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:
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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