The screenplay for The Sound of Violet, written by Allen Wolf, was named in the Top 15% in the 2015 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition. The Sound of Violet was chosen from a record field of 8,627 individual scripts. Founded in 1994, the
Austin Film Festival focuses on writers’ creative contributions to film and the Screenplay Competition receives more entries than any other competition in the world.

The Sound of Violet is a contemporary romantic comedy about a man who is desperate to find his soulmate and when he does, his autism prevents him from understanding she’s actually a prostitute. Writer Allen Wolf adapted the screenplay for Hooked into a novel which recently won the Gold Medal from the Readers’ Favorite Book Awards and has been garnering critical praise.

In addition to being recognized in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, the screenplay for The Sound of Violet also won:

• Screenplay Award at the Las Vegas Film Festival
• Top 5 Finalist for the Kairos Screenplay Competition
• 2nd Place in the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
• Semi-finalist in the Final Draft Big Break Screenplay Contest
• Quarter Finalist in the BlueCat Screenplay Competition
• Semi-Finalist for Table Read My Screenplay
• Quarterfinalist in Scriptapalooza
• Rated Top 3% of Screenplays at Script Shark
• Honorable Mention at the Colorado Film Festival 

Filmmaker Allen Wolf has won multiple awards for his storytelling as a feature film writer, director and producer. Allen helmed In My Sleep, the award-winning thriller that debuted in theaters as the #1 new indie movie its opening weekend.  In My Sleep has been sold to over 70 countries and has garnered awards from nine film festivals, including “Best Picture” and the “Audience Award.”