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GAFFERS Announces 2008 Screenplay Contest Winners
The Global Art Film Festival (GAFFERS) has announced the winners of the 2008 Screenplay Writing Competition.
1st Place (Drama), "Finding Heart", David Kane
A young man with a bright future as a wrestler gets drafted into the Vietnam War and winds up coming home alive, but unable to wrestle. To find his true destiny, he must first cope with his new life and learn to wrestle with his limitations.
Orange County, CA ;
1st Place (Comedy/Drama/Fantasy) "Unicorns", Leah Meyerhoff
An awkward teenage girl escapes to a fantasy world when her first romantic relationship turns increasingly abusive. Brooklyn, New York ;
2nd Place (Comedy) "Best Supporting Daddy", Mark Cummings Sr.
Upon hearing an A-list Hollywood Socialite wants a baby, a once thriving romantic novelist, in need of a best-seller, plots an extreme romantic scheme.
Columbus Ohio;
2nd Place, (Comedy) " Personal Injury", Vicky Murray
Two former college basketball rivals whose goals are to make it to the NBA, but fail, unbeknownst to the other, become attorneys who have to battle it out in the courtroom, one last time.
Carson, CA;
2nd Place (Drama/Mystery) "Inner Vision", G. Rose Fisher
Callie has a generational inherited gift, which brings fear in the neighborhood. It's becomes unbearable for her and the family. Finally, there is a new beginning for them, and hopefully a secret to be buried.
Elk Grove, CA;
3rd Place (Drama/Romance) "Dance of Isaiah", Jomo Merritt
Greek-American woman about to marry a non-Greek man, finds out about the marriage "curse" placed on her grandfather and how she must break it. Albany, GA;
3rd Place (Action/Adv) "The Harlem Story", Danny Holst
A promising singer suffers an ill-fated tragedy owing to the injustice of the criminal justice system and a mean spirited entity in NYC. Ellenwood, GA
Honorable Mention:
"Momentary Matters" - Lisa Sottile
"Pony Girl" - Janet Hogate
"The Scarlet Rose" - David McEwing
"To See Afar" - Donald T. Morrison
"Kingbird" - Don Adams
Updated: 06/13/2008
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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.
