Previous Festivals

Notable Films: The Cable Guy, Lone Star, Walking and Talking, Losing Chase, White Squall, Café Society, A Perfect Candidate

Staged Readings: Unknown Citizen by Nicole Burdette, Grapefruit Moon by Mary Stuart Masterson, Saint Maybe by Craig Lucac –Participants: Robert Sean Leonard, William Baldwin, Winona Ryder, Mary Stuart Masterson, Fisher Stevens

Notable Films: Ma Vie en Rose, The Full Monty, Shooting Fish, Hugo Pool, Colin Fitz, Forgotten Silver, Star Maps

Staged Reading: Love-40 by Warren Leight, Domestic Disturbance by Frank Novak, Peace, Love & War by Pete Nelson

Notable Films: Next Stop Wonderland, Gadjo Dilo, Safe Men, Slums of Beverly Hills, Smoke Signals

Screenwriters Tribute: Ring Lardner, Jr.

Notable Films: Twins Falls Idaho, Run Lola Run, Sugar Town, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

Screenwriters Tribute: Jay Presson Allen

Notable Films: Girlfight, Happy Accidents, The Tao of Steve, Steal This Movie!, Ballad of Ramblin’ Jack, Swimming

Screenwriters Tribute: Paul Schrader

Notable Films: American Rhapsody, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Things Behind the Sun, Together

Screenwriters Tribute: Walter Bernstein

Notable Films: 24 Hour Party People, The Good Girl, Happy Times, Mostly Martha, Tadpole

Screenwriters Tribute: James Schamus

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Down to the Bone by Debra Granik

Notable Films: 28 Days Later, American Splendor, Dirty Pretty Things, The Magdalene Sisters, Thirteen, To Be and To Have, Whale Rider

Screenwriters Tribute: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Buried Above Ground by Chase Palmer

Staged Reading: A Confederacy of Dunces by Steven Soderbergh and Scott Kramer –Participants: Will Ferrell, Alan Cumming, Mos Def, Rosie Perez, Paul Rudd

Notable Films: The Door in the Floor, Down to the Bone, Garden State, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, Maria Full of Grace, Napoleon Dynamite, Primer, Riding Giants

Screenwriters Tribute: Charlie Kaufman

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: The Last Seder by Jennifer Maisel

Notable Films: The Dying Gaul, The Aristocrats, Hustle & Flow, Keane, Murderball, Me And You And Everyone We Know, The Puffy Chair, Somersault, Yes, My Summer of Love

Screenwriters Tribute: Steve Martin

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Mink by Will Luers

Notable Films: The Heart of the Game, Half Nelson, The Illusionist, Man Push Cart, Quinceanera, Wordplay, Al Franken: God Spoke

Screenwriters Tribute: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Cold Souls by Sophie Bartes

Staged Reading: Spectacle, Part One of the Mark Rosen Chronicles, by Stacy Weiss and Dan Chariton –Participants: Ben Stiller, Macaulay Culkin, Amy Sedaris, Robert Sean Leonard, Lake Bell, David Krumholtz. Directed by Ben Stiller.

Notable Films: Evening, Son of Rambow, Broken English, Teeth, Waitress, The Devil Came on Horseback, Great World of Sound

Screenwriters Tribute: Robert Benton

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Peck by Marc Arneson

Notable Films: American Teen, Frozen River, Transsiberian, Trouble the Water, The Wackness, Baghead, Choke

Screenwriters Tribute: Judd Apatow

Compass Rose Acting Award: Meg Ryan

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Anna Down East by Fred M. Strype

Notable Films: The Hurt Locker, Cold Souls, Still Walking, The Cove, The Messenger, Year One, Amreeka, Humpday, Racing Dreams

Screenwriters Tribute: Harold Ramis

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Future Weather by Jenny Deller

All-Star Comedy Roundtable presented by Ben Stiller: Hosted by Chris Matthews, –Participants: Harold Ramis, Peter Farrelly, John Hamburg, Ben Stiller

Notable Films: Toy Story 3, The Kids Are All Right, Nowhere Boy, Get Low, The Tillman Story, Waiting for Superman, Bill Cunningham New York, The Concert, Winter’s Bone

Screenwriters Tribute: Barry Levinson

Compass Rose Acting Award: Robert Duvall

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner:  Utopia by Tommy Butler

Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award: Waiting for Superman by Davis Guggenheim

New Voices in Screenwriting Award: Michael Arndt for Toy Story 3

All Star Comedy Roundtable presented by Ben Stiller: Hosted by Brian Williams, –Participants: Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis, Andy Samberg, Ben Stiller

Notable Films: Buck, Margin Call, Higher Ground, Cars 2, Terri, Submarine, Page One, Senna, Tyrannosaur, Life in a Day, To Be Heard, Being Elmo

Screenwriters Tribute: Paul Haggis

Compass Rose Acting Award: Vera Farmiga

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: The Murphys by Kaitlin McLaughlin

New Voices in Screenwriting Award: Ben Queen for Cars 2

All Star Comedy Roundtable presented by Ben Stiller: Hosted by Seth Meyers, –Participants: Jerry Seinfeld, Aziz Ansari, Colin Quinn, Ben Stiller

Notable Films: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Brave, Your Sister’s Sister, Sleepwalk With Me, Robot and Frank, Hello I Must Be Going, Ethel, The Intouchables, Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramovic, The Queen of Versailles, Searching for Sugar Man, Take This Waltz, Café de Flore, Starbuck

Screenwriters Tribute: Nancy Meyers

Compass Rose Acting Award: Frank Langella

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Jean of the Joneses by Stella Meghie

Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award: Rory Kennedy for Ethel

New Voices in Screenwriting Award: Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar

All Star Comedy Roundtable presented by Ben Stiller: Hosted by Bill Hader, –Participants: Jim Carrey, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller

Staged Reading: The Lost Cause by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne –Participants: Steve Zahn, Mike Birbiglia, Cara Seymour, Stephen Root, Tom Cavanagh

Notable Films: Short Term 12, Fruitvale Station, Twenty Feet From Stardom, Monsters University, Blood Brother, Blackfish, In A World…, The Short Game, The Spectacular Now, Girl Most Likely

Screenwriters Tribute: David O. Russell, presented by Glenn Close

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Cake by Patrick Tobin

Television Pilot (Hour ­Long) Competition Winner: The Messiah Project by David Baugnon
Television Pilot (Half Hour ­Long) Competition Winner: Time Out by Ian McWethy

Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award: Barbara Kopple

New Voices in Screenwriting Award: Lake Bell

All Star Comedy Roundtable presented by Ben Stiller: Hosted by Michael Ian Black, –Participants: Mike Myers, Seth Meyers, Ben Stiller

Notable Films: Boyhood, I Origins, Begin Again, Life Itself, Last Days in Vietnam, The Skeleton Twins, Gabriel, The Muppet Movie

Screenwriters Tribute: Aaron Sorkin, presented by Bradley Whitford

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Early Plus Infinity by Clark Carroll

Television Pilot (Hour ­Long) Competition Winner: Tomorrowland by Jamie Mayer
Television Pilot (Half Hour ­Long) Competition Winner: Stiffs by Stuart Feldman

Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award: Steve James

New Voices in Screenwriting Award: Mike Cahill

All Star Comedy Roundtable presented by Ben Stiller: Hosted by Michael Ian Black, –Participants: Billy Eichner, Jon Daly, Jenny Slate, Ben Stiller

Staged Reading: Strange Calls by Donick Cary –Participants: Brandy Burre, Tom Cavanagh, Rory Culkin, Chris Matthews, Fred Willard

Notable Films: The End of the Tour, Inside Out, Best of Enemies, Sleeping with Other People, What Happened, Miss Simone?, Racing Extinction

Screenwriters Tribute: Robert Towne, presented by Chris Matthews

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Counterintelligence by Kristen Davila

Television Pilot (Hour ­Long) Competition Winner: Ice by Estella Gabriel
Television Pilot (Half Hour ­Long) Competition Winner: Sold by Jonathan Schwartz

Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award: Liz Garbus

New Voices in Screenwriting Award: Leslye Headland

Variety Creative Impact in Television Writing Award: Beau Willimon presented by Robin Wright

Staged Reading: Bob Fisher’s My Roommate by Spencer Sloan –Participants: Tom Cavanagh, Dave Foley, Kevin Bigley, Donick Cary

Notable Films: Life, Animated, Finding Dory, Norman Lear:Just Another Version of You, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Don't Think Twice, Captain Fantastic

Screenwriters Tribute Award: Oliver Stone, presented by Bennett Miller

Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award: Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady (Loki Films), presented by Norman Lear

New Voices in Screenwriting Award: Siân Heder, presented by Zachary Quinto

Compass Rose Acting Award: Molly Shannon, presented by Michael Ian Black

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Tel Aviv on Fire by Sameh Zoabi

Showtime’s Tony Cox Short Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Waylaid by Michael Koehler

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (60 MIN) Competition Winner: Cleo by Julia Fontana

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (30 MIN) Competition Winner: The Godmother by Wyndham Lewis

Notable Programing: TNP Presents: Ideas/Talks/Films, Enter the Story: Virtual Reality Experiences, Stage Reading—Selections from Screenwriters Colony: Episodic Comedy

Notable Films: The Big Sick, Whitney. "Can I Be Me", An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Patti Cake$, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, 500 Years, Wind River, Cars 3, The Illumination, Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton.

Screenwriters Tribute Award: Tom McCarthy, presented by Bobby Cannavale

Creative Impact in Television Writing Award: David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik, presented by Kathleen Rose Perkins

Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award: Nick Broomfield, presented by Regina Weinriech

New Voices in Screenwriting Award: Geremy Jasper, presented by Bridget Everett

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Johnny Ace by Moon Molson

Showtime’s Tony Cox Short Film Screenplay Competition Winner: The Yao of Tao by Jesse Wang, Robert Berg, and Rajiv Shah

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (60 MIN) Competition Winner: The Line by Tesia Walker

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (30 MIN) Competition Winner: Casey Can't by Kaitlin Fontana

All Star Comedy Roundtable presented by Ben Stiller: Hosted by Sasheer Zamata, –Participants: Mike Birbiglia, Whitney Cummings, Bridget Everett, Kristen Schaal, Ben Stiller

Late Night Storytelling (Late Night Letters): Hosted by Ophira Eisenberg –Participants included: Mike Birbiglia, Dana Delany, Ryan Eggold, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Kristen Schaal.

Notable Programming: TV and Talks - The Keepers, TV and Talks - Get Shorty,Silent Film/Live Music - The Freshman, Free Beach Screening - La Bamba (30th Anniversary) & Conversation with Esai Morales, Afternoon Tea Talk with Gabourey Sidibe.

Notable Films: Boundaries, The Incredibles 2, Love, Gilda, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Burden, The Wife, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, Minding the Gap, End Game, Bao, We Only Know So Much, 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up, Eighth Grade, Searching

Screenwriters Tribute Award: Noah Baumbach, presented by Adam Driver

Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award: Morgan Neville, presented by François Clemmons

New Voices in Screenwriting Award: Andrew Heckler, presented by Garrett Hedlund

Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award: Roll Red Roll directed by Nancy Schwartzman

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Cambridge by Henry Hayes and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Showtime’s Tony Cox Short Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Cinderella War by Margaret Kane-Rowe

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (60 MIN) Competition Winner: Legacy by Kellen Hertz

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (30 MIN) Competition Winner: All We Do Is Nguyen by Huong Nguyen

All Star Comedy Roundtable: The Improv Takeover presented by Ben Stiller: Participants: Thomas Middleditch, Ben Schwartz, Ben Stiller.

Women Behind the Words: Stories from Hollywood’s Front Lines: Hosted by Ophira Eisenberg – Participants: Miranda Bailey, Sera Gamble, Alysia Reiner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Nancy Schwartzman.

Notable Programming: Live taping of NPR’s rambunctious Ask Me Another, In Their Shoes… with Noah Baumbach, Adam Driver, Ben Stiller, and Chris Matthews, Silent Film/Live Music - The Man Who Laughs, Morning Coffee With… with Tom Cavanagh.