SIP Screenwriting Competition

SIP 2023 finalists have been established! These scripts are in the hands of the finalist judges and the winners will be announced in the spring. Congratulations and good luck to all!

Features

The Dark Grove

Thirteen years after her younger sister disappeared, a psychology graduate student comes to believe her new patient holds the key to the mystery. When no one believes her, she takes matters into her own hands, struggling to find her sister as she begins to suspect there’s a larger conspiracy at work.

Engram

In the near future, when forensic Memory Detectives solve murders by accessing the victim’s engrams, veteran Mem-Dec Max Novak ingests evidence that the Engram Corporation he works for is built upon a lie and must expose the dark truth before his corrupt superiors wipe his own memory clean, forever.

Flake

A man with chronic dandruff and an obsession with snow globes falls in love with a prostitute and fights against cultural norms to find love in the darkest of places.

Mating

A young girl on the edge of puberty strives to convince her family to help her protect other young girls from a child predator as she struggles with nightmares of her own burgeoning sexuality.

Until Death

A female self-defense teacher teams up with her hit man neighbor after finding herself in trouble with a sadistic crime boss.

TV Pilots

Chatsworth

A New Jersey park ranger (Palmetto), grieving over the disappearance of his pregnant wife, finds himself caught between a covert government agency and cryptic extraterrestrial activity.

Consignment

After being fired, a divorced mid-life job hopper opens a designer consignment boutique and must learn how to outsmart cunning competition, care for poorly parents and finally fall in love with herself — while mastering three-inch heels.

Firm Family

Four estranged rival siblings return to their old home in East Philadelphia, where they are confronted with the truth behind their late mothers, squeaky, clean, legal practice, and must decide whether to expose her dangerous truth or pick up where she left off.

Magical Negro

In pre-Civil War Philadelphia, a rebellious Black man, who is a personified good luck charm, runs afoul of powerful city officials and must survive the bullet-riddled consequences if his thriving Black community is to persist.

Old Mom

After a spontaneous hookup with a potential client results in pregnancy, an ambitious marketing executive struggles to manage her job, her body, and her baby daddy—a man-child social media influencer 14 years her junior who insists on being involved.

The “Set in Philadelphia” Screenwriting Competition (SIP), which is presented by the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, is open to all screenwriters, world-wide, who submit a feature length screenplay OR an original TV pilot length screenplay that can be shot in the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. All genres are accepted. Scripts are judged on their overall quality and the extent to which they project “shootability” in the Greater Philadelphia region. SIP Finalist Judges are high profile producers, writers and actors who have a Philadelphia connection.

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The “Set in Philadelphia” Screenwriting Competition (SIP) is proudly presented by the Greater Philadelphia Film Office under its Greater Philadelphia Filmmakers program with 2023 awards sponsored by:

Stephen Starr
Hallee and David Adelman
Comcast & NBCUniversal
Laurie Lo Presti
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