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
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.
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