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
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A Baton Rouge teen, haunted by a family tragedy, battles a malevolent Creolo Myth to save his brother and amend past mistakes.
The Sword's Awakening
When King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur is stolen from a museum, it awakens a dragon and the descendent of a legendary knight who must join forces to find the powerful relic before its dark magic falls into the wrong hands.
FAUSTIAN
After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
When a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate.
Fingertips
A Psychological Horror With a twist of a psychotic individual suffering from psychosocial issues has an imaginary friend that’s part of his hallucinations his Imaginary friend is his British father a young proud to be American, forgets his medication after collecting it from a Pharmacy he causes a lot of mayhem around his area he thinks the worlds in his fingertips he chases down social media Influencers and artists by hacking and tracking their location constantly talking to himself as he hallucinates thinking He can see his British Father is around him, Kevin ends up with a chainsaw and gets a few round kills with his Chainsaw he stole from an old granny.
A Cracker in East Harlem
JIMMY J is 50 and has lived in the same East Harlem building for more than half of his life.
Free Sports Radio
Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station.
Desert Quarry
Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them.
Perfect Contrition
A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
