We are excited to announce the 2023 trackingb feature contest finalists, honorable mentions and overall winner.

FINALISTS

DEEP BLUE II: KASPAROV'S REVENGE by Ben Gottlieb - Twenty-five years after his loss to IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov teams up with his onetime rival to take on a new AI. (Contact: Ben Hottlieb - [email protected])

HARDWIRED by Anthony Vasto & Rob Seltzner - Down on his luck, odds mount against an Irish Mob flunky when he agrees to deliver a ticking car bomb to clear his debt. (Contact: Anthony Vasto - [email protected])

WALKING IN IOWA by Alex Murawski - After her son accidentally drowns, a reclusive photographer moves to Montana to rebuild her life but struggles to reconcile with a secret shame as she falls in love with a kind widower. (Contact: Alex Murawski - [email protected])

 

HONORABLE MENTIONS

HELLO GOODBYE by Heather Upton - Phoebe's job is handling other people's breakups, and she's freakishly good at it, so why is she absolutely atrocious at handling her own? (Contact: Heather Upton - [email protected])

HALFWAY DOWN by Patrick Monger - A contained thriller about Nick and Aoife, 40s, who live isolated in rural Ireland. Their marriage is on the rocks and the arrival of a teenage runaway threatens to ruin it all. (Contact: Patrick Monger - [email protected])

PMC by Steven Peterson - A battle-scarred PMC is hired to clear a Central African Republic diamond mine of militia occupiers, but the mission is complicated when he has to rescue the militia's hostages: young women and a child. However, after he succeeds, we discover that his real objective is to lure a Russian mercenary group to try to seize the mine, then ambush them as punishment for war crimes they committed in Ukraine, Syria, and Chechnya, including the murder of his brother and sister-in-law. (Contact: Steven Peterson - [email protected])

DARK MOTHER by Josh Miller - Kathryn and Brandon hire recent college graduate Teri as a surrogate. Teri moves into their house and soon it becomes clear that she has designs on both Brandon and the baby. Navigating a maze of lies and deceit, Kathryn must try to thwart Teri, save her marriage and protect her unborn child. (Contact: Josh Miller - [email protected])

JOHN WAYNE MUST DIE! by Blair Cosby - When Stalin sends KGB assassins to murder John Wayne, a black FBI rookie must get the star safely from New York to L.A., despite the discontented Duke's best efforts to become a real life action hero. (Contact: Blair Cosby - [email protected])

 

AND THE OVERALL WINNER, CHOSEN BY OUR PANEL OF INDUSTRY JUDGES, IS......................

 

WALKING IN IOWA

 

CONGRATS AGAIN TO ALL, AND THANK YOU TO ALL OUR ENTRANTS AND INDUSTRY JUDGES.