Kaos Films Announces British Short Screenplay Contest Winners
Kaos Films has announced the three winners of the British Short Screenplay Competition:
(in alphabetical order)
Bang! Bang! You're Dead by Karol Wynter
Buckle My Shoe by Amjad Khan
Room to Let by Jane Hamer
First runner up:
The Happiness Salesman by Steve Gomez
Other runners up:
A Soldiers Tale by Gareth David Rothwell
Atlantic Star by Chris Buck
Case Study by Helen Truong
Just Business by Steve Brehm
Leaving by Amanda Stonham
The Drift by Patrick Donahue
The Ring by Maurice Jordan
The Scissor Slaying of Charlie Chuckle and Billy Bubble by Stephen Atherton
The Survey by Richard Oleksiak
Updated: 11/29/2007
Additional Contest Info:
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Post Your Script Here!BRAVE HEARTS
In 1840, an unconventional widow risks her life when she joins forces with a charismatic journalist, brutalized tenant farmers and a traumatized exile she rescues in Montreal, to stop the most powerful men in Scotland from violently evicting Gaelic Highlanders, unaware of her own family's complicity in the ethnic cleansing.
SETTLING THE BOOKS
Lured by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, an investigator and four other heirs are sealed in an airtight panic room, and with only four hours air, must solve the centuries-old mystery contained in the book ‘The Castilian Cypher’ in order to escape.
All My Trials, Lord
In a drunken stupor a handsome young singer kills a taxi driver while visiting Spalding County, Georgia.
Playmate
In spite of her husband’s attempts to help her, a young female writer suddenly finds herself falling into a severe depression when snippets of painful suppressed childhood memories come out in her writing at the same time as the visit of her religious fanatic mother whose own haunting memories plague her causing both women to lose themselves in the process.
Jesus Called
Three women, one of whom is seeking what lies beyond death, live on a chicken farm in the rural South and attend a funeral for their neighbor who was eaten by a hog.
Tinker's Christmas
A clumsy teenage elf is ridiculed and alienated by other young elves when he fails every assignment until his mechanical skills are discovered after the reindeer develop chicken pox and Santa asks him to modify the train to deliver the toys which he does successfully with the help of an attractive female elf and a monkey.
Private Dancer
After her husband dies leaving all of his estate to another woman, a former middle-aged psychologist with the help of a friend opens a bar where they nurture those in their employ, each of whom faces challenging situations and must dance and sing as they attempt to keep their dreams alive.
Who's There?
A bizarre comedy within which a cynical, middle-aged woman is charged with caring for her eccentric mother and goofy sister who hold daily memorial services for husband/daddy's amputated leg.
The Experiment
Ambition, class prejudice and racism forever alter the lives of a poor white boy bound for delinquency and a young Afro-American athlete headed for stardom.
IT PAYS THE BILLS
Three sisters inherit a Hollywood talent agency offering a lot more than routine casting calls for their clientele.
