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 OSullivan — 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!