Sponsored by the the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Djerassi Residency Award/SFFS Screenwriting Fellowship will provide a one-month residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program for an emerging or established screenwriter.


2011 WINNER

Adam Chanzit, for his psychological thriller "The 15th Stone." When a struggling Cleveland musician receives disturbing emails from his former best friend, he decides to find his old pal. The trail leads to a Daoist temple in the mountains of China where his friend has established a new life for himself. But a number of troubling activities—visits by government officials, the trading of illegal goods, the exchange of a child—lead the musician to suspect that a nefarious network may be operating out of the temple and that his friend may be involved.
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Christy Chan received the title of Honorable Mention for her screenplay, This Must Be the Place.

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2010 WINNER

Kathryn Mockler for her script "Weak People Are Fun to Torment." Thirty-year-old Gus, a college dropout, has just been asked by his father to move out of his house so that his father’s girlfriend and her daughter can move in, in spite of the fact that Gus has no job and no skills that would enable him to live independently. While coping with the death of his mother and his own feelings of guilt and resentment about her suicide, he struggles to move on with his life but finds himself being drawn back into familiar scenarios by his teenage brother, who not only has a drug problem but also seems to have the same mental illness as their mother. www.kathrynmockler.com.

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