Script Savvy Announces October, 2008 Contest Winners
Script Savvy has named Marjory Kaptanoglu's No Way But Down as the winner of their October, 2008 Screenwriting Competition:
WINNER:
No Way But Down by Marjory Kaptanoglu
(New title: Direct Descent)
Mystery
An insecure young woman discovers the shocking truth about her own identity after receiving a letter from someone claiming to be her mother.
HONORABLE MENTION:
Mr. Popular by Bob Bouknight (comedy)
When a relatively unknown candidate for governor receives a friendship bracelet from a 6-year-old girl, he becomes the most popular man in the world. But as the election draws near, the fragile threads of the bracelet wear thin.
Assisted Living by Brian Penn (comedy/drama)
A cantankerous old man decides to live out his remaining years in an assisted living facility - but when his scorned ex-wife moves in, they soon realize the place isn't big enough for the two of them.
Check Mate by Glenn Pineau (crime)
A prostitute, a philanderer and a private nurse plot to swindle a million dollars from a rich widower. It's a three-way game of life and death chess where the moves are motivated by love, hate, and greed.
Dog by Kelly Parks (horror)
When two teens call a porn ad about a submissive who demands punishment, they wind up fighting for their lives after unleashing a beautiful force of evil.
Summer of '69 by Christopher Bell (drama)
A young boy learns about love and heroism when his 17-year-old babysitter brings him to Woodstock.
Updated: 12/04/2008
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Xanadu Shores: (PoC) The Super Spy Series
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
All That Glitters (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
The Xanadu Team become deceptively embroiled in an island gem heist, hosted by a nefarious jeweler operating a criminal enterprise, lured by a beautiful woman escalating to international espionage.
Screenplay Pilot for Xanadu Shores: The Super Spy Series
Two ex-pilots become entangled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
Lolita
A Puerto Rican seamstress becomes firebrand revolutionary Dolores ¨Lolita Lebrón¨, masterminds the 1954 U.
She Curses Like a Sailor
The perception of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their perplexing neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her college senior class project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other twisted souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A satirical view of the ineptness of modern day psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world renowned heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
