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FALL/WINTER 2011 SCREENPLAY WINNERS
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THE GREAT BEYOND by Brent Hartinger
(romantic/black comedy)
- In trying to kill themselves,
a loser and a misanthrope discover that maybe life is worth living after all.
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THE ULTIMATE ALMANAC by David Ullendorff
(family)
- A failing seventh grader, yearning to join a
fellowship of misfit kids that have raised obscure talents to an art form, is banished to a futuristic experimental school.
WHAM, BAM, MERCI, MA’AM by David Minaskanian
(comedy)
- A dorky college magazine writer is recruited by
the FBI to catch a college bud-turned terrorist and stop a deadly attack.
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HER BROTHER’S KEEPER by Natalie Hanson
(mystery/thriller)
- After the disappearance of her nephew, a young teacher becomes obsessed with
uncovering the truth even as it crumbles professional life, her marriage and exposes the possible complicity of her brother, the missing boy’s father.
ON FASCINASSIUS, WONDER KEEPER by Sam Celia
(adventure/comedy)
- To insure a “prophesied” Thracian victory in their impending invasion of ancient Greece,
a slave girl is forced to complete the national museum’s collection of Giants’ bones and thwart an unwitting but wily Greek paleontologist and
his reluctant biographer from finding the lost skeleton of Hercules.
ARTHUR’S PICKS by Preston Jones
(comedy)
- A slacker video store clerk who brags of being a screenwriter despite having
no complete scripts, receives a “cosmic intervention” when characters from his movie picks come to life.
COUNTDOWN by Eliot Sand
(action)
- A Los Angeles cop enlists a U.S.
congressman to chase down a team of domestic terrorists and a pair of stolen nuclear bombs.
A SEAT IN HELL by Sam Celia
(suspense)
- Bored with life after traveling the world, a dying medical examiner
vicariously travels through Hell via tales told by the executed Death Rowers he secretly revives.
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SIX DAYS TO MIDNIGHT by Christopher Beams
THE POET by Janet Bond Brill
DANIEL’S INFERNO by Eric W. Carlson
JOSH-STALKING by Marie Cadell
SAMMY GOES TO WESTMINSTER by Christopher Beams
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SPRING/SUMMER 2011 SCREENPLAY WINNERS
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THE IMMACULATE GIRL by Charles McNamara
(comedy)
- When an irreverent, small-town Arkansas girl becomes pregnant
through a bizarre accident, her fundamentalist dad convinces everyone in town she's the new Virgin Mary.
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INFIDELS by Richard Jean LeBlanc, Jr.
(drama)
- Upon returning to civilian life, an Iraqi War vet embarks upon a Faustian
journey that forces him to confront the demon that has haunted him his entire life.
HOBBY AND FITZ by Jim Milton
(period comedy)
- When novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald is hired by a studio producer in 1940, he struggles,
with the help of an alcoholic schemer left over from the silent era, to learn the ways of Hollywood and to create “the greatest movie ever written.”
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YARDSTICKS by Debra Murphy & John Murphy
(dark comedy)
- Just when the suicidal misfit from an ultra-successful family finds a reason to live,
he must do battle with a flamboyant “Angel of Death” who seeks to gain cosmic powers by collecting designer suicides.
DREAMWORLD by Brent Hartinger
(fantasy/family)
- An eleven-year-old girl plagued by nightmares wakes up in Slumberia,
a place inside her own brain where they “film” her dreams.
THE HECKLER by Michael J.E. Hanson
(comedy)
- Heckling wars break out between a slacker comic and sent-down Major League slugger.
CHOICE by Richard Jean LeBlanc, Jr.
(comedy)
- A vegetarian struggling to keep the family butcher shop afloat has given up on finding the
perfect woman--until he meets a female lawyer who is a closet cannibal and is defending the man that killed his mother.
MY SAVING GRACE by Karen Higbie
(drama)
- A young model on the path to destruction discovers the key to
living her life after her daughter is diagnosed with a rare disease.
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THE HOUSE THAT PETERBILT by Carl B. Clark
THE PACT by Shari Carpenter
WEEKEND DAD by Barbara Albers Jackson
GRASS FIRE by Steve Daniels
MISSING LOVE by Ronald Marchand & Rhonda Ewing
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