🏆 Logline Contest Winners
Celebrating the best loglines from our screenwriting community
"A fresh-faced college grad takes his first day selling cars at a morally bankrupt dealership and must decide how far he'll go to pay rent, keep his fiancée, and survive a system that rewards lies."
"A burned-out ex-CIA operative haunted by Arthurian dreams must learn to time-travel with the help of a wisecracking Merlin to stop a presidential investigator’s assassination, discover who murdered his parents, and save a makeshift family — before the past and future erase everything he loves."
Chosen over the runner-up for its innovative fusion of time-travel, Arthurian mythology, and personal redemption, which creates a more layered and emotionally complex narrative with broader thematic appeal, compared to the runner-up's more singular focus on sci-fi action and individual heroism.
"When a former girl-scout-turned-wrestler discovers she carries a fragment of an alien meteorite in her arm, she must race against a megalomaniacal scientist to rescue her kidnapped father and stop a weapon that can rewrite life itself."
This concept shines with its fresh blend of wrestling and sci-fi elements, offering high-stakes action, strong character development, and a compelling female protagonist that could translate into a visually dynamic and emotionally engaging film.
"A burned-out ex-CIA operative haunted by Arthurian dreams must learn to time-travel with the help of a wisecracking Merlin to stop a presidential investigator’s assassination, discover who murdered his parents, and save a makeshift family — before the past and future erase everything he loves."
"An undefeated, retired boxing champion is pulled back into the ring when a tech company engineers an AI-generated viral fight to humiliate a social-media star — but when the company offers to fund the champion's granddaughter’s life-saving treatment in exchange for one last bout, he must risk everything for a second chance at glory and family."
"When a warm-hearted, forty-something London receptionist who talks to angels decides to stop waiting for life to happen, her meddling, glamorous guardian angel forces her into messy, hilarious attempts at career reinvention, love, and purpose."
"A meticulous brand strategist whose life is built around perfect timing begins experiencing literal 'rewinds'—moments of sensory collapse that undo her instincts. As her panic episodes threaten her work and the new relationship she’s finally allowed herself to have, she must decide whether to keep editing the world to feel safe, or surrender to the messy human moments that make love possible."
"A guilt‑haunted FBI agent who joined to save the innocent must protect a young woman who can speak to a changing Earth, while a shadowy government project decides whether to weaponize, contain—or destroy—the next stage of human evolution."
"A Hollywood 'sweetheart' who’s been living by other people's scripts secretly begins stripping in a Van Nuys club and, through a double life as a dancer, rediscovers the messy freedom to choose herself — even after a tabloid leak threatens to destroy everything she’s built."
"An investigative podcaster uncovers a tech company’s plan to retroactively rewrite history and must race a moral technocrat to make the disappeared visible again — by any means necessary."
"When a former girl-scout-turned-wrestler discovers she carries a fragment of an alien meteorite in her arm, she must race against a megalomaniacal scientist to rescue her kidnapped father and stop a weapon that can rewrite life itself."
"When a self-replicating alien mechanism awakens in the solar system, a disgraced lunar geologist and a tenacious intelligence agent join an international mission to stop it before Earth's cities are 'hexaformed'—but the greatest threat may come from humanity’s own desire to control the technology."
"When a girl born in a war zone is struck by lightning and named by an ancient prophecy, she is resurrected as Kamila—an awakened warrior tied to an ancestral queens' council—and must master both science and sorcery to stop Dominyaha, a millennia-old queen bent on flooding the world and remaking humanity."
"When a self-replicating alien mechanism awakens in the solar system, a disgraced lunar geologist and a tenacious intelligence agent join an international mission to stop it before Earth's cities are 'hexaformed'—but the greatest threat may come from humanity’s own desire to control the technology."
"After a fatal accident tears a family apart, a restless younger son demands his inheritance and leaves home—forcing him to reckon with grief, rivalry, and the price of freedom as the prodigal story unfolds in a dusty biblical landscape."
"When a sneaker-obsessed teen and the rival accused of attacking him are forced to partner on a school-sponsored shoe art project, they must navigate pride, peer pressure and a rising gang threat — until an unforeseen act of violence forces both to confront what they truly value."
"After years of living with the unexplained disappearance of her childhood best friend, a haunted woman uses surveillance, polaroids, and a battered camera to unmask a malign presence that feeds on images—forcing her to risk everything to drag the thing out of the shadows."
"An alcoholic-hopeful actor turned car salesman drives cross-country to crash a Hollywood casting and instead winds up on a star-studded salvage mission to the Titanic; when supernatural guardians and greed threaten the voyage, he must choose between timid survival and the courage to save lives — and finally earn the role of his life."
Coming to grips with a loved one's death is a powerful theme. Yet it can be placed into a comedy, adventure or thriller, all of which I've written. I created these screenplays motivated subconsciously by the death of my younger son, David (See THE SEARCH: A Mystical Journey on Amazon).