Awards

Awards

HAUS Film Festival

Summer 2025 Screenwriting Competition

Explore the Celebrated AWARD Winners of HAUS Film Festival

Discover the winners of the Summer 2025 Screenwriting Competition awards, showcasing our Grand Prize recipient; Genre Award honorees in Horror, Afro-speculative fiction, Underground, and Sci-Fi—Cyberpunk; and Official Selections.


Summer 2025 Screenwriting Competition Highlights

Explore the standout achievements and milestones from the HAUS Film Festival’s latest screenwriting competition awardees.


Grand Prize Winner

HAUS Film Festival’s Summer 2025 Screenwriting Competition Grand Prize Award Winner receives $250 cash, grand prize festival laurels, and a feature on our site.

Grand Prize award Winner

HAUS Film Festival’s 2025 Screenwriting Competition Grand Prize Award Winner also won the Sci-Fi: Cyberpunk Genre Award. Learn more about our grand prize winner here!

Project N-Terro

by Traycee King

Project N-Terro

by Traycee King

An exceptional piece of writing — cinematic, original, and deeply human.

HAUS Film Festival Judging Board

Project N-Terro — By Traycee King

In the near future, Tarra, a war veteran and behavioral anthropologist, must go undercover inside the mind of a mad man in order to find a shipment of trafficked girls. This story explores conquering your biggest foe by playing a game of emotional chess.

Writer Biography: Traycee King was introduced to horror films by her father when she was five years old. HBO became one of her closest friends, and movies in general became a way of life, leading her to dream of starring in Hollywood. After serving for eight years in the Air Force, Traycee received an honorable discharge, and turned once more to her dreams of being an actress.
While looking for roles, Traycee learned that her peers were creating their own content online in the early stages of New Media. Finding nothing to her liking, she decided to stop waiting, make her own projects, and create work for herself. It was through this process that she found out how much she loved filmmaking.
Throughout this journey, she has snagged filmmaking gigs with Lionsgate, Legendary, and Nerdist, to name a few. Though filmmaking is a passion, acting will always be her first love.

Links

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Genre Award Winners

HAUS Film Festival’s Summer 2025 Screenwriting Competition Genre Award Winners receive genre award festival laurels in the genres of Horror, Afro-speculative fiction, Underground, Sci-Fi: Cyberpunk; and a feature on our site.

Horror
Genre Award Winner

Pinky the Sad Clown
by Paolina I. Acuña-González

An otherworldly tragic clown trapped in a sadistic circus act finally sees what happens when she smiles.

Afro-speculative Fiction Genre Award Winner

Macy

by L. E. Coleman

A little girl channels the spirit of a murdered woman to exact revenge on the person who killed her.

Underground
Genre Award Winner

Dead Air

by Eric Gorodetsky

After moving into a new apartment, a grieving woman begins receiving voicemails from herself—but not from her.

Official Selections

HAUS Film Festival’s Summer 2025 Screenwriting Competition Official Selection award winners receive official selection festival laurels and a listing on our site.

Official Selection

Official Selection

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