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: Screenplay Festival
ScriptLinks
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A contemporary holiday tale about a grumpy old man who resides in the memory unit of nursing home, and is presented with a gripping bargain by a mystical stranger: the chance to swap his inconsequential life for that of a lost child’s, one snowy New Year's Eve.
The Confession (Elevated Horror/Drama/Thriller)
A shy eight-year-old Catholic girl commits a petty crime to have a
Radioland! (Coming of Age/Psychological/Comedy/Drama/Memoir
A naïve 12-year-old boy, falls in love with a fantasy, learns the truth about his fatally flawed hero -- a 1960s Top 40 radio deejay -- and discovers the bittersweet
Bewitching Hitler: The Coven that Beat the Nazis and Saved the Wolrd! (Historical Fiction/Dramedy/Romance - based on actual events.)
A plucky UK/New Forest Witch Coven conjure an ancient magic spell to prevent Hitler from winning World War II.
One, Second Summer (Young Adult/Romance/Sci-Fi/Dramedy)
Second Summer on Cape Cod is usually a quiet time, until a spaceship of wacky extraterrestrials come to visit, and two fearless tween-agers, determined to meet them, find out why.
BOOM!Town (Parody of Crime/Mob Story/Dramedy)
After a bloody car bombing, a blown-off human foot lands on the roof of a retired, cash-poor mob cleaner who schemes to extort the Mafia Don that ordered the hit, unaware his wacky plan may help the FBI catch the cut-throat gangster.
The Tortured Journey of Wounded Souls
In antebellum Virginia, after a white woman is raped and her husband is killed while fleeing to Philadelphia, she has to depend on a proud young slave she considers inferior to protect her on the perilous trek north while hotly pursued by bandits and slave catchers.
ARCHIVAL
When a down-on-his-luck reporter is hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of a legendary statesman, he gains access to the presidential library of a disgraced politician— only to find himself trapped in a violent hostage siege.
LINCOLN PLACE
In 2001, a struggling stand-up comic relocates to Brooklyn, where a rundown brownstone full of misfits and a haunted past force him to confront his demons — onstage and off.
Misguided Illusions
In the world of Drag Queens, there's a fine line between fantasy and reality.
