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2008 Winners

2008 Winners


Posted on May 1, 2009

Thank you to everyone who entered the 2008 competition.  We appreciate everyone’s hard work and would again like to congratulate everyone for their great writing!

2008 Winners:


Action/Adventure:

Grand Prize

Casting Stones — Brian Hartshorn

Honorable Mention

Kings of Maria — Wesley Hull

Mosquitoes — Jason Kaleko

Tin Necklaces — Wesley Hull

War Of Choice — John Brinling

Comedy:

Grand Prize

Buried on Page 8 — Jennifer Harrison

Honorable Mention

Out of Practice — Brenda Jean Foley & Linnea Liu Dakin

Run Ran Run — Tom Nolan

Soaked! — Joseph J. Wheeler

The PORNovski Brothers — Rick Halpern & David Bertoni

Drama:

Grand Prize

Falling Into Place — Lily Mercer

Honorable Mention

Jailbait — Bryan Carrigan

Short Season — Shannon Kracht

Sparrow On The Roof — Craig Clyde

Wrocklage — Steve Daniels

Family:

Grand Prize

Hope for Christmas — Casey Jason Jr.

Honorable Mention
Pandamonium — Susan A. St. Peters

Serena’s Thunder — Jean Hunter

The Ace of Aces — Geoffrey Breuder

True North — Eric Carlson

Thriller/Horror:

Grand Prize

The Boy Next Door — Jayson Amoroso

Honorable Mention

Red Sierra — Armando Figueroa

Secrets of Scape Ore Swamp — Jocelyn Rish & Brian Rish

Southern Macabre — Richard Stringham

Tooth Lake — Richard Topping

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2008 Finalists


Posted on Feb 15, 2009

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

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2008 Semi-Finalists


Posted on Nov 15, 2008

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 2008 Semi-Finalists.

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

2008 Semi-Finalists:

Action/Adventure:


A Smile Through Tears — Shawn Royce

Amor? Amor! Amor. — Jacqueline Ramirez-Johnston

An Eye For An Eye — Monte Zain Tajudin

An Olympic Odyssey — Heidi Neale

Bodhisattva — Annita Pieroni

Brannon — Brian Lawless

Broken Leash — Peter Interland

Burnerz — Joseph J. Wheeler

Casting Stones — Brian Hartshorn

Citadel: A Hinter Realms Saga — Matthew Spizuco

Click to my Choo — Miyako Akina Fuqua

Cross of the Savage — Joe Crouch

DEAD line — Jim Corona

Death In The Arena — John Brinling

Devil Dog: The Rise of Red Star — Jianguang Guo

Devil’s Canyon — Michael Faron

Djinn — Matt Dallmann

Espionage — Carlo Treviso

Fort Defiance — Brian Hill

Heaven’s Gate — Matthew McAyeal

Her Swastika Sword — Christopher Canole

How To Kill A Dead Man — Don Filipoff & Henry Cohn

Infinite Power — Steven C. Oppenheimer

It Is Always Now — Brian Lawless

Killed in Action — Katrina Nicholson

King’s Heart — Svilen Kamburov

Kings of Maria — Wesley Hull

Llanada Villa — Chuck Whitton

Lost Island — Douglas Willi Castle

Mikado — Walter Bauer

Mosquitoes — Jason Kaleko

Mutant Killer — Joseph J. Wheeler

Once Upon A Tombstone — Richard Alan Elias

Phenomenon — Monte Zain Tajudin

Rage & Redemption — Douglas Anderson

Scripted — Dominic Graham

Space Mavericks — David S. Friedman

Synthetic Dreams — Per Mühlow

Tangled Affairs — Sylvie Chadourne

The Ace of Aces — Geoffrey Breuder

The Bottle Imp — Gered Beeby

The Cost of Redemption — Philip Spiteri

The Escape — Kent Wong

The Fuhrer’s Gold Buckle — Charles E. Gibb

The Harlem Story — Danny Holst

The Last Sentinel — Stephen M. Pace

The Line — Ben Krapf

The Minoan Message: Return to the Golden Age — Heidi Neale

The Patriot Act — Steven C. Oppenheimer

The Russian Kiss — Raef Eric Lawson

The Swimmer Manuscript — Joseph Kenny

The Vigil Aunties — Andrew Bailey Fumento

Tin Necklaces — Wesley Hull

Trumpet — Robert Macklin

Union — Chris Moolekamp

War Of Choice — John Brinling

Whisper Hollows — Brannan Doyle

White House Down — Martin Holloway

Yellow Fever — Edward C. Norton

Family:


Amor? Amor! Amor. — Jacqueline Ramirez-Johnston

Ant-ics — Donald Ashe

Belle Krisper — Julie Kirk

Calliope — James T. Frazier

Chasing Midnight — Kim Wells

Finding Patience — Aaliyah Miller

Freezer Born: The Adventures of Carl The Ice Cream Sandwich — Erin McLaughlin

Gotta Run — Richard Wilson

Hope for Christmas — Casey Jason Jr.

Hydra — Anna Maria Torelli

Infinite Power — Steven C. Oppenheimer

Jack and Chip — Robert Bronstein

Learning to See — Robert Lamborn

Lisa’s Angel — Marilou Trask-Curtin

Llanada Villa — Chuck Whitton

Miracles — Sandy Scherer

Otter Science — Norah Molina

Pandamonium — Susan St. Peters

Sandy Mills — Nathan Carliner Goldman

Screaming My Heart Out — Janyce Lapore

Senior Solstice — John McMillan

Serena’s Thunder — Jean Hunter

SKILLZ — Onnie Terrell

Space Race — Eric Carlson

Stage Dad — Jo-el Doty

Stealing First — Joan Golden & Cynthia Drew

Summer’s Treasure — Larry M. Hedaa

The Ace of Aces — Geoffrey Breuder

The Adventors’ Adventures: The Jail Inn — Matthew McAyeal

The Games — Shawn Royce

The Magical Kingdom of Naga as Envisioned by the Princess Lena — Tanya Klein

The Swimmer Manuscript — Joseph Kenny

The Vigil Aunties — Andrew Bailey Fumento

Toucans of the Amazon — Donna Lisa

True North — Eric Carlson

Trumpet — Robert Macklin

Unexpected Reward — Monte Zain Tajudin

Weekend Dad — Barbara Jackson

Whisper Hollows — Brannan Doyle

White Elephant — Susan St. Peters

Thriller/Horror:


A Son of Maine Ian Sax

Aimless — Cyrus Littlejohn

Blood Trail — Michael Strode

Blowback Jeff Travers

Blue Bloods — Lucy Cruell

Bodhisattva Annita Pieroni

Burnerz Joseph J. Wheeler

Canaries — Daniel C. Jay

Chosen One — William Sikorski III & William Sikorski J

Controlled Daniel C. Jay

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

Hell Week — Erik Lunseth

Infinite Power Steven C. Oppenheimer

Is That A Gun In Your Pocket? Emanuel Ruggeri

Isolation — David Sakmyster

Lifeline — Stacy Baker

Llanada Villa Chuck Whitton

Lunatic Fringe — Bruce D’Amato

Macau Twilight — Tony Shyu

Mutant Killer Joseph J. Wheeler

Occultus — Michael T. Mason

Once Upon A Tombstone Richard Alan Elias

Pretty — Kim Townsel

Red Sierra — Amrando Figueroa

Secrets of Scape Ore Swamp — Jocelyn Rish

Solo — Jay Slagle

Southern Macabre — Richard Stringham

Synthetic Dreams Per Mühlow

Tangled Affairs Sylvie Chadourne

The Bottle Imp — Gered Beeby

The Boy Next Door — Jayson Amoroso

The Camp — Adam Balsam

The Foundling — Harold Jewell

The Lodge — Alex Faber

The Patriot Act Steven C. Oppenheimer

The Shorting — Arlo Devlin-Brown

The Summoning — Mark Lukens

The Surgeon — Eunice Kim

The Theater — Paul J.J. Pastore

Tooth Lake — Richard Topping

Comedy:


13 Notches — Sandy Scherer

15 is not 16 — George Buzoianu & Alexandra Morariu

A Most Excellent Day in Venice, CA — Squidly Jablonski

Ambassador to Earth — Daniel Clark

Amor? Amor! Amor. — Jacqueline Ramirez-Johnston

As You Are — Claudia Myers

Belle Krisper — Julie Kirk

Beluga Shuffle — jens Pil Pilegaard

Beyond Dating — Tanya M. Wheeler

Buried on Page 8 — Jennifer Harrison

Click to my Choo — Miyako Akina Fuqua

Cougar — Raef Eric Lawson

Counting The Ways — Ronald Ecker

Dead Man’s P.O.V. — Reginald E. Rowe

Dreamweaver — Kim Townsel & Jeff Sargeant

Father Finn’s Baby — Christopher Setten

Five Cars — Lisa Lunt

Frat Boys — Raef Eric Lawson

Frickin’ A — Brian C. Brown

Ghettoblaster — Eric Giroux

Gotta Run — Richard Wilson

Hard Sell — Ken Beckrich

Haute Cuisine — Jonathan Miller

Head Trip — Craig Phillips

Heads or Tails — Jonathan Miller

Heaven’s Gate — Matthew McAyeal

Help Your Self — Jason Roti & Robert Silva

Homecoming — Garrett Casey

I Wanna Be Madonna — BatSheva Vaknin

I’m A (Wo)Man — Raluca Buksz

In Search of Betty Blue — Mas Panor

In Search of Betty Blue (originally entered as add’l category for $15, this is added to that to … — Mas Panor

Infinite Power — Steven C. Oppenheimer

Is That A Gun In Your Pocket? — Emanuel Ruggeri

Jerusalem Idol — Lewis Papier

Kiss and Make Up — Stacy Baker

Lionel’s Blue Period — John Letzing

Looking For Louie — Shawn Royce

Mid-Write Crisis — Robert E. Nelson

milk toast — Matt Dallmann

Miracles — Sandy Scherer

MISOCAPNIA (Oh tobacco!) — Sylvain Doucet

Model Class — Colleen & Frank Malfitano

Modern Meat — Michael Kaplan

My Angel Wore Stripes — John J. Maffucci

Oblivious — Brian Lucas

Out of Practice — Brenda Jean Foley & Linnea Liu Dakin

Outrageous — Saul & Todd & Brenda & Sussan

Pop Goes The Weasel — BatSheva Vaknin

Portrait of a Suburb Bunny — Mary MacDonald

Primer — Richard Heyl

Run Ran Run — Tom Nolan

Sandy Mills — Nathan Carliner Goldman

Screw Nevada! — Steve Kanigher

Second Chances — Ron Basso

Soaked — Joseph J. Wheeler

Space Mavericks — David S. Friedman

Stan the Man — Karen Buckton

Stuffed — Donald Levente Lorincz

The Big One Eight — Jermon Wright

The Fools’ Journey — Miyako Akina Fuqua

The Grow House — Don Filipoff

The PORNovski Brothers — Rick Halpern

The Russian Kiss — Raef Eric Lawson

The Senior List — Spiro Adam Siavelis

The Shadyview Retirement Home (For Hitmen) — Jason Kaleko

The Sweet Life — Danny Palumbo

The Uglies — Miyako Akina Fuqua

The Vigil Aunties — Andrew Bailey Fumento

The World’s Greatest Bad Golfer — Frank Peters

The Wrath of Gran — Gary Sharp

Three Hours Without You — Amy Robertson

Til The Fat Lady Sings — Thom Wilder

Transplant — Raef Eric Lawson

Trial and Erin — Lawrence Shulruff

Tricks of the Trade — Robert Dorian

Trumpet — Robert Macklin

Water Logged — Jenny D. Copeland

Who Would’ve Thought — Julie Kirk

Will Adams & Co. — Greg Wells

Drama:


2000 Miles To Salvation — Marcus Metsala

A Drive — Kendra Strouf

A Smile Through Tears — Shawn Royce

A Son of Maine — Ian Sax

A Wink of the Black Eye — Mark Wagner

Ancient of Days — Craig Stewart

Andy — Hector Estrada

Bellingham — Pablo Valiente

Billy Ray’s Story — Dewey Shulda

Blowback — Jeff Travers

Bottom of the Ninth — Mark Levine

Broken Leash — Peter Interland

Callie Earlene — Scott Simpson

Casino Conspiracy — John McMillan

Checkered Past — Michael Mihalek

Closure — Darren Swanson

Closure With A Twist — Dan Riley

Contorted Hazel — Marc de Launay

Controlled — Daniel C. Jay

Cross of the Savage — Joe Crouch

Death In The Arena — John Brinling

Devil Dog: The Rise of Red Star — Jianguang Guo

Diamondfield Jack — Andrew J. Crane

The Price of Happiness — Mindy Fortune & Douglas Walker

Endless Baggage — Barbara Jackson

Faith — Anthon Porrazzo

Falling Into Place — Lily Mercer

Finding Patience — Aaliyah Miller

For Life — Steve Weissman

Glory’s Men — Alan Bryce Grossman

Infinite Power — Steven C. Oppenheimer

Irony — Christopher Spourdalakis

Jailbait — Bryan Carrigan

Joshua’s Trumpet — Stanley Heisler

Kingbird — Donald Thomas Adams

King’s Heart — Svilen Kamburov

Kiss and Make Up — Stacy Baker

Llanada Villa — Chuck Whitton

Love The Sinner — Jazmen Brown

Measure of a Man — Leon Aaron Moore Jr.

Mikado — Walter Bauer

Missing Roots — Said Benejeloun

Moorestown High — Derek O’Brien

On The Other Side — Erica Sutherland

Passage to November — Phyllis De Marco

Pastel Winds — Shawn Royce

Pearl — Sandra Reed

Portrait of a Suburb Bunny — Mary MacDonald

Rabbit — Graham Thomas Kosakoski

Rage & Redemption — Douglas Anderson

Rail Tales — David A. Campbell

Red, White and Blue — Darrel Anderson

Redemption — Christine Downs

S. B. 257 — Robert Bronstein

Saving Analise — Joseph W. Frio

Say Something Funny — Jim Nevins

Screaming My Heart Out — Janyce Lapore

Security Deposit — Sandra L. Bolton & Thomas H. Tresilian

Shake the Heavens — Joseph J. Wheeler

Short Season — Shannon Kracht

SKILLZ — Onnie Terrell

Slim Goodie & Fast Black — Stephen G. Weinstein

Sparrow On The Roof — Craig Clyde

Spirit Rocks — Kevin McCarthy

St. Jane — Tom Rossi & Kim Montell

Suck — Ursula Holloman

Surviving the Fall from Bennington Bridge — Jeff Myers

Texas Mountain — Anissa Shah & Munir Shah

The Backward Thieves — David Benoit

The Darkness — Tanya Klein

The Escape — Kent Wong

The Games — Shawn Royce

The Joppa Flat — Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid

The Knuckleballer — Michael L. Murphy

The Line — Ben Krapf

The Patriot Act — Steven C. Oppenheimer

The Problematic Virtue — James Heskett

The Sharp — Jay Cannistraci & Lochlainn Seabrook

The Silenced Lamb — Martin Horsey

The Story of Life — Graham Thomas Kosakoski

The Swing King — Eric Carlson

The Uglies — Miyako Akina Fuqua

Tiananmen West — Jenny D. Copeland

Touched By Love — Michael Hollingsworth

Trumpet — Robert Macklin

Visions of Johanna — Mark D. Smith

Voices — Susan Klos

Waiting on Somebody — Tom Kirby

Wrocklage — Steve Daniels

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2007 Winners


Posted on Apr 26, 2008

Thank you to everyone who entered the 2007 competition.  We appreciate everyone’s hard work and would again like to congratulate everyone for their great writing!

2007 Winners:

Action/Adventure:

Grand Prize

Tony Wakefield — The Faster Strike

Honorable Mentions

Robert Repino — Empire of Dirt

Brian Van Norman — Storm Birds

Alan Foley — The Otherworld

Jenny Copeland — Tiananmen West

Pete Thomas — Til Death Do Us Part

Comedy:

Grand Prize

Adam Balsam — The Village Idiot

Honorable Mentions

Nathan Carliner Goldman — Batter Up

Louis Tripodes — Clutch

Todd Luongo — P.R.

Simon Williamson — The Hogswood Incident

Debra Hardy — The Sweet Competition

Drama:

Grand Prize

Chuck Monzo — The Michigan Assassin

Honorable Mentions

Burt Bulos — Dime A Dance

Steven A. Lyons — First Casualty

Aaron Yarber — Sonny

VerLynn Kneifl — To Die In Tennessee

Tom Hobbs — Trauma Junkie

Family:

Grand Prize

George Ferris — Beyond the Horizon

Honorable Mentions

Jeff Williams — Call of Ki-Woon

John Aldriedge — Missing Parts

Steven Samuels & Lisa Yoffee — Mr. Smith’s Class Goes to Washington

Ben Shelfer & Scott Shelfer — Struttin’

Mary Huckstep — To Catch A Keeper

Thriller/Horror:

Grand Prize

Mike Sherer — Prisons of the Mind

Honorable Mentions

Nathaniel Gutman — HourZero

Ron Podell — Pulp Science Fiction

Todd Crawford & Patrick Crawford & Jeremy Padow — Savage Weekend

Dick Upson — The Companion

Linda Marr — The Magician’s Daughter

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2007 Finalists


Posted on Feb 21, 2008

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 2007 Finalists.

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

2007 Finalists:

Action/Adventure:


Arthur Vincie — Alienhood

Garey Riester — Breaking The Tiger

Jake Jacobs & Marc Cushman — Broom Dancer

Harvey Papush — Dark Age

Robert Repino — Empire of Dirt

Thomas Charles — Eternal Flames

Pat Fitzgerald — Kid

Peter H. Schuyler — Last Blade of Grass

Erik V. Wolter & Robert Masters — Loyalty On Trial

Dan O’Sullivan — Momentum

Douglas Paul Cooke — Ridin’ Shotgun

Paul Sekulich — Sally McKay’s McGuffin

Katherine Carter — Sovereign T

Brian Van Norman — Storm Birds

Scott LaCagnin — Ten Thousand Bullets Later

Robert Forrest — The Changing Of The Guard

Michael Jon Levin — The Dubious And Dangerous Legacy of Lady Zac-Kuk

Tony Wakefield — The Faster Strike

Richard Nitchman — The Kitty Hawk Project

Alan Foley — The Otherworld

Jeffrey Mark Jenkins — The Pier’s End

Jenny Copeland — Tiananmen West

Pete Thomas — Til Death Do Us Part

Comedy:


Nathan Carliner Goldman — Batter Up

Louis Tripodes — Clutch

Paul Radosevic — Coach Casanova

Michael Jon Levin — Countdown To Bliss

Robert Rinow — Delayed Departures

Dave Qualey — Figure It Out

Andrew Cole — Jinx

Jeff Seeman — Meet The kids

Todd Luongo — P.R.

Nick Brown — Slap Happy

Deborah Marquez — Susanna and Anthony

Michael Jon Levin — The Dubious And Dangerous Legacy of Lady Zac-Kuk

Simon Williamson — The Hogswood Incident

David Ullendorff — The Patron Saint of Disappointing Children

Debra Hardy — The Sweet Competition

Adam Balsam — The Village Idiot

Drama:


John Conner — 4th Down

Jeffrey Musmanno — A Formidable Foe

Robert Gardner — A Girl From New Jersey

Carl Clark — American Ridge

Skip Berry — Another Time, Another Place

George Ferris — Beyond the Horizon

Burt Bulos — Dime A Dance

Michael P. Mazenko — Electing Mr. Hopkins

Steven A. Lyons — First Casualty

Mark Kaneshige — For Love or Honour

JoAnn Hogenson — Forgiven

Larry Parr — Hi-Hat Hattie

Paul Ian Johnson — In the Garden of the King

William Fath — Lombard Street

Michael J. Casey — Lotto

Tara Gardner & Donald Rodriguez — Sanson

Barry Leach — Sisters in Arms

Jean Hunter — Slade

Aaron Yarber — Sonny

Chuck Monzo — The Michigan Assassin

Michael Lajko — The Palace

Josh Gilbert — This Life

VerLynn Kneifl — To Die In Tennessee

Tom Hobbs — Trauma Junkie

Robert Gokay — Under Cover of Trust

Angela Roberts — War of Equals

Jeffrey Montgomery & Danon Hellbusch — White Trash

David Ebeltoft — You Were Once Called Queen City

Family:


Angela Cincotta — A Promise To Keep

George Ferris — Beyond the Horizon

Jeff Williams — Call of Ki-Woon

Andrew Metz — Gypsy Nights

John Aldriedge — Missing Parts

Steven Samuels — Mr. Smith’s Class Goes to Washington

Alison Wittenauer — My Sweet Friend

Lee Tidball — Rich

Jean Hunter — Serena’s Thunder

Ben Shelfer & Scott Shelfer — Struttin’

Keith Ernst — SuperMom

Eric Cooper — The Treasure Heart Kids

Mary Huckstep — To Catch A Keeper

Doris B. Gill — Tomorrow

Thriller/Horror:


Connie Tonsgard — A Death in Concord

Adam Balsam — Blood-Sucking Leeches and Flesh-Eating Maggots

Gilbert Garcia — Cock-A-Do-Dle-Doo

Marc de Launay — Contorted Hazel

Andrew Cole — Euthanasia

William Sikorski III & William Sikorski J — Gluttons

Nathaniel Gutman — HourZero

Dick Belsky — Playing Dead

Mike Sherer — Prisons of the Mind

Ron Podell — Pulp Science Fiction

Todd Crawford & Patrick Crawford & Jeremy Padow — Savage Weekend

Diana Kemp-Jones — Scavengers

Charles Grant — Skinner

Craig Peters — The 49th Day

Dick Upson — The Companion

John Gordon — The Delilcate Slaughter

Linda Marr — The Magician’s Daughter

Craig Clyde — The Pumpkin Man

Trish Feehan — Vial Connection

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2007 Semi-Finalists


Posted on Dec 21, 2007

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 2007 Semi-Finalists.

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

2007 Semi-Finalists:

Action/Adventure:


Brian Lawless — A Dog’s Chance

Shawn Royce — A Smile Through Tears

Arthur Vincie — Alienhood

Aaron Yarber — Ancestral Home

Todd Crawford — Barjackers

Da Silva-Heying — Beyond Suspicion

David Coombes — Bonded By Chance

Garey Riester — Breaking The Tiger

Jake Jacobs & Marc Cushman — Broom Dancer

Jeff Williams — Call of Ki-Woon

Daniel C. Jay — Canaries

Harvey Papush — Dark Age

Tina Parke-Sutherland & William Sutherland — Dark Sun Rising

John Brinling — Death in The Arena

Wade Cox — Dirty Jacks

Brett Herndon — Dreams

Robert Repino — Empire of Dirt

Thomas Charles — Eternal Flames

Todd Crawford — Farewell Hours

Olivier Adam — Freedom Fighter

Steve Berthiaume — Genesis

Matthew Blackburn — Guts & Glory

Jim Rubin — History 101

Pat Fitzgerald — Kid

Peter H. Schuyler — Last Blade of Grass

Erik V. Wolter & Robert Masters — Loyalty On Trial

Bernard Leo Remakus — Mia

Tom McLaughlin — Millstone

Dan O’Sullivan — Momentum

Michael Jon Levin — Money Dearest

Michael Freude — Nam (Boo-Coo Dinky-Dow)

Benjamin Thornton — Off’ed

Chrissy K. McVay — Only Eagles Know My Name

Max Middleton — Patriot Acts

Gilbert Garcia — Patronus

Eric Biskamp — Peace 101

Steven McGraw — Pendragon

Janyce Lapore — Poppytown

Kevin Abdullah — Primed

Jason Reeves — Promises and Threats

Todd Crawford — Rearview Horizon

Douglas Paul Cooke — Ridin’ Shotgun

Paul Sekulich — Sally McKay’s McGuffin

Dan Maher — Second Nature

Melvin H. Johnson Jr. — Seeker

Dell Herring — Solar Fire

Chrissy K. McVay — Souls of the North Wind

Katherine Carter — Sovereign T

Brian Van Norman — Storm Birds

Kenneth Eason — Takamak

Scott LaCagnin — Ten Thousand Bullets Later

Tina Juarez — The Banner

Robert Forrest — The Changing Of The Guard

Bobbette Findley — The Defazin Regenerator

Michael Jon Levin — The Dubious And Dangerous Legacy of Lady Zac-Kuk

Tony Wakefield — The Faster Strike

Lance Flint — The Fox Brothers and the Sword of Excalibur

Richard Nitchman — The Kitty Hawk Project

Shannon Kracht — The Nahua Codex

Sophia Eptamenitis — The Oracle

Alan Foley — The Otherworld

Jack L. Trades — The Pain of Lazarus

Marc Elrich — The Phoenix Option

Jeffrey Mark Jenkins — The Pier’s End

Connie Tonsgard — The Raven’s Treasure

Michael J. Eging — The Silver Horn Echoes: A Song of Roland

Andrew Bailey Fumento — The Vigil Aunties

Rick Thorn — The Warrior Prince

Jenny Copeland — Tiananmen West

Pete Thomas — Til Death Do Us Part

Terry Williams — Time Pirates

Aaron Nasby — Tomorrow Lands

Bernard Smith Jr. — War of the Vampires

Comedy:


Juvey Eday — Afton

Jerry Patterson & Tom Patterson — Alien To Love

Shawn Royce — Aloha Sunrise

Paul Radosevic — AM Radio

Shawn Royce — An Impossible Perfection

Michael Jon Levin — Attempting To Connect

Billy Maddox & Vivien Cooper — B Deviled

Meredith Post — Babylove

Raef Eric Lawson — Backtrack

Nathan Carliner Goldman — Batter Up

Ricardo Mancebo — Betting On A Wedding

L. Pontius — Boom Vang

Robert Repino — Captain Crusoe and the Lost Island of Peril

Harry Bauer — Character Sheet

Louis Tripodes — Clutch

Paul Radosevic — Coach Casanova

Andrew Crane — Con Man

Michael Jon Levin — Countdown To Bliss

Robert Rinow — Delayed Departures

Ryan Dee Gilmour — Dick Kozwalski – Time Traveling Cop

Mark Hogan & Justin Hogan — Dognappers

Lou Wollin — Eternally Yours

Mike Christian & Mark Phillips — Extremely Yours

Dave Qualey — Figure It Out

Barry Leach — Fill in the Blanks

Shawn Royce — For Love Or Paper

Marie Quantock — Garbacide: Trasher On Cleanstreet

John Herr — Glory Days

Robert Schwinn — I Smell Bacon

Lewis Papier — Jerusalem Idol

Andrew Cole — Jinx

Josie Powell — Life As A Comedy

Shawn Royce — Looking For Louie

Steve Weissman — Love Forever

Ron Basso — Love Never Fails

Janice Kennedy — Martial Artiste

Jeff Seeman — Meet The kids

Marcus Bass — Million Ways Rd. To Sunshine

John Aldriedge — Missing Parts

Michael Jon Levin — Money Dearest

Geoffrey Breedon — Moonlight Serenade

Todd Luongo — P.R.

Todd Crawford — Produced By Ritchie

Louella Reynolds — Reform Me

Sally-Anne Ward — Ruby & Shirl

Kevin Meconi — Searching Here For There

Ross Brennan — Seasonal Sentencing

Nick Brown — Slap Happy

Deborah Marquez — Susanna and Anthony

Frank Brady — Sweeps

Hamilton Mitchell — Teen Messiah

Ted Gurich — Ten Shots of Tequila

Mark Hogan & Justin Hogan — The Big Game

Chad Dubrul & Brett Gutzmer — The Big Wiener

Bill Abelson — The Blacktivist

Michael Jon Levin — The Dubious And Dangerous Legacy of Lady Zac-Kuk

Michael Smith & Tracy Poverstein — The High Cost of Parenting

Simon Williamson — The Hogswood Incident

Clinton Buehring — The Home

Bruce Moran Jr. — The Lawn Boys

Mary Huckstep — The Lone Stranger

Sean Murphy — The One Percent

David Ullendorff — The Patron Saint of Disappointing Children

Keith Makenas — The South Sider

Debra Hardy — The Sweet Competition

Andrew Bailey Fumento — The Vigil Aunties

Adam Balsam — The Village Idiot

Todd Crawford — This Night On Earth

Meredith Post — Tick

Patricia Crawford — Vegas Vamps

Barry Leach — Virtual Dreams

Mark Butterworth — What’s Not To Like?

Victor Konstant — When Love Comes To Town

Steven Alderson — When Women Rule

Michael Jon Levin — Who Am I To Say?

Maryann Beckman & Susan Skalinski — Winnerman

Michael Yu — World Wide Jeb

Family:


William Thomas Tucker — A Christmas Miracle

Angela Cincotta — A Promise To Keep

Nathan Carliner Goldman — Batter Up

George Ferris — Beyond the Horizon

Jerry Patterson — Brave Animal

Jeff Williams — Call of Ki-Woon

Michael Jon Levin — Countdown To Bliss

Mike Roby — Coyote Point

Andrew Metz — Gypsy Nights

Jack L. Trades — Healing Ernch

Trudy Warner — Hello Like Before

Larry Parr — Hi-Hat Hattie

John Aldriedge — Missing Parts

Steven Samuels — Mr. Smith’s Class Goes to Washington

Alison Wittenauer — My Sweet Friend

Cheryl Link — Nessie

Steven McGraw — Pendragon

Lee Tidball — Rich

Jean Hunter — Serena’s Thunder

Jeffrey & Lana Sundman — Sheba’s great Escape

Ronald Wilson — Silver jet

Jay Hartlove — Snow White and the Magic Mirror

Ben Shelfer & Scott Shelfer — Struttin’

Keith Ernst — SuperMom

Deborah Marquez — Susanna and Anthony

Brian Lawless — The Brat

Jon Nystrom — The Champs

Pauline Curtis & Caroline Dunlap — The Great Blondin

Mauriel Joslyn — The Horseman

Stan Scott — The King Of Daniel

Mary Huckstep — The Lone Stranger

Brian Lawless — The Muldoons

S. Chris Shirley — The Scion

Eric Cooper — The treasure Heart Kids

Andrew Bailey Fumento — The Vigil Aunties

Mary Huckstep — To Catch A Keeper

Kevin R. Dickson — To Hear The Cheer

Doris B. Gill — Together

Doris B. Gill — Tomorrow

Donna Lisa — Toucans of the Amazon

Drama:


John Conner — 4th Down

Jeffrey Musmanno — A Formidable Foe

Robert Gardner — A Girl From New Jersey

Angela Cincotta — A Promise To Keep

Shawn Royce — A Smile Through Tears

Shawn Royce — A Thousand Cranes

Paul Ian Johnson — A Tin of Paint

Shawn Royce — Aloha Sunrise

Ronald Andes — Amen’s Corner

Carl Clark — American Ridge

Shawn Royce — An Impossible Perfection

Skip Berry — Another Time, Another Place

Glenn Tripp — Art Decay

Kevin W. Dwyer — Baked Lasagna

Jenna Clark — Best Friend Lovers

George Ferris — Beyond the Horizon

Doug Miles — Blame the Thunderbolt

Rishen Moodley — blended…

Wade Cox — Bootleg Spirits

Garey Riester — Breaking The Tiger

Landon H. Lewis, Jr. — Bronzeville

Jake Jacobs & Marc Cushman — Broom Dancer

Scott Stockwell — Bui – Doi

Scott Simpson — Collie Arlene

Steven Prince — Corporate

Oriol Bernat i Marí — David’s Den

John Brinling — Death in The Arena

Marga Vicedo & Mark Solovey — Destiny

Enza Fangio — Destiny Detoured

Burt Bulos — Dime A Dance

Opio Sokoni — Don’t Forget Me Ochun

Ron Brassfield — Eclipse

Michael P. Mazenko — Electing Mr. Hopkins

Priya Narendran — Emma and William

Andrew Cole — Euthanasia

Steven A. Lyons — First Casualty

Steve Weissman — First Tuesday, November

Anyes Von Volkenburgh — For Love Alone

Mark Kaneshige — For Love or Honour

Shawn Royce — For Love Or Paper

JoAnn Hogenson — Forgiven

Pete Thomas — Forgiven

Dave Qualey — Garage Tapes

Nicholas Price — Glock 17

Michael Kaven — Gods of Our Fathers

Jane Golden — Greenbriar

Trudy Warner — Hello Like Before

Michael Farley — Hidden Purpose

Larry Parr — Hi-Hat Hattie

Romeo Ciolfi — Home

Melissa Hill — Hope Crucifix

Nathaniel Gutman — HourZero

Mark Solovey & Marga Vicedo — I Wanted To Be Somebody

Paul Ian Johnson — In the Garden of the King

Craig Simonsen — Inward

Larry Hulse — Just The Right Amount of Wrong

Kimberly Kaplan — Kiss The Ouch

Zachary M. Thielen — Links and Life

William Fath — Lombard Street

Michael J. Casey — Lotto

Cinthia Singleton — Love Druthers

Todd Crawford — Mexican Taxi Ride

Bernard Leo Remakus — Mia

Marcus Bass — Million Ways Rd. To Sunshine

Norman G. Spagnolly — Murder on the Layaway Plan

Daniel C. Jay — Night of Reflections

Broderick Fox — One Degree

Eugene L. Langlais III — One Nation Under

Steven Zawacki — Orcadia

Deborah Marquez — Our Rightful Place

Shawn Royce — Pastel Winds

Gilbert Garcia — Patronus

Michael Quintero — Populous

Bill Pryor — Private Davis, C.S.A.

Victor Konstant — Prodigal Son

David A. Campbell — Rail Tales

Louella Reynolds — Reform Me

James Anthony — Rhineland

James Heskett — Rise and Fall

Adam Mervis — River Cops

Sally-Anne Ward — Ruby & Shirl

Tara Gardner & Donald Rodriguez — Sanson

Priya Narendran — Sarah

Erik V. Wolter — Saturday School

Barry Leach — Sisters in Arms

Jean Hunter — Slade

Jay Hartlove — Snow White and the Magic Mirror

Aaron Yarber — Sonny

Aldrin de Leon — Stars

Thom Wilder — Strange Bedfellows

Robert Nelson — The Alchemists

Sybil Raney — The Butterfly Girl

Pamela Hunter — The Christmas Truce

Ronald Russell — The Deafening Silence

Thomas Bryant — The Devil You Know

Frankie Barrera — The Diary of Baby Chulo

Dave Vaughan — The Dragon’s Lair

Shawn Royce — The Games

Kevin Schwartz — The Garden

Katrina D. Forrest — The Greater Good

Chuck Monzo — The Michigan Assassin

Brian Frederick — The Navy’s Daughter

Connie Tonsgard — The Nutcracker

Michael Lajko — The Palace

Jeffrey Mark Jenkins — The Pier’s End

S. Chris Shirley — The Scion

Michael J. Eging — The Silver Horn Echoes: A Song of Roland

Natashia Saunders — The Spinning Wheel

Josh Gilbert — This Life

Mary Huckstep — To Catch A Keeper

VerLynn Kneifl — To Die In Tennessee

Doris B. Gill — Together

Doris B. Gill — Tomorrow

Tom Hobbs — Trauma Junkie

Jake Jacobs — Tripping From a Dark Heart

Robert Gokay — Under Cover of trust

Barry Leach — Virtual Dreams

Susan Klos — Voices

Loren M. Lambert — Wages of Sin

Angela Roberts — War of Equals

James E. Sperl — Waves of Grain

Jeffrey Montgomery & Danon Hellbusch — White Trash

Michael Jon Levin — Who Am I To Say?

Mark Butterworth — Worlds Enough and Time

David Ebeltoft — You Were Once Called Queen City

Clinton Braly — Zero Handicap


Thriller/Horror:


Connie Tonsgard — A Death in Concord

Regis Schilken & Mary Powell — A Question of Deceit

Russell Bouthiller — A Voice in the Hollow

Cyrus Littlejohn — Aimless

Michael Jon Levin — Attempting To Connect

Michael G. Zealey — Balance

Dennis Shutty — Bedlam

Ehsan Alirezaei — Billy

Adam Balsam — Blood-Sucking Leeches and Flesh-Eating Maggots

David Coombes — Bonded By Chance

Lori Longoria — Broken Trust

Daniel C. Jay — Canaries

Gilbert Garcia — Cock-A-Do-Dle-Doo

Marc de Launay — Contorted Hazel

Norman Anderson — Dead Air

Denise Trochei — Deadly Passage

Ron Brassfield — Eclipse

Jason Philps — Elevator

Andrew Cole — Euthanasia

Barry Leach — Forgiveness for Fregoli

William Sikorski III & William Sikorski J — Gluttons

Frank Merle — Graves Farm

Thomas W. Manning — Head-Round

Nathaniel Gutman — HourZero

Karlene Meenahan & Paul Venables — I.D. Withheld

William A. Dunbar — Iron Bound

William Sikorski III & William Sikorski J — Jesse (The Possession)

Jeffrey Montgomery & Danon Hellbusch — Karma

Jean Hunter — Lady Jazz

Brian Hill — Lightning and Shadows

Michael Trentacosti — Lost Night

Michael J. Casey — Lotto

Bernard Leo Remakus — Mia

Walter Snyder — Mount Misery

Michael Freude — Nam (Boo-Coo Dinky-Dow)

Daniel C. Jay — Night of Reflections

Wade Cox — Night Watchman

Chrissy K. McVay — Only Eagles Know My Name

Dick Belsky — Playing Dead

Mike Sherer — Prisons of the Mind

Ron Podell — Pulp Science Fiction

Todd Crawford & Patrick Crawford & Jeremy — Savage Weekend

Diana Kemp-Jones — Scavengers

Erick Ziegler — Severed

Wil Welsh — Shards

Charles Grant — Skinner

Michael Freude — Tank Farm

Craig Peters — The 49th Day

Matt Dallmann — The Best Revenge

Sybil Raney — The Butterfly Girl

Ahimsa Kerp & Garrett Calcaterra — The Cannibal

Dick Upson — The Companion

John Gordon — The Delilcate Slaughter

Linda Marr — The Magician’s Daughter

Diane Stredicke — The Orchard

Marc Elrich — The Phoenix Option

Craig Clyde — The Pumpkin Man

Dave Sakmyster — The Red Envelope

Michael Strode — The Thirteenth Mary

Shiva Ramanathan — The Unseen

Stephen Fratus — The Vanished

Robert Long — The Vessel

Frank O’Donnell — The Witch of Greenwich Village

Mitchell Klein — Through Deadly Eyes

Eugene L. Langlais III — Unity

Trish Feehan — Vial Connection

Mark Elliot Kratter — Where the Dead Go

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