Congratulations to our 2025 winners, which were announced in Deadline on May 20, 2026!
Humanity by Josh Chesler
What if we woke up tomorrow to learn that there would never be another child born again… and that we’ve suddenly become the last generation on earth? HUMANITY is a speculative drama series following three couples facing impending parenthood who find themselves at the center of a sudden mysterious global event that transforms our world, while opening the door to a more evolved human race.
Representation: Ryan Saul at Evoke Entertainment
Her Baby by Emily Duke
Logline: Her Baby follows the two men Lake Dalton left behind: The queer black man she saw as her soulmate, and the straight white dude with whom she planned to build a traditional family – the two sides of her that are now raising her daughter together.
Representation: Michelle Knudsen and Chloe Morris at 42
Subirdia by Brigitte Erickson
Logline: Emperor Penguins may have been the greatest fathers of the natural world, but not these guys. Our three suburban penguin dads must rely on each other to navigate the challenges of modern-day parenting in a society of birds, skills that they all wrongly assumed would come naturally.
Representation: Matt Horwitz and Chelsea Benson, Echo Lake Entertainment
Hojo by Megan Gailey
Logline: HOJO is a workplace comedy set at the once thriving, now struggling, Howard Johnson hotel at the top of Niagara Falls. When an overqualified new GM, Maggie, arrives determined to revitalize the hotel and her own life, she realizes she will have to embrace her staff of lovable misfits and some family skeletons.
Representation: Lisa Mierke and Anne Hong, Mosaic
Adele’s Hotel by Michael Mabbott and Tassie Cameron
Logline: While presenting their revolutionary scientific discovery on a business trip to Paris, Adele’s parents go missing – and it’s up to Adele to find them, while keeping up the illusion that she’s not living all by herself to the nosy hotel manager.
Representation: Lesley Harrison at Harrison Artist Management / NWEP: Dan Lubetkin, Corner Lot
Baby Down by Ruthie Marantz
Logline: Lily (40) a queer single mom in NYC with postpartum anxiety whose baby won’t sleep, hires Kat (26) a chaotic failing actress turned babysitter, and they form a new unconventional chosen family.
Representation: Currently seeking
Maternal Assets by Luisa Parnes
Logline: After her father’s sudden death, a suburban mom learns he was a CIA agent — and that she’s been groomed to take his place. Now, she must spy on a rising political star while keeping her double life secret from her family, handling high-stakes missions while managing carpools and spitups.
Representation: Luis Piniero, Evoke
When Did I Get Hot? by Grace Parra Janney
Logline: When the world’s dreamiest superstar suddenly takes an interest in her, an underslept, overworked, deeply average mom has to ask: when did I get hot?
Representation: UTA/Mosaic/Ziffren Brittenham