2017 Contest of Contest Winner and Finalist Screenplay Loglines
1st Place Winner:
Crayons
by Michael Angelo Colgan
Trying to escape painful memories, a lonely accountant obsessively colors in children's coloring books, but his day-to-day struggle to overcome the past could cost him his life.
{Qualifying Contest: StoryPros 2017; 1st Place Drama}
2nd Place Winner:
Peckerwood
by Clayton Rye
A rural community is terrorized by an outrageous white supremacist who is trying to impress a Neo-Nazi group, but an aging black Vietnam vet leads a wondrous group of backwoods friends and family to save the day.
{Qualifying Contest: StoryPros 2015; Finalist}
Finalists:
(listed in alphabetical order, by script title)
Absolution
by Brian Gerber
Three astronauts on the moon witness the destruction of earth from the impact of a newly-discovered asteroid, leading to life-and-death decisions when lights from what might well be an alien spacecraft appear.
{Qualifying Contest: World Series of Screenwriting 2016; Silver }
ESCALATOR!
by Russ Meyer
When the enormous express escalator at a newly-opened Medieval Castle-themed shopping mall malfunctions and threatens to send panicked shoppers plunging into an alligator-filled moat, a group of misfit firefighters race to the rescue, intensifying the chaos.
{Qualifying Contest: Action on Film 2014; Finalist-Comedy Feature, Dialogue Feature)
Lake
by Ian Bosner
The police are convinced that it was an accident, but Susan Taylor believes her husband was murdered and embarks upon a quest to find his killers and his illegitimate child.
{Qualifying Contest: StoryPros 2014; Semi-Finalist}
The Last Priestess of Avalon
by Megan Williams
A priestess of Avalon struggles to preserve her community's traditions of healing and unity against the powers of the King and a Bishop of the newly emerging Christian Church, who want to destroy the ancient rituals and take for themselves the Holy Grail, with all its magic and power.
{Qualifying Contest: Scriptapalooza Fellowship 2017; 12 Recommended Writers}
Post Script
by Ariadne Shaffer
A 70-something grandma gets a second chance at love with the man she has held a 50-year grudge against. But when she learns that he's dying, she must decide if she can handle yet another painful disappointment.
{Qualifying Contest: StoryPros 2017, Finalist}
Sideways Down the Sky
by Barry Brennessel
Two Japanese men find love when an elderly Japanese artist hires them to embody the love he lost when the atomic bomb obliterated Nagasaki, but aspirations and addiction threaten to keep the lovers apart.
{Qualifying Contest: Rhode Island International Film Festival 2017; Grand Prize}
Somewhere South Dakota
by Theresa Giese
A big city divorce attorney has to chose between the woman he loves and the dream he never knew he had.
{Qualifying Contest: WorldFest-Houston 2017; Silver Remi}
The Wonder
by George M. Johnson
An ambitious Edwardian journalist saves an uncannily precocious child from drowning, and the boy's theory of life threatens authorities--particularly the local rector-and eventually the journalist's own sanity.
{Qualifying Contest: British Independent Film Festival 2012; Finalist}
Updated: 10/02/2017
Additional Contest Info: Contest of Contest Winners
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars
A gentle, highly intelligent alien crash-lands in a small town just before Christmas and forms an unlikely friendship with a girl with Down syndrome.
Twenty Last Summers
When a longtime group of friends in their fifties and sixties jokingly ask themselves, “What if we only had twenty summers left?”, the question unexpectedly detonates their comfortable routines, sending each of them into a spiral of hilarious missteps, overdue confrontations, and clumsy attempts at self-reinvention.
New Jack Hustlers: New Jacks
When a new synthetic drug floods New York City, a promising young officer is sent undercover into the nightlife scene, where criminal innovation, institutional ambition, and personal survival collide—forcing her to decide who she’s willing to become to stay alive.
“Be prepared for what?” Episode 2: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
Howell and friends arrive at a school in the desert where they prepare to face evil forces.
The Huntsman
A battle-hardened Starship crew faces their greatest test when a routine extraction mission unleashes a mind-altering alien force, fracturing loyalties and awakening a cosmic mystery that could reshape the fate of the universe.
Wendigo
After a series of brutal killings in Algonquin Provincial Park linked to a missing hiker transformed into a mythical Wendigo, an elite military team must join forces with local rangers and a Native American tracker to stop the ancient creature's reign of terror before more innocent lives are lost.
Doc Savage: Dark Empire
In the shadow of World War II, Doc Savage, the legendary Man of Bronze, embarks on a daring mission to dismantle Nazi superweapons, rescue the woman he loves, and confront a dark legacy tied to his own past — all while battling the forces of tyranny and fighting for the future of humanity.
Xanadu Shores: SEAN LANDERS Intro 10 Pages.
A pilot returns home anticipating matrimony soon learning his fiance has cleaned out their wedding account and moved to Las Vegas.
Furgrow Birds back to the beginning
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
FURGROW BIRDS SPIRITUAL ROSE
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
