2005 Semi-Finalists


In order to choose the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners for Screenplay Festival, there are three rounds to the competition. In the first round, every script is read by three judges and rated regardless of genre. The screenplays with the highest ratings move into the second round, or the Semi-Final Round. The scripts listed below made it through this process and deserve recognition as Screenplay Festival 2005 Semi-Finalists.

We appreciate everyone’s hard work and would again like to congratulate everyone for their great writing!

2005 Semi-Finalists:

Action/Adventure:

MIchael Freude — “Nam” (boo-coo dinky-dow)

David Gittlin — A Prescription For Happiness

Karen Steinberg — A Second Chance

Jeremy Mayer — A War in the Mind of God

Martha Rosenquist — All’s Fair in Time Shares

Bret Ootes — Atomic Eye

Jeon Rezvani — Blood Chronicles

Christopher Canole — Blood Groove

Bob Canning — Buddy, Beware!

Maria Soriano — Cargo Jack

Mike Caron — Conquistador

Christopher Canole — Counter-Clockwise

Anita Skibski — crash/burn@0degrees

Dan O’Sullivan — Criminals

Christopher Canole — DVD Day

Ray Wang & Ken Rosenblatt — Falcon

Charles Kimbrough — Fall From Grace

Robert Rhyne — Falling From The Sky

Matthew Johnstone — Generals

Matthew Johnstone — Heroes

Aníbal Kohan — I´m not Robocop

Shawn Harris — ICE

George Kulstad & Ruth Kulstad — Island High

Jason Philps — Justice

Katherine Carter — Mind Blowing State

Kate Kaynak — Next To Last Chance

Anthony Amenta — Oedipus Tex

Robin Warder — Once Upon a Time in Canada

Denis DeBon — PANGBORN

Cedrick Wilson — Pretty Blue Brown

Hiroshi Nakajima — Repeat After Me

James E. Cheek — Ride or Die

Jody Rawley & Laura Cooter — Scramble

Jane Golden — The Agency

Max Frobe — The Cobra’s Kiss

Jerrad Burford — The Hike

John Brinling — The Hitler Project

John Watson — The Monsters of Ibrihim

Nancy Noever — The Photograph

Patrick Koohafkan — The Scaffold

Danny Sheehy — The Valley of the Kings

Mark Barry — The War Inside

Miro — The Winds of Malacca

Glen Robinson — Thirteen Arrows

Mordechai Landsberg & Riki Landsberg — Toll Road

Linda Konrad — Umbulali

Dennis Baylor — Upon The Precipice

Robert H. Imrie — Worlds Apart

Deron Wakayama — Wrath

Aaron McFarlane — Wrath of the Spirit Warriors

Comedy:

Izzy Mariano — 30 Things To Do By 30

Shawn Royce — A Change of Heart

Shawn Harris & Kevin Moore — A New Tomorrow

David Gittlin — A Prescription For Happiness

Steve Rudolf — Absence of Briefs

Simona Antonova — Agent ID10T

Ryan Peek — All Downhill From There

Martha Rosenquist — All’s Fair in Time Shares

Eric Diekhans — Anywhere’s Better Than Here

Andrew Summers — Backelor Auction

Matt Tucker — Barracuda

Shane Betts — Bingo!

Bob Canning — Buddy, Beware!

Beckey Kane — Burning Inside Out

Martha Rosenquist — Christmas Eve

Paul Killebrew — Corporate Clown

Jeremy Rowan — Crackers

Andrew Fracchia — Cycles

David Chester & Blake Pinter — Do It Yourself

Dick Keith — Dockers

Vito LaBruno — Don Alhabib

Wilmer Lin — Elephant and Castle

Tim Repicky — Far Beyond Gone

Michael Brose — Fe-mail Trouble

Dick Keith — Fifty-Love

Allan Tijamo — Flip Trash

Catherine Dutko — Four Fabulous Friends

Margo Waldrop — Fred and Betty

Lorna V. Blackwood — I Will?

Robert Chomiak — In Stitches

Jeff Seeman — In Your Dreams

Foley North — Jokerman

Denise Pischinger — Keepin’ It Real

David Gittlin — Love Will Find You

Ken Mora — Magnum Farce

Monique Gordon — Making Fate

Catherine Dutko — Mediating the Dunbars

Jack Kilpatrick — Melton Porcini

Vito LaBruno — Miserable Man

Larry Postel — Miss ‘N You

Wendy Rakochy — Moms Will Be Moms

Sean Tracy — Natural Disaster

Maggie Franks — Open Hearts

Michele Young-Stone — Paint Spain With Bart

Tom Basham — Paradise Sings

Mark Saunders — Pinot Gris and Curly Fries

Mark Weinstein — Pot Luck

Douglas Jones — Rebel Mold

Hiroshi Nakajima — Repeat After Me

Steve Daley — Rogue of The Seven Seas

Patrick Rask & Jill Maxcy — Running With Jesus

Nada Von Tress Djordjevic — Save the Date

Erin Donavan — Shakespeare Unplugged

Lee Shapiro & Stephen Wise — Sinkhole

Jim Beggarly — Skeleton at the Feast

Dick Keith — Slam D, PFC.

Mike McGeever — Smilers

Linda Konrad — Targets

Steven Rosen — The Black Sheep Club

Jennifer Harrison — The Dunk and Tickle

Ana Barredo — The Extra

Mark Dreskin — The Identity Thieves

Dick Keith — The Last Straw

Michael Pena — The Liar

Patrick Rodio — The Money Shot

Dave Lukow & Rob Roy Cesar — The Odd Father

Shawn Jones — The Other Side of Nowhere

Michael Hebler & G.P. Quinlan — The Scattering of Ernest”

Nicholas Arena — The Stealers

Ross Bengel — The Terrible Tabloid

Scott Gordon — The Visitors

Mary Huckstep — The War of The Grandmas

Mary Huckstep — To Catch A Keeper

Baxter Taylor — Tough Luck

Jon Pompia — Trinidead, Colorado

Jonathan Boal — Upgrades

Kim Sargeant — Vitamin Sex

Catherine Horne — Whatever Myra Wants

Robert H. Imrie — Worlds Apart

Adam Opitz — Writing A Wrong

Robyn Karp — You, Me, & Five Bucks

Family:

Martha Rosenquist — All’s Fair in Time Shares

Susan St. Peters — Black and White and Cute All Over

Daniel M. LePore — Blessed Are The Dead

Leesa Gordon — Brothers of the Fire

Bob Canning — Buddy, Beware!

Martha Rosenquist — Christmas Eve

Benjamin Jones — Christmas Time

Ross Poverman — Coins

Gordon X. Graham — Copier Salesman

Anita Skibski — crash/burn@0degrees

Linda Armstrong — Enclave

Bradley G. Andrews — Field Trip

Jo-el Henning Doty — Final Draft

Tom Glick — Healing Butte

Brian Johnson — Horatio

David Gittlin — Love Will Find You

Stewart Davis — Lucy’s Mighty Pen

Marcia Slatkin — Machete

Jack Sekowski — Naughty But Nice

Anthony Amenta — Oedipus Tex

Maggie Franks — Open Hearts

Christopher Canole — Pen Dragon

Monte Zain Tajudin — Phenomena

Monte Zain Tajudin — Phenomena 2

Lee Tidball — Princess Reborn

John Smick — Sarah Seagull and the Gibbering Fools

Jody Rawley & Laura Cooter — Scramble

Erin Donavan — Shakespeare Unplugged

Laura Pasten — SNEAKERS, The Horse Who Wore Tennis Shoes

Mark Saunders — Team Poodle

Rick Fonte — The Most Biggest Sleepover Ever

Jonathan David Sloate — The New Picasso

Hilary Giner-Sorolla — The Rowan Tree

Jonathan David Sloate — The Tower of Babel

Scott Gordon — The Visitors

Glen Robinson — Thirteen Arrows

Mary Huckstep — To Catch A Keeper

Anthony Amenta — Too Fat To Fly South

Larry Postel — X-Mas Files

Jonathan Holly — Zeke’s Drum

Drama:

Shawn Royce — A Change of Heart

Michael Greenspun — A Matter of Money

Jeffrey Musmanno — A Solemn Path To Contentment

Shawn Royce — A Thousand Cranes

Jeremy Mayer — A War in the Mind of God

Soraya King — Abulia

Randa Bizri — Alexandria…Alexandria

Shawn Royce — An Impossible Perfection

David Boito — Art of War

Billy Maddox — Asshole Saints

Kiasha Martone — At A Disadvantage

Bret Ootes — Atomic Eye

Cheryl Smith — Attitude

Matt Tucker — Barracuda

Nicolette Groeneveld and Teri Horn — Bathroom Pass

Alex Malaiko — Beau Jester

Donna Oltrogge — Belle McKeever

Punch Kuny — Beyond Dead

Daniel M. LePore — Blessed Are The Dead

Eric Diekhans — Blue Suede Shoes

Bill Singley — Buckeye

Darren Coyle — Bulwark

Beckey Kane — Burning Inside Out

Kathy Cabrera — Chick on the Dixie Highway

Jeffrey Musmanno — Conviction to the Living

Gordon X. Graham — Copier Salesman

Louis Dell’Omo — D.O.N.O.R.

Ariel Johnson — Dandelions

Catherine Horne — Dealer’s Choice

Shanele Alvarez — Destinee

C.M. MacGillivray — Dirty Dog, Broken Angel

Christopher Canole — Drawn Together

Stephen Settle — Eke’Bolos

Robert Rohland — English Leather

Martha Mondelli — Eve’s Story

Robert Rhyne — Falling From The Sky

Martin Blacker — Fish out of Water

Lee Shapiro & Stephen Wise — From the Ashes

Michael North — Giant Steps

Lucas Grindley — Giovanni’s Funeral

Tom Glick — Healing Butte

Melissa Hill — Hope Crucifix

Lorna V. Blackwood — I Will?

Sam Zvibleman — Imagine The Moon

Nancy Noever — Inalienable Rights

Gary Stewart Branfman — Intolerance

Alexis Boerger — Ionian Tides

George Kulstad & Ruth Kulstad — Island High

Scott Gordon — Izzy’s Ladder

Kim Townsel — Jet Lag

Foley North — Jokerman

Whitford Martin — Keeping Her Promise

George Kulstad & Ruth Kulstad — Kiss of Shanghai

Kevin W. Dwyer — L.A. Crusaders

Jean Hunter — Lady Jazz

David Hartzheim — Latent Image

Ken White — Lions of Florence

David Gittlin — Love Will Find You

Marcia Slatkin — Machete

James Serafin — Mail from Heaven

Melissa McLeod — Midnights and Monkeys

Anita Skibski — Mine

Derek Vaughn — Modern Day Gunman

Alan Woodruff — My Brother, Myself

Zhen Li — My Fake Life

Richard Paul Staudt — New Years

Dennis Engleman — Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil

Steven Zawacki — Northern Latitude

Jerry Bridges — October Whine

Maggie Franks — Open Hearts

Shawn Royce — Pastel Winds

Jeremy Mayer — Plan B

Constantine Athanas — Poe

Dawn Rhodes — Quicksilver

Hiroshi Nakajima — Repeat After Me

Jane Ann Gonzalez — Sadie Mae: The Story of Susan Atkins

Jared Rowell — San Salvador

Cathy Simpson — Sentient

Aaron Greaves — Sex like Us

Daniel Loschack — Southern Blood

Kevin McCarthy — Spirit Rocks

Dion Cook — Sweetwood

Diana Jaramillo — Tata

Carl Roth — That Feeling of Flying

Steven Rosen — The Black Sheep Club

Ross E. Cooper — The Carousel

Shawn Royce — The Games

Michael Hebler — The Ghost of Christmas Past”

Sara Lahasky and Jonathan Weiss — The Last Halloween

John Watson — The Monsters of Ibrihim

Jonathan David Sloate — The New Picasso

Michael Pena — The Nut House

Jean Buschmann — The OM Factor

Eugene Tang — The One That Got Away

Shawn Jones — The Other Side of Nowhere

Eric Otto — The Pardon

Rajan Gulati — The Port

Michael Pena — The Real Cowboy

R.C. Donovan — The Real McCoy

Heath Miller — The Spirit of Jack

Jonathan David Sloate — The Tower of Babel

Allen Glover — The Unkindness of Ravens

Mary Huckstep — To Catch A Keeper

Robert Gokay — Under Cover of Trust

Susan Klos — Voices

Catherine Horne — Whatever Myra Wants

Allen Glover — Whereabouts Unknown

Jeremy Mayer — Working the Hill

Bob Canning — Wounded

Cedrick Wilson — Your Life or Mine

Thriller/Horror:

Jeff Thomson — A Stranger’s Kiss

Jeon Rezvani — Blood Chronicles

Christopher Canole — Blood Groove

Kevin Lee Miller — Borrowed Time

Marty Wolfand — Carmody & Fatboy

Frank Fuda — Chasing Bigfoot

Da Silva-Heying — Dark Knights

Jeff Thomson — Demon Fog

Christopher Canole — Drawn Together

Michael Hebler — el Chupacabra

Brett Maly — Exit 46

Nick Karner — Fatty

Christopher Bailey — Giants

Jack Dawe — gOD’s mAN

Shirley Yang — Goodbye Blue Sky

Constantine Athanas — In The Dark of Day

Ron Williams — Karma

Craig Cambria — Long Night

Janette Yeap — Nested Evil

Eric Molinsky — No Necking

Dan Wedeking — Parallel

Shawn Harris & Kevin Moore — Pica Boy

Dennis Eichler — Psychosis

Dion Cook — Pulse

Pavel Batal — Scent of the Prey

Lisa Dawoud — Separation Anxiety

Eric Obame — Seven Souls

D. A. Metrov — Stepping Stones

Jacob Greenberg — Taboo

MIchael Freude — Tank Farm

Gregory Luckett & Joshua Minnis — The Ark

Dan Sarver — The Blame Game

Jinna Matzen — The Crime By Nature

Ken Anderson — The Crystal Ball

Diane Turkoski — The Foundry

Tona Vang — The Ghost House

Dick Keith — THE GUN LAP

Sara Lahasky and Jonathan Weiss — The Last Halloween

John Watson — The Monsters of Ibrihim

Marc Elrich — The Phoenix Option

David Yau — The River Maid

Patrick McAllister — This Life Unbid

Chuck Loch — Touch-Up

Linda Konrad — Umbulali

Dennis Baylor — Upon The Precipice

Kerry Donelli — What You Don’t Know, Jack

Deron Wakayama — Wrath

Thomas Manning — Your Halo For My Cupcake!