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FALL/WINTER 2009 SCREENPLAY WINNERS



GORGEOUS GEORGE by Steve LaMontagne

(drama)

  • True story of 1950s wrestler Gorgeous George, who taunts audiences with a haughty persona and becomes the most household name of his day.

BURIED SOUTH OF GALATIANS by Stephen Hoover

(Western/drama)

  • In 1875 New Mexico, a reformed preacher and an unrepentant gunslinger fight their pasts and each other over the fate of a small town.


TRIPTYCH by Wayne J. Keeley

(drama)

  • Three closely-knit suburban couples who play poker decide to spice up the game and their lives by allowing the winner to sleep with another player’s spouse.

THE RUSSIAN KISS by Raef Eric Lawson

(action comedy)

  • An unlikely pair of guys from Los Angeles, unlucky in love, try to find wives in Russia where they witness a murder and must run for their lives.


PICTURE ME AND YOU by Robert Keith Watson

(romantic comedy)

  • An honesty-challenged paparazzo secretly snaps a topless photo of a superstar model, but struggles to stop its publication after he falls in love with her.


HORROR COMIC by Stephen Hoover

(thriller)

  • A young comic book writer must find a way to stop the copycat who’s using his tales of terror as the inspiration for a series of grisly murders.


UNLUCKY FOOLS by Jeffrey Lynn Ward

(crime drama)

  • A gambler must work off his debt to a mob boss, but his night goes awry when he steals a car with a dead body inside.


THE FABULOUS FORTIES by Don Erlandson

(thriller)

  • Lies, betrayal and murder are just a few of the activities planned for the weekend guests at Graves Manor, where nothing is as it seems.


SAM’S STORY by Robert Keith Watson

(romantic comedy)

  • A genie falls in love with the woman who freed him from his lamp, and learns that if he uses his powers to grant her third wish, he’ll lose her forever.


IDENTITY THEFT by Jeff Travers

(comedy/drama)

  • A cyber wizard who loses his job in a corporate takeover engineered by a Wall Street mogul--his own evil twin--strikes back by stealing not only his brother’s money but his whole life.


CURING GAY by Matthew DeNoto

(comedy)

  • After coming out to his parents, a college student is cut off and to earn his tuition, he fundraises for an experiment to cure homosexuality.


I DREAMT YOU KISSED ME by Harold Jewell

(thriller)

  • A recent widower plays a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with a man he suspects of brutally attacking a brilliant New York pianist.


OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS by Raef Eric Lawson

(comedy)

  • Tired of working a dead-end job, an impressionable twenty-something man is coerced by his slacker friend into faking a injury to collect worker’s compensation.





SCHOOL SPIRIT by Robert Keith Watson

(supernatural drama)


FUGITIVE DAYS by Rose Hand

(thriller)


SCARED MONEY by Michael T. Scott

(comedy)


DEADLY PASSAGE by Charlie Robinson

(horror)


COMING ROUND THE MOUNTAIN by Raef Eric Lawson

(action comedy)


THIRD BALL KILL by Steve Hochman

(drama)


THE BALLOON GUY by Dana Moe Halley

(comedy/drama)


THE BEARER OF BAD NEWS by David Minaskanian

(comedy)


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QUARTERFINALISTS



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THE PHONE CALL by Michael Penncavage

(mystery)


CLANS by Mike Sherer

(thriller)


BLOWBACK by Jeff Travers

(thriller)


ARTIFICE by Steve Hochman

(political satire)


JUST INJUSTICE by Stephen DeRose

(crime drama)


DOG DAYS by Eric W. Carlson

(comedy/family)


ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD by Ron Podell

(drama)







SPRING/SUMMER 2009 SCREENPLAY WINNERS




KHENG KHENG CROCODILE by Donna Lisa

(family/animation)

  • A Thai boy dreams of winning the village kite competition but first he must save his spirited pet crocodile from a nasty poacher and a scheming elder.

ANGEL TRAP by Holli Herrle-Castillo

(science fiction)

  • A woman pursues her would-be killer across the galaxy, and finds herself the target of the most fearsome assassins in the universe.


SAMARANG by Gordon Hugh Rothwell

(historical action-adventure)

  • In 1910, an American girl must enlist the help of an outcast to rescue her father from Moro pirates.

TRANSPLANT by Raef Eric Lawson

(comedy)

  • When an ambitious Nebraskan overachiever suffers an injury a week before he’s supposed to start a big job in New York, he coerces his younger, slacker brother to take his place and impersonate him until he can recuperate.


UNDER THE BRIDGE by Len & Ali Lippman

(comedy)

  • A homeless man befriends a ghost stuck in the trunk of an abandoned car and together they resume the ghost’s life, reconcile with his killer and woo the girl all three of them love--until the body washes up, threatening to ruin everything.


YOU SAY TOMATO by Dave Eisenstark

(romantic comedy/mystery)

  • Two reporters try to avoid falling in love while solving the murder of a Hollywood star.


A NIGHT IN THE VILLAGE by Tanya Klein

(drama)

  • Lives collide in a New York jazz bar--some will be forced to change and some may not make it through the night alive.


SEA WEEDS by Raef Eric Lawson

(action/comedy)

  • A slacker dive shop employee at a Florida resort becomes caught in a deadly plot to ruin the local environment.


BODHISATTVA by Annita Pieroni

(historical adventure)

  • A reporter involved in a Russian conspiracy, an eccentric archeologist, and a psychic kid are caught in a web of different times and worlds to save the missing Romanov children and Rasputin.


DIRTY LAUNDRY by Brian J. Garland

(family/animation)

  • Clothing comes to life as a pair of misfit sock “brothers” are separated and lead separate lives in an orphanage and a thrift store--until they hatch a plan to reunite.


CROSSING THE LINE by Len & Ali Lippman

(black comedy)

  • A factory worker obsessed with rules and order gets caught up in a dangerous criminal scheme, meets a dangerous girl and finds his life spiraling out of control.


ESACPE ROUTES by Marlene King & Lucia Smith

(romantic comedy)

  • Old college girlfriends reconnect with each other during a getaway.


GOING SOLO by Robert Gately

(comedy/drama)

  • An agoraphobic mother accompanies her daughter to a prestigious music hall to see her perform, and as they struggle through madcap adventures they uncover a loving relationship they so desperately seek.

HELP IS ON THE WAY by Scott F. Butler

(suspense/horror)


CALLIOPE by James T. Frazier

(teen fantasy)


BOX OF RAIN by Richard Jean LeBlanc, Jr.

(drama/romance)


THE MAGICAL KINGDOM OF NAGA by Tanya Klein

(family)


JUSTICE DELAYED, JUSTICE DELIVERED by James L’Etoile

(thriller)


KEEPERS by Lucia Smith

(romantic comedy)


TRUE FEELING by Craig Cambria

(mystery/thriller)


FRIDAY NIGHT QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS by Tanya Klein

(comedy/adventure)


QUARTERFINALISTS



DEPOSIT ONLY by Jennifer Rubinstein

(thriller)


STROBELIGHT by Richard LeBlanc, Jr.

(drama)


THE PRINCESS CONCUBINE by Quan Lelan

(historical drama)


ABRAHAM’S TENT by Gloria Blum

(historical drama)


BIRTHDAY MAGIC by George Spicer

(comedy)


MS. WRECK’S PASSION by Bradford Willis & Anne Dunkin

(comedy)


A WINK OF THE BLACK EYE by Mark Wagner

(historical drama)