A sampling of Kay’s recent screenplays:
Behind Her Reflection
Feature – Drama
Logline: When an anorexic cheerleader learns she’s autistic, she secretly joins a neurodiversity peer group and hides her diagnosis at school to keep her social status. But as her boyfriend’s aggressive behavior escalates, she’s forced to figure out who her true friends are and reclaim her own power.
-Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition – Fall 2022
-Top 10, Table Read My Screenplay Competition – Summer 2022
-The Short List – Feature, Barnstorm Fest – 2022
-Semifinalist, ReelHeART International Film Festival – 2023
-Semifinalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Season 7 – 2022
-Semifinalist, Emerging Screenwriters DRAMA Screenplay Competition – 2023
-Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition – 2023
-Quarterfinalist, Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition – 2023
Status: Screenplay available.
Art Never Lies
Feature – Drama / Crime
Logline: Set in 1979, an aspiring young playwright runs from an abusive home in the Irish countryside to join the emerging art scene in Dublin only to land amidst the mystery of two murders where facts are fiction, art is truth, and identities are not always what they seem to be.
YENTLE meets the documentaries: A MURDER AT THE COTTAGE & A MURDER IN WEST CORK – with stage play scenes instead of singing.
Awards:
-Finalist, Bigfoot in Collaboration with Trinity College Dublin Script Challenge Fall 2022
Status: Screenplay available.
Love’s Rescue
Short – Drama
Logline: At a high-kill animal shelter an old mutt must find a way into the heart of a jaded divorcee in order to survive.
Status: Screenplay available.
Kay Kestner 