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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Post Your Script Here!FURGROW BIRDS SPIRITUAL ROSE
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
Furgrow Birds back to the beginning
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
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.
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 of the nation's greatest corporate crime to turn or hide - no 'out'.
and The Devil called!
Undeterred by her refusal to accept his gifts and proposal to be his bride, The Devil visits God's Chosen-one five times, and with his charcoaled tri-step-headed Alien Goons, examines her brain as she sleeps, for answers.
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 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, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
Arch Angel
Arch Angel is about Michael, the general of Heaven's Angel Army.
The life once lived
The life not lived is about a scientist named Doctor Conners who created a memory device called Ganesha that can allow people to remember who they were in a past life.
Only Human
Only human is about a homeless man that doesn't know he's really a Dog.
