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By Travis Heermann.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, a cowardly Yankee minister's teenage daughter is abducted by a band of vicious swamp rats and taken into the Everglades. To save his daughter from a fate worse than death, he must enlist the aid of an escaped slave woman, a mysterious Santeria priestess known as the Black Rose.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 06/03/2019; Updated: 07/06/2019)
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By JAMES B SAUNDERS.
CHARGE! Rough Rider President Teddy Roosevelt takes on all comers – Banana Republics, Wall Street bigwigs and Congress – to build the Panama Canal. The real story. Can be expanded to TV miniseries.
Professional Coverage: “Recommend” Dave Trottier (Author “The Screenwriter’s Bible.”)
SEMI-FINALIST Fade In Awards rue Story/Bio Competition
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/08/2018; Updated: 01/04/2020)
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By Cassie Hayasaka and Keith Hayasaka.
A tenacious young Japanese-American's loyalties, duties, and illicit interracial relationship are tested to the limits when his family is separated by the US government and imprisoned during a time of fear and paranoia surrounding WWII.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 05/30/2019; Updated: 01/22/2020)
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By Charles DeRykus.
In the Occupied Netherlands, a widow and child go into hiding with the help of her brother who struggles with PTSD.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 09/27/2017; Updated: 03/13/2020)
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By Jared Raun.
When a self-reliant but sheltered woman loses her last living relative in 1876 Wyoming, she must fend off a greedy rancher, a lovestruck marshal, and a desperate outlaw to maintain the family farm and protect her newfound independence.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 08/10/2018; Updated: 01/04/2020)
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By JAMES B SAUNDERS.
NYC politician William M. “Boss” Tweed loots the city treasury for millions until exposed by the upstart New York Times and immigrant cartoonist Thomas Nast. Political drama/strong contemporary relevance. Heavy non-comic animation and graphics.
Professional Coverage: “RECOMMEND” – Dave Trottier (Author, “The Screenwriter’s Bible”)
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 09/07/2019; Updated: 01/04/2020)
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By Alfred (Al) Cool.
Set in the 1970’s and based on actual events, an idealistic college student on the cusp of earning his degree is forced to take a dangerous job as a logger in order to save his younger sisters from their abusive family home. As he learns the ropes of this perilous job, his values will also be challenged by a ruthless boss, working to further his control over the isolated woodland town with the help of some criminal cronies.
Format: TV Pilot
(Posted: 10/19/2019; Updated: 01/31/2020)
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By Steve Weissman.
Based on the true story of the Buddha: The battles of a Prince who rejects riches and power, risking insanity and death, in a quest to find ultimate freedom.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 11/23/2007; Updated: 05/06/2019)
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By Cassie Hayasaka and Keith Hayasaka.
Orphaned after his father is murdered in the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, Bo helps his adopted family of sheep ranchers fight for their land in bloody range wars while struggling with his identity and reigniting a dangerous love affair.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 10/10/2019; Updated: 01/22/2020)
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By Joann Buckley Collins.
The unsung muse of the Dada art movement of the 1910s was a woman ahead of her time. Thrice married, thrice abandoned, the Baroness Elsa kept rising from ashes. Proto-punk. Performance artist. Feminist. Synesthete. Elsa enthralled and inspired everyone who met her, but remained unknown to the world at large, and died tragically unknown, alone and penniless.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 05/03/2019; Updated: 10/19/2019)
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By Dirk Strasser.
A driven conquistador and his men find themselves caught between the warring forces of demonic natives and angelic entities in a world whose morality proves to be less black and white than it initially appears.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 04/15/2019; Updated: 04/16/2019)
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By Nabil Ziani.
And they compel one Simon of Cyrene, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 09/06/2019; Updated: 09/06/2019)
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By Ernestina Juarez.
During the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant falls in love with a young Mexican woman who helps American slaves escape bondage. The war separates them, but years later they meet again when the woman is dispatched to the United States to seek an alliance to prevent France from conquering Mexico and becoming an ally of the Confederacy. (Finalist - Academy Nicholl Screenplay Competition)
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 12/13/2018; Updated: 01/05/2020)
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By Jeremy Ford.
The true story of the black woman in Alabama who bankrupted the national Ku Klux Klan after an FBI investigation into the lynching of her son.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 03/05/2020; Updated: 03/05/2020)
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By Marc DeLamater.
Imagine going around the world under the sea onboard the world's most advanced submarine. It sounds like "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," but it really happened. In this dramatic true story, an American nuclear submarine captain announces to his new, untested crew that their maiden voyage is now a far more dangerous top-secret mission - to make the first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/03/2006; Updated: 05/21/2019)
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By Devin Lucas.
When a wild bunch of Old West outlaws are attacked by a Werewolf in the desert, the only place to run for safety is back to the strange town they just robbed, where the Sheriff is the embittered former partner of the gang’s infamous leader.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 04/16/2019; Updated: 04/16/2019)
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By Maria Lennon.
Berlin cold war aftermath: A Woman reconstructs shredded Stasi documents and stumbles upon a murder committed days after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Her curiosity gets the best of her and she almost gets killed.
The Puzzle People screenplay is an adaptation of the Berlin Spy Mystery by Doug Peterson.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 12/09/2013; Updated: 07/06/2019)
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By JAMES B SAUNDERS.
Federal Agents -- including a young J. Edgar Hoover and a badass female translator -- track German saboteurs plotting the July 30, 1916 Black Tom Island explosion in New York harbor - the terrorist attack on America!
Professional Coverage: “Recommend” - Dave Trottier (Author “The Screenwriter’s Bible”).
SEMI-FINALIST - Fade In Awards-True Story/Bio Contest
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 03/03/2018; Updated: 01/04/2020)
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By Lisa Hagen.
A slave ship titanically wrecks on a barren island and while sailors escape on a raft, and all the men die, it is left to the women to carve out an existence until they are rescued -15 years later.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/13/2017; Updated: 05/06/2019)
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By Maria Lennon.
The king of Israel marries a Phoenician Princess, who is consumed by Baal worship, wanting to kill all devout Hebrews. God’s prophet challenges the king to repent in spite of the threat of death.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 01/10/2010; Updated: 07/06/2019)
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By Andrew Garrett.
Genres collide in this irreverent, darkly humorous animated thriller, as two American mice battle a crew of Nazi rats who have turned an ocean liner into a fiendish trap.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 01/21/2012; Updated: 07/08/2019)
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By Diane Johnson.
A West Indies Native and a Franciscan Friar embark on an Amazon expedition with legendary conquistador Francisco Pizarro in search of a city of gold. But instead of finding riches, they unleash a curse that affects centuries of historic leaders and trailblazers.
Format: TV Pilot
(Posted: 01/10/2017; Updated: 05/05/2019)
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By Robert Gately.
Ed always wanted to act or direct in theatre. Infant epilepsy, a lifelong battle with booze, or the bizarre hallucinations of van Gogh, Barrymore and spiders the size of dogs were not going to stop him. Living in reality was another matter. This is a physiological journey where a man struggles to find peace between the worlds of the real and the imaginary.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 04/26/2004; Updated: 05/04/2019)
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By Nathan Goldman.
Arizona Territory, 1883: When a band of ex-confederate-led banditos raid a gold shipment steaming down the Colorado River, a fifteen year old boy has to choose between a life of adventure or doing what's right, while his father, a retired Confederate Major, races to save him and stop the bandits.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 03/15/2012; Updated: 08/01/2019)
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By Robert Tartell.
A rookie detective assigned to a routine hotel skip case instead finds himself up against a diabolical serial killer with a deadly grudge against the Eighth Air Force, whose reunion is being held there...and no one even suspects a murderer is on the loose. Can he stop him before he kills again...and again?
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 01/22/2020; Updated: 02/05/2020)
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