Dumbo Film Fest Names Screenwriting Quarterfinalists
The Dumbo Film Festival in Brooklyn announced today the quarterfinalists for its 2020 Screenplay Competition, presented by Event Horizon Films. Each script was reviewed by working industry professionals at top rep agencies (ICM Partners, A3 Artists Agency, Gersh, etc.) and graded based on strength of plot, characterization, format, originality, style, dialogue, pacing and current market potential. Semifinalists will be announced January 16th.
FEATURES
- “Affairs of the Poisons” by Charles Leipart (New York)
- "Dumbest Generation” by Leslie Lyshkov (Bremerton, WA)
- “Elephant & Castle" by Samuel Garza Bernstein (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- “Joseph” by Ian Davies (UK)
- "LAJJAWATI” by Sumathy Ramakrishnan (Spring, Texas)
- "Our White boy” by Nancy Munger (Arlington, Texas)
- "Pollen and the Ring of Harmony” by Francis Williams (Morningstar, CT)
- "Red Spy Queen" by Leslie Lyshkov (Bremerton, WA)
- “Revelations" by Johnny Gilligan
- “Rust” by Guy Pooles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- "Still Life" by Duncan Putney (Providence, RI)
- "The Abolitionists” by Leslie Lyshkov (Bremerton, WA)
- "The Snow Queen" by Jacob Leyva (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
- "The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd” by Uwe Schwarzwalder (Switzerland)
- "The Strangers" by Scott Hawley (Duluth, MN)
- "The Wardrobe” by Peter Noel (Hungary)
- "The Wrong Candidate" by John Ravitz (New York)
- "Time to Go” by Lesley Manuel (Grapevine, Texas)
SHORTS
- "Beadwindow” by Paul Mooney (New York)
- "Breaking and Entering" by Michael William Hogan (Laguna Niguel, Calif.)
- "Dessert & Dash” by Muse Seymour (Green Bay, WI)
- "Greetings from Sarajevo” by Penny Jackson (New York)
- "Honey” by Dane Barun
- "Knuckleheads” by Steven Zaza (New York)
- "My Stepdad's Bird” by Bella Thronton (Chicago, IL)
- "Sammy Superhero” by Michael Gavino (Toluca Lake, Calif.)
- "The American” by Dimitri Michalakis (Brooklyn, New York)
- "The Forest Fenced Becomes Backyards” by Ryan Moore (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- "The Secret World of Danny Lopez” by Samuel Garza Bernstein (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- "Vinegar to Honey” by Jay Pennington (Boerne, Texas)
- "Women on Play” by Maria Rotger (Spain)
Updated: 01/05/2021
Additional Contest Info: Dumbo Screenwriting Competition
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A Psychological Horror With a twist of a psychotic individual suffering from psychosocial issues has an imaginary friend that’s part of his hallucinations his Imaginary friend is his British father a young proud to be American, forgets his medication after collecting it from a Pharmacy he causes a lot of mayhem around his area he thinks the worlds in his fingertips he chases down social media Influencers and artists by hacking and tracking their location constantly talking to himself as he hallucinates thinking He can see his British Father is around him, Kevin ends up with a chainsaw and gets a few round kills with his Chainsaw he stole from an old granny.
A Cracker in East Harlem
JIMMY J is 50 and has lived in the same East Harlem building for more than half of his life.
Free Sports Radio
Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station.
Desert Quarry
Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them.
Perfect Contrition
A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
Burning Old Man
A group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration.
Attachment In (Pilot)
An ancient being is summoned to fight an evil entity but first both have to attach within a human body at birth, grow up and navigate life before meeting in an epic battle where winner takes all.