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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In a world of AI-hyped spectacles, a retired boxing legend must reclaim his glory against a brash social media influencer to fund his granddaughter's life-saving treatment, uncovering a corporate conspiracy that could destroy them both.
Wendigo
After a series of brutal killings in Algonquin Provincial Park linked to a missing hiker transformed into a mythical Wendigo, an elite military team must join forces with local rangers and a Native American tracker to stop the ancient creature's reign of terror before more innocent lives are lost.
The Huntsman
A battle-hardened Starship crew faces their greatest test when a routine extraction mission unleashes a mind-altering alien force, fracturing loyalties and awakening a cosmic mystery that could reshape the fate of the universe.
The Rulers Of The Islands
World-shaping for the fourth time, they sight Hawaii, a crown jewel in the Pacific: a prize to fight for? or to bring peace to our world from, instead.
THE NEO-PAGANS
A talented forensic sketch artist has the gift of “seeing” murderers with her hands.
THE BANNER
Though haunted by the childhood memory of the lynching of his father for leading a slave rebellion, an American slave risks his life to join Mexico's struggle for independence after witnessing the execution of the author of the first law against slavery on the North American continent.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an AI Bot to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of 'Fake'.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their baffling neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class project.
