance Script Competition 2022
Quarterfinalist, Final Draft - Big Break 2022
Finalist, Script Summit 2022
Official Selection/Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2022
Finalist, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition 2023
Semi-finalist, New York International Screenplay Awards 2023
Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition 2023
Official Selection, Austin Revolution Film Festival 2023
Invisible
Self-deprecating teen Luna believes she’s only worthy of caring for her paraplegic father, but when Luna is captured by a right-wing domestic terrorist organization kidnapping and genetically modifying teens for war, invisibility and a new cause give her the chance to be a superhero.
Finalist/Honorable Mention, Southern California Screenplay Competition 2022
Quarterfinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Fall 2022
Semi-finalist, WeScreenplay - Diverse Voices Spring 2023
Semi-finalist, New York International Screenplay Awards 2023
Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay TV Lab 2023
Quarterfinalist, BlueCat Screenplay Competition 2023
Quarterfinalist, Creative Screenwriting Pilot Competition 2023
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition 2023
Official Selection, Austin Revolution Film Festival 2023
Eversville
A history preservationist teams up with a spirit medium and old west ghosts as they race against time to save their beloved gold mining town from becoming a haunted theme park at the hands of a new wealthy playboy owner.
Top 25, Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge 2023
Semi-finalist, Table Read My Screenplay, Hollywood 2023
The Boys
When vigilante superhero hunters The Boys and the remaining superheroes of The Seven discover the government has developed a cure for the superpower-inducing effects of Compound V, they team up to steal it from a secret human testing lab. Each weighs whether using or destroying it would secure their future.
Official Selection, Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Festival 2022
Category Winner, ISA Fast Track Fellowship 2023
Quarterfinalist, Scriptapaloza TV 2023
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
Marc Stevens
Escape
The true story of a German-Jewish refugee suffering from parental abandonment issues and living in London, who commits identity theft to become an RAF bomber pilot. He is shot down and captured by the Nazis, and must escape before they realize his true identity.
Semi-finalist, London International Screenwriting Competition 2024
Selected, Berlin International Screenwriting Festival 2024
Winner - First-Time Feature Writer, Golden Pen Script Awards 2024
Selected, Montreal Independent Film Festival 2024
Short-listed, Euroscript 2024
Finalist - First-Time Feature Writer, Cambridge Script Festival 2024
Winner – Best Writer – Feature Screenplay, Tel-Aviv International Film Festival 2024
Selected, Chicago Script Awards 2024
Nominee, Toronto Film and Script Awards 2024
Quarterfinalist, Vail Screenplay Contest 2024
Selected, Golden Swan Zurich Film Festival 2024
Winner – First-Time Feature Writer, Hollywood International Indie Film & Screenplay Awards 2025
Nominee, Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift 2025
Best War Screenplay, Best Script Award - London 2025
Best Unproduced Script in a Feature Film, London International Filmmakers Festival 2025
