Valley Fest Announces Official Screenplay Selections

Different Drummers
Written By: Don Caron

Based on a true story from 1965: Ten year old David Dahlke believes he will run like the wind. But David is confined to a wheelchair with Muscular Dystrophy. Hyperactive Lyle Hatcher wants to impress Patty Simchuck by winning a First Place in the Science Fair. But Lyle needs a Wizzard Label-Maker to cinch that blue ribbon, and David has one in his basement. Lyle convinces David that he knows a Secret System that will enable him to run again and a pact is made that takes this unlikely pair on a journey of risk, discovery and adventure. When Lyle tries to lend his friend some of his own excess energy, he comes face to face with some of life’s most inspiring and painful truths.

Rosaria
Written By: Ira Flowers

Rosaria is a children's adventure film set against the back drop of 1907 Portland, Oregon.

The Paper Route
Written By: Danny Howell

It's 1964. Paul, 15, lives in a dirt-poor town called Hurin, where main street is one way and dogs sleep in the left lane. To pay his unemployed father rent, Paul must collect a back-due paper bill from a crazy redneck. Paul's collection efforts make Lester mad, and he retaliates by luring Paul's little brother, Brian, into a mine field. To rescue Brian, Paul needs help from his girlfriend, Barb. She's strange, and slightly deviant; she'd look like the girl next door if not for the bruises. If he can stand up to Lester, Paul can not only save his brother, he can find the courage to declare his own independence from his father, and make the most important decision of his young life.

The Ten Commandments of Karaoke
Written By: Tom Pope and Greg Reeves

A teenage female singer jeopardizes her father’s shot at the Team Karaoke Championships when she falls in love with the competition.

Two Weeks in Roswell
Written By: Mark Saunders

The aliens have landed and they’re on vacation! When an alien Dad takes his family on a cheap vacation to planet Earth and the son is kidnapped by tabloid journalists, the family must leave the safety of their tour to rescue him. “Vacation” meets “E.T.” in this comedy about strangers in a strange land.

Urchin
Written By: Diana Kemp-Jones

A lonely war veteran and a mysterious little boy explore the nature of miracles.

VERA
Written By: Caitlin McCarthy

Adapted historical drama about Vera Laska, a Catholic teen who defied statistics and lasted three years as a Czech Resistance fighter (instead of the average six months); survived Auschwitz as a political prisoner; and escaped the Nazis during a death march. Based upon Laska's interview with Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation; "Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses" by Vera Laska; and "Vera Laska" from "Women Reshaping Human Rights: How Extraordinary Activists Are Changing the World" by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard.

Updated: 03/11/2007

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