GVSU International Short Screenplay Competition Winner Announced
The winning script of the 10th Annual GVSU International Short
Screenplay Competition is "A Moment of Grace" by Samantha Humphrey of
Los Angeles. The story is about an American doctor who risks her life
to save a premature baby born at the height of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
A Southern California native, Samantha Humphrey graduated with a B.A. in
Political Science from UCLA. After UCLA, Humphrey entered Second City's
Los Angeles Writers Program. At Second City, she concentrated on
sitcoms, sketch comedy and wrote political satire songs and sketches for
the HBO Workspace and the Second City Conservatory shows. This past
year, Humphrey wrote two feature length comedies and several episodic
specs for television. Most recently, Humphrey was chosen as a 2004 ABC
Writing Fellow for Episodic Television.
A Moment Of Grace is a very personal project for Humphrey. While
working for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, the Los Angeles Jewish
Federation and the Pacific Council on International Policy, Humphrey
found herself immersed in not only the politics but also the personal
loss resulting from the Israeli/Palestinian crisis.
A Moment of Grace is a fictional amalgam of the real stories of
heartache, hatred and forgiveness that that she heard.
Updated: 01/29/2004
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
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Bubbling Under the Surface
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Apparently So
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The Imbalance 2 (sequel)
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The Imbalance
Two best friends in their fifties leap back into acting — and dating — only to find an industry obsessed with youth, a culture addicted to reinvention, and a brutal truth: starting over is harder when you actually know who you are.
Waiting for the Apocalyse
When a respected judge’s lover is kidnapped, he’s forced into a race against time that dismantles his faith in justice — and exposes how far a man will go when the system that empowered him turns against him.
Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars
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Twenty Last Summers
When a longtime group of friends in their fifties and sixties jokingly ask themselves, “What if we only had twenty summers left?”, the question unexpectedly detonates their comfortable routines, sending each of them into a spiral of hilarious missteps, overdue confrontations, and clumsy attempts at self-reinvention.
Eternal Blessings
Haunted by the ghosts of a notorious religious sect, a dying woman travels back in time to see if she can break their curse and prevent them from crashing her afterlife.
December 8th
After the attack on Pearl Harbor fractures their California farming community, two inseparable friends are torn apart by history: Lorne, a vengeful Marine, endures the psychological and physical torment of the Pacific island campaigns, while Lonnie, a Japanese-American fighting for dignity, navigates the injustice of an internment camp to the bloody trenches of Europe with the segregated 442nd—both struggling to preserve their humanity and fulfill a sacred pact to return home for the harvest.
