Acclaim Announces TV Contest Winners
Acclaim TV has announced their TV Contest winners for Fall/Winter 2008:
PILOT/MOW CATEGORY
WINNER
SHIFTING GEARS by Sarah Newman (pilot; drama)
A young female race car driver receives a second chance behind the wheel, but she'll have to learn to balance the world of racing and her small-town family life.
FINALISTS
THE CONFESSION by Jim Macak (MOW; drama)
A female attorney teams up with a young cop on a disability leave with AIDS to clear a mentally handicapped man of a murder charge.
CARDIAC CARE by A.J. Devlin (pilot; comedy)
After suffering a heart attack, a high strung basketball coach joins a monthly crew in a cardiac care program.
TRIBES by Michael D. Zungolo (pilot; drama)
Instability and paranoia invade two communities when a farmland is occupied by a cult.
TWO HARBORS by Jim Macak (pilot; drama)
A deputy, still reeling from a bitter divorce, seeks a haven for her two boys in an isolated community on Catalina Island.
SIDES by Jennifer Bogush (pilot; comedy-drama)
Seven aspiring actors try to realize their dreams in New York.
SPEC SCRIPT CATEGORY
WINNER
CALIFORNICATION by Simeon Goulden
"Past Imperfect/Future Conditional"
Hank returns to the Big Apple to meet with a publisher and is offered a huge advance for his next work--provided he stay in New York.
FINALISTS
DEXTER by Charlie Robinson
"Hunters and Gatherers"
30 ROCK by Devanshi Patel
"No Soap Radio"
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS by Michael Adams
"Baby Bumps"
BOSTON LEGAL by Kathy Lange
"Golden Shower?"
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA by Danny Palumbo
"The Gang Goes Too Far"
Updated: 02/22/2009
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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