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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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THE PHANTOM DRIVER
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RACING HOME
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DEER DOG
After hitting a dog, then saving his life, a single mother and her children fall for the dog, and the broken, homeless man who is his original owner.
The Ephod
Based on a true story, after a disturbing Bible study shatters her lifelong Catholic beliefs, Faith Alvarez is driven by a supernatural encounter to uncover the mystery of the ancient Ephod.
The Kidnapped
In Mexico, a drug cartel boss kidnaps a washed-up Hollywood director, and the two are driven to insanity while shooting a documentary about the boss's once-powerful cartel--a project meant to help both men reclaim lost glory (BREAKING BAD meets GET THE GRINGO)
The Return of the Bad Boys
A group of friends from a working-class Detroit neighborhood cheat their way through a three-on-three basketball tournament to prove to themselves that they’re not losers (WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP meets THE HANGOVER).
Only the Bad Guys
In a dystopian world where killing a killer brings their victim(s) back to life, ex-soldier turned bounty hunter Daniela Dushane makes a killing killing killers as she walks the fine line between hero and villain (THE NICE GUYS meets THE PUNISHER).
Diplomatic Ammunity!
A struggling Hollywood screenwriter recruits his former best friends to help him write a script about a series of pranks they pulled in high school, and they discover why their friendship fell apart (ADAPTATION meets IDIOCRACY).
