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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ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Xanadu Shores - First 14 pages
"Xanadu Shores - The Pilot". A spy thriller unfolds after a pilot's girlfriend is kidnapped during a gold heist leading to an adventurous crime story encompassing fraud, corruption, and revenge, pursued by an agent and a comely banker, explosively culminating on the island of Xanadu Shores.
Xanadu Shores - The Pilot
"Xanadu Shores - The Pilot". A spy thriller unfolds after a pilot's girlfriend is kidnapped during a gold heist leading to an adventurous crime story encompassing fraud, corruption, and revenge, pursued by an agent and his comely banker, explosively culminating on the island of Xanadu Shores.
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.
LAST SHOPPER STANDING
A bitterly divorcing couple competes in a deadly game of survival on Christmas Eve when a disgruntled big-box store manager locks them inside with five other players and stages a twisted competition as punishment for their consumer misdeeds.
Palisade!
In 1876, a runaway socialite uses her acting chops to stay ahead of a relentless pursuit by posing as a small-town schoolteacher in Nevada, but when the real teacher shows up, they swap identities in a shaky alliance that sparks Palisade's (true!) staged
FLIGHT OF THE HEN GLIDERS
When strong winds blow a flock of chickens and their coop away from young Emily and Sam's backyard, it's up to the chickens to learn to fly their coop back home.
THE GEPETTO PROTOCOL
To stay "real" in the real world after their last creator dies, an action figure, fashion doll, superhero, anime girl, and crash dummy—now real flesh and blood—must find new believers in ten days or be forgotten forever, and get help from two kids and their dad at a cosplay convention.
GALERIJ
As an art authenticator collects twelve 17th century Dutch Brohm family portraits, she learns the dangers of reuniting the portraits—the Galerij—when an art expert warns her the collection will revive the Brohm family and unleash them into present day society, where they'll resume control over and castrate European trade.
DEAD STATES
A group of resilient small town teens struggle to carve out a new future after a series of TEOTWAWKI events crush the U.
NOT ANOTHER VAMPIRE STORY: Stripping by the Pool
Thirteen year old Sylvia meets Julia's new boyfriend Terry during a wardrobe malfunction; over dinner, Sylvia suspects there's something dark and maybe sinister in Terry's nature -- something best kept in the dark of night.
