When Laura Kroeger won the 2024 Feature Grand Prize of Final Draft’s Big Break Screenwriting Competition she stepped into a year that not only reshaped her career, but also her point of view on screenwriting. Within a week of taking the Final Draft Big Break Feature Grand Prize, Kroeger signed with a manager, an almost unheard-of turnaround in an industry known for its long waits.
Read Final Draft’s interview with Laura about what Big Break did for her screenwriting life and career. Laura is a WIFV Narrative Script Development Fellow (’22)