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American Gem Announces Semi-Finalists
American Gem Literary Festival and Write Brothers have announced the semi finalists in the American Gem Short Script Competition. American Gem's 6th Semi-Annual Competition attracted over 1200 entries worldwide.
THE SEMIFINALISTS ARE: (in alphabetical order)
BAYOU BOOTY by Daniel A. Chomistek
BITTERSWEET by Greicy Torres
Building Better Pumpkins by George William Hicks
Burt's Used Cars by Greg Rebman
COMBAT MEDIC BLUES by R. Scott Smith
DAMNED YANKEE by Cindy L. Keller
Five Strangers by Michael Lea
FROM THE POLAR CRATER by Milethia R. Thomas
Goggles by Robert Rogers
Harmonica by Linda Nieves-Powell
HEARD by Sarah Lotfi
HIT OR MISS by Jay Deas
INNOCENT WHEN YOU DREAM by Matt Stasi
KILLER INSTINCT by Jay Deas
Lancaster by Andrew Reese Hoffman
Lo Scrittore by Christopher Hlas
LUCKY DAY by Wendy Grube
NIGHT TRAIN by James Rabbitts
No More Spiders by CarrieAnn Lee
One Last Breath by Rick Roberts-Kercheff
OUTRAGE by Dennis Michael Jones
Parked by Adam Hodge
Quality Time by Ken Kristensen
RED CARPET by Kristina Sisco
REGRETS by Brian W. Wright
RETURNING by Marianna J. Moneymaker
Saving Grace of Numbers by Mary Carroll-Hackett
Snake by Perry T. Schwartz
Snap by Maya N. Vaughan-Smith
Son of a... by Ken Kristensen
Speak Up by Paula Tiberius
STEPSISTER (THE MEETING) by Erica Soto
Strange Isn't It? by Mark Rochell
TELL NO TALES by JAMES M. O'DONOGHUE
The Black Umbrella by Daniel Maree
THE CHOSEN by Todd Ciaciuch
The Climb by Jason W. McKinnon
The Harlot's Philosophy by William Bienes
The Memory Painter by Jessica Lockhart
The Moment by Shana Selway
THE RECRUITING OF A KLANSMAN by Bill Wellburn
The R-Word by Chad Sekerchak
The Sacrifice by Diane Namm
THE SLING by Douglas Herbert Bradway
The Winemaker's Wife by Caroline Carrigan
Ticket to Heaven by Hugh A Lowe
To Rest in Peace by Fawaz Al-Matrouk
Vise 34 by Viorica Georgina Baln
Waking Dreams by David Sawyer
WATCHING CLOSELY by diana Nile
Welcome Home Soldier by Michael Wheeler
Wish by B. Reeves
Yonderwindow Breaks by Nick Miller
Younger Brothers' Union by Jill Miller
Updated: 02/01/2008
Additional Contest Info: The 15th Annual American Gem Short Script & Literary Festival
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!e-DEAD
After a near-death experience, a woman discovers her dating app matches are ghosting her because they really are ghosts leaving her clues in order to solve their murders.
A LITTLE FAVOR
A former fighter pilot is asked, by the colonel who blackballed him, to do a little favor: use his quick reflexes to fly to the Sun, reach in and pluck out 2 off-course, discarded doomsday bombs before next Wednesday evening when they’ll explode, nudging the Sun, causing major global warming.
La Hacienda
An inter-racial Latino/White couple arrive in Mexico, during the Day of the Dead, to renovate a hacienda just purchased by her rich, white parents, they soon discover its haunted by the former residents who lived during the Mexican Revolution; they must figure out how to transform their crippling grief over losing a baby girl, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past.
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.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her gorgeous girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
