SIP Screenwriting Competition

SIP 2024 finalists are announced! Winners will be announced in the spring.

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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AND THE 2024 FINALISTS ARE…

Feature Length Screenplays:

Bebe Loves Ben

Logline: When exes and sworn enemies Bebe and Ben are cast as romantic leads in their community theater musical, their friends hatch a plan to get them back together.

Blotter

Logline: In order to crack a cold case, a Hard-Boiled True Crime Podcast Host attempts to debunk an urban legend about a deadly batch of LSD, but instead finds himself becoming part of the story.

Dig Deep

Logline:When two girls accidentally summon a 19th-century Black Cowboy, they see him as their ticket to victory in a science competition, until they realize their actions could erase his historic archeological discovery.

The Johnnys

Logline:Two high school sophomores – one black, one white – with the same name and the same love for the new game of basketball, show a 1902 race-torn Philadelphia what brotherly love looks like. Based on the incredible true story.

Targets

Logline: After helplessly fleeing from his brother’s murder as a young boy, an emotionally damaged Black professor accompanies two students on a turbulent social justice march, where he must confront the guilt from his past to protect his students’ futures.

TV Pilots:

Assisted Dying

Logline: Linda Walsh runs a non-profit senior care facility, burying herself in the work there, struggling against the odds to keep the doors open, all of it meant to distract from a lingering grief. Along comes a handsome state inspector to challenge her ability to do both.

Sofia & Dan vs.

Logline: After an African-American man and a white Ukrainian-American woman move in together and reveal their relationship to their families, they must face all the absurdities that racist neighbors, family trauma and 1980s Philadelphia throw their way.

Stealth City

Logline: Alien homicide detective Roan Hollow has a new beat—Earth. Her first case? Finding out how sixteen off-world refugees ended up dead in a shack in the Jersey Pine Barrens. Her spineless boss doesn’t want the case solved, but Roan hasn’t let a single murder victim go unavenged in her 300 year career.

Vampyre: S1E01: Little Book of Vampirisms

Logline: After a murder victim is accidentally turned, PPD Detective Sabine Rogers learns vampires are real, and they’re kind of annoying. She must team up with an enigmatic vampire couple to find the killer whilst unraveling the bigger mystery at play.

The Watch

Logline:A cunning thief balances risky scores with being an uncle, caretaker, student, and small business owner.

The “Set in Philadelphia” Screenwriting Competition (SIP) is proudly presented by the Greater Philadelphia Film Office under its Greater Philadelphia Filmmakers program with 2024 awards sponsored by:

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