Nevada Film Office announces 2008 Screenwriting Competition Winners
The Nevada Film Office has announced Adam Bellamy's Cover with the Moon as the winner of their 2008 Screenwriting Competition.
Best Screenplay
Adam Bellamy
Script Title: Cover with the Moon
Logline: A young man leaves behind his humdrum life and hops a freight train to embark on a journey straight out of hobo lore.
Synopsis: Abandoning his dead-end job and his banal existence, a young man "hops" a train in search of something more. He and a veteran hobo embark on a journey to Mexico, finding freedom, beauty, and deadly peril on the rails.
Second Place
Nick Welter & Kevin Schweer
Script Title: Pornslappers
Logline: A listless Midwesterner travels to Las Vegas in search of easy fortune only to unexpectedly find his destiny as messiah of the local indigent street peddlers.
Synopsis: After helplessly watching his pitiable life unravel in Chicago, ne'er-do-well Stan Archer is goaded by his raunchy best friend Ray into searching for easy fortune in the absurd world of the card toting Vegas street peddlers. But even the absurd has a dark side. When the tyrannical Cucaracha attempts to crush their scheme, Stan finally discovers his destiny in the most unlikely of talents as he fights to free Sin City's meekest from their oppression.
Updated: 02/24/2009
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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.
Lucy vs. The HOA
After uncovering a million-dollar fraud in her neighborhood HOA, a precocious 11-year-old enlists her Private Detective father to help finish the investigation her deceased mother started years ago.
Henry, Henry
Twenty years after failing to stop his charismatic mentor from abusing children, a guilt-ridden former priest with two warring personalities uses his intimate knowledge of the predator’s mind to infiltrate a child-trafficking ring.
The Wylde Side
After his brother is presumed killed investigating Isla de Cinque, a criminal island-state beyond government control, retired black-ops legend Joe Wylde returns to the world he abandoned to stop a masked tech mogul from using a devastating cyber weapon to hold the world to ransom.
Jeb
In the wake of Stonewall, Yale professor John Boswell races against time and his own mortality to unearth secrets buried within the historical record, igniting a struggle for truth and acceptance that will outlive him.
Fish Fetish
What happens when you mix compulsion with alcohol? A horrific, fast paced story of abuse and revenge inspired by "Tales From The Crypt"
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.
Triggered
After a failed assassination attempt on a populist politician, two mismatched London detectives uncover a conspiracy using augmented-reality glasses to manipulate ordinary people into violence, pushing an already divided Britain toward civil collapse.
Eternal Blessings
After suffering a head injury that leaves her suspended in an altered state, a woman with a troubled past time travels back to 1980 to warn her younger self of the dangers ahead.
