Writers Place Announces Finalists
Writers Place Announces Finalists
The Writers Place has announced their full-length and teleplay/short screenplay finalists for the May through October 2008 competition period.
Full-Length Screenplays:
Feed the Monster - Rob Rex
Hammer Down - Mickey Blaine
Birthdays - Doris Gill
Preemptive Strike - Alan Armstrong
Orville - Arthur LaShelle
The Reflection - Joe Bright
Dead Man's Gulch - Rob Rex
The Triangle - Eric Thompson
The Line - Ben Krapf
Moon Walkers - Elizabeth Appell
Future Weather - Jenny Deller
Tangled Affairs - Sylvie Chadourne
The Black Star - Tarence Gibson & Paul Loeschke
Fury - Dane McCauley
Child of the Disappeared - Michael Holliday
Alice - Jane Rosen
The Party House - Patrick Moote
RobinDeer - Anne Gibson
Upgrade - Louis Rosenberg
Toucans of the Amazon - Donna Lisa
Kissin' Kuzins - Deana Costner
Teleplay/Short
Boing! - Jeff Hillard
Journey Thru Space: Search for Del - Kevin Davidson
Promises, Promises - Ray DeFeis
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Gang Goes Too Far - James Palumbo
Notebook #11 - Steve Dock
The Office: Interesting - Russell Fike
The Final Guardian - Scott Merrow
Rocket Surgery - Barry Kelly
30 Rock: ExSNecutive Decisions - Luke Kalteux
When Vengeance Comes Knocking - Jomo Merritt
Pretending - Raul Gallardo
Celebrititus - Jay Biederman
The Fischer Kids - Jason Pangilinan
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Boys Go Asiaphile - Jason Pangilinan
Toucan You Can - Donna Lisa
Etude - Zach Dowdy
Competition winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd & honorable mentions) in both the full-length and teleplay/short categories will be announced on January 1, 2009.
Updated: 12/02/2008
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.