2008 Finalists


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