TSA Members Rack Up the Accolades at the Nashville Film Festival!
- TSA Newsroom
- Sep 21
- 2 min read
Several TSA members scored victories at this year's Nashville Film Festival awards ceremony, which was held at the Green Hills Hilton.
Writer/directors and former TSA board members Mike Bentley and Corbin Eaton won best screenplay in the comedy/feature category with their script Snake Oil. Mike and Corbin are on a streak at the NaFF; they've had two short films screen there over the past two years.
Other TSA members had scripts that advanced to the finalist round, including board member Heidi-Marie Ferren's Backwoods Chief, which placed in two different categories.
Former board member Elvis Wilson's One and Done, which was workshopped in multiple TSA meetings in 2024, was a finalist at NaFF and has made the finalist rounds at the prestigious Page and Austin competitions this year as well.
Complementing her win in this year's pitch competition, board member Melissa Sheridan's action thriller script Meglacanda placed as a finalist in NaFF's screenwriting competition. Melissa co-wrote this script with her son Jett Sheridan who is TSA's youngest member. The script was originally Melissa's Script School project this year, but she and Jett ran ahead of the rest of the class and finished it in time to meet NaFF's submission deadline.
Congratulations to Melissa, Jett, Corbin, Mike, Elvis, and Heidi-Marie, as well as the other TSA members who made it to the earlier rounds in NaFF's screenplay competition: Sarah Smith, MK Kopp, Ama Adair, Shirley Filardi Amitrano, Allen Sircy, Sandra Webb Smith, Nicole Lim and Jason Allen. Elvis Wilson had two other scripts make the quarterfinal round, Melissa Sheridan had another one she co-wrote make the quarterfinals, and both Mike Bentley and Corbin Eaton had additional scripts make the quarterfinalist round.
These writers, along with the other TSA members whose scripts have advanced in screenplay and pitch competitions around the world, will be honored for their accomplishments at a dinner reception at Script-Com on November 16 in Nashville.