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
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
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Screenplay Pilot for Xanadu Shores: The Super Spy Series
Two ex-pilots become entangled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
Lolita
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She Curses Like a Sailor
The perception of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their perplexing neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her college senior class project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other twisted souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A satirical view of the ineptness of modern day psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world renowned heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
