L.A. Comedy Scripts Announces Finalists
The L.A. Comedy Scripts Screenplay Competition has announced their finalists from among 600 entries:
Comedy Feature Finalists
Mac The Knife by Jeff Coe
The Karate Kat by Kate Luhr and Eric Frost-Barnes
The Rock Thrower by Ted Farnath
Comedy Short Finalists
Breakfast by Robert Vitolo
Danny Caldwell Goes to Hell by Austin Sheeley
Phone It In by Armando Fente, Jr. and Robert Fente
All out-of-town Finalists will receive a trip to Los Angeles for the 2009 LA Comedy Film Festival, taking place March 5th-8th, including four nights (March 5th-8th) at the Kyoto Grand, the Official Festival Hotel, airfare to Los Angeles, plus $250 cash.
All finalists will be honored and one Grand Prize Winner out of the three Finalists in each category will be announced at the Closing Nights Awards Ceremony, taking place at Cinespace Hollywood on Sunday, March 8th.
Updated: 02/12/2009
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It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
and The Devil called!
The Devil is so confident of the acceptance by God`s chosen-one he appears as himself with gifts and, `you will be my bride`, when rejected, he sends in his tri-step-headed-charcoaled alien goons, to examine her brain.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.
The March of the 18th
In 1864 the Veteran Reserve Corps was formed to allow disabled Union army men to continue to perform their duty for God and Country.
ELECTRIC
After being electrocuted on the job, a woman has the power to make everyone around her fall in love.
OVERPASS
When a cement truck driver avoids slamming into a Lexus, only to lose his own life, he haunts the Lexus driver and teaches him a powerful life lesson in the process.
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
L.A. Detective Owen Murphy is on a mission to clear his name on a murder he didn't commit.
HARBINGER
Detective Sandy Marone feels the weight of the world come crashing down on her shoulders as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of another senior citizen, one of several over the past few months.
THE TEST
On an anniversary trip to San Fran Debbie sets up seemingly disinterested husband Jim to test his fidelity, but things spin wildly out of control when Jim instead falls into a trap set by a team of dangerous con-artists ready to take him for a ride and everything he's worth.
THE GLAMOROUS LIFE
A model whose career is fading gets a much-needed vacation and a new outlook on life when she hides out at a Florida beach house with an “odd couple” of twenty-something brothers who are 100% convinced she's a hooker.