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!Xanadu Shores: Proof of Concept (PoC)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
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.
The Coyote
When a Native American scholar and a graduate student unearth a mysterious tomb, they find it contains a Navajo god and soon find themselves embroiled in a cosmic battle between good and evil with the fate of humanity at stake.
The Umpire Has No Balls
A fiery young woman who has baseball running through her blood and can call the game better than anyone starts her journey through the umpire ranks to achieve her one goal in life – becoming a major league baseball umpire.
All That Glitters (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
The Xanadu Team in their second outing become pawns in a complicated gem heist, involving a beautiful Russian woman and her nefarious employer after a boat of stolen jewelry explodes.
Screenplay Adaptation (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
PITTSBURGH PHIL
Biopic of Harry Strauss, a.k.a.
IT'S A POPCORN WORLD
An inventor strives to pop the world like popcorn, to save his home from being stolen by government eminent domain, if his dance-clubbing hunchback lawyer can keep him out of jail.
Marilyn
The ghost of a young woman falls in love with the man living in her old apartment and must try to protect him from his murderous, adulterous wife.
The Storm
A small-town sheriff dealing with personal problems investigates the murder and kidnapping of several girls where there’s no lack of suspects.
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