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!UNDER OLYMPUS
A disgraced security expert who lost his family wanders the Caribbean islands on his boat as a criminal fixer for the underworld, until he's given a job as head of security at an isolated luxury resort on Olympus Island.
North Amerikay
After a harrowing loss, a young Irish Catholic woman and her family adjust to life in 1915 Chicago.
When Ani Met Jo Met Cris
A recurring meet-cute over the course of a decade, but make it super gay! A fateful road trip sets pragmatic Ani and passionate Jo on the path of Reluctant Travel Companions to Enthusiastic Lovers - until they trip down the life-altering detours of Jo’s pregnancy and Cris, her dashing midwife.
The Dumb Ox Bellows
A 13th-century friar struggles to revitalize Christian theology using logic and reason, but intellectual opposition from peers, malicious slander by envious brethren, and “slavery of the pen” under two Popes drive him to mental collapse and loss of faith in his life’s work -- until God intervenes miraculously to affirm its merit.
CHARON'S DIVIDE
Two childhood friends battle over land and the love of the same woman in 1880s Montana.
SACRIFICED
In 1995, an apostate Detective investigates a Mephistophelian antique dealer linked to religious murders and unveils some horrific family truths.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators to hide.
BRAVE HEARTS
In 1840, an unconventional widow risks her life when she joins forces with a charismatic journalist, brutalized tenant farmers and a traumatized exile she rescues in Montreal, to stop the most powerful men in Scotland from violently evicting Gaelic Highlanders, unaware of her own family's complicity in the ethnic cleansing.
SETTLING THE BOOKS
Lured by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, an investigator and four other heirs are sealed in an airtight panic room, and with only four hours air, must solve the centuries-old mystery contained in the book ‘The Castilian Cypher’ in order to escape.
All My Trials, Lord
In a drunken stupor a handsome young singer kills a taxi driver while visiting Spalding County, Georgia.
