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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: Screenplay Festival
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Xanadu Shores: Proof of Concept (PoC)
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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