20/20 Screenwriting Contest
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Featured in upcoming April/June 2010 Script magazine. The greatest race in Olympic history retold as Cuban mailman Felix Carvajal runs the 1904 Olympic Marathon remembering his 1200 mile super-run up the Mississippi River to battle the world's best marathoners attacking him with racism, cheating, and drugs, to become the champion for all small national athletes who dare to dream of victory.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/03/2005; Updated: 04/07/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A teenager must choose whether to take a one-time chance to escape his oppressive family and impoverished town, or stay forever to protect his younger brother.
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(Posted: ; Updated: 08/21/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A powerful, charismatic coal mine owner becomes obsessed with the local schoolteacher, and plots to kill her husband in a deliberate mine disaster.
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(Posted: 06/30/2005; Updated: 11/07/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The true story of Richard Bong, a rookie WWII pilot who makes a brazen bet to beat the kill record of America's top-scoring ace.
But as the deadly competition spirals out of control, he's forced to confront the bitter realities of war and what it means to be a real hero.
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(Posted: 03/27/2008; Updated: 03/18/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Kidnapped and confined to a Bangkok brothel, an American girl falls in love with her mysterious rescuer and marries him, only to discover he was the drug lord responsible for her kidnapping.
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(Posted: 03/01/2009; Updated: 09/02/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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What happens when a naive divorcee and her son land on the set of the world's biggest box office star? Stagemom happens.
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(Posted: 02/20/2004; Updated: 01/01/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Logline: In 1888 France, an asylum warden accepts Vincent Van Gogh into his care and learns, through their difficult friendship, to see beyond the confines of his own tragic life.
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(Posted: 02/14/2005; Updated: 09/11/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A womanizer who is concerned about self-preservation learns to commit to his comrades and inadvertently becomes a hero through his love for a Vietnamese woman.
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(Posted: 08/31/2006; Updated: 09/27/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The Best Western is not the hotel.
The rape/murder of a by-the-book Marshal’s wife, sends him on a suicidal mission to save his son, his town and his sanity from a sociopath outlaw with an eighty man plus army.
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(Posted: 12/27/2009; Updated: 06/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A U.S. Army interrogator in Afghanistan uncovers details of an al-Qaeda plot to detonate a nuclear device in Washington, DC as the President delivers his State of the Union Address. But, in the process of interrogation, SHE bonds with her prisoner and fights to save him from the death sentence brought on by his own disclosures
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(Posted: 08/11/2003; Updated: 09/29/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A land venture in Mexico turns into a life or death struggle and helps solve the mystery of the "Raven's Treasure".
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(Posted: 11/27/2005; Updated: 07/28/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A borderline unethical treasure hunter is forced to work with his archeologist ex-wife in order to find an eccentric cult leader who, not only kidnapped their daughter, but also hijacked an important antiquities discovery and is hell bent on using it to debunk the Roman Catholic Church.
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(Posted: 07/13/2009; Updated: 05/15/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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After Lt. Oscar "Sammy" Sampson lands his B-17 in neutral Switzerland, he feels honor-bound to return to the war, but his new Swiss girlfriend wants him to stay, and his only way home is through Nazi-occupied France. It's an easy decision for Sammy -- after he steals Hitler's swastika. Based on a true story.
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(Posted: 02/20/2011; Updated: 02/08/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Against all odds, the first female quarterback drafted into the NFL battles prejudices and personal tragedy as she attempts to lead her longtime losing team in the quest for a playoff berth.
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(Posted: 01/15/2006; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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In 1890 a young Hawaiian sailor buys a hellish bottle that grants wishes. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, the hero finds wealth, love, despair, and a scorching countdown to his worst nightmare.
[Tagline(s): (1) "A penny for your soul?"
(2) "Evil brings power ... for a price."
(3) "The Imp Rules!"]
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(Posted: 06/10/2010; Updated: 01/26/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Framed for murder in Tibet, a troubled American thief flees from the Chinese Army, discovers secrets to his past life as a Tibetan monk, and learns to see the world in a new way.
"Although sometimes horrific, this movie celebrates the connectedness and continuity of life."
'Land of Snows' was formerly called 'Ascension.'
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 04/13/2006; Updated: 10/11/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An Avon man must avoid being shot, blown up and thrown off a Hawaiian mountain pass to prove his innocence in the murder of a local crime boss, while pursuing a budding romance.
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(Posted: 08/31/2006; Updated: 09/12/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A man who escapes death as a child is tormented by a shadow figure which seeks to take over his soul.
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(Posted: 09/25/2009; Updated: 09/25/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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