BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY: Red + Blue Writing Competition

Selected by:

—Rich Ross (former Chairman, Walt Disney Studios)

—Todd Lieberman (owner, Mandeville Films)

—Jordan Rodnizki (Netflix)

—Josh Goldsmith (writer, 13 Going on 30)​

 

COMMENTS:

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"This script takes a metaphor and reimagines it as a deeply felt character piece. [Protagonist] is a life worn character for someone of his age, but his journey is powerful and understandable and his vulnerabilities clear."

                                                                                     —Rich Ross (former Chairman, Walt Disney Studios)

 

"An impressively tense and atmospheric genre exercise, this horror/thriller allegory is chilling and very well executed – The protagonist is highly believable and emotionally layered, and his slow descent is subtle enough not to reveal its cards too quickly. The encounters with the shadowy “killer”, in which the figure mirrors our characters’ movements in the dark of the woods, are genuinely scary. While the film is generally somewhat arthouse as a horror film in the A24 vein, these encounters feel highly commercial in their scare quotient; the deft navigating of prestige and commercial tones here is very mature and suggests immense promise in this genre’s space."

                                                                                                                     —Jordan Rodnizki (Netflix)