WOTS Announces Grand Prize Winner
The Writers on the Storm Screenwriting Competition has named John Dummer as their 2008 Grand Prize Winner for his script, The Moonbeam Fisherman.
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
The Moonbeam Fisherman by John Dummer
Family movie about a boy who discovers an interplanetary secret being kept by an old hermit. Engrossing, uplifting, wonderful.
RUNNER UP
Deathless (AKA "Link") by Jerry White
A truly chilling new take on the haunted house movie that creates a brilliant new franchiseable bad guy. The town will flock. Spectacular.
SECOND RUNNER UP
Belfast Boys by Heather Upton
A young man gets sucked into violent world of the I.R.A. in 1980s Ireland. Crackles with action and verisimilitude.
Once again, let's hear it for the rest of our top ten:
Black Damp by Carla Robinson
Cage by Philip Landa
Canaries by Craig Cambria
Colossus by Jason Kent
Fausta by Dalisia Mendoza
In the Middle of Greatness by C.J. Liao
Upon This Rock by Tim Mangan
Updated: 11/24/2008
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
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A former model-turned-entrepreneur once had the world at her fingertips, now she has to grasp a world of torment; her cheating psychiatrist husband blurs the line between Psychotherapist and Psycho, when he resorts to mind games and unscrupulous schemes, intent on framing her of adultery and escaping his vows free & clear.
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.
Xanadu Shores III Rescuing Atlas
The Xanadu Team, their credibility restored after rescuing Natalia and the painting, are recruited to recover the plans to save the world from a rogue aerospace engineer.
Xanadu Shores (20pgs) - "The Pilot" - 9.16.25
Logline: Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
Xanadu Shores: 10 Minute PoC for The TV Pilot
Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
Alien Olympics
A brilliant alien teenager, gifted with a high IQ and extraordinary speed, has always excelled academically on her home planet.
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 baffling neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her college 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.
