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Movie Script Contest Announces Winners
The 2008 Movie Script Contest has announced their 2008 winners in all genres:
DRAMA
1st Place: A Well Adjusted Boy - Jason Latshaw
2nd Place: The Lighthouse - Janet Zibell
3rd Place: Domestic Violence - Eric Little
4th Place: A House Divided - Joshua Howes
5th Place: Passing Through - Robert Rhyne
6th Place: Falling Into Place - Lily Mercer
7th Place: Blood and Water - Samantha J. Stephenson
Honorable Mention: The Ace of Aces - Geoffrey Breuder
COMEDY
1st Place: A Canoli for Nona - Bob Huffman
2nd Place: Loving Scared - Garry McNulty
3rd Place: Grief for Madame Butterfly - Barry Leach
4th Place: Jack Hammer: Male Stewardess - Nick Scown
5th Place: Life Dudes - Adam Reed & Tim Upton
6th Place: The Truckstop - Dan Pellar
7th Place: Hat Trick - Robert Gately
Honorable Mention: Us & Them - Kerry Finlayson
THRILLER/HORROR/SCIFI
1st Place: Tooth Lake - Richard Topping
2nd Place: Something Tucked Away - Jason Michael Ford
3rd Place: Lights on the Lake - Jason Tucker
4th Place: The Erdos Murder Case - George Varotsis
5th Place: Second Born - David Jagernauth
6th Place: In for a Penny - James Kelty & Laurelle Barnett
7th Place: Canaries - Craig Cambria
Honorable Mention: Unity - Brothers Langlais
Updated: 11/28/2008
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media This pilot streamer has it all.
JENNA'S GONE
An untried deputy and a hunting guide, lifelong friends and rivals both in their twenties, go tracking into the desert after the kidnappers of the waitress they both love, each suspecting the other of a role in her disappearance.
SCOPE CREEP
After her mentor's suspicious death, a driven project manager inherits the rebuild of a notorious private prison, only to find herself stalked by a mysterious entity intent on sabotaging her at every turn.
CREATURES of HABIT
After changing therapists, a man with OCD sheds his repetitive routines, but when monsters emerge from the woods and abduct his friends, he suspects his compulsive behaviors may actually be rituals intended to ward off an ancient supernatural force.
The NITE LOOP
Searching for his missing brother, an obsessed drifter boards a mysterious bus route looking for clues, only to encounter a tightly knit band of commuters and their charismatic leader who force him to take part in an escalating series of crimes in order to uncover the truth.
CONNECTING FLIGHT
A cutthroat salesman must confront faces from his past, present, and future in a busy airport, where he's forced to reconcile prior misdeeds and reforge alliances, as he races to thwart a catastrophic time-space anomaly.
OUT of BODY
When brutal thieves storm his bank and knock him unconscious, a timid bank manager awakens to discover he's having an out-of-body experience and must use his unique vantage point and newfound powers to thwart the heist and free hostages.
ALTA CALIFORNIA
His tribe slaughtered by Mission Era Spanish forces, and his unbaptized mother condemned to Hell by the Spanish padres, Paco Palido, a young mixed-blood Californian now seeks a home, a place he belongs in this alien world.
UNCLE FRANCO'S BIRTHDAY SUIT
Paolo’s relatives, including his zany Uncle Franco, are determined to reunite their nephew with his teenage love, Magdalena.
Shooter on the Grassy Knoll (new as of 6-7-22) new excerpt 1-17-23
A man suffering from schizophrenia and lack of self-esteem fires one of the fatal shots into President Kennedy from a grassy knoll then finds the conscience he never knew he had lost in a New Mexico desert with two disabled sisters: one blind and one a deaf-mute.
