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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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"The Dirty Dozen" meets "Black Hawk Down" in Mexico.
Judge, Me
Group-therapy prison inmates become a jury and must decide whether a vengeful reporter's expose' of a corrupt judge being elevated to the supreme court should be published.
The Rondo Conspiracy
In the late fifties a resident lawyer of Rondo, primarily St.
Hostile Takeover
After a controversial LAPD shooting ignites racial unrest across Los Angeles, a by-the-book FBI agent and a disgraced ex-cop turned vigilante are forced into an uneasy alliance when they uncover a terrorist cell embedded within the police—racing to stop a coordinated attack that could level the city and assassinate a presidential candidate.
Henry, Henry
Convinced that he murdered a priest he caught abusing a child, ex-priest Henry fractured into two warring personalities, until the insights of his illness help him bring down a dangerous child-trafficking network.
Bubbling Under the Surface
After an elderly Holocaust survivor is nearly murdered in her nursing home bed, her family and the Muslim carer who saved her are pulled into a widening chain of antisemitic attacks, domestic violence, and police investigation that threatens both communities before the hatred spreads further.
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.
e-DEAD
After a near-death experience, a woman discovers her dating app matches are ghosting her because they really are ghosts leaving her clues in order to solve their murders.
Whirlabout
A New York actor returns to his decaying hometown to care for his father, only to uncover dark family secrets, confront a lifetime of abuse, and face a harrowing moral reckoning that could either destroy—or finally heal—his fractured family.
Eternal Blessings
A dying woman enters a time portal to confront her criminal past, only to realize that what she seeks is in the present--but getting back is proving harder than she thought.
