IFFF Announces Semifinalists
The 2008 International Family Film Festival has announced their feature and short screenplay selections:
FEATURE Drama
THE ACE OF ACES (Australia)
SCREENWRITER: Geoffrey Breuder
FIRST CLARINET
SCREENWRITER: George Morgan
FOR MY BEST FRIEND
SCREENWRITER: Leigh Ann E. Bell
FOUNDATIONS
SCREENWRITER: Tom Basham
HANS CAN DANCE
SCREENWRITER: Brianna Chatters
THE HAS-BEENS
SCREENWRITER: Michael Raymond
I WAS A TEENAGE WAREHOUSE
SCREENWRITER: Mark Daniels
LONG OVERDUE
SCREENWRITER: Eric W. Carlson
LOVE, ZOE
SCREENWRITER: John Aldriedge
THE OBITUARY WRITER
SCREENWRITER: Jason R. Carroll
PEOPLE THAT DREAM, WHALES THAT DANCE
SCREENWRITER: Barbara Meyer
SERENA'S THUNDER
SCREENWRITER: Jean Hunter
TRUE NORTH
SCREENWRITER: Eric W. Carlson
WHEN I FALL IN LOVE
SCREENWRITER: Clint Morey
WHITE WATER
SCREENWRITERS: Eric Stein, Michael S. Bandy
WHO NEEDS THIS?
SCREENWRITER: Peter Fraser
FEATURE Comedy
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
SCREENWRITER: Carol Sabik-Jaffe
CATCHING BUBBLES
SCREENWRITER: Anthony Orkin
DANCING MORRIS (Canada)
SCREENWRITER: W.T. Mitche
JETT JAGUAR (Canada)
SCREENWRITER: Mark Sanders
LIFE'S A MESS
SCREENWRITER: Heidi M.V. Sullivan
PARNASSUS ON WHEELS (Christopher Morley adaptation)
SCREENWRITER: Kevin McCarthy
FEATURE Animation
BEYOND THE RIVER
SCREENWRITER: Mark Sage
CHILLY WONTON WILLY
SCREENWRITER: Dennis Fallon
ESCAPE FROM BIOLOGY
SCREENWRITER: Joanne Watson
INSTRUMENTS
SCREENWRITERS: Jonathan Allmett, Adam Boyer
THE MESSENGERS (Canada)
SCREENWRITER: Julie Austin
PEN DRAGON
SCREENWRITER: Christopher Canole
SECRET ISLAND OF TORTUGA
SCREENWRITER: Patricia Rust
FEATURE Sci-Fi/Fantasy
THE ARDANEA PENDANT
SCREENWRITERS: Jeanne McKinney, Anne Bradshaw
CHASING BABY
SCREENWRITER: Roger Tessier
IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS
SCREENWRITER: Lew Osteen
MESSIAH (Malta)
SCREENWRITER: Paul De Leonardo (King James Bible adaptation)
NESS
SCREENWRITER: Elizabeth Pfeiffer
TINK! (musical)
SCREENWRITERS: Kevin Cotter, Diane Uniman
TWO MOONS
SCREENWRITER: Paul Martin
TRASH
SCREENWRITER: Timothy Armstrong
ZOOPER HEROES
SCREENWRITER: Christopher Canole
SHORT Screenplay Drama
TIME & TIDE
SCREENWRITER: Ronald E. Podell, Jr
BLAZE, The Police Horse
SCREENWRITER: Graham Jones, Cal Street Productions, LLC
THE GIFT
SCREENWRITER: Rob Mora
UNHOLY ENCOUNTER
SCREENWRITER: Anthony Amenta
SHORT Screenplay Comedy
MORTIMER SMEDLEY'S INVENTION
SCREENWRITERS: Scott & Paula Merrow
OH, LA, LA
SCREENWRITERS: Scott & Paula Merrow
PASSING THE BAR
SCREENWRITER: Duncan B. Putney
SHORT Screenplay Animation
THE TROPHY BALL
SCREENWRITER: Rahel Kent
SHORT Screenplay Sci-Fi/Fantasy
COMING HOME (Scotland)
SCREENWRITER: Wilson Macduff
Updated: 02/12/2008
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Xanadu Shores: Proof of Concept (PoC)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
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.
The Coyote
When a Native American scholar and a graduate student unearth a mysterious tomb, they find it contains a Navajo god and soon find themselves embroiled in a cosmic battle between good and evil with the fate of humanity at stake.
The Umpire Has No Balls
A fiery young woman who has baseball running through her blood and can call the game better than anyone starts her journey through the umpire ranks to achieve her one goal in life – becoming a major league baseball umpire.
All That Glitters (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
The Xanadu Team in their second outing become pawns in a complicated gem heist, involving a beautiful Russian woman and her nefarious employer after a boat of stolen jewelry explodes.
Screenplay Adaptation (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
PITTSBURGH PHIL
Biopic of Harry Strauss, a.k.a.
IT'S A POPCORN WORLD
An inventor strives to pop the world like popcorn, to save his home from being stolen by government eminent domain, if his dance-clubbing hunchback lawyer can keep him out of jail.
Marilyn
The ghost of a young woman falls in love with the man living in her old apartment and must try to protect him from his murderous, adulterous wife.
The Storm
A small-town sheriff dealing with personal problems investigates the murder and kidnapping of several girls where there’s no lack of suspects.