Filmmakers.com Announces Contest Winners
FilmMakers.com has announced the Winners and Runners Up in the 2007 Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards. Filmmakers Annual Competition attracted over 1300 entries worldwide.
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
My Thermonuclear Family
Drama
Written By Doug Karr
CATEGORY 1
(Action/Adventure; Thriller/Horror/Supernatural; Sci-Fi; Animation/Fantasy; Mystery/Suspense)
ELITE PRIZE
Human Being Human
Science Fiction
Written by Scott Lloyd Randall and Jocelyn Freulon
DIAMOND PRIZE
Swimming Against The Currents
Period / Historical
Written by Joe Kisch
PLATINUM PRIZE
Greed
Horror / Thriller
Written by Diane Namm
CATEGORY 2
(Drama/Family)
ELITE PRIZE
Confidences Of A Chinese Dealer
Drama
Written by Daniel Dorian
DIAMOND PRIZE
Flower Of Fire
Drama
Written by Patrick Hegarty
PLATINUM PRIZE
No Running
Drama
Written by Sullivan Savage-Elizabeth
CATEGORY 3
(Comedy)
ELITE PRIZE
Frivolity
Comedy
Written by Jake Helgren
DIAMOND PRIZE
Married Seeking Same
Comedy
Written by Joe Acton
PLATINUM PRIZE
Lovelocked
Comedy
Written by Wernher Ovalle
RUNNERS UP
DRY HEAT, Drama by Lois Henry
CHILDREN OF TOMORROW, Drama by Jeremy Fischer
DARK SKY PART 1 FINDING FAITH Sci-Fi by Lance Bradley
CAT'S EYES, Horror/Thriller by Harvey Papush
BOUNDS OF REVERIES, Supernatural by Oscar Vasquez
BLIND SPOT, Thriller, by Meeghan Holaway and Grace McKeaney
ACES AND EIGHTS, Comedy by Alex Williams
CHIMPFUSION, Animation/Fantasy by Richard Sartore
DEPTH OF FOCUS, Drama by Jarred Thorpe
BURNOVER, Drama by M D McCarthy
HONORABLE MENTION
405/101, Drama by Eduardo Aguilar
CULTURE SHOCK, Drama by Jodi Levitan
FAIRIES LANDING, Romance by Cheryl Miller
FRESHLY POPPED, Comedy by Megan Parsons
HYSTERICAL, Thriller by Patricia Crawford
PARTY GIRLS, Comedy by Carol Nelson Falcone
PETE THE PENGUIN IN THE SNOW CAPPED CAPER, Animation by Melvin Scott
SHELF LIFE, Animation by Leslie E. Henderson
SITGES, Drama by Dina Popper
THE EXTRA'S EXTRA, Comedy by Mary Haarmeyer
TRUE NORTH, Drama by Eric W. Carlson
Updated: 01/05/2008
Additional Contest Info: The 18th Annual FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Palo Alto Bang & Burn
When idealistic professor Will Reynolds joins a clandestine government program researching remote viewing, his faith in science and reality unravels as he discovers truths that feel ripped from science fiction.
Bubbling Under the Surface
An international conspiracy emerges to assassinate the remaining Holocaust survivors, driven by a sinister attempt to erase history and claim the Holocaust was nothing more than a Zionist fabrication.
Apparently So
After being dumped by text, a woman in her fifties leans on her fiercely loyal (and hilariously unfiltered) friends to rebuild her life—transforming heartbreak into triumph with the release of her brutally honest debut book.
The Imbalance 2 (sequel)
Two women. One comeback .Confidence isn't lost, it's just misplaced.
The Imbalance
Two best friends in their fifties leap back into acting — and dating — only to find an industry obsessed with youth, a culture addicted to reinvention, and a brutal truth: starting over is harder when you actually know who you are.
Waiting for the Apocalyse
When a respected judge’s lover is kidnapped, he’s forced into a race against time that dismantles his faith in justice — and exposes how far a man will go when the system that empowered him turns against him.
Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars
A gentle, highly intelligent alien crash-lands in a small town just before Christmas and forms an unlikely friendship with a girl with Down syndrome.
Twenty Last Summers
When a longtime group of friends in their fifties and sixties jokingly ask themselves, “What if we only had twenty summers left?”, the question unexpectedly detonates their comfortable routines, sending each of them into a spiral of hilarious missteps, overdue confrontations, and clumsy attempts at self-reinvention.
Eternal Blessings
Haunted by the ghosts of a notorious religious sect, a dying woman travels back in time to see if she can break their curse and prevent them from crashing her afterlife.
December 8th
After the attack on Pearl Harbor fractures their California farming community, two inseparable friends are torn apart by history: Lorne, a vengeful Marine, endures the psychological and physical torment of the Pacific island campaigns, while Lonnie, a Japanese-American fighting for dignity, navigates the injustice of an internment camp to the bloody trenches of Europe with the segregated 442nd—both struggling to preserve their humanity and fulfill a sacred pact to return home for the harvest.
