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!A Bullet For God's Bounty
In a small Arizona town in the 1880s, a righteous French bounty hunter agrees to track down a violent fugitive, only to discover he has been hunting the wrong man.
Pretty Baby: The Tragic Death Of Marion Parker
Based on a shocking 1927 crime, a grieving woman exposes the decades-old truth about her twin sister's murder to prevent the killer's lawyer from publishing his own skewed account of the tragedy.
Greenman
A rising rock star strikes out for Iceland in search of inspiration, only to discover a centuries-old horror that threatens to use her gifts to take over the world.
Tar Pits
Forced to take sides in a centuries-old intergalactic war, a veteran soldier and her scientist ex-wife bond with giant alien warriors in a final battle that will decide the fate of humanity.
Morbidly
A young physical therapist slowly loses his grip on reality as he succumbs to the seductiveness of his only patient, a morbidly obese woman with a grisly secret.
Restoration
As an introverted art restorer succumbs to the evil temptations of an ancient painting, otherworldly forces attempt to stop her from unleashing the painting's unholy power.
Euthanized
A grieving animal control officer becomes an unlikely social media hero when she embarks on a vigilante crusade against animal abusers, but her violent actions trap her between friends on the police force and the leader of a citywide dogfighting ring.
Misfortune Cookies
Accidentally killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, an oafish redneck teenager and her misfit friends begin dying one by one when the chef's ghost returns from the grave, killing them in gruesome fortune cookie-themed ways.
Splashdown
A mysterious space capsule adrift in the Pacific Ocean pulls a disillusioned Air Force pilot into battle against a shadowy paramilitary force hell bent on utilizing the astronauts' otherworldly cargo to enslave humanity.
Consumed
Trapped in a basement after an apocalyptic earthquake, a grieving wife fights off a horde of parasitic monsters, unaware that her God-fearing husband has already decided her fate.
