Script Savvy Announces September 2008 Contest Results
Script Savvy has named Craig Peters The 49th Day as the winner of their September, 2008 Screenwriting Competition:
Winner:
The 49th Day by Craig Peters
Thriller/horror
Logline: A little girl's imaginary friend starts killing off her family one by one. But what can you do when you're only seven and Death wants to be your best friend?
Honorable Mention:
Lifer by Inon Shampanier
Crime drama
Logline: A cold-blooded escaped convict discovers his humanity when he befriends a child prodigy and mentors his long-lost son through a sophisticated airport heist, which culminates in an emotional twist ending.
A Beautiful Place by Chris Adler
Drama
Logline: A young orphan with cancer struggles to find a way to keep her promise to her father - a promise to find a way to make the world a better place.
Lycan Or Not by Frank Reavey
Comedy
Logline: A wisecracking private detective that specializes in supernatural cases reluctantly gets involved when the king of the werewolves is kidnapped.
Rock Paper Scissors by Leo Lo
Comedy
Logline: Three lonely misfits discover the laws of attraction when they fulfill their individual destinies at the annual Rock Paper Scissors Championship.
Updated: 11/03/2008
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!A Bullet For God's Bounty
In a small Arizona town in the 1880s, a righteous French bounty hunter agrees to track down a violent fugitive, only to discover he has been hunting the wrong man.
Pretty Baby: The Tragic Death Of Marion Parker
Based on a shocking 1927 crime, a grieving woman exposes the decades-old truth about her twin sister's murder to prevent the killer's lawyer from publishing his own skewed account of the tragedy.
Greenman
A rising rock star strikes out for Iceland in search of inspiration, only to discover a centuries-old horror that threatens to use her gifts to take over the world.
Tar Pits
Forced to take sides in a centuries-old intergalactic war, a veteran soldier and her scientist ex-wife bond with giant alien warriors in a final battle that will decide the fate of humanity.
Morbidly
A young physical therapist slowly loses his grip on reality as he succumbs to the seductiveness of his only patient, a morbidly obese woman with a grisly secret.
Restoration
As an introverted art restorer succumbs to the evil temptations of an ancient painting, otherworldly forces attempt to stop her from unleashing the painting's unholy power.
Euthanized
A grieving animal control officer becomes an unlikely social media hero when she embarks on a vigilante crusade against animal abusers, but her violent actions trap her between friends on the police force and the leader of a citywide dogfighting ring.
Misfortune Cookies
Accidentally killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, an oafish redneck teenager and her misfit friends begin dying one by one when the chef's ghost returns from the grave, killing them in gruesome fortune cookie-themed ways.
Splashdown
A mysterious space capsule adrift in the Pacific Ocean pulls a disillusioned Air Force pilot into battle against a shadowy paramilitary force hell bent on utilizing the astronauts' otherworldly cargo to enslave humanity.
Consumed
Trapped in a basement after an apocalyptic earthquake, a grieving wife fights off a horde of parasitic monsters, unaware that her God-fearing husband has already decided her fate.
