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Austin Fest Announces Contest Winners
The Austin Film Festival (AFF) has announced its 2008 Screenplay and Teleplay Competition winners. Winners received cash prizes ranging from $1,000 to $5,000, reimbursements for travel and lodging while at the festival, and access to and recognition by some of the most important writers, agents, producers and filmmakers in the industry. More than 4,000 submissions were reviewed by an industry jury including Herschel Weingrod, producer of "Falling Down" and screenwriter of "Trading Places," "Twins," and "Kindergarten Cop," and Maggie Biggar, independent producer and Senior Vice President of Fortis Films. The following winners were selected by category:
Drama Screenplay: "Mine" Anita Skibski
Comedy Screenplay: "eLove" Betsy Morris
Latitude Productions Screenplay Award (This award is sponsored by Los Angeles-based motion picture production company Latitude Productions, which was founded by company President Curtis Burch.): "Shimmer Lake" Oren Uziel
Sci-Fi Screenplay: "The Man Who Would be Sherlock Homes" Walter Campbell
Drama Teleplay: "Pushing Daisies: Rumpology" Steve Daniels
Sitcom Teleplay: "The Office: The Crossword Contest" Beau Henry
In its 15-year history the AFF Screenplay and Teleplay Competition has served to jump-start many writing careers. In the competition's first year, screenplay competition winner Max Adams' script "Excess Baggage" was optioned by Columbia and made into a film starring Alicia Silverstone and Benicio Del Toro. Pamela Ribon, a finalist in the Sitcom category in 2001, is now a writer for ABC hit series "Samantha Who?" Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia, 2003 Drama Teleplay Winners, began careers in writing for TV after their trip to Austin in 2003. The pair, who have written for shows including CBS' "Judging Amy," ABC's "E-ring," and the entire run of "Jericho," served as panelists at this year's festival.
Updated: 10/21/2008
Additional Contest Info: Austin Film Festival Script Competition
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Post Your Script Here!AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.
The March of the 18th
In 1864 the Veteran Reserve Corps was formed to allow disabled Union army men to continue to perform their duty for God and Country.
ELECTRIC
After being electrocuted on the job, a woman has the power to make everyone around her fall in love.
OVERPASS
When a cement truck driver avoids slamming into a Lexus, only to lose his own life, he haunts the Lexus driver and teaches him a powerful life lesson in the process.
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
L.A. Detective Owen Murphy is on a mission to clear his name on a murder he didn't commit.
HARBINGER
Detective Sandy Marone feels the weight of the world come crashing down on her shoulders as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of another senior citizen, one of several over the past few months.
THE TEST
On an anniversary trip to San Fran Debbie sets up seemingly disinterested husband Jim to test his fidelity, but things spin wildly out of control when Jim instead falls into a trap set by a team of dangerous con-artists ready to take him for a ride and everything he's worth.
THE GLAMOROUS LIFE
A model whose career is fading gets a much-needed vacation and a new outlook on life when she hides out at a Florida beach house with an “odd couple” of twenty-something brothers who are 100% convinced she's a hooker.
DOWN WITH DAD
A 3-time Man of the Year dad Dave McNabb tries to teach his teen son Lincoln a life lesson -- “do good things, good things happen.
TAKEN AWAY
Two 16 year-olds, one a foul-mouthed cutter, the other a church boy, become unlikely allies when they are snatched from separate states and brought to a remote hideaway by an inexperienced kidnapper and his mother who's fresh out of prison and terminal.
