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
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A former model-turned-entrepreneur once had the world at her fingertips, now she has to grasp a world of torment; her cheating psychiatrist husband blurs the line between Psychotherapist and Psycho, when he resorts to mind games and unscrupulous schemes, intent on framing her of adultery and escaping his vows free & clear.
Xanadu Shores III Rescuing Atlas
The Xanadu Team, their credibility restored after rescuing Natalia and the painting, are recruited to recover the plans to save the world from a rogue aerospace engineer.
Xanadu Shores (20pgs) - "The Pilot" - 9.16.25
Logline: Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
Xanadu Shores: 10 Minute PoC for The TV Pilot
Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
Alien Olympics
A brilliant alien teenager, gifted with a high IQ and extraordinary speed, has always excelled academically on her home planet.
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 college senior class project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other despicable souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A tongue-in-cheek view of the controversial state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
