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Scriptapalooza TV Interviews Sitcom Winners
Michael Gemballa, Douglas Turner & Chris Cortesi
1st Place winners
1/2 hour category
How did you come up with your story idea?
The concept came together after watching all the episodes of Lucky Louie and throwing ideas around until we felt we had a storyline with strength.
How long did it take you to write it?
A few weeks of writing, sprinkled with meetings here and there dealing with structure and character motives. About two months altogether.
Is this the first script that you have written?
First spec of an existing show. My partners and I have completed several features and pilot episodes.
Have you entered other screenwriting competitions?
Yes, several. We constantly produce material and get it out there.
If so, have you been successful?
It's always the goal to see our names in the winners list, but this is the first time we've been given that honor.
If you could write for any TV show, which would it be?
Long live Lucky Louie! Obviously that one, because it earned us the win, but unfortunately the show is no more. Southpark, The Office, My Name is Earl and American Dad are all shows I find hilarious and would be honored to write for.
Updated: 03/13/2007
Additional Contest Info: Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition
ScriptLinks
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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.
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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
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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.
