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
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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.
