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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!AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.
DON'T GO IN
A Baton Rouge teen, haunted by a family tragedy, battles a malevolent Creolo Myth to save his brother and amend past mistakes.
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.
