Leila Murton Poole wins 2021 NYC Midnight Screenwriting Challenge (1800+ entrants)

Let's hear it for Leila Murton Poole who beat more than 1800 entries in this competition, and is the first female to win the Challenge since, wait for it, 2006!

Leila's winning screenplays were titled The Engineer of Magic (Drama), The Ghostodians (Ghost Story) and the final round clincher, What Goes Up Must Come Down (Open category).

The NYC Screenwriting Challenge is an international screenplay competition, now in its 18th year, that challenges participants to create original short screenplays in as little as 24 hours based on genre, subject, and character assignments.

Leila is a writer/director, currently based in New Zealand having completed a diploma in Screen and Media at Sydney Film School in 2019. With a degree in Physics and Economics and a Masters in Management, she worked in finance before quitting to travel.

—WIFT NZ, https://www.wiftnz.org.nz/news/news-archive/2021/sep/murton-poole-s-quickfire-writing-wins-nyc-screenwriting-challenge/

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