Chicago Recognizes Heroes from Heaven: Semi Finalist at the Chicago Script Awards

The domestic and international recognition of Heroes from Heaven: Battleground Earth continues to build. The faith-based action epic screenplay by Dr. Scott Glenn and Geoffrey D. Calhoun has advanced to the Semi Finals of the Chicago Script Awards — one of the world’s premier global screenwriting competitions and an IMDb-recognized event that draws thousands of submissions across its seasonal editions every year.

About the Recognition

Advancing to the Semi Finals at the Chicago Script Awards places Heroes from Heaven among a carefully selected group of screenplays recognized for exceptional quality in a field of thousands of entries from around the world. The Chicago Script Awards operates across three seasonal editions — Spring, Summer, and Autumn — before crowning its annual category winners, awarding its prestigious Diamond Quill trophies, and conducting winner interviews. Reaching the Semi Final round in such a competitive global field is a meaningful recognition of the screenplay’s craft, originality, and commercial potential.

About the Chicago Script Awards

The Chicago Script Awards is a premier global screenwriting competition that discovers and promotes emerging talent across Feature, Television, Short, and Super Short categories. The 2025 competition featured thousands of submissions and recognized a wide variety of genres, with notable category winners including Against Our Will by Jean-Michel Fages, Blood & Betrayal by Joseph Anthony Francis, and Song of a Hitler Youth by James Robertson for Best War Screenplay, alongside genre winners in Psychological, Historical, and Fantasy categories. The Autumn Edition also featured strong finalists including Eric Yocam’s The Cipherghost Codex and Thomas B. Thomson’s FlausEN — a competitive field that underscores the significance of Heroes from Heaven‘s Semi Finalist advancement.

A Growing International Legacy

The Chicago Script Awards recognition adds to the remarkable and ever-expanding list of honors for Heroes from Heaven: Battleground Earth — a screenplay now recognized across festivals and competitions spanning every inhabited continent, from Greece, Rome, Madrid, Cannes, London, Oxford, and Milan to Buenos Aires, Kigali, Phnom Penh, Craiova, Stockholm, Dallas, New York, and now Chicago. Each new recognition continues to affirm what audiences and juries worldwide have already discovered — this story is ready for the screen.

Heroes from Heaven: Battleground Earth is currently in development and actively seeking production and distribution partners. For more information visit www.heroesfromheaventhemovie.com or contact Dr. Scott Glenn.

Heroes from Heaven: Battleground Earth advanced to the Semi Finals of the Chicago Script Awards 2025, an IMDb-recognized global screenwriting competition.