Script Savvy Announces April Results
Script Savvy has announced Steve Daniels' Death Doesn't Like Me as the winner of their April, 2008 Screenwriting Competition.
WINNER:
Death Doesn't Like Me by Steve Daniels
Comedy
Logline: A teenage girl, raised by an oblivious mom, has no friends and gets harassed constantly at school. She wants to end her life, but Death himself has other plans for her.
Juno meets Groundhog Day in this insightful comedy about a girl who wants to die, but the wise-cracking, ultimately well-meaning character "Death" just won't let her.
Honorable Mention:
The Battle of the Wils by Arthur Blum
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Logline: Wil's perfect life comes to a crashing halt when he's forced to switch places with his doppelganger from a parallel universe.
Hat Trick by Robert Gately
Comedy/Drama
Logline: Three retirees pursue personal goals - one of which is an ex-football player's dream of streaking naked down the field during the Super Bowl to atone for a fumble he made years ago in the NFL.
Dealers by Jimmy Bromberg
Mystery/Thriller
Logline: A college drug dealer and his bashful roommate hide out in the city, in fear of retaliation from local street dealers and capture by the police.
Scalloped Potatoes and Ham by Kathy Douglass
Comedy
Logline: A writer for a food magazine is taken out of her element when she and her family move to small-town Iowa. Thinking that Iowans have nothing to offer in terms of cuisine, the woman is thunderstruck when she tastes an amazing dish of scalloped potatoes and ham. Now she's on a quest to discover this meal's special ingredient...
Updated: 06/01/2008
Additional Contest Info:
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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.
New Jack Hustlers
Two seasoned D.E.A. agents go undercover with a rookie female officer to infiltrate a ruthless gang of New Jack Hustlers, moving large quantities of a potent new narcotic.
Medicaria
A barren paramedic, desperate to be a mother, turns from healer to killer to protect a homeless boy she adopts, only to uncover his ties to a cartel — and they want him back.
The Andrew Jackson Defense
A reformed prisoner with a violent past frames his clemency petition using the biography of Andrew Jackson, arguing that like the seventh president, a man forged by violence can still become a force for good.
The Cajun
When a notorious pirate, made immortal by the curse of a Voodoo Queen, is invited to a mysterious poker game in modern day New Orleans, he discovers a clue to find the treasure that can set him free.
Heat of the Moment
A former comedian and out-of-work chef gets invited to cook for some old friends, and he soon realizes you can't stop the heart's utmost desire in a weekend filled with love, drama, and betrayal.
Fidelity Clause 2 (the Passion of Revenge)
The toxic love triangle has shattered; the slinging shards don't discriminate who they slice! A tormented wife survived relentless, mind-adultering assaults and the vicious attack of an intrusive lost soul, all at the hands of her own psychiatrist husband.
Fidelity Clause (the Passion of Regret)
A former model-turned-entrepreneur once had the world at her fingertips, but as her cheating husband blurs the line between psychiatrist and psycho, he turns her world inside-out.
Palo Alto Bang & Burn
Trapped under siege in a secret government outpost, a young professor leads his team against terrorists, traitors, and the terrifying suspicion that non-human intelligence already controls the planet.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an AI Bot to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of 'Fake'.
