MEET THE 2025-26 COLLEGE SCREENWRITING AWARD WINNERS
Yeajoon Cho
Award: Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award
Project: Sometimes, I Wish I Was a Fish | Feature
Logline: In the not-so-distant future, a depressed male sex worker is paid to love a client for a night.
Bio: Yeajoon Cho is a writer & filmmaker based in Austin, TX and Los Angeles, CA. His work has screened at notable festivals globally and he has received distinctions from the Academy Nicholl, the Black List, Humanitas, USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and more. He was 1 of 4 directors selected for ColorCreative’s FindYourPeople Fellowship Program and is currently a Michener Fellow, posthumously sponsored by Pulitzer Prize winning author James Michener. He is in post-production for his feature documentary Carbondale, 1999.
Mohannad Salman
Award: David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award
Project: Bobby Chicago: Homecoming Homicide | Feature
Logline: Twelve hours. One dead Homecoming King. And a snowstorm burying the truth. At elite boarding schools, everyone has secrets. But nothing stays hidden when trench-coat-wearing, 1940s-talking teen detective Bobby Chicago is on the case. Banned from detecting and one slip from expulsion, Bobby has to solve the mystery before the school buries it for good.
Bio: Mohannad Salman grew up in Bahrain, a tiny island in the famously stable Middle East. After studying Biomedical Science in the UK, he earned his MFA in Screenwriting from USC and became the 2024 recipient of Prentice Penny’s First Up Fellowship. He now channels his love of absurdity and sharp satire to explore cultural divides with humor and heart, writing stories about people determined to prove themselves, often against all odds and common sense.
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