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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 Semi-Finalists.
We appreciate everyone’s hard work and would again like to congratulate everyone for their great writing!
2010 Semi-Finalists:
Action/Adventure:
Amazona – Zoe Mavroudi
Army Ants – Andy Cannistra
Barstool Bushido – Nathan Cabaniss
Belle – Robert James
Blake Mantle And The Fall Of Creatia – Anthony Nolan
Bungle In The Jungle – Raef Eric Lawson
Canaries – Craig Cambria
Chasing Heat – Charlie Robinson
Divided – Lisa Ferguson
Driving Danger – C.M. Robinson
Fitness Police – Jeff Kister
Future Strike – Thomas D. Benedikt
Gates – Gregory Luckett
Islam, O Islam, Where Is Thy Truth? – Murray Kaufman
Journey to the Edge – G. R. Holton
Long Live The King!!! – Raheem Furson
Mademoiselle – Nathan & Miriam Goldman
MIDGÅRD – Adrian Westbrook
Miwandu Trail – Valasi Papp & Solofua Saleapaga
Olohana – Daniel Fan
Omega Six – Alex Olinger
Regression – John Brinling
Requited – Bill Johnston
Roland – J. Charles Zeller
Serum 313 – Robin McGee
The Future Force – Ed Vela
The Goddess Rosalie – Tanya Klein
The Last Secret – Ron Basso
The October Stratagem – Paul Littell
The Sandcastle – James Hundhausen
The Three Furies – Murray Kaufman
The Tong – James Kahler
Tremble – Lukas Schepp
Triton: A Modern American Odyssey – Marc DeLamater
Two Worlds for Diomedes – Guillermo Gomez
What Lurks in the Darkness – Chris Hooton
Family:
Building Bridges – Dori Lyons
Claws, Paws, And A Blue Mccaw – Theresa Giese
Dog Heaven – Erna Mueller
Freezer Born – Erin McLaughlin
Holly Jolly Christmas – Ken Webb
Humble Trip – Patrick Parr
I Dare You – William Grady
Lena in the Land of Blondes – Tanya Klein
Long Live The King!!! – Raheem Furson
Looking for a Man with a Corvette – Janet Hogate
Love, Zoe – John Aldriedge
Morgan Turner – Charlie Robinson
Nuclear Family – Dirk De Gussem
Return To Springtime – John McMillan
Royal Jelly frenzy – Marie-Paule Malimba
Safari Green – Shawn Royce
The Americans – Karen Proulx
The Games – Shawn Royce
The Helping Stone – Robert D. Tolz
The Surprise of Your Life – Susan St. Peters
Therapy Dog – David Boito
Underwood – Theresa Giese
When A Butterfly Falls – Nathan Carliner Goldman
Thriller/Horror:
30 Miles From Nowhere – Hilliard Guess
Are You The Devil? – Robin McGee
Bookmark – David Coombes
Canaries – Craig Cambria
Chelsea U – Kevin Moore & Shawn Harris
Chromosome 21 – Maryann Beckman & Susan Skalinski
Controlled – Craig Cambria
Dead Doll Derby – Kevin Moore & Shawn Harris
Deadly Friends – Roger Williams
Dogs Of Fortune – Rik Filion
False Sense – Craig Cambria
Gates – Gregory Luckett
Inhuman – Todd Crawford
Mademoiselle – Nathan & Miriam Goldman
Make Believe – Lisa Palmer
Masterpieces – Michael Bucklin
Matanzas – Ronald L. Ecker
National Darkness – Daniel McCaskill
No Tell Motel – T.J. Cimfel
Regression – John Brinling
Rough Justice – Mike McGeever
Specter – Jennifer Marshall
The Bellmen Ghost Hunters – Jeff Ricks
The Blue Room – Michael Edwards
The Boy Next Door – Evan Richardson
The Drone Pilot – Kevin Moore
The Lodger – June Escalante
The October Stratagem – Paul Littell
The Tenth Dream – Kevin Moore & Shawn Harris
Them – Greg Smith
Tremble – Lukas Schepp
What Lurks in the Darkness – Chris Hooton
Comedy:
A Million Reasons – Kevin Loughnane
Ace in the Hole – Roi Tamkin
Agatha Vs. The Wild Coyotes Band – Marion Sours
Amusing – Marilyn Pederson
Antonymous – Thomas Sims
Bad Tattoo – Will Zech
Bank Robbing For Dummies – Robert Keith Watson
Big Winner – T.J. Cimfel & David Whitev
Bungle In The Jungle – Raef Eric Lawson
Destiny’s Daughters – Ronald L. Ecker
Dinner in Heaven – Nelson Kohl
Dixie Marvel – Evan Richardson
Dollars or Keys – Donald Waddell
Fluck – Maryann Beckman & Susan Skalinski
Gaming Hero! – Luis Guevara
Girls – Rebecca Scott
H-O-R-S-E – Matt Larkin & Ian Van Den Hurk
Hollywood Forever – Todd Bronson
Industrial Spy Girl Kung-Fu – John Collazo
Kissing The Frog Prince – Sean Chandler, ETC
Looking For Louie – Shawn Royce
Losing My Touch – Raef Eric Lawson
Louie – Jeff Thomas
Love Moves – Kristin Anne Fieseler
Lucky Man – Neil Gorosh
Monkey Man – David Colona
Never My Love – Gary Pipes
Orange County Outlaws – Mark Perlick
President Diane Flowers – Al Marotta
Purrfect – Karen Kong
R&R – Shannon S. Cantrell
Risk Management – Ben Racicot
Rodeo, HI – Ruby Cat Moon
Scared Money – Mike Scott
Second Disobedience – Chris Moolekamp
Sects Appeal – Kevin Moore & Shawn HarrisSlice of Life – C.M. Robinson
Somewhere South Dakota – Theresa Giese
Team Players – Raef Eric Lawson
Tetherbabies – Mark Simborg
The Bellmen Ghost Hunters – Jeff Ricks
The Boy Next Door – Evan Richardson
The Brothers Sinclair – Ronny Jay
The City – Tom Sturdivant
The Cohen Brothers – Paul Burgess
The Hoodies – Dave Kunz
The Old Castle’s Secret – in 3D – Timothy W. Savage
The Safekeeper – Kevin Moore & Shawn Harris
The Starter Marriage – Matthew Tolbert
The Vacation – Brian DiPaolo
This Diamond Ring – John Lessard
To Bi Or Not To Bi Again – Kenny Mun
Untitled Superhero Comedy – Marko Gregurek
Vicki’s View – Steve Weissman
Wandering – Rick Grogan
Who’s In Charge Here? – Ronald L. Ecker
Drama:
A Son of Maine – Ian Sax
Alma Won’t Surrender – Mordechai Landsberg
Before The Bloom – Alex Olinger
Birth Write – Donald Rhode
Con Man – Murray Spitzer
Dangerous Ground – Lili Matta
Daniel’s Inferno – Eric Carlson
Dysphonia – Mario Lopez
Embarrassed, I Lie Here, Breathing – Robin McGee
Expiration Date – Glenn Ledbetter
For Reasons Unknown – Patrick Parr
Fraken – Alex Olinger
God Of Laughter – Gordon C. Bennett & Stephen McWilliams
Hamlet Sucks – Leigh Hunt
Happy Jack and the Girl from 2B – Amanda Santo
I’ll Die Tomorrow – John Maffucci
Increments – David Thyssen
Lady Lovelace – Laura Johnson
Missing Love – Ronald Marchland
Mood Indigo – Tanya Klein
Nicola Tesla – Joe Filbeck
No More Tomorrows – Rich Silverman
Pan-American Address – James Fleetwood Jr.
Passing Through – Robert Rhyne
Pastel Winds – Shawn Royce
R&R – Shannon S. Cantrell
Riding the Rumble Strip – Bradford Willis & Anne Dunkin
Ruled Accidental – June Escalante
Second Disobedience – Chris Moolekamp
Secrets of Badger Hills – Louise A. Ryan
Small Change – Paige Macdonald & George Anderson
South of Main Street – Robert Gately
The Ambassador’s Daughter – Olivia Cucco
The Cheapest Hope in Town – Quintin Peterson
The Dead Walking – David Seader
The Fall – Kevin Moore & Cathleen Moore-Linn
The Imager II (the afterlife) – Sylvain Doucet
The Last Twist Of The Knife – Sonia Pathak
The Mosaic Cow – June Escalante
The Next Fight – Debbie Behar
The Ruins of Autumn – Dan Robinson
The Switch – Irin Evers
The Truth – Gary Talarino
The Wettest Spring – Kim Townsel
Too real To Be True – Kelly Lamphear-Dash
Two Kinds of People – Michael W. Shaw
Unhedged – Steve Brechtel
Vita – Greg Hickey
Wandering – Rick Grogan
Wandering Souls – Wayne Karlin
Waxing the Wane – Valery Krupnik
When Eyes Go Dark – Annie Elizabeth Ryan
Youth, Fire, and Storm – Alex Gonzalez
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Writers frequently ask if they can receive written feedback from our judges. We have set up a program so that you can! Through an exclusive arrangement with one of our judges, Screenplay Festival now offers Script Analysis. This judge is himself an award winning screenwriter as well as a director whose most recent movie was distributed on DVD by New Line Entertainment.Visit the Script Analysis page to learn more.
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