Expo Announces Final Contest Results
Rena Andre's Cardenio has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2008 Screenwriting Expo Screenwriting Competiiton.
$20,000 Grand Prize Winner
"Cardenio" by Rene Andre
$2,500 Genre Prize Winners
Horror/Thriller
"Beast Blake" by McCallister
Fantasy
"The Ugly Princess" by Henderson Smith
Family/Animation
"The North Puddle" by Rick Fonte and Don Zolidis
Low Budget Indie
"Prima" by Maria Badin
4 Genre Prize Runnersup ($250 Each):
Drama/Comedy
"Hopefully Lost" by Yvonne Borgogni
Thriller
"Severed: The Cleveland Torso Murders" by Daniel DeJarnette
Comedy
"The Real Thing" by Beth and Gary Hoover
Action-Adventure
"Switchback" by William Schreiber
Top 10
"Hopefully Lost" by Yvonne Borgogni
"He Said, She Said" by Dennis Luu
"Ladies and Gentlemen, John Wilkes Booth" by Dan Barton
"Man of Clay" by Khurram Mozaffar
"Severed: The Cleveland Torso Murders" by Daniel DeJarnette
"Switchback" by William Schreiber
"The Good Samaritan" by Bill Flannigan
"The Life and Death of Dr. Fritz Gerlich" by Paul Clingan
"The Real Thing" by Beth and Gary Hoover
"The Renter" by Stephen C. Sherman
Television Winners
"Mad Men" "Vostok" episode by Michael Patrick Sullivan
"Grey's Anatomy" "Life's a Circus" episode by Tom Brady
Updated: 12/01/2008
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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