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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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.
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