The Los Angeles Film & Script Festival named “THE LOST TREASURE OF THE MAYANS” as BEST SCRIPT (Action/Adventure) while giving Honorable Mention to “LIMPING TOWARDS BABYLON”, “DON’T EAT PAPER!”, “PRAY WITH A BULLET” and the stage play “THE FRISCO FLASH”.
https://lafilmandscriptfest.com/LAFSF_Winners.html
ReelHeART in Toronto, Canada has named both of my screenplays, the comedy “Don’t Eat Paper!” and comedy-drama “Limping Towards Babylon” as Quarter-Finalists. 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: “Limping Towards Babylon”, “Don’t Eat Paper!”, “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 at the Beverly Hills Film Festival. Also, my short script “HELL HATH NO FURY (Pi)” is an Official Selection at the Hang onto Your Shorts Film Festival in Red Bank, NJ (located in my home county of Monmouth).
“LIMPING TOWARDS BABYLON” has now moved up to Semi-Finalist:
And for my comedy screenplay “DON’T EAT PAPER!”:
And for my stage play “THE FRISCO FLASH”:
And finally “THE LOST TREASURE OF THE MAYANS” is one of five screenplay Official Selections at the Beaufort International Film Festival. As part of the festival, yesterday there was a public presentation of scenes from the selected scripts.
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.
Full length PRAY WITH A BULLET and high concept short script (the devil is the private eye and Eve is the femme fatale) received the Writer Award (essentially Finalists by another name at the 2024 Los Angeles Neo Noir Novel,Film and Script Festival on December 3.
Additionally, I made a short pitch video about the scripts and ‘noir:
© — Julius Galacki
