Faith & Family
Screenwriting Awards
Winners
Summer 2025
Awards Presented July 27, 2025
Congratulations!
We want to acknowledge the writers of the amazing scripts that rose to the top of the Summer 2025 Faith and Family Screenwriting Awards Festival.
You have shown examples of excellence in screenwriting and we are happy to be a part of your process as you take steps to see your work come to life on screen.​
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Thank you to all who entered your screenplays. We look forward to seeing you in the next season.​
Watch the Awards Presentation
Grand Prize Winner
Best Screenplay
Frustration
Sean Gaffney and Shun Lee
The writers won a professional table read cast by Jaclyn Whit and the Faith and Family Filmmakers Association.
Best Short Screenplay
Proofing Hoomans
Sabina Boyer
Best Pilot Screenplay
Reformers
Tamara Green
Best Action Feature Screenplay
Absolute Faith
Mary Haarmeyer & Craig Beeman
Best Mystery Feature Screenplay
Unravelled
Brett Bower
Best Comedy Feature Screenplay
Frustration
Sean Gaffney and Shun Lee
Best Historical Feature Screenplay
Bernice Melanie Villines,
Jessica Everleth & Hiram L. Johnson
Best Based on a True Story
Grounded
Cheri Daley
Best Romanitc Comedy Feature
Christmas Across the Hall
Sabina Boyer
Best Christmas Feature Screenplay
The Christmas Stocking
Beverly Nault & Sandra Hendrickson Esch
Runner Up: Christmas Across the Hall - Sabina Boyer
Best Children's Feature Screenplay
A Field Trip to Freaking 1912
Monica Comercio Layton
Best Teen Audience Screenplay
Dinner with Rembrandt
Gabrielle Restivo
Best Family Feature Screenplay
Christmas Across the Hall
Sabina Boyer
Runner Up: The Christmas Stocking
Beverly Nault & Sandra Hendrickson Esch
Best Adventure Feature Screenplay
Frustration
Sean Gaffney & Shun Lee
Runner Up: Grounded - Cheri Daly
3rd Place: A Field Trip to Freaking 1912
Monica Comercio Layton
Best Drama Feature Screenplay
A Relative Unknown
Lynne Logan
Runner Up: Dinner with Rembrandt - Gabrielle Restivo
3rd Place: Bernice - Melanie Villines, Jessica Everleth
& Hiram L. Johnson
Best Faith Based Screenplay
Unravelled
Brett Bower
Runner Up: The Christmas Stocking
Beverly Nault & Sandra Hendrickson Esch
3rd Place: Christmas Across the Hall - Sabina Boyer
Congratulations to all Winners
and Participants
We'll see you on January 25th
for the
Winter 2026 Screenwriting Awards
and Filmmakers Bootcamp!
Winter 2025
Awards Presented January 26, 2025
Congratulations!
We want to acknowledge the writers of the amazing scripts that rose to the top of the Winter 2025 Faith and Family Screenwriting Awards Festival.
You have shown examples of excellence in screenwriting and we are happy to be a part of your process as you take steps to see your work come to life on screen.​
​
Thank you to all who entered your screenplays. We look forward to seeing you in the next season.​
Watch the Awards Presentation
Grand Prize Winner
Best Screenplay
What's a Girl to Do
Janet Folger Porter
Janet won a professional table read cast by Jean Wenger of Treasure Coast Talent in cooperation with the Faith and Family Filmmakers Association.
Best Short Screenplay
My Holy Ground
Tim Wesemann
Runner Up: What Matters - Timothy Kernc
Best Pilot Screenplay
The Mâr Choronicles
A. S. Templeton
Best Action Adventure Screenplay
Epiphany
David Murphy
Runner Up: Quest for Light - Byron E. Anderson
Best Mystery Screenplay
Entangled Hearts
Kimberly Rose Johnson
Best Based on a True Story
What's a Girl to Do
Janet Folger Porter
Runner Up: There Will Come a Day - Cheryl McKay
Best Historical Screenplay
Quest for Light - Adventure of the Maji
Byron E. Anderson
Runner Up: Epiphany - David Murphy
Best Four Quadrant Screenplay
What is Your Emergency
Donna Loehrer
Best Teen Audience Screenplay
The Least of These
Ellen Winburn
Runner Up: Breaking Joy - Lori Closter
Best Drama Screenplay
The Sound of Everything
David Hyde
2nd Place: What's a Girl to Do - Janet Folger Porter
3rd Place: There Will Come a Day - Cheryl Mckay
Best Faith Based Screenplay
There Will Come a Day
Cheryl McKay
2nd Place: What's is Your Emergency - Donna Loehrer
3rd Place: What's a Girl to Do - Janet Folger Porter