In order to choose the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners for
Screenplay Festival, there are three rounds to the competition. The scripts listed below made it through the
second round and deserve recognition as Screenplay Festival 2008 Finalists.
We appreciate everyone’s hard work and would again like to congratulate everyone for their great writing!
2008 Finalists:
Action/Adventure:
Casting Stones — Brian Hartshorn
Click to my Choo — Miyako Akina Fuqua
Espionage — Carlo Treviso
Fort Defiance — Brian Hill
Her Swastika Sword — Christopher Canole
How To Kill A Dead Man — Don Filipoff & Henry Cohn
Killed in Action — Katrina Nicholson
Kings of Maria — Wesley Hull
Lost Island — Douglas William Castle
Mikado — Walter Bauer
Mosquitoes — Jason Kaleko
Mutant Killer — Joseph J. Wheeler
Rage & Redemption — Douglas Anderson
The Escape — Kent Wong
The Harlem Story — Danny Holst
The Last Sentinel — Stephen M. Pace
The Russian Kiss — Raef Eric Lawson
Tin Necklaces — Wesley Hull
Trumpet — Robert Macklin
Union — Chris Moolekamp
War Of Choice — John Brinling
Whisper Hollows — Brannan Doyle
White House Down — Martin Holloway
Comedy:
13 Notches — Sandy Scherer
As You Are — Claudia Myers
Beluga Shuffle — jens Pil Pilegaard
Beyond Dating — Tanya M. Wheeler
Buried on Page 8 — Jennifer Harrison
Counting The Ways — Ronald Ecker
Dreamweaver — Kim Townsel & Jeff Sargeant
Frat Boys — Raef Eric Lawson
Head Trip — Craig Phillips
Help Your Self — Jason Roti & Robert Silva
Lionel’s Blue Period — John Letzing
MISOCAPNIA (Oh tobacco!) — Sylvain Doucet
Modern Meat — Michael Kaplan
Oblivious — Brian Lucas
Out of Practice — Linnea Liu Dakin
Pop Goes The Weasel — BatSheva Vaknin
Run Ran Run — Tom Nolan
Soaked — Joseph J. Wheeler
The Big One Eight — Jermon Wright
The Fools’ Journey — Miyako Akina Fuqua
The PORNovski Brothers — Rick Halpern
The Senior List — Spiro Adam Siavelis
Til The Fat Lady Sings — Thom Wilder
Trial and Erin — Lawrence Shulruff
Tricks of the Trade — Robert Dorian
Water Logged — Jenny Copeland
Who Would’ve Thought — Julie Kirk
Drama:
Bellingham — Pablo Valiente
Checkered Past — Michael Mihalek
Closure — Darren Swanson
Endless Baggage — Barbara Albers Jackson
Falling Into Place — Lily Mercer
For Life — Steve Weissman
Glory’s Men — Alan Bryce Grossman
Jailbait — Bryan Carrigan
Kingbird — Donald Thomas Adams
Moorestown High — Derek O’Brien
Red, White and Blue — Darrel Anderson
Say Something Funny — Jim Nevins
Shake the Heavens — Joseph J. Wheeler
Short Season — Shannon Kracht
Sparrow On The Roof — Craig Clyde
Suck — Ursula Holloman
Surviving the Fall from Bennington Bridge — Jeff Myers
The Joppa Flat — Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid
The Knuckleballer — Michael L. Murphy
The Problematic Virtue — James Heskett
Wrocklage — Steve Daniels
Family:
Ant-ics — Donald Ashe
Calliope — James T. Frazier
Chasing Midnight — Kim Wells
Finding Patience — Aaliyah Miller
Freezer Born: The Adventures of Carl The Ice Cream Sandwich — Erin McLaughlin
Hope for Christmas — Casey Jason Jr.
Jack and Chip — Robert Bronstein
Learning to See — Robert Lamborn
Lisa’s Angel — Marilou Trask-Curtin
Miracles — Sandy Scherer
Pandamonium — Susan St. Peters
Sandy Mills — Nathan Carliner Goldman
Screaming My Heart Out — Janyce Lapore
Serena’s Thunder — Jean Hunter
SKILLZ — Onnie Terrell
Space Race — Eric Carlson
Stage Dad — Joel Doty
Stealing First — Joan Golden and Cynthia Drew
The Ace of Aces — Geoffrey Breuder
The Vigil Aunties — Andrew Bailey Fumento
Toucans of the Amazon — Donna Lisa
True North — Eric Carlson
Trumpet — Robert Macklin
Weekend Dad — Barbara Albers Jackson
White Elephant — Susan St. Peters
Thriller/Horror:
A Son of Maine — Ian Sax
Blood Trail — Michael Strode
Blowback — Jeff Travers
Burnerz — Joseph J. Wheeler
Canaries — Craig Cambria
Crow’s End — Colin M. Maguire
Cult Following — Robert Dorian
Daddy’s Little Girl — Erica Sutherland
Dana’s Inferno — Andrew Bailey Fumento
Darkroom — Alex Cope
Down Under — Per Mühlow
Is That A Gun In Your Pocket? — Emanuel Ruggeri
Isolation — David Sakmyster
Lifeline — Stacy Baker
Llanada Villa — Chuck Whitton
Lunatic Fringe — Bruce D’Amato
Mutant Killer — Joseph J. Wheeler
Red Sierra — Amrando Figueroa
Secrets of Scape Ore Swamp — Jocelyn Rish
Southern Macabre — Richard Stringham
The Boy Next Door — Jayson Amoroso
The Shorting — Arlo Devlin-Brown
The Summoning — Mark Lukens
The Theater — Paul J.J. Pastore
Tooth Lake — Richard Topping