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!Hope Away
A former U.S. Congressman from Compton, sent to a federal prison camp for bribery, encounters stiff opposition from the Camp Administrator, as he seeks to salvage his marriage and establish a prison ministry.
Hope Away
A young, charismatic, Christian congressman from Compton, sent to a federal prison camp for bribery, is determined to save his marriage and souls in prison, but first, he must overcome stiff opposition from the camp administrator.
BOOM!Town
After a bloody car bombing, a blown-off human foot lands on the roof of a retired, cash-poor mob cleaner who schemes to extort the Mafia Don that ordered the hit, unaware his wacky plan may help the FBI catch the cut-throat gangster.
WIZ KID
An 11 year old boy with a 180 IQ graduates from High School in Georgia, reluctantly leaves behind his wheelchair-bound mom, and heads off to a prominent university where he leaves his mark on the school, inside and outside the classroom.
A LITTLE FAVOR
A washed-out fighter pilot is asked/forced to work with long odds and a resentful younger, more experienced female co-pilot to save the earth by retrieving the doomsday bombs from the backside of the sun before next Wednesday when they’ll explode, nudging the sun, causing major global warming.
Xanadu Shores: (PoC) The Super Spy Series
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
All That Glitters (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
The Xanadu Team become deceptively embroiled in an island gem heist, hosted by a nefarious jeweler operating a criminal enterprise, lured by a beautiful woman escalating to international espionage.
Screenplay Pilot for Xanadu Shores: The Super Spy Series
Two ex-pilots become entangled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
Lolita
A Puerto Rican seamstress becomes firebrand revolutionary Dolores ¨Lolita Lebrón¨, masterminds the 1954 U.
She Curses Like a Sailor
The perception of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
