CRIP SCRIPT & ROUGH-CUT PITCH PROGRAMS
2026 Pitch Winners
Rough-Cut Pitch: The Dismantled by Jason DaSilva and Alice Elliott (Loreen Arbus Completion Award, a $10,000 prize, one year of Women Make Movies webinars, access to Executive Director Debra Zimmerman’s fundraising webinar, a private screening from Gigantic Studios, and a meeting with an NBCUniversal executive to help expand industry relationships.)
Crip Script Nonfiction: Blood Bias by Juliette Romeo (DOC NYC PRO PASS) and Liminal Space by Alicia Eastes (ITVS mentorship).
Crip Script Fiction: ARISE by Dan Iacovella (AMC Global Media Mentorship and Blackmagic filmmaking gear).
Additional Rough-Cut honors: Don’t Look Away by Joseph Lingad (ReelAbilities Accessibility Award and distribution support) and I Dream of Sharks by Matt Fletcher (audio description services from Woman of Her Word.)
MEET THE JUDGES
CRIP SCRIPT PITCHING FILMMAKERS
Eileen Grubba - Life Unworthy (fiction)
John Woodruff - Night Takes All (fiction)
Dan Iacovella - Arise (fiction)
Juliet Romeo - Blood Bias (non-fiction)
Alicia Eastes - Liminal Space (non-fiction)
Jose Nunez - Southpaw (non-fiction)
ROUGH-CUT PITCHING FILMMAKERS
Alice Elliott & Jason Dasilva - The Dismantled (Fiction)
Matthew Fletcher - I Dream of Shark (non-fiction)
Joseph V. Lingad - Don't Look Away (non-fiction)
AND THE WINNERS ARE...
$10,000 in cash + Audio Description by Woman of Her Word: Rare by Ashley Eakin and Shawn Lovering (presented by ReelAbilities’ CEO Isaac Zablocki)
THE 2025 LOREEN ARBUS COMPLETION AWARD
"This award has been critical for our project, RARE. This financial backing empowers us to move forward with confidence, even in the face of uncertainty.” Ashley Eakin, Director, Rare
Additional 2025 winners
SHINE GLOBAL SCRIPT AWARD
$2,500 in cash: Remedial by Laurie Gardiner
ROUGH-CUT PITCH SOUND MIXING
by Gigantic Studios: Grateful Deaf by George Martens
CRIP SCRIPT – TV CATEGORY
AMC Networks Mentorship: After School by Mary Theresa Archbold
CRIP SCRIPT – FICTION CATEGORY
AMC Networks Mentorship: Adaptation by D’Arcee Charington Neal and Lauren Malone
CRIP SCRIPT – DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY
ITVS Mentorship: Raving for Access by Connor and Ryan Roach