SCREENPLAYS
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'THE SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY' (narrative short)
In the midst of a brutal revolution, an Iranian woman taken to an otherworldly prison with only her dismembered eye as a method of sight transforms into a symbol of hope and resistance against a totalitarian regime in a harrowing journey of defiance. Written by Anjini Taneja Azhar & Ariya Akhavan
- Finalist, SoCal Screenplay Competition (2024)
- Finalist, Film Pipeline Short Script Competition (2024)
- Finalist, Filmmatic Screenplay Awards Season 9 (2024)
- Silver Medal Winner, Let’s Make It Screenplay Competition (2024)
- Semifinalist, Screencraft Film Fund (2024)
- Semifinalist, Outstanding Screenplays Competition (2024)
- Quarterfinalist, Screencraft Film Fund (2025)
- Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Pitch Now Competition Season 7 (2025)
- Quarterfinalist, Hollyshorts Screenwriting Competition (2024)
- Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Sci-fi & Fantast Awards Season 2 (2024) -
'WHO ARE YOU, NANU?' (narrative short)
After her grandfather’s (Nanu’s) ceremonial cremation brings her to the Holy Ganges River in India, ten year-old oddball Aisha befriends the phantom of her Nanu’s rambunctious seven year-old self and discovers the journey after death.
- Grand Jury Award & Grant Winner, Shore Scripts (2023)
- Top 1% discoverable on Coverfly
- Finalist — Top 8, Raindance Script Competition (2023)
- Finalist, WritersxWriters Competition (2023)
- Finalist, Barnstorm Fest (2023)
- Runner Up, Hollyshorts Screenplay Competition (2023)
- Runner Up, Outstanding Screenplays Competition (2023)
- Semifinalist, Screencraft Film Fund (2022, 2023, and 2024)
- Semifinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2023)
- Semifinalist, Cinequest Screenwriting Competition (2023)
- Honourable Mention, The Finish Line Script Competition (2023)
- Quarterfinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2023)
- Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay Short Script Lab (2023)
- Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards (2023)
- Nominee, New Media Film Festival (2023) -
'OUR SINS' (feature)
A young first-gen immigrant is pushed to extreme lengths hustling for a black-market pharmaceuticals dealer in order to afford his mother's life-saving medication.
- Finalist, Bigfoot Script Challenge (2022)
- Finalist, Golden Script Competition (2022)
- Semifinalist, Big Apple Agents & Managers Lab (2022)
- Honourable Mention, Finish Line Script Competition (2022)
- Semifinalist, PAGE Awards (2022)
- Semifinalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2022)
- Semifinalist, Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2021)
- Semifinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2022)
- Quarterfinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2022)
- Second Rounder, ScreenCraft Film Fund Spring (2022)
- NFFTY Pitch Finalist (2022)
- Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Pitch Now Screenplay Competition Season 4
- Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles Int’l Screenplay Awards (2021)
- Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship Season 5 -
MARTINA (narrative short)
Before the beginning of what her dad hopes to be a better life away from her abuse, addict mother, eight-year old Martina embarks on one final journey to discover the raw worth of goodbyes. She closes the door on her broken home and charges into her bare-boned town, secretly crawling with life, with only a green glass bottle and the words of her father in her mind.
- Quarterfinalist, Hollyshorts Screenplay Competition (2020)
- Nominee, Los Angeles Int’l Screenplay Awards (2019)
- Semifinalist, Big Apple Screenplay Competition (2019)
- Semifinalist, Bahamas Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2019)