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Screenwriting

Goldie Jones

Screenwriter

Goldie has won over 100 accolades for her feature screenplays, pilots, and short scripts across a number of competitions, festival, fellowships, and grants.

Her work has won 2nd place at Slamdance and Cinequest, Second Rounder for the 2023 and 2025 Sundance Development Track and the Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant, Top 5% for The Writers Lab 2023, and Top 5 finalist for production grants from WIF and ISA. 

 

Repped by Joseph Cavalier and Chris Coggins at Heroes & Villains Entertainment.

Feature Screenplays

LENORE

crime thriller, feature screenplay

Lenore’s job was simple; get rid of the bodies. Until the day she’s asked to clean up the body of a teenage girl who isn’t quite dead and isn’t at all who she appears to be.

  • 2nd Place - Slamdance Screenplay Competition

  • 2nd Place - Cinequest Screenplay Competition

  • Women in Film Production Grant Finalist

  • Table Read My Screenplay - Hollywood - 4th place

  • ISA Shoot Your Sizzle production grant - 5th place

  • Quarterfinalist - Blue Cat Screenplay Competition

  • 2nd Round - Slated Film Accelerator

  • 2nd Round - Screencraft Film Fund

  • Filmarket Hub US Pitchbox - Official Selection

  • Semi-Finalist - Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship

  • Top 2% on Coverfly

  • #13 Thriller Feature - Coverfly Red List

  • #18 Thriller Script - Coverfly Red List

THE SEED

crime/heist thriller, feature screenplay

Fresh out of prison, Charlotte “Charlie” Smith is forced to pay off an old debt by intercepting a package only to learn the package is a person – an organ donor caught at the center of a war between a dying mobster and his estranged son.

  • Stowe Launch Fellowship Winner

  • Austin Film Festival Semi-Finalist

  • Roadmap Top Tier Top 10

  • Quarterfinalist - PAGE Awards

  • Finalist - Stowe Diversity Fellowship

  • Sidewalk Narrative Lab - Official Selection

  • Stowe California Retreat - Official Selection

  • Semifinalist - Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition

  • Quarterfinalist - Outstanding Screenplay Awards

  • Quarterfinalist - Table Read My Screenplay

  • Top 10% - The Writers Lab

  • Top 1% on Coverfly

  • #4 Action Feature - Coverfly Red List

  • #4 Action Script - Coverfly Red List

DEVIL MAKES THREE

Horror thriller, feature screenplay

When struggling author Valerie becomes convinced her musician boyfriend has made a deal with a devil, sacrificing her to his own ambitions, she makes a deal of her own for everything she’d ever wanted…at a price. Babadook meets Gaslight steeped in the magic of New Orleans.

  • Second Round - Sundance Development Track 2023

  • Second Round - "Of A Certain Age" Grant

  • Stowe Launch Fellowship Finalist

  • Finalist - Nyx Horror Collective Fellowship

  • Finalist - Bigfoot Script Challenge

  • The Writers Lab - Top 5%

  • Second Rounder - Screencraft Film Fund

  • Second Rounder - Fast Track Fellowship

  • Semifinalist - LAIS Diversity Initiative

  • Quarterfinalist - ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship

  • Top 2% on Coverfly

  • #7 Horror Feature - Coverfly Red List

  • #20 Horror Script - Coverfly Red List

LITTLE MOUSE

crime/heist thriller, feature screenplay

A recently widowed nurse on the hook to some very bad people for her husband’s gambling debts discovers a Jane Doe with dementia in her care may hold the key to the location of a stolen fortune, but she isn’t the only one looking to unbury the secrets of her patient’s dark past.

  • Finalist - Page Fellowship - Stowe Story Labs

  • Austin Film Festival - Second Rounder

  • Received an 8 on The Black List

  • One The Black List Top List

  • #8 Action Feature - Coverfly Red List

  • #11 Action Script- Coverfly Red List

THREE ON A MATCH

erotic thriller, feature screenplay

Mia and Aiden’s idyllic honeymoon turns into a dark game of secrets, desires, and a deadly power struggle when Aiden’s best friend shows up at their cabin door. Inspired by a true story.

  • Second Round - Sundance Development Track 2023

  • Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Film Fund Fall

  • Semifinalist, Roadmap Writers - Top Tier Competition

Other Screenplays

DEVIL GOOD

horror/crime thriller, pilot script

Recovering addict Jude starts to chase the brand new high of helping other people whether they want their help or not, only to find the road to hell is paved with good intentions when they accidentally uncover a decades long crime connected to their own family.

  • Winner - Seattle Film Summit Pitch Competition

  • Filmarket Hub US Pitchbox - Official Selection

  • Semifinalist, Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition

  • Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab

  • Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship

  • Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab

I'M SORRY, I TRIED, I LOVE YOU

horror/magical realism, short screenplay

A struggling mother finds herself caught in an endless battle against a mysterious infestation in her home.

  • Finalist, HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition

  • Quarterfinalist, Slamdance Screenplay Competition

  • Winner - Women in Film Seattle Professional Grant