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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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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.
