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!Fidelity Clause (the Passion of Regret)
A former model-turned-entrepreneur once had the world at her fingertips, but as her cheating husband blurs the line between psychiatrist and psycho, he turns her world inside-out.
Fidelity Clause 2 (the Passion of Revenge)
The toxic love triangle has shattered; the slinging shards don't discriminate who they slice! A tormented wife survived relentless, mind-adultering assaults and the vicious attack of an intrusive lost soul, all at the hands of her own psychiatrist husband.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
Palo Alto Bang & Burn
Trapped under siege in a secret government outpost, a young professor leads his team against terrorists, traitors, and the terrifying suspicion that non-human intelligence already controls the planet.
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 perplexing neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other despicable souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A tongue-in-cheek view of the inept state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
