Slamdance Announces 2008 Contest Winners and Finalists
Slamdance has named Neil McGowan's Numbered as their Grand Prize Winner for 2008.
GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF INDEPENDENT SCREENPLAY AWARD:
NUMBERED (Comedy/Thriller) by: Neil McGowan
Sid Janson, the most normal man on Earth, awakes one morning to find that everyone in the world has a number on their forehead that only he can see. Discovering their meaning leads Sid on a journey towards a better understanding of the world around him.
TOP 9 FINALISTS FROM 2ND TO 10TH PLACE:
GOODMAN'S GARDEN by: Douglas K. Miller (Drama)
He got away with murder. Now what?
WANT AND CURIOSITY by: Eric Weller (Drama)
Faced with eviction from his apartment, losing his only form of income, as well the introduction of a new possibility to his life he can't help but feel different about, a decidedly indifferent young man for the first time finds ambition and meaning.
HUMAN RESOURCES by: Marissa Jo Cerar (Drama)
A biracial adopted woman leaves her lavish life in New York to return to the Midwest and help her blue-collar Caucasian parents save house.
LUCAS DONOVAN by: Keisha Poiro (Comedy)
Single mother falls in love with "teen" heartthrob.
MOONBEAM FISHERMAN by: John Dummer (Coming of Age)
In the summer of the 1969 moon landing, a teenage boy and an old fisherman learn to deal with loss.
MENDELSSOHN by: Joseph Yuan, Jeannette Manning (Period, Drama)
Europe's greatest composer, Felix Mendelssohn, has a secret. His sister co-writes all of his music. The true story of a man whose willingness to sacrifice everything for fame, from his Jewish identity to his sister, comes back to destroy him.
HAIR TODAY by: Dennis Douda (Animation)
A lowly flea saves the earth. But, he has to get a balding scientist through a mid-life crisis to do it. Dude it's just hair, not the end of the world. Oh, maybe it is!
CZECHOSLOVAKIA by: Alvin Easter (Drama)
On the road with a serial killer.
TRUCKERS VS. BIKERS by: Aaron Granlund and Sean Huet (Action/Thriller)
A truck driver seeks revenge on a gang of bikers who left him for dead and stole his rig.
HONORABLE MENTION:
FAUSTA by: Dalisia Mendoza (Drama)
Captain Janetta Morales suffers from recurring dreams after an IED detonates beside her vehicle in Iraq. Desperate for answers, she seeks the help of hypnotherapist Mitch Tenoria and discovers a life lived a hundred and fifty years in the past.
FIRE SEASON by: Tim D. Stickler (Drama)
Victims of a large forest fire realize what is truly important in life.
REPEAT AFTER ME by: Scott Honea and Josh Sitarz (Drama)
A teenage girl flees her dysfunctional family's slumping Las Vegas wedding chapel and sets out to become a venerable magician's assistant at a hotel scheduled for demolition.
SAPNA'S GIFT by: Anthony Dodd (Drama)
If Valedictorian Jaime plans to cheat death and attend his high school graduation, he'll need straight A's in his three worst subjects: philosophy, metaphysics, and... girls.
SOMEWHERE BETTER THAN HERE by: Vince Orlando (Drama)
Four lost souls trapped by poverty since childhood struggle to create better lives for themselves by any means necessary.
Updated: 10/22/2008
Additional Contest Info: Slamdance Screenplay Competition
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!FLIGHT OF THE HEN GLIDERS
When strong winds blow a flock of chickens and their coop away from young Emily and Sam's backyard, it's up to the chickens to learn to fly their coop back home.
THE GEPETTO PROTOCOL
To stay "real" in the real world after their last creator dies, an action figure, fashion doll, superhero, anime girl, and crash dummy—now real flesh and blood—must find new believers in ten days or be forgotten forever, and get help from two kids and their dad at a cosplay convention.
GALERIJ
As an art authenticator collects twelve 17th century Dutch Brohm family portraits, she learns the dangers of reuniting the portraits—the Galerij—when an art expert warns her the collection will revive the Brohm family and unleash them into present day society, where they'll resume control over and castrate European trade.
DEAD STATES
A group of resilient small town teens struggle to carve out a new future after a series of TEOTWAWKI events crush the U.
Rod Knock
A newly single man encounters many comical mishaps in his work and social life, but he must prove himself worthy to his deriding buddies and his Latino lady friend.
THE WETTEST SPRING
In the late 1980's, Kurt Maxwell battles puberty and locker room myths, a family in the midst of dissolving, and on top of everything else, he must conquer Date Math at middle school.
THE LIGHT MAN
A woman at a music festival passes off two children to the light toy vendor.
PRETTY
Who can you trust when everyone loves you to death? When a trophy wife is manipulated by spouse and friends, she better find a way look out for herself or lose everything -- including her life.
Time Travel: Many Happy Returns
Two simple-minded brothers work part time at a science lab and find machinery in an unauthorized area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time.
CLEAN LIVING
When her actor boyfriend delays marriage claiming money woes, Isabel tries to turn her inherited Smalltown cleaning service into a quick buck.
