netfilm.com Announces 2008 Split-Screenplay Contest Winners
The Split-Screenplay contest is split into two divisions. Members review screenplays in the opposite division that are not in competition with their own. This offers screenwriters an opportunity to receive fair and honest reviews of their screenplay from other screenwriters they have never met:
FIRST PLACE WINNERS:
Don Decker
Flight of Desire
If you could, would you take the flight to your innermost desire?
Colleen De Maio
The Devil and Harry Houdini
Having sold his soul for success, the greatest escape artist who ever lived must now outwit the Devil to perform the ultimate escape -- from hell itself.
SECOND PLACE WINNERS:
Paul Thompson
My Guardian
A woman's self-appointed guardian angel goes from protector to mentor as he teaches her how to stand up for herself with fatal results.
Michelle
The Final Act
Duncan is your typical Hollywood actor; he'll do anything to transcend his C-list status. He'll endure his over-bearing agents, stomach his insufferable studio arranged girlfriend, and...oh yeah kill anyone who gets in his way. The infamous murderer Henry Lee Lucas said being a serial killer was a lot like "being a movie-star..." He had no idea how right he was.
THIRD PLACE WINNERS:
Peter Clines
Reality Check
A starship crew comes to realize they are characters in a 1950's film serial and discover a way to escape into the real universe.
Sarah Coulter
Burke and Hare
A historical thriller about Scotland's most famous serial killers, William Burke and William Hare.
Updated: 10/23/2008
Additional Contest Info:
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Post Your Script Here!GERIATRIC PARK
A young man with a dark past finds a job as a Handyman in a nursing home.
Fight For Oil
A beautiful young anti-war activist and a Death Valley auto mechanic learn about love and loyalty during a future Gulf War.
Promises, Promises
Life crisis. Mid-life crisis.
Fish Fetish
What happens when you mix compulsion with alcohol? A horrific, fast paced story of abuse and revenge inspired by "Tales From The Crypt"
TRAGIC FLAW
Revenge is sweet. Infidelity is delicious.
ENDLESS COURAGE
There’s the family you’re born into and the one you choose: A feisty teen growing up and a political activist growing old forge new paths when aging out of foster care meets aging in place, conquering the housing crisis in a world stacked against them.
INVISIBLE
What do you do when you age out of jobs and relationships and nobody notices you anymore? This is the story of one woman’s outrageous attempts to be seen by embracing other disenfranchised oddballs, building community and finding an unlikely new love.
A Matter of Time, based on the book by Don Kirchner
He searched for freedom in the skies, he found it in a prison cell: A triumph of the human spirit over devastating odds.
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.
Nostalgia Kills
A washed-up paranormal TV crew heads to an abandoned mall to exploit a legendary massacre for ratings, only to find themselves trapped inside a bloody slasher sequel where someone is determined to finish the story that started twenty-five years ago.
