Announcing the Imagine This Women's Film Festival 2025 Screenplay Semi-Finalists!

Imagine This Women’s International Film Festival – 10th Anniversary Edition

We are thrilled to reveal the Semi-Finalists for the Screenplay Competition at the 10th Annual Imagine This Women’s International Film Festival (ITWIFF)!

This year marks a decade of championing bold voices and boundary-pushing stories by women, non-binary, and BIPOC creators. Our 2025 screenplay submissions were filled with originality, vision, and emotion, making the selection process incredibly competitive and inspiring. From powerful pilots to standout short scripts and thought-provoking features, these writers are shaping the future of film and television one page at a time.

We're proud to recognize the following screenwriters and projects as Semi-Finalists:

📝 2025 Screenplay Semi-Finalists:

• Adjusting – Alexis Louder

• Ain’t Dead Yet – Kari Barlas

• America, Inc. – Robin Shushan

• Back Roots – Delaina Waldron

• BENEATH THE UNDERCURRENT – Helen Alexis Yonov

• BLOWHARD – Kai-Lilly Karpman

• BLUNT – Hadeel Ramadan

• Breaking UP - Anne-Marie Agbodji

• Caroline and Cassidy (and Michael) – Lisa Baron Ray

• Concrete Village – Rosita Ruvalcava

• cyclic – Fenton Queens

• Diwata – Shea Formanes

• Elysian Falls – Ragan Mozee

• Girls vs. Hell – Juliette Roberts

• Grandeur – Alexandra Duran

• Hays Country – Sabah Muhammad

• Hide And Seek – Angelika Padberg

• If I Were A Fool – Kennedy Brabham

• IMYEL – Soel Celeste

• Iris’s Jar – Alicia Hawkins

• Joey and Dingo – Viktoria Bohunicka

• Jung – Sonia Yee

• Just What I Need (Pilot) – Allie Nelson

• Karma Kills – Amber Engel

• Last Act – Bessie Amato

• Last Sentinel – Shel Calopa

• Last Stand at Butte City – Natalie Schwan

• Limbo Land – Alex Paulk

• Low and Outside – Frances McCoy

• Mathematical Mermaid – Sandra FoxSohner

• MissConduct – Jess Agi

• Money Makers – Alex Rubin

• My Muse – Megan Esch

• Natural Born Queen – Natasha Smith-Hazzard

• Natural Selection – Amreen Gill

• Oar River – Jody McNicholas

• Odd Women – Caroline Ryder

• OMG I'M GAY – Joetta Wright

• Paper Thin – Katherine Garner

• Peach Fuzz – Hannah Sperling

• Porridge – Fenton Queens

• Poster Girls – Christina Capra

• Say You Love Me – Ann Murphy

• School of Men – Anna Isabel Campos Lamers

• Screentime – Zoé Paddon

• Season Four – Ashley Casperite

• Snapping Back – Niamh Gormley

• Splash Freaks – Liza Wyles

• Starville – Amanda Murphy

• Still Us – Kunjue Li

• Text Message – Pamela Rabadi

• The Armchair Travellers – Patricia Planck

• The Big Dick – Lizzy Esau

• The Eviction – Jen Davis

• The Paperman – Janelle Lee Austin

• The Paper Doll Murders – Jennifer Sutherland

• The Reserve – Ksenia Tolmazin

• Touch Up On Me – Zia Lee

• VIOLENCE – Maria Jose Moreno

• Wild Woman of the Woods – Tobi Iverson Halliday

• You Can Call Me Cookie – Kamaria Williams

To all the incredible storytellers on this list: thank you for trusting us with your work. We are in awe of your creativity, voice, and passion. Whether your script explores love, identity, family, resistance, or reinvention, you are reshaping the screenwriting landscape—and we are honored to champion your stories.

Stay tuned as we announce our Finalists and Winners in the coming weeks, and join us this September 11–14, 2025, for our biggest festival yet—both in-person at LOOK Dine-In Cinemas W57 and online!

With appreciation,

With gratitude,

The ITWIFF Team