Samuel Goldwyn Finalists Named
Five UCLA students have been chosen as finalists in the 2008 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards Competition:
Suzie Bohannon for "Spin Cycle"
Austin Formato, "Self Help"
J.J. Nelson, "Out of Road"
Robyn Paris, "Odd Man Out"
Richard Rapoza, "The Hole in the Brain of Phineas Gage."
The finalists were chosen from among 120 submissions from students at eight University of California campuses.
Updated: 09/22/2008
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ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Eternal Blessings
After suffering a head injury that leaves her suspended in an altered state, a woman with a troubled past time travels back to 1980 to warn her younger self of the dangers ahead.
Lucy vs. The HOA
After uncovering a million-dollar fraud in her neighborhood HOA, a precocious 11-year-old enlists her Private Detective father to help finish the investigation her deceased mother started years ago.
Wounds of Love and Conspiracy
After an accident cripples his civil rights activist wife, a guilt-ridden young man becomes obsessed with earning her love by helping change America—until his fixation on JFK and civil rights draws him into a delusional quest to stop the President’s assassination.
Virgin, Warrior, Priest, Hero
Across three decades, one actress embodies Lucy as virgin, warrior, and priest—a woman who repeatedly transforms suffering into identity, reinventing herself to survive a world that misreads and confines her, until she finally achieves redemption by saving someone other than herself.
Triggered
When a failed assassination attempt on a rising populist politician ignites nationwide unrest, two mismatched London detectives uncover a covert program hidden inside Britain’s most popular AR glasses — technology capable of manipulating emotion, behaviour, and violent intent in real time.
Keep The Doctor Away
When an anonymous graffiti artist smokes weed from an apple and has a premonition of a wildfire that will destroy Los Angeles and leave her dead on her golden birthday, she must become famous enough for the city to take her seriously—before she turns 22.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
In a fractured future where aggression and hate spread like viruses, seventeen-year-old Rebecca, afraid of the violence inside her, reaches across time to the gentle grandmother she never knew - and discovers that their bond is humanity's last defense against an emotional apocalypse.
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.
