Screenplay
Matchsticks 2.0
Written by Shane Walsh-Smith
AFIN 2020 Semi-Finalist
- 2020
- 68pp
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Australia - English
- Spec
- Sci-fi
- Drama
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Synopsis
When user metrics from a popular game are used by the government to target genetically imperfect citizens for forced optimisation procedures, the game's lead designer is forced to confront the difference between perfect and special... because his own son is in the crosshairs.
What makes this one special
- 2 awards at other festivalsChanging Face International Film Festival · WildSOUND Fantasy/Sci-Fi Screenplay Contest
- Programmed at 6 other festivals
Also selected at
2 awards, 1 nomination, 1 finalist placing, 2 official selections across 6 other festivals
- WinnerChanging Face International Film Festival
- WinnerWildSOUND Fantasy/Sci-Fi Screenplay Contest
- NomineeTop Indie Film Awards
- FinalistScriptapalooza Television Writing Competition
- SelectionIndie Suspense Horror Sci-Fi Film Festival
- SelectionUnderground Indie Film Festival
Recorded by the filmmaker on their entry.
Writer's Biography
Shane Walsh-Smith Writer
Shane Walsh-Smith's scripts have won or placed as finalists in more than thirty contests so far in 2020. He's a lifelong writer, a furious scripturient for whom fiction is the prism through which he understands the world and himself. Shane has written professionally in many forms, and might be the only person in the world to get a comic published in a refereed academic journal.
Placings
Recognised in this category at AFIN 2020, as announced that season.
- Best Feature Screenplay Semi-Finalist