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
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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.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
Burning Old Man
A group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration.
Attachment In (Pilot)
An ancient being is summoned to fight an evil entity but first both have to attach within a human body at birth, grow up and navigate life before meeting in an epic battle where winner takes all.
