Acclaim Announces Feature Contest Winners
Ursula Hollman's SUCK has been named the winner of hte Fall/Winter 2008 Acclaim Screenwriting Coemptition:
WINNER
SUCK by Ursula Holloman (drama)
A shy girl's obsession with a reckless musician plunges her into the nascent punk scene of San Francisco, 1977, and launches her on an unlikely quest to win back the daughter she lost long ago.
RUNNERS UP
QUAD by Eric Mather (drama)
A quadriplegic with a criminal past runs for a seat on the L.A. city council.
THE KNUCKLEBALLER by Michael L. Murphy (drama)
An obscure minor leaguer overcomes his war injuries to become a rookie sensation when he knuckleballs Cleveland to a shot at the 1948 World Series.
FINALISTS
TOUCANS OF THE AMAZON by Donna Lisa (animation/family)
When a flock of rowdy, fun-loving toucans causes mayhem in the Amazon bird world, they're banished to the dangerous lower forest where a clever, outcast female must lead them against an army of evil night creatures.
MEET ME IN THE MORNING by Mike Lukaszewicz (drama)
A sweet, middle-aged Bob Dylan stalker befriends a group of carefree college kids partying their way around the country in an RV.
REVENGE by Andrew Crane (drama)
A man takes revenge on the childhood bullies that he blames for ruining his life.
NORTH OF HERE by Kurt Smith (drama)
After losing a loved one, a man's grief takes him from the edge of sanity to a spiritual awakening.
BODHISATTVA by Annita Pieroni (adventure/mystery)
A reporter involved in a Russian conspiracy, an eccentric archeologist, and a psychic kid are caught in a web of different times and worlds to save the missing Romanov children and Rasputin.
KING'S HEART by Svilen Kamburov (drama)
The true story of a king who risks everything to defy Nazi Germany and make his country the only nation in Europe to save its entire Jewish population.
THE VIGIL AUNTIES by Andrew Bailey Fumento (action/comedy)
When a city finds itself under siege, two female police officers come out of retirement to avenge an attack on their nephews.
THE SIGNERS by Deana Costner (family)
Six flag-burning high school seniors are sentenced "to learn" patriotism in Philadelphia.
UNTIL THE END by E. Renee Heiss and Bernadette Bonanno (supernatural drama)
As the target of both murderous acts and kindly assistance, a young heiress must sort out the real from the supernatural, the greed from the benevolence and the deceit from the love.
TWO MEN OF KENYA by Pamela J. Wylie (history/drama)
An African nationalist and an idealistic white businessman try to stop the Mau Mau uprising.
SEMI-FINALISTS
THE PORNovski BROTHERS by Rick Halpern & David Bertoni (comedy)
DANA'S INFERNO by Andrew Bailey Fumento (horror)
KHENG KHENG CROCODILE by Donna Lisa (animation/family)
LITE IN THE HEIGHTS by Jim Falzone (drama)
MISSING PERSON by Andrew Crane (drama)
CASTING STONES by Hart Shorn (adventure)
ROCOCO by Lyda Phillips & Susan Marya Baronoff (romantic comedy)
EXIT 13 by Dan Loschack (drama/action)
QUARTER-FINALISTS
THE BUMBA KING by James Mulcock & Mike Lukaszewicz (comedy)
EXPOSURE by Mark Lukens (horror)
SMOKATHON by David Records (comedy)
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS by Leo Lo (comedy)
YOUR LIFE: THE MOVIE by Mike Wech (supernatural thriller)
IT'S YOUR LIFE by Todd Cerveris (comedy)
SPACE RACE by Eric W. Carlson (family)
Updated: 02/22/2009
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!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.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
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.
