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!The Cajun
When a notorious pirate, made immortal by the curse of a Voodoo Queen, is invited to a mysterious poker game in modern day New Orleans, he discovers a clue to find the treasure that can set him free.
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) -
This Proof of Concept showcases the central characters being introduced with sex appeal, all quite happy, in an office reception area, before the heist, kidnapping and chase.
Xanadu Shores: 10 Minute PoC for The TV Pilot
This Proof of Concept showcases the central characters being introduced with sex appeal, all quite happy, in an office reception area, before the heist, kidnapping and chase.
Xanadu Shores Introducing SEAN LANDERS
A recently discharged Navy pilot returns home anticipating matrimony, soon learning his fiance has cleaned out their wedding account and moved to Las Vegas.
Xanadu Shores II:
Four friends form the "The Xanadu Team" offering security and transportation, land, sea and air when they become deceptively involved with a nefarious jeweler and his charming assistant during an island gem heist, eventually escalating to international espionage in Xanadu Shores III - "Rescuing Atlas".
Xanadu Shores I:
Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
THE ANDREW JACKSON DEFENSE
A reformed prisoner with a violent past frames his clemency petition using the biography of Andrew Jackson, arguing that like the seventh president, a man forged by violence can still become a force for good.
MASTER OF STATECRAFT
Booker T. Washington risks his reputation and his life to outmaneuver those determined to erase Black voices from democracy.
MEDICARIA
A barren paramedic, desperate to be a mother, turns from healer to killer to protect a homeless boy she adopts, only to uncover his ties to a cartel — and they want him back.
