The Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) has announced the six screenwriters who will participate in the 2009 ATLFF Screenplay Retreat at the Margarget Mitchell House, November 13-15, 2009.

Grilled Cheese Virgin - Steven Arvanites
New York, NY
When a streetwise hooker and a devout pre-op tranny fry a grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary seared into the bread, one makes it a business opportunity while the other sees the relic as her salvation.

Gurus - Homa Mojtabai
Atlanta, GA
Priya and Samantha - desperate to maintain their posh lifestyles after being laid off - pretend that Priya is a famous Indian Yoga Guru to bilk wealthy Manhattanites.

Highway to Nowhere - Lanre Olabisi
New York, NY
Hector has a dream to re-unite his family after a two year absence. He must trek through the scorching Arizona desert to do so. Unfortunately for him, the desert is where dreams come to die.

Horror Comic - Stephen Hoover
Baton Rouge, LA In the 1950s the greatest threat to the United States is not global Communist expansion or nuclear annihilation. It's comic books.

The Jerusalem Syndrome - Caveh Zahedi
Brooklyn, NY
A metaphysical thriller about a writer who starts having inexplicable visions which lead him to suspect that he may have been the apostle Judas in a past life. He begins a quest to discover his hidden identity.

Wajda - Haifaa Al Mansour
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
A young girl innocently challenges the deep-rooted and traditional constraints of her conservative Saudi village through a desperate and hopeful attempt to attain a forbidden green bicycle.