Final Draft Announces Big Break Contest Winners
Robert Frisbee has been named the winner of the 2007 Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Competition for his script, Cityfall:
1st Place Winner: Robert Frisbee, CA for Cityfall
In a bleak and distant feudal future, the world’s last city is dying, choked off within a mysterious energy barrier that cuts it off from the outside world. Humanity’s only hope to regain what lies “beyond the breach” is carried in the heart of a rebellion rising up against the fist and steel of a brutal ruler.
2nd Place Winner: Geraint Horwood, Buckinghamshire, UK for Knight Knight
Two saddle-sore knights go on a quest for love, adventure and comfortable underwear. Their quest to save a damsel in distress finds them working for the very king who kidnapped her. The damsel bullies them into rescuing her and soon it is they who are in distress.
3rd Place Winner: Tony Urgo, CA for The Wizard Joe
King of a resplendent fairytale country, Leonard Ludwig wakes up to discover he's been in a coma, all his life memories the result of an experimental therapy that kept his mind alive while his body healed. As rival factions threaten to take control of his beloved world, Leonard fights to save the only reality he now knows.
Updated: 11/20/2007
Additional Contest Info: Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest
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After a failed assassination attempt on a populist politician, two mismatched London detectives uncover a conspiracy using augmented-reality glasses to manipulate ordinary people into violence, pushing an already divided Britain toward civil collapse.
Fish Fetish
What happens when you mix compulsion with alcohol? A horrific, fast paced story of abuse and revenge inspired by "Tales From The Crypt"
Eternal Blessings
After suffering a head injury that leaves her suspended in an altered state, a woman with a troubled past time travels back to 1980 to warn her younger self of the dangers ahead.
Lucy vs. The HOA
After uncovering a million-dollar fraud in her neighborhood HOA, a precocious 11-year-old enlists her Private Detective father to help finish the investigation her deceased mother started years ago.
Wounds of Love and Conspiracy
After an accident cripples his civil rights activist wife, a guilt-ridden young man becomes obsessed with earning her love by helping change America—until his fixation on JFK and civil rights draws him into a delusional quest to stop the President’s assassination.
Virgin, Warrior, Priest, Hero
Across three decades, one actress embodies Lucy as virgin, warrior, and priest—a woman who repeatedly transforms suffering into identity, reinventing herself to survive a world that misreads and confines her, until she finally achieves redemption by saving someone other than herself.
Keep The Doctor Away
When an anonymous graffiti artist smokes weed from an apple and has a premonition of a wildfire that will destroy Los Angeles and leave her dead on her golden birthday, she must become famous enough for the city to take her seriously—before she turns 22.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
In a fractured future where aggression and hate spread like viruses, seventeen-year-old Rebecca, afraid of the violence inside her, reaches across time to the gentle grandmother she never knew - and discovers that their bond is humanity's last defense against an emotional apocalypse.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
