Writers Place Announces Contest Finalists
The Writers Place has announced their contest finalists for the November 2007 through April 2008 competition period:
Full-Length Screenplays
Byron Bellamy - World War
R. J. Berens - Who's Your Daddy?
Peter Bisgaier & Jeffrey Dorau - KLAUS
Alexis & Rudy Croyle - Good Intentions
Michael Farrell - The Operators
Christian Heinze - A Revolution in Urination
Jacqueline Johnston - Amor? Amor! Amor.
Donna Lisa - Kheng Kheng Crocodile
Christopher Littler - TARGET 26
Billy Maddox - B Deviled
Maurizio Marmorstein - Hallowed Ground
Caitlin McCarthy - Vera
Robert Rhyne - Rational Panic
Craig Rosenthal - The Shanghailanders
Rachel Smith - My Own Private Myocardial Infarction
Connie Tonsgard - The Nutcracker
Mark Wagner - A Wink of the Black Eye
Teleplay/Short Screenplays
Jennifer Bogush - Livin' in a V World
Karen Buckton - Green is Good - Bigfoot
Daniel Chomistek - All That Glitters...
Andrew Ferguson - The Office - The Morning After
Russell Fike - The Office - Interesting
Elizabeth Hamlett - Please Shred
Wendy Okoi-Obuli - Once Upon Ever After
Joyce Rabin - Life With Liz
Jennifer Razon - Stranger
Michael Warner - The Luckiest Unlucky
Frederick Weller - Tommy and the Beast
Kate West - Mornings
Brian Wright - Regret
Competition winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd & honorable mentions) in both the full-length and teleplay/short categories will be announced on July 1, 2008.
Updated: 06/02/2008
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Love in the Time of Likes
When social media influencer Jules Novatech falls for Nico Montavista — heir to the Old Hollywood dynasty her tech-mogul father has feuded with for fifteen years — a single viral kiss ignites a media firestorm, forcing both families to choose between decades of pride and the one thing neither empire can control: their children's happiness.
Brit Out of Water
A broke London accountant inherits a crumbling Southern inn — and accidentally inherits everything that comes with it.
Xanadu Shores III - Rescuing Atlas
“Rescuing Atlas” the Trilogy’s peak begins when an astrophysicist - megalomaniac and boat racing enthusiast, operating from his island, becomes hell-bent on blackmailing the world.
Xanadu Shores II: All That Glitters
The "Xanadu Team get duped by a nefarious jeweler in a casino robbery, leading to an international conspiracy disguised as an art heist.
Xanadu Shores - First 14 pages
"Xanadu Shores - The Pilot". A spy thriller unfolds as four friends become entrapped after one is kidnapped in a compromising situation, during a gold heist leading to an adventurous crime story encompassing fraud, greed and lustful revenge, alertly pursued by an agent along with his comely banker by land air and sea, explosively culminating on the island of Xanadu Shores.
Xanadu Shores: Proof of Concept (PoC) Eight Central Characters.
Proof of Concept; introduces the eight central characters in an intense office situation before the action unfolds after a pilot’s girlfriend gets kidnapped during a gold heist, leaving clues for his friends to follow, unknowingly chased by a capricious agent and his comely accomplice by land, air and sea explosively culminating on the island of Xanadu Shores.
Xanadu Shores - The Pilot
"Xanadu Shores - The Pilot". A spy thriller unfolds as four friends become entrapped after one is kidnapped in a compromising situation, during a gold heist leading to an adventurous crime story encompassing fraud, greed and lustful revenge, alertly pursued by an agent along with his comely banker by land, air and sea, explosively culminating on the island of Xanadu Shores.
Contortions
A man dying on a sofa confronts a procession of ghostly figures—his wife and friends—whose surreal, contorted interactions reveal a hidden chain of guilt, betrayal, and family catastrophe.
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.
Dark Latitude
When a young woman uncovers a hidden photograph tied to a murdered WWII survivor, her search for the truth exposes a forgotten escape—and those determined to keep history buried.
