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ASA Announces Semifinalists
The American Screenwriters Association (ASA) has announced the Semifinalists in their 11th Annual International Screenplay Competition, co- sponsored by Gotham Writers' Workshop.
The Semifinalists are...
(Scripts are listed in alphabetical order by writer)
John Aldriedge, Love, Zoe
Husam Asi, The General's Son
Gary Barrett, Straightening Simon
Philip Benz and Mitchell Schneider, Edge Of God
Bob Bowersox, An Impossibly Fine Line
Curt Burdick and Scott Burdick, The Magic Carpet Adventures
Craig Cambria, Night of Reflections
Roderick Chapman, House Guests
Colin Costello, Bridezilla vs. Deer
Robert Delay, The Psychic Sleuth
Dennis Douda, Splintered Porch
Chuck Duffie, Veneer
Richard Elliott and Amanda Russo, Antony and Cleopatra
Rich Elvers, Stray Dog
Pedro Fernandez, The Monastery
Matthew Furman, Counseling the Devil
Jonathan Hall and Hannah Robinson, Fireworks
Leslie Henderson, Shelf Life
David Juhas, Whitewash
Marjory Kaptanoglu, Devil's Lure
Philip Landa, Salvage
Eugene Langlais III and Paul R. Langlais, One Nation Under
Jillian Lauren, The Great Pretenders
Linda Marr, The Magician's Daughter
Michael McDonald, Moving Target
Lance Oliver, Tale of a Finer South
Michael Penning, All Hallows Eve
Craig Peters, The 49th Day
Michael Salop, The Great American Holocaust Movie
Natashia Saunders, The Spinning Wheel
Peter Schuyler, Last Blade of Grass
Sharon Scott, The Secret Drawer Society
Elise Stempky, From Point A to Point B
Eric Uzoma, Velvet Gloves
Faraimo Vailaau, Lucas Opt
Andrea Wassel, Leftovers
Matthew Williams, In the Palaces of Kings
Jeff Wolverton, Sherlock & Jack
Gila Zalon, The Rife Machine
Steven Zawacki, Orcadia
Finalists will be annouced on or about May 31, 2008.
Updated: 05/07/2008
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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.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
