2005 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 2005 Finalists.

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

2005 Finalists:

Action/Adventure:


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

Karen Steinberg — A Second Chance

Jeremy Mayer — A War in the Mind of God

Mike Caron — Conquistador

Christopher Canole — Counter-Clockwise

Dan O’Sullivan — Criminals

Ray Wang & Ken Rosenblatt — Falcon

Robert Rhyne — Falling From The Sky

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

Hiroshi Nakajima — Repeat After Me

James E. Cheek — Ride or Die

Jane Golden — The Agency

Max Frobe — The Cobra’s Kiss

Jerrad Burford — The Hike

Danny Sheehy — The Valley of the Kings

Mark Barry — The War Inside

Miro — The Winds of Malacca

Robert H. Imrie — Worlds Apart

Aaron McFarlane — Wrath of the Spirit Warriors

Comedy:


Izzy Mariano — 30 Things To Do By 30

Steve Rudolf — Absence of Briefs

Ryan Peek — All Downhill From There

Eric Diekhans — Anywhere’s Better Than Here

Shane Betts — Bingo!

Andrew Fracchia — Cycles

David Chester & Blake Pinter — Do It Yourself

Tim Repicky — Far Beyond Gone

Dick Keith — Fifty-Love

Margo Waldrop — Fred and Betty

Robert Chomiak — In Stitches

Foley North — Jokerman

Monique Gordon — Making Fate

Catherine Dutko — Mediating the Dunbars

Larry Postel — Miss ‘N You

Michele Young-Stone — Paint Spain With Bart

Mark Weinstein — Pot Luck

Douglas Jones — Rebel Mold

Steve Daley — Rogue of The Seven Seas

Lee Shapiro & Stephen Wise — Sinkhole

Jim Beggarly — Skeleton at the Feast

Mike McGeever — Smilers

Steven Rosen — The Black Sheep Club

Jennifer Harrison — The Dunk and Tickle

Ana Barredo — The Extra

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

Baxter Taylor — Tough Luck

Kim Sargeant — Vitamin Sex

Catherine Horne — Whatever Myra Wants

Drama:


Jeffrey Musmanno — A Solemn Path To Contentment

Billy Maddox — A–hole Saints

David Boito — Art of War

Kiasha Martone — At A Disadvantage

Bill Singley — Buckeye

Darren Coyle — Bulwark

Shanele Alvarez — Destinee

Stephen Settle — Eke’Bolos

Martha Mondelli — Eve’s Story

Martin Blacker — Fish out of Water

Lee Shapiro & Stephen Wise — From the Ashes

Michael North — Giant Steps

Sam Zvibleman — Imagine The Moon

Nancy Noever — Inalienable Rights

Alexis Boerger — Ionian Tides

Scott Gordon — Izzy’s Ladder

Kim Townsel — Jet Lag

Whitford Martin — Keeping Her Promise

Kevin W. Dwyer — L.A. Crusaders

Jean Hunter — Lady Jazz

David Hartzheim — Latent Image

Ken White — Lions of Florence

Anita Skibski — Mine

Derek Vaughn — Modern Day Gunman

Alan Woodruff — My Brother, Myself

Steven Zawacki — Northern Latitude

Dawn Rhodes — Quicksilver

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

Cathy Simpson — Sentient

Daniel Loschack — Southern Blood

Kevin McCarthy — Spirit Rocks

Dion Cook — Sweetwood

Michael Hebler — The Ghost of Christmas Past

Jean Buschmann — The OM Factor

Rajan Gulati — The Poet / 50 Hours

Michael Pena — The Real Cowboy

R.C. Donovan — The Real McCoy

Heath Miller — The Spirit of Jack

Allen Glover — The Unkindness of Ravens

Robert Gokay — Under Cover of Trust

Susan Klos — Voices

Jeremy Mayer — Working the Hill

Bob Canning — Wounded

Family:


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

Leesa Gordon — Brothers of the Fire

Benjamin Jones — Christmas Time

Linda Armstrong — Enclave

Tom Glick — Healing Butte

David Gittlin — Love Will Find You

Stewart Davis — Lucy’s Mighty Pen

Jack Sekowski — Naughty But Nice

Maggie Franks — Open Hearts

Christopher Canole — Pen Dragon

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

Scott Gordon — The Visitors

Mary Huckstep — To Catch A Keeper

Larry Postel — X-Mas Files

Jonathan Holly — Zeke’s Drum

Thriller/Horror:


Jeff Thomson — A Stranger’s Kiss

Jeon Rezvani — Blood Chronicles

Kevin Lee Miller — Borrowed Time

Frank Fuda — Chasing Bigfoot

Jeff Thomson — Demon Fog

Brett Maly — Exit 46

Christopher Bailey — Giants

Constantine Athanas — In The Dark of Day

Craig Cambria — Long Night

Dan Wedeking — Parallel

Shawn Harris & Kevin Moore — Pica Boy

Dion Cook — Pulse

Lisa Dawoud — Separation Anxiety

MIchael Freude — Tank Farm

Gregory Luckett & Joshua Minnis — The Ark

Dan Sarver — The Blame Game

Ken Anderson — The Crystal Ball

Sara Lahasky and Jonathan Weiss — The Last Halloween

John Watson — The Monsters of Ibrihim

Linda Konrad — Umbulali

Thomas Manning — Your Halo For My Cupcake!