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Acclaim Film Announces Screenplay Contest Winners
Anita Skibski's powerful screenplay "Mine" took top honors in the feature
screenplay category of the Fall, 2006 Acclaim Film Screenplay Competition.
WINNER
MINE by Anita Justice Skibski (drama)
A wealthy and respected coal mine owner spirals into a dangerous obsession
over the wife of his best employee in small-town 1950s Kentucky.
RUNNERS UP
BLACK STORK by Rafael Aguilo (thriller)
Through a series of paranormal encounters while teaching in Spain, a young
black woman from America comes face to face with a past long forgotten.
PEARLS OF CHINA by Reggie Gercia Littlejohn (drama)
Against the wishes of her Communist husband, an “illegally pregnant” young
woman attempts to escape the forced abortion required by the Chinese
government.
FINALISTS
RENEGADE CHAPS by Tyler Burns (adventure-comedy)
Fed up with their dysfunctional families and dismal London prep school, two British teens run away to Las Vegas to fulfill their dream of playing in the US Amateur golf tournament.
PETITE RESISTANCE by Barry Leach (drama)
During WWII, Libby risks deportation by sheltering a Russian slave
laborer--however, the true threat lies not with the Germans but with the
collaborating locals.
THE HIGH COST OF PARENTING by Michael Smith & Tracy Poverstein (comedy)
A “financially-challenged” young couple books its baby on a hit TV show to
bankroll their American dream, only to learn that they must kidnap their
child back from the all-powerful network that holds his iron-clad contract.
DEAD MONEY by Mick Orfe (comedy-drama)
A man who can’t get a break goes to Las Vegas to get killed so his family
can collect the insurance money--but he gets lucky!
LOTTO by Michael Casey (drama)
Two unlikely lovers take on the biggest players in the world of
international banking when they expose a conspiracy to siphon off millions
in proceeds from every lottery in the United States.
RAIL TALES by David A. Campbell (drama)
An immature young man and his fellow locomotive engineers grow through
triumph and turmoil.
PEACE 101 by Eric Biskamp (action/adventure)
A young man coming to terms with a foreboding future plans to expose a
highly-organized terrorists cell and in the process, makes peace with
himself.
THUNDER ROAD by Scott Duffy (drama)
A working-class man must battle to keep his brother from being seduced into
a world of drugs and crime and losing a hard-earned basketball scholarship,
all while struggling to keep his own life from falling apart.
MOPINS by Richard L. Sartore (comedy)
A scientist is infested with mopins, demons seeking to survive the earth’s
atmosphere at any cost.
WITCH HUNT by Alexander Hall (horror)
The spirit of a slain witch transforms into a witch made of sand and attacks
a Florida beach town.
Updated: 03/02/2007
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!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.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
Burning Old Man
A group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration.
