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TFI Announces 2001 Semifinalists
COLD WAR - John Barone - NY
ABSENCE OF FAITH - John Anastasi - PA
VEIL OF DECEIT - Rich Figel - HI
DNA - Les Barnum - AZ
THE PERFORMANCE - Spencer Beglarian - CA
SEMPER FI - D. J. Williams - WA
TRISTAN & IZOLDA - Karen Holcomb - TX
THE OTHER WASHINGTON - Charles Emery - PA
THESPIAN SKIN - Stevan Holmes - FL
STONEWALL CANARY - Geoffrey Halpin - Australia
FORTUNE'S DELIRIUM - John Jones - TX
SKY FIRE - Steven Karels - NH
SHOOTERS - Steven Karels - NH
THE MAGIC RING - Henderson Smith - AZ
WALKING IN HER SLEEP - Lindsey Van de Kirk - TX
TO RUSSIA WITH VINNY - Greg D'Alessandro - CA
PARANOIA - Paula Smith - KS
HOTEL MARIPOSA - Lex Williford - TX
INFINITE WISDOM - Charles McBeth - TX
ESCAPADE - Natalie Crosby - CA
SAILING BLIND - Cheryl Herring - CA
THE ADJUNCT - James Shein - IL
FRATICIDE - James Shein - IL
MISERY LOVES, CO. - Christopher Walters - NC
LIVING AND LEAVING LA - Marcelo Mitnik - CA
STUDY ABROAD - Susan Holgate - CO
MUSKOGEE - Jesse Lee Vint - CA
A DIGNIFIED EXIT - John Jones - TX
AMATEURS - Michael Cookson - MD
SPINNERS - Robert Perry - CA
ANDIE & MO - Laney Clark & Gaylene Murphy - OK
FAMILY LOYALTY - Sean Riordan - NY
FOR LOVE OR MONEY - Katherine Dubois - CO
PANDORA'S BOX - Gregory Anderson - FL
Updated: 10/02/2001
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her gorgeous girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest shot in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
Wounds of Love and Conspiracy
After an accident cripples the woman he loves, a guilt-ridden, obsessive man takes on America's scars as his own, risking everything to change the course of history and earn the love she freely gives.
Henry, Henry
A deadly act of violence he committed twenty years ago fractured Henry into two personalities — one driven by guilt and confession, the other by denial and survival; the audience is aware of the division, while other characters see only one eccentric person struggling to keep the future from repeating the past.
