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Atlanta Fest Announces Finalists

Fifteen finalists have been chosen from 286 submissions to the Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. Of these finalists, three will be chosen and their respective screenwriters will participate in intensive workshop retreat during the 2012 Atlanta Film Festival to help the writer further develop and refine their script.

Finalists are arranged in alphabetical order by title.

After Greensboro by Deborah Goodwin
Brooklyn, NY
It's twenty-five years since the ‘alleged' Greensboro Massacre, and a brutal crime against a local teen will force the new sheriff, a father and his sons, to confront the town's racist past.

Closer Than Rust by Laura Zaylea
Atlanta, GA
A trash collector makes art from garbage, and soon her sculptures create a world of magic, art and queer community.

'Do & Dave by Evan Allgood
Alexandria, VA
Set in Richmond, VA, where bicycles rule the streets and PBR stands for preferred beer of Richmond. Waldo ”Do' Bridges has just graduated college and is now naively pursuing a comedy career. His best friend and roommate, Dave Black, hasn't quite graduated but still finds time to pursue ‘Do's younger sister emerson. Throughout, ‘Do and Dave are themselves pursued by a violent gang of straight-edge thugs. Can their friendship survive all this stress and change?

Graves Light by Marjory Kaptanoglu
Belmont, CA
When intertwining passions in a coastal New England village lead to a woman's murder, a young man who may or may not be the killer has till nightfall to recover evidence that incriminates him.

Her Hardest Hue by Edward Collar
Clearlake Oaks, CA
While living with his grandmother, Ned finds the answer to his prayers. He sets out on a road trip to southern california not knowing that his actions have made him a suspect in a violent armored truck heist. The vacation of a lifetime soon collapses when he begins to realize that he has not outwitted technology but actually fallen victim to it.

Hollywood Gospel by Jay Blumenkopf
Boca Raton, FL
Queen of heaven prosecuted on morals charges. Will her good deeds as a ‘Hollywood' evangelist who saves souls and heals the sick save her own soul? Based on a true story.

Jean Of The Joneses by Stella Meghie
Brooklyn, New York
Jean Jones, a gawky, 22-year old finds new love unexpectedly in the back of a Brooklyn ambulance with paramedic Ray Malcolm, but her dysfunctional, middle class Jamaican family gets in the way.

Khsara by Suha Araj
Brooklyn, NY
Nisreen's struggle between two opposing cultures is the timeless story of a woman creating herself, tripping the whole way but landing on her feet. Khsara is a word in arabic that simply means too bad or what a shame. Culturally it takes on a different meaning when referring to an unwed woman of a certain age. Too bad, she is decent looking, educated, professional or from a good family, but if she is not married she becomes a shame. The only way to please everyone and reconcile two worlds is to create your own. This is a story about an arab-american girl who doesn't get married in time and perhaps never will.

Man Of The House by Rob Gomes
Atlanta, GA
'stay at home dads' start a kids music group to reinvent themselves.

The Mythfits by Nicky Julius
Gardens, NY
Misfits become mythfits when the macdonald kids are swept off there father's tour boat, swallowed by the loch ness monster, and brought to the land of mythatania. Where all creatures heard of in myth and folklore have gone to escape the outside world.

Offline by Kathryn Kyker
Athens, GA
When her implanted communicator shuts down, a naive young woman discovers the offline world, and becomes part of the plan to destroy the technology her father created–for a freedom she didn't know existed.

Sadie Hawkin's Day Aka Campy Lesbian Horror Movie! by Stacy Keane
Los Angeles CA
At a rich, conservative university in texas, somebody is killing drop-dead gorgeous lesbians.

The Sleeping House by Suzanne Griffin
Brooklyn NY
A Jewish artist falls in love with a his brother's new wife, and discovers that her life was mysteriously intertwined with that of his own recently deceased wife, a survivor of the soviet gulag.

The Tour Of Pain by Adam Sullivan
Oceanside, CA
When his wife leaves him, Garrett turns to physical and mental pain in order to cope with the emotional trauma of his impending divorce.

The Voyeur by John Bengel
Playa Del Rey, CA
An ethicist/college dean with an obsession for voyeurism sees something that creates the ultimate ethical dilemma.

Updated: 11/17/2011

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