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.

Notable Films: Yesterday, Toy Story 4, The Farewell, Maiden, Brittany Runs a Marathon, David Crosby: Remember My Name, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Official Secrets, The Sound of Silence, For Sama, American Factory, Honeyland, The Edge of Democracy, and One Child Nation.

Screenwriters Tribute Award: Leslie Dixon, presented by Nikki Blonsky, and Brittany Snow

Creative Impact in Television Award: Anne Beatts, Jane Curtin, Heidi Gardner, Sudi Green, Sarah Schneider.

Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award: Mickey and the Bear directed by Annabelle Attanasio

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: Sundogs by Elizabeth Chatelain

Showtime’s Tony Cox Short Film Screenplay Competition Winner:
I Know Your Number by Heart by Alexis Barzin

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (60 MIN) Competition Winner: Living by Kate Levitt

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (30 MIN) Competition Winner: Funderland by Sasha Perl-Raver

All-Star Comedy Roundtable: SNL Writers’ Room Gold | Participants: Anne Beatts, Jane Curtin, Heidi Gardner, Sudi Green, hosted by Ophira Eisenberg.

Notable Programming: Late Night Storytelling - Theme: Fight, Flight or Freeze, Afternoon Tea Talk: Gillian Jacobs & Curated, Afternoon Tea Talk: Donick Cary, Little Know Facts Podcast Taping with Ilana Levine and Leslie Dixon, Morning Coffee With… with.

Notable Films: Boys State, 9to5: The Story of Movement, Jimmy Carter Rockn’ Roll President.

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: MINOR MODIFICATIONS - Shia LaBeouf

Showtime’s Tony Cox Short Film Screenplay Competition Winner: MARTHA - Sarah Smith

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (60 MIN) Competition Winner: BEING SEEN - Andi Delott

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (30 MIN) Competition Winner: DRYWALL - Rob Eckard

Notable Programming: NFF NOW AT HOME - In Their Shoes with Norman Lear, In Their Shoes with Middleditch + Schwartz, In Their Shoes with Eric Roth. NFF AT THE DRIVE IN.

Notable Films: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Playing With Sharks, Coda, Roadrunner, The Loneliest Whale, In The Same Breath, and Naked Singularity

Excellence in Television Writing Award: Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino

Compass Rose Award for Career Achievement: Kelsey Grammer, presented by Rachel Winter

Showtime’s Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition Winner: THE 84 by Sonja Perryman

Showtime’s Tony Cox Short Film Screenplay Competition Winner: THE LITTLE MONSTER OF RAVENSWOOD MANOR by Katherine Sainte Marie

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (60 MIN) Competition Winner: SECOND CROSSING by James Howells

Showtime’s Tony Cox Television Pilot (30 MIN) Competition Winner: HEAD FIRST by Jade Edwards

Notable Programming: GARDEN CONVERSATIONS - Queen of Beach Reads With Elin Hilderbrand, The David Versus Goliath Story. And David is a Girl. With Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, The Making of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and More with Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, What is a Ghost? With Blue Balliett, A Better Man…With Michael Ian Black, SUNSET STORIES with Ophira Eisenberg, BREAKING LOOSE: A Conversation with Kelsey Grammer and Rachel Winter, This Is a Robbery: The Art of the Heist with Colin and Nick Barnicle, Journalism, Biography and the World of Television News with Chris Matthews and Lesley Stahl; GARDEN SCREENINGS- Jack London’s Martens Eden, The Disruptors; NFF AT THE DRIVE-IN; NFF NOW AT HOME - In Their Shoes with Ethan Hawke, In Their Shoes with Mark Duplass, In Their Shoes with Katie Silberman and Olivia Wilde, In Their Shoes with author Alice Hoffman.

Notable Films: Fire of Love, Linoleum, Breaking, Lightyear, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Emily The Criminal, 2nd Chance, Endangered, The Forgiven, I Love My Dad, It Ain’t Over, The Good Boss, My Old School, Official Competition, The Good House, Under The Influence

Screenwriters Tribute Award: Barry Jenkins; hosted by Ophira Eisenberg & Bethany Van Delft

Compass Rose Award for Career Achievement: John Turturro, presented by Ben Stiller

Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award: Ramin Bahrani, presented by Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady

New Voices in Screenwriting Award: Cooper Raiff, presented by Dakota Johnson

Adrienne Shelly Foundation Award: Amy Bandlien Storkel (Director & Producer of The Pez Outlaw)

Tony Cox Episodic 30 Screenplay Competition Winner: IMPERFECT* by David Crane and Nicole Evans

Tony Cox Episodic 60 Screenplay Competition Winner: MURDER IN MARSH by Elisabeth Hayward

Tony Cox Short Screenplay Competition Winner: PANCAKE SKANK by Sav Rogers

Tony Cox Feature Screenplay Competition Winner: THE RIFT by Michael Lei

Screenwriters Roundtable | Participants: Ramin Bahrani, Jenny Slate, Cooper Raiff, hosted by Dade Hayes

Notable Programming: Late Night Storytelling - Theme: Keep Calm And Carry On, SEVERANCE Screening and Q&A with Ben Stiller and John Turturro, Green Carpet Cinema Talk, Staged Reading of HOWARD BEACH - Written by John Turturro, Morning Coffee With…