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Screenplay Festival Announces 2007 Contest Winners
Screenplay Festival has announced their screenwriting contest winners in all genres:
Action/Adventure:
Grand Prize
Tony Wakefield -- The Faster Strike
Honorable Mentions
Robert Repino -- Empire of Dirt
Brian Van Norman -- Storm Birds
Alan Foley -- The Otherworld
Jenny Copeland -- Tiananmen West
Pete Thomas -- Til Death Do Us Part
Comedy:
Grand Prize
Adam Balsam -- The Village Idiot
Honorable Mentions
Nathan Carliner Goldman -- Batter Up
Louis Tripodes -- Clutch
Todd Luongo -- P.R.
Simon Williamson -- The Hogswood Incident
Debra Hardy -- The Sweet Competition
Drama:
Grand Prize
Chuck Monzo -- The Michigan Assassin
Honorable Mentions
Burt Bulos -- Dime A Dance
Steven A. Lyons -- First Casualty
Aaron Yarber -- Sonny
VerLynn Kneifl -- To Die In Tennessee
Tom Hobbs -- Trauma Junkie
Family:
Grand Prize
George Ferris -- Beyond the Horizon
Honorable Mentions
Jeff Williams -- Call of Ki-Woon
John Aldriedge -- Missing Parts
Steven Samuels -- Mr. Smith's Class Goes to Washington
Ben Shelfer & Scott Shelfer -- Struttin'
Mary Huckstep -- To Catch A Keeper
Thriller/Horror:
Grand Prize
Mike Sherer -- Prisons of the Mind
Honorable Mentions
Nathaniel Gutman -- HourZero
Ron Podell -- Pulp Science Fiction
Todd Crawford & Patrick Crawford & Jeremy Padow -- Savage Weekend
Dick Upson -- The Companion
Linda Marr -- The Magician's Daughter
Updated: 06/02/2008
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!THE QUISLING
A young lawyer defends a wanted terrorist from international extradition.
PORTAL TO HELL
In the beginning of the 1980’s a teenage boy starts to experience paranormal activity in his home, from hallucinations to physical marks.
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 - Proof of Concept
Four friends become enmeshed in a gold heist turned kidnapping chased by a capricious Federal agent and his comely accomplice by land, air and sea, culminating explosively on Xanadu Shores.
Xanadu Shores: Proof of Concept (PoC) Eight Central Characters.
Proof of Concept Logline, introduces the eight central characters in an intense office situation before the the action unfolds later that day 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
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.
The Experiment
The life of poor boy bound for delinquency is altered forever by a doctor and a corrupt system.
ALTA CALIFORNIA
A young mixed blood, determined to avenge his mother’s brutal death, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates through the oppressive and inhumane colonizers of California's “Mission Era.
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.
