Dallas International Film Festival Grand Prize Winner to be Produced
The grand prize winner of the Dallas International Film Festival's 2023 Screenplay Competition, Sneakerhead by Jamie Campbell, will be produced by Torfoot Studios and Event Horizon Films, and directed by award-winning filmmaker Johnathan Brownlee, pending WGA and SAG negotiations. The film will join the shorts lineup at the Dallas International Film Festival.
Additional festival winners include:
1st Place Feature - For Billie by James Froeschle (Austin, TX)
On the verge of losing his wife to dementia an eighty-two year-old and his fading wife heist some pharmaceuticals from their nursing home and breakout to take one last trip. Along the way they befriend a young skater-girl and the unlikely trio discover the road sometimes takes you places you never expected.
2nd Place Feature - Labyrinth of Destiny by Ernestina Juarez (Austin, TX)
During the Mexican- American War, Ulysses Grant falls in love with a Mexican woman who helps African Americans escape bondage. The war separates them , but they meet again when the woman is sent to the United States to seek an alliance to prevent France from conquering Mexico and supporting the Confederacy.
1st Place Pilot - FIX by Jeff Bower (Los Angeles)
Exhausted from centuries of being able to rewind time and change every moment except his most painful, a tortured traveler begins "helping" others in order to befriend a grief-stricken detective who may just hold the key to his salvation.
2nd Place Pilot - Broken by Dathan Paterno (Chicago, IL)
An unorthodox but gifted psychologist battles both a local psychiatrist and his own mental health struggles, jeopardizing his career and family.
1st Place Short - Sneakerhead by Jamie Campbell (Kansas City, KS)
When she was a little girl, Meredith Jones had a monster under her bed. She returns home as an adult to find the monster's still there. And it's hungry.
2nd Place Short - The Paranormal Prankster by Sean Whitley (Dallas, TX)
When a notorious Internet troll appears on a live streaming video podcast to debate the existence of Sasquatch with Bigfoot believers, the fur flies when he's challenged by an ape-suited prankster claiming to be the legendary beast!
Updated: 08/26/2023
Additional Contest Info: Dallas International Film Festival
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Xanadu Shores: Proof of Concept (PoC)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
The Coyote
When a Native American scholar and a graduate student unearth a mysterious tomb, they find it contains a Navajo god and soon find themselves embroiled in a cosmic battle between good and evil with the fate of humanity at stake.
The Umpire Has No Balls
A fiery young woman who has baseball running through her blood and can call the game better than anyone starts her journey through the umpire ranks to achieve her one goal in life – becoming a major league baseball umpire.
All That Glitters (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
The Xanadu Team in their second outing become pawns in a complicated gem heist, involving a beautiful Russian woman and her nefarious employer after a boat of stolen jewelry explodes.
Screenplay Adaptation (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
PITTSBURGH PHIL
Biopic of Harry Strauss, a.k.a.
IT'S A POPCORN WORLD
An inventor strives to pop the world like popcorn, to save his home from being stolen by government eminent domain, if his dance-clubbing hunchback lawyer can keep him out of jail.
Marilyn
The ghost of a young woman falls in love with the man living in her old apartment and must try to protect him from his murderous, adulterous wife.
The Storm
A small-town sheriff dealing with personal problems investigates the murder and kidnapping of several girls where there’s no lack of suspects.
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