Acclaim Film & TV Announces Contest Winners
The winners of Acclaim Film & TV Fall/Winter 2004 contests have been announced as follows, including feature film script, pilot/MOW and spec script categories:
FILM WINNERS
WINNER
STOLEN ART, by Jim Beggarly
A hired killer and a reporter team up to sell a stolen Van Gogh painting.
RUNNERS UP
THE WORMHOLE OF HOPE, by Bruce Dundore
In a war-ravaged future, an embittered soldier discovers a small boy who will unlock the secrets of the past and the salvation of the planet.
FAT SUIT, Warren Clarke
When a role traps a movie star in a fat suit that magically transforms him from handsome hunk to homely and obese, he must break the spell by finding true love.
FINALISTS
G’WABA GIRLS, by Dan Wicksman & Nuria Wicksman A geeky girl finds herself turning into an alien after an encounter with the feisty princess from the planet G’waba.
THE CRYSTAL TEAR, by Jose E. Mijares
A young boy and his comic book hero must race against time to find a mysterious artifact.
COIL, by Joshua M. Larson
When Thomas Kramps, a professional who “cleans up” after someone dies, links a series of murders together, he becomes entangled in a dangerous game that could land him in the morgue.
THE SCROLL, by Tim Kernc
The Crusades come to modern Manhattan and a battle for a mysterious, 2,000 year-old scroll ensues.
LOVE CONQUERS ALL, Dane Edward McCauley
A struggling young marriage counselor cancels her wedding and drums up business by playing subliminal tapes to break up couples.
BROTHER JONATHAN, by Bradley G. Andrews
In 1865, during the aftermath of California’s worst shipwreck, a survivor claims the wreck was not an accident.
THE HENCHMAN, by David Mulligan
A supervillain’s henchman tries to leave the evil circuit behind to find love, a legitimate career and a new life.
BECOMING SUPERMAN, by Tal Nuriel
Does Kirt Crane really have super powers, or is it a delusion to distract him from his pain?
VIRGIN SLUTS MUST DIE, by Lotti Louise Pharriss
A European “Blood Countess” finds a new hunting ground for virgin blood as an abstinence-only educator in conservative America.
THE BONSAI, by Jason Whiton
A retired Japanese man overcomes isolation when he channels the 600-year history of a mystical Bonsai tree.
TV SCRIPT WINNERS
PILOT/MOW CATEGORY
WINNER
EXCALIBUR HIGH (Pilot) by Alex Sabeti
At this modern-day high school Camelot, the second incarnation of King Arthur has arrived, in the form of a 15-year-old orphan.
FINALISTS
NIGHT FALLS, NEW YORK (Pilot) by Larissa, Lisa Rose and Alexandria Olick
An angel who loses his wings is forced to live among humans as a homicide detective.
BLISS (Pilot) by Scott Cunningham & Abi Estrin
A young couple elopes and buys a rundown Bed and Breakfast with their wedding money.
CHRISTOPHER AND THE TREE (Pilot) W Cincotta
A boy lost in the forest meets a wandering tree and travels to a magical land.
ALUMNI (Pilot) by Shahryar Rizvi & Mohammed Sheikh
Young grads fresh out of college start their lives in DC.
DEAN & WALLACE (Pilot) by Rachel Dues
Private school teens navigate through life and relationships on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
SPEC SCRIPT CATEGORY
WINNER
EVERY BODY LOVES RAYMOND, by Marlon McAvoy “There’s Something About Gabby”
FINALISTS
SMALLVILLE, by Kevin Emerson
“Oubliette”
WILL & GRACE, by Jeremy Svenson
“Change Is Good…Dollars Are Better”
SCRUBS, by Mary K. Woods
“My Left Foot”
JOAN OF ARCADIA, by Julie Austin
“Box of Chocolates”
ANGEL, by Larissa, Lisa Rose and Alexandria Olick
“Lock Down”
EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, Jim Falletta
“The Birthday”
SIX FEET UNDER, by Carla Robinson
“Etiquette”
GILMORE GIRLS, by Jessica Fass
“It Takes A Village”
THE SHIELD, by Steven Hanna
“Black Rubber Dildo”
MONK, by Elizabeth Welch Ehasz
“Mr. Monk Swims with the Fishes”
Updated: 03/11/2005
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!The Sword's Awakening
When King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur is stolen from a museum, it awakens a dragon and the descendent of a legendary knight who must join forces to find the powerful relic before its dark magic falls into the wrong hands.
FAUSTIAN
After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
When a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate.
Fingertips
A Psychological Horror With a twist of a psychotic individual suffering from psychosocial issues has an imaginary friend that’s part of his hallucinations his Imaginary friend is his British father a young proud to be American, forgets his medication after collecting it from a Pharmacy he causes a lot of mayhem around his area he thinks the worlds in his fingertips he chases down social media Influencers and artists by hacking and tracking their location constantly talking to himself as he hallucinates thinking He can see his British Father is around him, Kevin ends up with a chainsaw and gets a few round kills with his Chainsaw he stole from an old granny.
A Cracker in East Harlem
JIMMY J is 50 and has lived in the same East Harlem building for more than half of his life.
Free Sports Radio
Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station.
Desert Quarry
Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them.
Perfect Contrition
A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
