award-winning Screenplay Collections
By our instructor Bob Bowersox (aka R.T Bowersox)
Reading real scripts is essential for beginning screenwriters because it reveals how professional writers structure scenes, develop characters, and build tension. By studying real examples, you gain insight into industry standards, formatting, and storytelling techniques that bring scripts to life on screen. It's a powerful way to learn what works—and why!
Screenplays Volume 1
Digital PDF download that includes 3 Award Winning Scripts by our instructor Bob Bowersox:
Beneath the Badge: A young homicide detective with an extraordinary artistic talent has hidden his abilities from his colleagues and his Irish, by-the-book, police captain father for fear of appearing less the man they expect him to be. But his two worlds collide when a series of deadly home invasions brings him face to face with the beautiful daughter of a murdered art gallery owner who discovers his secret.
Winner, Marco Island Screenwriting Competition
2nd Place, American Screenwriting Competition
Finalist, Benderspink/Final Draft Big Break Competition
Semi-Finalist, Project Greenlight 1 & 2
Semi-Finalist, Carl Sautter Competition
2024 Cannes Film Festival Winner
The Promise:The same night a pragmatic, self-absorbed TV reporter is handed a career-making story, the touch of an unknown woman's hand on the street throws his life into utter and surreal chaos.
2-Time 2nd Place, Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
Under the Eye of God:When a case of mistaken identity thrusts homeless street poet America Morrison into the world of a Nobel laureate, the heat of the spotlight threatens her freedom and her desire to hide from her past, forcing her to come to terms with that past, herself, and her talent.
* Second-Round selection, Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
Screenplays Volume 2
Digital PDF download that includes 3 Award Winning Scripts by our instructor Bob Bowersox:
Growing Flowers on the Moon: While grieving on the night of the fiftieth anniversary of her long-lost love’s death, a rich, elderly woman is confronted by a young man claiming to be the reincarnation of her dead lover.
* Semi-Finalist, Screencraft Film Fund Competition
* Semi-Finalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
* Semi-Finalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
Happily Ever Opposite: When a single mom classical violinist trying to make First Chair with the Philadelphia Orchestra and an aging rock and roll god living out his glory surrounded by rabid fans and groupies are each sold the same estate by swindlers, they stake their respective claims by moving in at the same time, bringing new meaning to the phrase “Roll over, Beethoven.”
*Second Rounder (Top 10%) Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
In the Shadow of the Cross: A three-hundred-million-dollar lottery ticket and a little girl whose mother has been murdered force a recovering gambling addict with a shady past who has found refuge as the priest of a small Catholic church into playing for the highest stakes of his life when a vicious crime czar and a crooked archbishop try to close his parish to make room for a new casino.