Big Bear Lake Announces 2008 Contest Results
Big Bear Lake has announced Megan Breen's Gabriel's Calling as the winner of their 2008 Screenwriting Competition.
First Place
Gabriel's Calling
Written by: Megan Breen
A Pullman Porter denies his artistic talent and defers his dreams of a
family as he remains with the railroad, mentoring younger porters. The
hostile relationship with his supervisor, a conductor with a personal
vendetta, leads to years of conflict and frustration. It is the deepening
and enduring relationship with a recurring white female passenger that
sustains him through his years of service, and ultimate personal
fulfillment.
Second Place
Love Marriage
Written by: Soman Chainani
Two dueling weddings - one for love, one for money - tear apart an Indian
family.
Third Place
"The Commando"
Written by Timothy Buck
An explosion in Iraq leaves Green Beret, Nate Thomas, with the mind of a
six-year-old. His son, Nicky, mentors him, while Nate's English wife, Ann,
struggles with having lost the man she married just before the war. Living
in rural England, the entire village gossips about this crazy "Yank Colonel"
wearing diapers. One day, Nate reads a comic, and decides to become a super
hero, The Commando. After Nate is beaten by the town bully, a local
bodybuilder and his funny mates take a liking to him. Humor and tragedy
follows.
Honorary Mentions:
Loss of Innocence
Written by: Eric Gaunaurd
LOSS OF INNOCENCE is a story inspired by true events surrounding the
Operation Pedro Pan - the largest exodus of children in the Western
Hemisphere. The children were secretly transported out of Cuba to the
United States in the early 1960's. The script is a gripping drama about a
family torn apart during the revolution, forced to send their only daughter
to the US in order to avoid becoming property of the state. As the walls of
the revolution close in on these "traitors," Carlos and Lucy Ramirez are
forced to go through the most extreme measures in an attempt to reunite as a
family.
Buccaneer's Cove
Written by: Julian Stone
BUCCANEER'S COVE is a high-energy family film about a rebellious kid (Matt)
from New York who is suddenly forced to move in with his drop-out father
(Chris) who he's never met. Chris lives on a remote tropical island
spending his days diving and swimming in his beautiful bay. But just as
Matt arrives, it soon becomes clear that all is not peace and tranquility in
this paradise - a big city developer is moving in, and has set his sights on
Chris' idyllic bay. Soon father & son must work through their firey new
relationship and join forces to stop him.
Updated: 02/15/2009
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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.
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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.
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Desert Quarry
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Perfect Contrition
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LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
The Coventry Deception
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Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
Burning Old Man
A group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration.
