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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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After a near-death experience, a woman discovers her dating app matches are ghosting her because they really are ghosts leaving her clues in order to solve their murders.
A LITTLE FAVOR
A former fighter pilot is asked, by the colonel who blackballed him, to do a little favor: use his quick reflexes to fly to the Sun, reach in and pluck out 2 off-course, discarded doomsday bombs before next Wednesday evening when they’ll explode, nudging the Sun, causing major global warming.
La Hacienda
An inter-racial Latino/White couple arrive in Mexico, during the Day of the Dead, to renovate a hacienda just purchased by her rich, white parents, they soon discover its haunted by the former residents who lived during the Mexican Revolution; they must figure out how to transform their crippling grief over losing a baby girl, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her gorgeous girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
