MoviePoet.com Announces Feature Contest Semifinalists
MoviePoet.com has announced the semifinalists of their first Feature Length Contest:
First Place: Sarah Daly
Second Place: Michael Rome
Third Place: Dan Lennox
Honorable Mention: Bonnie Maffei ~ Brian Wind ~ Erica Land ~ Felice Bassuk ~ Jim Brown ~ Margaret Ricke ~ Martin Lancaster ~ Melissa Goetz ~ Nathan Goldman ~ Patrick T. Lo ~ Pete Barry ~ Rick Hansberry ~ Rob McCarthy ~ Sasha Clancy~ Tom Shipley
Top 30: Austin Jones ~ Caroline Coxon ~ Chris Keaton ~ Don Riemer ~ Dusty Fincher ~ Erich VonHeeder ~ John Brooke ~Micah Ricke ~ Rob Gross ~ Steve Dexheimer ~ Tim Westland ~ Tommy Merry
These 30 semi-finalists submitted the top loglines and will be moving on to the second round in April when they will submit their first ten pages. Then in August, the top ten writers will submit their feature length screenplays.
Updated: 03/01/2009
Additional Contest Info:
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A Baton Rouge teen, haunted by a family tragedy, battles a malevolent Creolo Myth to save his brother and amend past mistakes.
The Sword's Awakening
When King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur is stolen from a museum, it awakens a dragon and the descendent of a legendary knight who must join forces to find the powerful relic before its dark magic falls into the wrong hands.
FAUSTIAN
After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.
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.
