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National Screenwriters Day Names Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2017 National Screenwriters Day Screenwriting Competition.
Gary Makin, Facsimile
Michael Barnard, Everybody Says Goodbye -- The Story of a Father and Son
Meg Leader, The God Helmet
SiewFeng (Kaede) Loh, The Talented Uncle Julian
Bobby Sacher, Hope to Die
Richard Willett, My Brother's Killer
Tina Field Howe, Axis Prime
Joel Karlinsky, The Magic Hourglasses
Kathy Krantz-Stewart, Hollow Earth Quest
Randy Cruts, Today the Tiger Smiled
Chuck Bila, Spicy Pie Society
David Johnson, Back Biting
Demitra Papadinis, The Wonderful
Julian Biba, Leap of Faith
Art Blum, The Channel
Ferdinand Gernandt, Discordant
Jan Dalby, Campout Finale
Jan Dalby, Angelica's Touch
Therese Harrold, Not As I Do
Freny Desai, William D McCann, Diss'd
Mary Krell-Oishi, Best Served Cold
Joanne Guidoccio, Between Land and Sea
Craig Horwitz, FEAR, There & Everywhere
Nick Walsh, One Night in Georgia
Khalil Sullins, The Disease
James Sullivan, The Face of Pain
Jan Kaschner, Husband Heist
Jeff Eagle, Zigi
Frances Presley Rice, Daddy King And Me
Kate M. McMahon, Taste This!
Bobby Sacher, The Killing Mind
Kathaleen Brewer, The Valedictorian
Ian Greenham, Warnings on the Water
Dianne Butts, Jenna's Light
Rebecca Ann Dowty, Agent M.I.L.F.
Chris Courtney Martin, Pale Horse
Sean Collins-Smith, End of Life
Ana Loes, f7 / f2
JoAnn Hess, Grandfella
John Dummer, The Moonbeam Fisherman
Don Stroud, Splashdown
Alexis Blaess, Shunko
Bobby Sacher, Splintered Soul
Einar Gunn, Fifteen Years Later
Richard Novosak, Future Uncertain tense
Amanda Samaroo, Love Is Free Will
John Pisano-Thomsen, Pride & President
Delia Colvin, Radar Contact
Lucinda Spurling, Me & Jezebel
Mitch Emoff, Pete Simon - Agent of God
Sonya Davis, Probe 2
Michael Lavers, After Love
Herman Dhaliwal, The Ticket
Ken White, Lions of Florence
Jeff Bergquist, Voluntary Manslaughter
Jeff Racho, Buccaneers of the Asteroid Belt
Linda Toussaint, Nauti Girls
Bruce Butler, Catch 4:20
Updated: 12/04/2017
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!NIGHT OF THE LIVING DECORATIONS
When a disgruntled spirit brings all the neighborhood decorations to life on Halloween, a timid fifth grader must devise a plan to capture it by midnight in order to save her family and friends from becoming decorations themselves forever.
LAST SHOPPER STANDING
A bitterly divorcing couple competes in a deadly game of survival on Christmas Eve when a disgruntled big-box store manager locks them inside with five other players and stages a twisted competition as punishment for their consumer misdeeds.
THE LAST PLACE
A woman delves into the forest of her own mind to solve an impossible mystery when her family disappears during a stop at a highway rest area.
THE SCRIPT, A CELTIC TALE
A mysterious young, Irish girl, who refuses to name herself, insists a Los Angeles literary agent read her work—both their lives depend on it! Despite Aiden’s repeated attempts to destroy the script, it returns, together with a host of Celtic demons and a sign, in Gaelic, “The Past Does Not Die.
ALTA CALIFORNIA
A young mixed blood, determined to avenge his mother’s brutal death, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates through the oppressive and inhumane colonizers of California's “Mission Era.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
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 bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
