ASA Announces Winners in the 11th Annual International Screenplay Competition
The American Screenwriters Association (ASA) has announced the winners of their 11th Annual International Screenwriting Competition, co-sponsored by Gotham Writers' Workshop.
Grand Prize Winners
Jonathan Hall and Hannah Robinson
London, England
Fireworks
A thirteen-year-old girl tries to deal with her grief by stealing her dad's ashes from her mum and hatching a plan with an eccentric uncle to launch them in a firework. But when the plan goes dangerously awry, who does a girl turn to?
2nd Place
Philip Landa
Belmont, MA
Salvage
A high school outcast falls victim to a violent attack by a suspected serial killer. But unlike the other victims, this lonely teen doesn't beg for his life. Intrigued, the killer spares him and soon the boy's high school tormentors begin to disappear.
3rd Place
Bob Bowersox
Chadds Ford, PA
An Impossibly Fine Line
In a horrifying story inspired by actual events, an aging homicide detective tracks a ritualistic killer who blurs the fine line between sanity and madness for both of them.
4th Place
Michael Penning
Montreal, Canada
All Hallows Eve
One hundred years after the Salem witch trials of 1692, a single mother battles terrifying supernatural forces while searching for her kidnapped daughter on the scariest night of the year... All Hallows.
5th place
Jillian Lauren
Los Angeles, CA
The Great Pretenders
A washed-up 80s TV actor finds true love and self- acceptance when he lands an unlikely job in Vegas working as an impersonator of himself.
Updated: 06/09/2008
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A washed-up, legendary basketball announcer becomes the feel-good story of March Madness when the world believes his cancer has returned.
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.
