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CWA Announces Contest Winners

Taylor Hopkins' Stagecoach Mary has been named the winner of the Creative World Awards Screenwriting Competition. Based on a true story, the script is about a hard-drinking, cigar smoking black woman in Montana in 1885, who uses her six shooter and tough as nails attitude to defend a convent of nuns from the perils of the Wild West.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER

STAGECOACH MARY by Taylor Hopkins

Logline: (Based on a True Story) In 1885 Montana, a hard-drinking, cigar smoking black woman uses her six shooter and tough as nails attitude to defend a convent of nuns from the perils of the Wild West.

FEATURE SCREENPLAY CATEGORY

ACTION/ADVENTURE

WINNER
THE OPERATOR by Huey Pham

Logline: After years of trying to prove herself in the military, a strong-but-traumatized Army veteran must help save the kidnapped officer who always blamed her for her brother's death -- her father.

FIRST RUNNER UP
SKYFOXES by Marisa Forrest

Logline: TOP GUN meets OCEAN'S 8 - A former Navy pilot-turned-plane thief recruits an all-female crew to steal a US fighter jet for international gangsters.

ALL DRAMA/FAMILY

WINNER
THE FALL by Tamra Teig & Michael Lipoma

Logline: East Berlin, 1989 - A single mother is forced to become a spy when her son is framed for murder. After a deadly betrayal, she turns double-agent to exact her revenge, becoming the catalyst that leads to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Inspired by historic events.

FIRST RUNNER UP
IN THE BLACK by Drew Metcalf

Logline: When a Black girl with a gift for numbers is on the verge of losing her home as her family can no longer afford it, she does what any logical teenage girl would do – becomes the accountant for the neighborhood drug dealer.

COMEDY

WINNER
CENTER STAGE by Christine Feldman

Logline: A frazzled young woman and the struggling stage actor she hires to play her fictional boyfriend must convince her wildly eccentric and all-too-devoted relatives that they are a happy couple at a family dinner from hell.

FIRST RUNNER UP
BAGUETTES FOR LIFE! by Kevin Naughton

Logline: A high-powered American ad exec is suddenly forced to re-invent himself as a baker in a village in France.

HORROR/THRILLER/FANTASY

WINNER
LIFE IS EASY by Clark Kokich

Logline: A guilt-ridden father rampages through the underworld in a desperate effort to save his daughter from drug addiction, helped by the miraculous wisdom of his youngest daughter, a graceful young girl with magical abilities.

FIRST RUNNER UP
FALL NOT INTO DARKNESS by Philip Hogan

Logline: On the eve of a deadly hurricane, a weary sheriff, a haunted young doctor and a brilliant marine biology student race to destroy an ancient evil before it devastates their small town.

SHORT SCREENPLAY WINNER

WINGING IT by Christine Feldman

Logline: On his way to one of his society mother's tedious matchmaking dinners, a straitlaced guy gets pulled into a free-spirited woman's evening of wild misadventures during her mission to rescue a beloved bird. She might actually turn out to be the woman of his dreams-- if he can just survive meeting her.

TV DRAMA WINNER

PROJECT NOAH by Joel Dahl

Logline: A man leads his family and the human race to a new home on another planet, on the eve of a calamity that will destroy Earth. Only once he gets there, he finds that doppelgangers of him and his entire crew have gotten there first, and are bent on killing him, his family, and his crew.

TV SITCOM WINNER

BEADWINDOW by Paul Mooney

Logline: Underachieving Marine veteran and twenty-something slacker Howie Sedgwick gets one hell of a job offer the same day his girlfriend throws him out: taking over his famous uncle Jack's ultra-right wing radio show. If he wants to keep the job, and the large paycheck it includes, the otherwise apathetic Howie will have to fake it hard and convince the world he believes the lunacy he's spewing.

CREATIVE CONCEPT WINNER

THE AUDIT by Giuseppe Cocca & Paul Young

Logline: In a future where criminality is seen as a disease and can be cured with an implant, a rehab is forced on the run after learning the system is dangerously flawed.

Updated: 08/27/2019

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