Update for Quarterfinalists, Semi-Finalists and Finalists
Finalists
(announced at the 2007 ASA International Screenwriters Conference in San
Diego, CA)
Semi-finalists
(announced
at the 2007 ASA International Screenwriters Conference in San Diego, CA)
Congratultions
to the semi-finalists who advanced in our competition as we move towards
revealing the top five finalists and Grand Prize Winner.
Pictures from The Industry Party announcement of the semi-finalists at the ASA International Screenwriters Conference
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Salih Abdul-Qawi
Beat a Bully
saq079@yahoo.com
When your options are none and your
fists are all you have, you must fight.
Steven Brooks
Apparition
moonlightmilepictures@charter.net
Katherine Carter
Mind-Blowing State of Love Nation
katherine.carter1@verizon.net
A female drifter stumbles onto a
Lakota community ravaged by alcohol and a series of unsolved murders.
Carlos Cuevas, William Horne
Southbound
ciancuevas@earthlink.net
Jeff Bowman, a young FBI agent with
a troubled past, goes deep undercover in a remote rural community to investigate
the mysterious deaths of nearby prominent politicians and doctors, only
to find himself ensnared in a fanatical web of white-supremacist terrorists.
Tony D'Aquino
The Loved One
tony@gore-a-gogo.com
Jack and Teala are lured to the
isolated country mansion of two aging sisters. Jack has been promised a
priceless antique if he rids the house of rats. But Teala experiences
terrifying visions, something besides rats scratch at the walls and the
sisters want Jack to stay with them…forever. A gothic tale about the violence
of love.
Julia Dion, Rasmus Johansen
Bride of Bridezilla
dionjohansen@aol.com
A feel-good romantic comedy set
during a lesbian wedding. A hapless bride discovers that the fiancée
of her dreams is a real nightmare, while she herself falls for the Maid
of Honor.
Daniel Elliott
When God Sleeps
elliott.daniel@mayo.edu
In Africa, a young brother and sister
are abducted from their village and forced to become ruthless child soldiers,
and an American relief worker attempts to free them.
June Escalante
A Suspicious Death
junael@charter.net
With the last shovel of dirt on
her husband's grave, Violet Jones thinks her troubles are behind her. But
. . . whoever said the past was dead and buried has never met Nola French.
Max Ferris
Love Addict
maxferrispi@yahoo.com
In the America of 2069, when narcotics
are legalized and stimulation is prescription, a subway security guard
looks for new hope in a motivational pill called Love.
Steven Gilbert
Shadow Mountain
stevengilb@gmail.com
Ex-cop Mike Harrison wants
only to escape his past and live a quiet life alone; but when his wife
reappears after vanishing for a year – unable to recall where she has been,
and haunted by shadowy pursuers – he is forced to confront his turbulent
past to save her and to achieve his own redemption.
Richard Hohenrath
Your Planet or Mine?
rhohenrath@aol.com
High school student Jessica Jordan
'inherits' a planet after discovering that the father she never knew is
an intergalactic monarch. When sinister forces plot against Jessica --including
her own half-brother--the savvy teen's plunged into a high stakes adventure.
Beth Hoover Gary Hoover
The Target
thehoovers@hhchicago.com
A young misanthrope hates his life
-- until a contract killer tries to take it away from him.
Beth Hoover Gary Hoover
The Real Thing
thehoovers@hhchicago.com
Desperate to be discovered, a struggling
actress participates in a hoax to boost the ratings of a faltering realty
TV show -- and finds fame has its price.
Kathryn Hulings
The Forest for the Trees
hulings@comcast.net
Ryan Waters, an eighteen-year-old,
shoplifting, budding ballerina, is sentenced to community service at the
most unlikely place: The Woodland Dance Troupe - an extraordinary group
of disabled performers led by a legendary dancer - where Ryan’s world,
her heart, and dancing are magically turned upside down.
Tina Juarez
THE BANNER
ernestinajuarez@aol.com
To save his family, a slave accompanies
his master to Mexico to negotiate a colony in Texas. They become entangled
in the passion and violence of a revolution led by Miguel Hidalgo, who
proclaims the first law against slavery in North America.
Nicholas Lam
Needle & Ink
starhandkid@hotmail.com
A concert pianist emerges from a
coma a changed man, soon finding his place with a gang of drug-running
renegades. But when he attempts to reclaim the life he abandoned,
discovers it's no longer his to choose.
Leonard Miller
Silent Thunder: America's First
Black Grand Prix Team
LTM02@earthlink.net
The true story of America's first
black auto racing team owner, who earns his way to the Hall of Fame, battles
a prejudice racetrack official on the grand prix circuit, while striving
to sustain his family.
Johnny H. Moore Jr
Mason's War
flo-rite@socal.rr.com
Black Civil War hero, Mason LeDoux,
had carved out a quiet life in a small Northern rural town for him and
his family. Four years later and widowed, he and his son must now
face the town, steeped in greed, racial bigotry and his own troubled past
while a monstrous Grizzly called Scar prey on its citizens. Battle
lines are drawn as the voracious predator and a town's very survival hit
close to home. His own.
Diane Namm
Pranksters
diane.namm@gmail.comMortal enemies
and "prankmeisters," Dani Collins (the tomboy) and Graham Cooper (the brainiac)
wage a wild and wily "prank war" against each other and their dating parents
in the hope of preventing a family merger.
Pete Peterson
Ghostwriter
scribbler142@yahoo.com
A neophyte novelist hits New York
City in search of a publisher. He gets tangled up with the bottom of the
publishing world and the top of the organized crime world as everyone seems
to want their story told.
Chris Philpott
Urban Explorers
cwphilpott@hotmail.com
Teen adventure set in the world
of urban exploration, a movement in which young people sneak into forbidden
places – abandoned buildings and tunnels – to explore. Except this
time, four teens discover an ancient, powerful artifact – and thieves who
want it back. A treasure hunt becomes a run for their lives in the
forgotten tunnels under New York City.
Robert Polevoi
Practical Alchemy
robert.polevoi@sbcglobal.net
Two women compete for the soul of
a man who, quite accidentally, has discovered that you really can turn
lead into gold. A romantic comedy and adult fairy tale about love,
deceit, art, and human chemistry.
Corey Resnick
The Fractured
crez33@aol.com
The lives of a group of total strangers
in New York City intertwine in the days just before and just after the
September 11th attacks.
Catherine Schreiber, Joshua Grenrock
Desperate Writers
marcliffe@aol.com
Mike Sherer
King of the Earth
csherer@fuse.net
Post-Apocalyptic zombie tale from
the zombie’s point of view. Victims of a virus that has devastated humanity
fight to save what is left of their world. It is all out war between the
Mob, who are nearly brain dead, and the Survivors, who are stricken to
a much lesser degree, and the Carriers, who are infected but show no ill
effects, and the Virgins, who are clear of the virus.
Julie Umbreit
The Youngest Convict
blissscripts@aol.com
Based on the true story of Herbert
Niccolls, a 12-yr-old cop killer, who was sentenced to an adult prison
for life and emerged 10 years later on his way to making a killing as a
Hollywood studio executive.
Simon Wakelin
Manifesto
simonizer@sbcglobal.net
Dark Comedy. When an obnoxious commercial
director accuses an ad agency of destroying his commercial masterpiece,
a subversive circus clown convinces him to launch a revolution.
D.C. Walker
Lost Tomorrow
dcwalker@sbcglobal.net
When time seems expendable, today's
dreams can become lost tomorrows.
Guy Warren
Maltese Murder Mystery
Towercc@aol.com
Police Detective Laura Posey places
Frank Maltese under arrest for a murder that took place 30 years ago in
his small town. Det. Posey was at the time of the murder the eight-year
old daughter of the victim.
Quarterfinalists:
Congratulations to the following 117 screenwriters whose scripts have placed them in the quarterfinals out of 1,700 entries! Their scripts will be judged again and the top scores will advance to the semi-final and final round. Semi-finalists, Finalists and Grand Prize Winner will be announced at the 20th Annual ASA International Screenwriters Conference, held in partnership with the award winning San Diego Film Festival, September 28 -29, 2007.Quarterfinalists will receive a special email offer to register for the conference ahead of sales to the general public. The conference is limited to the first 100 people who register regardless of whether they are a quarterfinalist or not.
IMPORTANT NOTE: QUARTERFINALISTS should click here to send an email and provide us with your script logline (2-3 sentences). We will place your logline and contact email below so anyone interested in your script can follow-up with you.
ASA Conference (Sept 28-29) and San Diego Film Festival (Sept 27-30) - Quarterfinalists can begin registering for the limited 100 spots for this year's event beginning April 16, 2007. You will be sent an email with the link right before April 16th.
ASA members - $299 (includes 2 days of workshops and SDFF pass)
ASA non-members - $449 (includes 2 days of workshops and SDFF pass)
* If you're not an ASA member join now and get the member rateFaculty roundtable lunch - $30 (must be registered for conference, only 45 spaces available)
Join the conference faculty for a table topic discussion over a great lunch!Pitching to Producers Day - $199
Sunday, Sept. 30, 8am - 4pm, includes 4 hours pitching one-on-one to producers, lunch with producers, networking party with producers
Registration for Pitching to Producers Day will be available on the ASA web site beginning Monday, April 16, 2007.
FAST FACTS ABOUT OUR 10TH ANNUAL QUARTERFINALISTS...Quarterfinalists(Scripts are listed in alphabetical order by writer)
- 117 Quarterfinalists were selected from the 1,700 screenplays submitted
- 14 of the Quarterfinalist screenplays were written by writers with one or more co-writers
- 2 student entries made it to round #2
- Quarterfinalists represented 28 different states plus Washington, D. C.
Alaska
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Montana
North Carolina
New Jersey
Nevada
New York
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Texas
Vermont- Five non-US countries are represented as quarterfinalists:
Australia - 3
United Kingdom - 3
Canada - 2
Thailand - 1
France - 1
- Writer(s)
- Script title
- Contact information
- Logline (as they become available)
Salih Abdul-Qawi
Beat a Bully
saq079@yahoo.com
When your options are none and your fists are all you have, you must fight.Don Adams
Kingbird and Franklin
getsmarty@hotmail.com
As revolution rocks the American colonies, a young boy yearns to be hero like his revolutionary grandfather (Ben Franklin); but when the boy becomes a man and leads his own revolution, he learns that heroes must be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.Eduardo Aguilar
The Extreme Factor
wizeguyeddie@aol.com
Amidst a backdrop of extreme politics, religious fervor, and a degenerating American culture, an extreme race through the deadly Alaskan elements, for a $100-million grand prize, all just appears to be another symptom of the times. But as two unsuspecting contestants ultimately find out, it is all a vindictive stunt aimed at destroying not only them, but those in the highest echelons of power.Rafael Aguilo Concha, Concha Ventura-Crespo
Black Stork
rafaelaguilo@yahoo.com
Black Stork is the story of Catalina Torres, a 22-year-old African American woman, who travels to the Spanish Medieval city of Zamora and through a series of paranormal encounters is forced to face a past that has been long forgotten.Michael Amato
Living In Limbo
mlamato@comcast.net
The ‘survivors’ of a massive zombie attack receive medication that prevents them from fully mutating, only to find that society has little use for grotesque, slow-moving humanoids who smell of death. As tensions mount between humans and ex-humans, they find themselves torn between trying to gain acceptance and allowing themselves to fully-mutate in order to take their revenge.Helen Bang
Hunt Royal
helen_d_bang@yahoo.co.uk
On the run, a price on his head, the uncrowned King of England must pass himself off as a servant in order to escape to freedom.Deborah Baxtrom
Monstrous Passions: The Life of Mary Shelley
DBaxtrom@hotmail.com
Teenage author Mary Shelley elopes with a famous poet and struggles as a writer in a male dominated world, but when tragedy strikes, it is only her Monster – in this case witty, urbane and sexy – who can help her.Ronald Becker
Ghost Dance Park
rbecker@chaminade.edu
The ghosts of Wounded Knee haunt a small Montana timber community. The paths of murderer, a white buffalo and a ghost dance all cross at Ghost Dance Park and culminates in the kidnapping of a white buffalo and the quelling of a minor Indian uprising.Trenton Beckett
Pinkerton
tbeckett@trentbeckett.com
The half-true, half-fictitious tale of Dashiell Hammett, author of 'The Maltese Falcon' and noir-fiction pioneer. Driven by an optimistic view of human nature, and the clear-cut heroics of cowboy novels, a young "Dash" Hammett takes employment with the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Dash finds his perception of good and evil turned upside down when drawn into a sultry, ruthless world brimming with strikers, mobsters and spies. A world where cops consort with crooks, rich women pull strings and where human nature is not so much black and white, as it is gray.Gered Beeby
The Bottle Imp
geredbeeby@aol.com
In 1890 a young Hawaiian man buys a bottle that grants wishes -- but with a diabolical guarantee. Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, the hero finds wealth, love, despair, and a prize fit for your worst nightmare.Joshua Bermont
Wingblade
Joshrhps1@aol.com
17-year-old Emilie Carpenter has one dream: To escape to the gothic city of Ravenwood, and become the new sidekick of the dark vigilante Wingblade. When she uses her budding detective skills to solve the mystery of the hero's secret identity, Wingblade has no choice but to instruct her in the ways of crime-fighting. But does Emilie have what it takes to survive Wingblade's savage training and cruel mind-games?John Besmer
Coulda Been A Book
john@pstarpictures.com
Coulda Been A Book is a road comedy in the classic vein of Crosby, Hope and Lamour. Minus the camels and the quality writing.Jack Blumberg
McBeggar's
mcbeggars@earthlink.net
When a firebrand activist for the disabled realizes handicapped beggars are springing up faster than Starbucks, he discovers they’re franchisees of the demonic entrepreneur, Ronald McBeggar -- who will stop at nothing to protect his racket.Steven Brooks
Apparition
moonlightmilepictures@charter.netKatherine Carter
Mind-Blowing State of Love Nation
katherine.carter1@verizon.net
A female drifter stumbles onto a Lakota community ravaged by alcohol and a series of unsolved murders.Kyle Colavitti
When October Goes
kylecolavitti@yahoo.com
This magical love story is set in the lush green beauty of Oregon, where an unlikely couple become a shining example of love conquering all. In struggling to overcome our obstacles, we sometimes find love and acceptance in unlikely places. In this romantic tale about life, loss, and the lessons we have to learn, a woman’s dying wish comes true, a man learns to open his paralyzed heart, and a love lives on forever, When October Goes...Jason Coleman
Willing
Colemanactor@yahoo.comDawn Coleman
Bow Tie: An American Dream
dawnlcoleman@comcast.net
A light-hearted family film about self-centered Matt Benjamin, 17, who strikes a deal with his dad to become his grandfather's caregiver to earn money for his first car. What Matt doesn't know, is the cantankerous old man he has never liked has kept a priceless 1953 Corvette Roadster, VIN #2, hidden away for over 50 years.Laurence Cripe, D. Orlan Thomas
The Reckoning: The Joe Harvey Story
llrnccrp@aol.com
In the aftermath of several devisive shootings, an irresistible force - a deputy sheriff who is compassionate, daring, and controversial, meets an immovable object - a sheriff who is resolute, insulated, and confident. This is the true account of a defining conflict between a modern day legend and an institution.Carlos Cuevas, William Horne
Southbound
ciancuevas@earthlink.net
Jeff Bowman, a young FBI agent with a troubled past, goes deep undercover in a remote rural community to investigate the mysterious deaths of nearby prominent politicians and doctors, only to find himself ensnared in a fanatical web of white-supremacist terrorists.Tony D'Aquino
The Loved One
tony@gore-a-gogo.com
Jack and Teala are lured to the isolated country mansion of two aging sisters. Jack has been promised a priceless antique if he rids the house of rats. But Teala experiences terrifying visions, something besides rats scratch at the walls and the sisters want Jack to stay with them…forever. A gothic tale about the violence of love.Julia Dion, Rasmus Johansen
Bride of Bridezilla
dionjohansen@aol.com
A feel-good romantic comedy set during a lesbian wedding. A hapless bride discovers that the fiancée of her dreams is a real nightmare, while she herself falls for the Maid of Honor.Matthew Dixon, Richard Spencer
Longrider
matt@uscswt.com
The Civil War draws to a close and a soldier tries to piece together his shattered life when remnants of his dark past catch up with him and brutally murder the only person that can keep him sane.Dennis Douda, Joe Berglove
Knockers
dfdouda@wcco.cbs.com
Hapless loser Cullen Conrad finally finds respect and fulfillment in the seedy world of door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales. There’s something noble among Knockers.Michael Eisner
Isaac Cole
meisner3@yahoo.com
Isaac Cole tells the story of a man who loses his family and his future, a hunted man on the run from the mob who rises above his death sentence and finds redemption in the dusty books, lessons and love of an older married woman.Daniel Elliott
When God Sleeps
elliott.daniel@mayo.edu
In Africa, a young brother and sister are abducted from their village and forced to become ruthless child soldiers, and an American relief worker attempts to free them.Elissa Elliott
Monsters in the House
elissa.elliott@gmail.com
An eleven-year-old daughter of a church minister takes matters into her own hands, with disastrous results, when her father begins abusing her and her family in the name of God.June Escalante
A Suspicious Death
junael@charter.net
With the last shovel of dirt on her husband's grave, Violet Jones thinks her troubles are behind her. But . . . whoever said the past was dead and buried has never met Nola French.Chris Evans
11:11
chris7s@mac.com
The Eleven-eleven, The Wish, The Grand Trump-card, the most sought and fiercely hunted treasure in all of the known and unknown universes has fallen into the hands of Garvey Hudson: husband, friend, and used-record store proprietor. Discovering exactly how much power he has been given is as fun as watching a monkey with a ray-gun. 11:11 is a trippy tale that harkens to the works of Spike Jonze, The Farrelly brothers, and Fellini.Max Ferris
Love Addict
maxferrispi@yahoo.com
In the America of 2069, when narcotics are legalized and stimulation is prescription, a subway security guard looks for new hope in a motivational pill called Love.Don Filipoff, Henry Cohn
How to Kill a Dead Man
lafmortgage@yahoo.com
HOW DO YOU KILL A DEAD MAN? IT AIN'T EASY. SOME TRY. FEW SUCCEED!Stephen Friedman
Spy vs. Nerd
econosteve@yahoo.com
An alpha-male FBI agent infiltrates a gang of robot building nerds at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in order to stop a wave of extortions. He grows to love the geek culture, and must choose between his investigation and his newfound friends, all while battling giant robots.Paul Vincent Fusco
Night Terrors
fuscopaul@hotmail.com
Psychiatrist Harriet Stone, remorseful over a patient’s suicide, finds herself reaching out to another, Paul Malloy…a homeless teenager suffering Night terrors. Dr. Stone soon finds herself squaring off with Vendricks, a hard-boiled detective, whose gruesome discovery of some prior mutilations downtown match others in the community hospital where she works. Their conflict intensifies, as Dr. Stone fights to protect Paul, her new patient, while Vendricks tries to prosecute him as the suspected killer. Both doctor and detective must put aside their differences, pooling their resources in order to find a way to halt the brutal killings emanating from Paul’s mind…acting as a portal allowing passage for these evil manifestations into our world.Shanna Galovic
Impressions
sjgalovic@yahoo.com
Lives overlap with an eclectic group of people, leading you through a series of events where we are confronted by both expected and unexpected prejudices. We become involved with the decisions these people make regarding whether or not to deal with their discoveries and what they learn about themselves.Steven Gilbert
Shadow Mountain
stevengilb@gmail.com
Ex-cop Mike Harrison wants only to escape his past and live a quiet life alone; but when his wife reappears after vanishing for a year – unable to recall where she has been, and haunted by shadowy pursuers – he is forced to confront his turbulent past to save her and to achieve his own redemption.Scott Gleine
Calvin and Claudius
sgleine@utnet.utoledo.edu
With the help of his imaginary British friend Claudius, high school student Calvin attempts to unravel a mystery at his school while trying to win over the girl of his dreams at the same time.Alex Goldberg
Wednesday Night Man
alex.goldberg@att.net
Justin spends his days working in a Washington, D.C. coffee shop while moonlighting as Billy the Kid, politely robbing suburbanites at drive-thru ATM Machines. As he falls in love with a grad student and frequent patron of the shop, his two worlds quickly collide. Justin learns in a surprising ending that both love and violence have unseen repercussions.Rhonda Grimm
Those Who Wait
rgrimm@perftech.com
When her husband takes off to fight in World War II leaving behind a mountain of debt, a housewife with few options goes to work in an Alabama ship-building factory, finding confidence, financial independence, and camaraderie. She even falls in love for the first time -- with another woman. At war’s end, she must return to her former stifling life having enjoyed, for a brief time, all the choices and freedom usually not afforded to women.Marzena Grzegorczyk
Sex Lives of Savages
marzena1@aol.com
A brilliant but emotionally immature British anthropologist travels to New Guinea in the company of his orgiastic, yet grief-ridden artist friend to study the sex lives of the natives. Before he can begin his ground-breaking work, he must come to terms with his own prejudices and, against the backdrop of a world spinning toward war, come to understand the "savage" in himself and in his own culture. Set in 1914, the story is inspired by real events in the life of Bronislaw Malinowski, founder of modern anthropology and a man who defined how we talk about race today.Debra Hardy
The Sweet Competition
fast2fan@yahoo.com
In the rom-com The Sweet Competition, a young cookie chef's "friends with benefits" partner is swept away by a charming new man. The chef's efforts to win her back before she's gone forever is a recipe for disaster.Becky Head
Mothers, Love and Life
beckyhead_1983@hotmail.com
Abigail doesn’t understand herself. She also doesn’t understand her mother, love or her place in this world. But she’s about to find out that she can’t hide forever in the safe secure world she creates through her stories.
Eventually fiction has to collide with reality and they sometimes make the best of stories, because you’re living them.David Hodel
Centerfold Bride
artydooty2@aol.com
The randy owner of a men’s magazine is cornered into a romantic game of cat and mouse when a gorgeous chief editor for a wedding magazine publicly goads him into a life-changing wager.Richard Hohenrath
Your Planet or Mine?
rhohenrath@aol.com
High school student Jessica Jordan 'inherits' a planet after discovering that the father she never knew is an intergalactic monarch. When sinister forces plot against Jessica --including her own half-brother--the savvy teen's plunged into a high stakes adventure.Beth Hoover Gary Hoover
The Target
thehoovers@hhchicago.com
A young misanthrope hates his life -- until a contract killer tries to take it away from him.Beth Hoover Gary Hoover
The Real Thing
thehoovers@hhchicago.com
Desperate to be discovered, a struggling actress participates in a hoax to boost the ratings of a faltering realty TV show -- and finds fame has its price.Joshua Hoover
Fugue
splitinfinitivefilms@gmail.com
After the death of her daughter, Sothia finds that it becomes easier for her to create a new identity for herself than to live with the memory of a child she once knew. This story is based on a psychological anomaly, a rare type of amnesia know as a Fugue state.Danny Howell
Visions
howedm@aol.com
A lonely high school girl, haunted by visions of murders of her classmates, suspects her abusive father may be the killer.Mary Huckstep
To Catch A Keeper
yorkhouse@dslextreme.com
A timid Scots farmer goes looking for a wife, then discovers that in order to catch a keeper, first he must be one.Kathryn Hulings
The Forest for the Trees
hulings@comcast.net
Ryan Waters, an eighteen-year-old, shoplifting, budding ballerina, is sentenced to community service at the most unlikely place: The Woodland Dance Troupe - an extraordinary group of disabled performers led by a legendary dancer - where Ryan’s world, her heart, and dancing are magically turned upside down.Benjamin Jones
Hatful Of Joy
benjaminwadejones@yahoo.com
A lonely warehouse manager who no longer believes in Christmas gets tapped to be the next Santa.Tina Juarez
THE BANNER
ernestinajuarez@aol.com
To save his family, a slave accompanies his master to Mexico to negotiate a colony in Texas. They become entangled in the passion and violence of a revolution led by Miguel Hidalgo, who proclaims the first law against slavery in North America.Eunice Kim
The Surgeon
eykair@yahoo.com
When a world-renowned surgeon receives a humanitarian award for his work in Africa, a tabloid reporter, hell-bent on revenge, plots to expose him for the murderer he really is, but nobody is prepared for the shocking truth.Susan Kraker, Pi Ware
Wait for the Laugh
susankraker@pacbell.net
Janet's mother wants her to follow in her footsteps and become a psychologist. Instead, Janet becomes a stand-up comedian and uses her mother as material.Justin Kulik
What Sid Did
justinkulik@yahoo.com
An estranged father bribes his adult kids into a family reunion at their childhood lakehouse.Nicholas Lam
Penthouse 6
starhandkid@hotmail.com
A young filmmaker meets a powerful talent manager who offers representation in exchange for sex. But when the filmmaker's double-life explodes into the open, so does the manager's horrifying true intentions.Nicholas Lam
Needle & Ink
starhandkid@hotmail.com
A concert pianist emerges from a coma a changed man, soon finding his place with a gang of drug-running renegades. But when he attempts to reclaim the life he abandoned, discovers it's no longer his to choose.Mary LaMont
The Riverbird
mlamont@loy.org
When a family slave is loaded on a steamboat to be sold, this 1830s woman joins in a steamboat race to bring her back home, only to discover that she must break open her own cage before she can free the slave from hers.Angela Laurio
Fallen Sparrow
angela.laurio@gmail.com
When a nuclear powered rocket crashes in the north woods of Minnesota, FBI Agent Dani Waters races to recover the Plutonium before a terrorist group gets to it. Assisted by Forest Ranger Josh Hanscomb, Dani comes face-to-face with the forces of nature, the terrorists themselves, and a boss set on ending her career.Steven Letendre
Lonely Planets
stevenletendre@hotmail.com
A lonely man embarks on a desperate journey after receiving messages from a mysterious organization offering him a new life.Lynda Levy
The Four Orbs
lyndaalevy@gmail.com
"Clueless" meets "Princess Diaries -- in space. A Star Wars for tween girlsDonna Lisa
Kheng Kheng Crocodile
hbriderdar@aol.com
A lonely boy, in rural Thailand, must overcome village fear, a nasty poacher, and a raging river, in order to keep his beloved pet crocodile. With the help of an orphaned teen and an elephant, the boy outsmarts the treacherous poacher and rescues his kidnapped crocodile.Daric Loo, Ryan Weisman
Love Chemistry
daricl@yahoo.com
Broken-hearted Chemistry student Elloise Archer refuses to believe in true love and sets out to prove that love is nothing more than a chemical reaction. Her experimentation leads her to be swept off her feet by the man of her dreams, a secret agent who has been sent to stop her work.Adrienne Lusby, Emiliana Dore
Atonement
casalusby@sbcglobal.net, emdore@yahoo.com
When Private Investigator, Rachel Sullivan is hired to investigate the disappearance of a young woman from a Mormon Polygamist sect, she’ll have to go undercover into a secret world, fueled by brain-washing, sexual abuse, and the threat of ‘BLOOD ATONEMENT’ – where the only way to atone for your sins is to pay in blood.Alonso Mayo
The Story of Luke
afmayo@mac.com
Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn’t expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn’t taking no for an answer.Gary Mazza
Infrangible
mazzag@earthlink.net
A Boston art student finds his whole world shattered by the violent death of his muse, by the emotional and physical abuse he receives from his girlfriend, and by his best friend’s amorous inclinations aimed at him. It’d make anyone run for higher ground.Chris McCann
American Dream
AmericanDream2009@mail.com
An Iraq war veteran and a 9/11 survivor travel across America and fall in love during the nation's first-ever Code Red.Michael Medeiros
Young Van Helsing
bparkfilm@gmail.com
Young Gabe Van Helsing struggles to lead his unknown rock band out of the basement when one day the king of vampires re-awakens in his small new England town and Gabe must assume the task left unfinished by his great-grandfather.Leonard Miller
Silent Thunder: America's First Black Grand Prix Team
LTM02@earthlink.net
The true story of America's first black auto racing team owner, who earns his way to the Hall of Fame, battles a prejudice racetrack official on the grand prix circuit, while striving to sustain his family.Nathaniel Missildine
Someplace Else to Be
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Amidst a once booming San Francisco tech economy heading toward a flame-out, a disillusioned PR rep falls in love with a cooworker and refuses to give up on her even after she's married another man.Kathryn Mockler
Piss Tank
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Piss Tank is a dark and comedic drama about, Prue, a ten-year old girl who tries to reclaim her childhood in a family disconnected by grief and alcoholism when she and her mother spend their first Christmas holiday since Prue's father died with her overbearing grandparents.Johnny H. Moore Jr
Mason's War
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Black Civil War hero, Mason LeDoux, had carved out a quiet life in a small Northern rural town for him and his family. Four years later and widowed, he and his son must now face the town, steeped in greed, racial bigotry and his own troubled past while a monstrous Grizzly called Scar prey on its citizens. Battle lines are drawn as the voracious predator and a town's very survival hit close to home. His own.Diane Namm
Pranksters
diane.namm@gmail.comMortal enemies and "prankmeisters," Dani Collins (the tomboy) and Graham Cooper (the brainiac) wage a wild and wily "prank war" against each other and their dating parents in the hope of preventing a family merger.Diane Namm
Full Blue
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When Tommy O'Brien, an Irish kid from the wrong side of town, makes it into Oxford University, he has to box for Full Blue if he wants to stay in school -- but the real struggle for Tommy isn't against legendary rival Cambridge -- the battle begins with this classmates and ends with his heart.Miceal O'Donnell
The Christmas Heir
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Sam, a man whose world is defined by his impressive title, finds himself fired the day before Christmas. As he looks to hide in the folds to avoid those who are typically at the receiving end of his stick, he finds himself trapped in the family home of an American "blended family." Caught between Uncle Randy making porn, nervous Dad and his new wife "testing out" the kitchen, three unrelated confused children attempting to generate a familial bond, and a beautiful murderess on the loose.Wendy Okoi-Obuli
This Thing Called Love
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A victim of child abuse struggles to overcome her past and become a woman who can love and be loved.Anthony Orkin
Catching Bubbles
anthony.orkin@gmail.com
12 year-old Jeremy Forster is forced to grow up quickly when the cat he takes care of inherits $14 million, and a half-dozen murderous relatives try to kill her and claim the fortune for themselves.Dana Osmundson
Mary of Scotland
dana_osmundson@yahoo.com
A girl becomes a queen only to sacrifice her crown for her country.Michael Penhallow
The Argentine
mpenhallow@aol.com
Jeff Tully, down on his luck, is offered a lifeline: a hit on Al Qaeda's cell in South America, sanctioned and funded by the Agency.
Suicidal, maybe, yet possibly the perfect job; lucrative and patriotic.Pete Peterson
Ghostwriter
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A neophyte novelist hits New York City in search of a publisher. He gets tangled up with the bottom of the publishing world and the top of the organized crime world as everyone seems to want their story told.Chris Philpott
Urban Explorers
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Teen adventure set in the world of urban exploration, a movement in which young people sneak into forbidden places – abandoned buildings and tunnels – to explore. Except this time, four teens discover an ancient, powerful artifact – and thieves who want it back. A treasure hunt becomes a run for their lives in the forgotten tunnels under New York City.Robert Pokrywka
Get Real
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A hopeless romantic, Derek King is always looking for "the one." So he is ecstatic to make the finals of a ‘Bachelor-like” reality show, ironically titled “The One.” Only, thanks to a ratings-hungry producer, Derek’s life is about to be flipped upside down when some clever editing turns the entire country against him.Robert Polevoi
Practical Alchemy
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Two women compete for the soul of a man who, quite accidentally, has discovered that you really can turn lead into gold. A romantic comedy and adult fairy tale about love, deceit, art, and human chemistry.Mark Pomes
The Cold Hard Sell
pomesie@yahoo.comAlison Pritchard
Girlfriends
alianne1@fmgirl.com
Four childhood girlfriends, now in their early twenties, move in together for the first time, and over the course of a year, from New Years Eve to Christmas Eve, test the bonds of friendship as they learn to face up to their own fears, their own desires, and one another. Told from Cath’s unique, funny and insightful perspective, the story shows what it truly means to love and support one another despite the consequences.Corey Resnick
The Fractured
crez33@aol.com
The lives of a group of total strangers in New York City intertwine in the days just before and just after the September 11th attacks.Bob Reynolds
Gated
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John Delgado, a second generation Mexican-American detective, is called into an exclusive gated community to investigate the mysterious death of an illegal immigrant. During his search he confronts a choice: to sell-out and move up in life or drop-out and find himself... Or is there another possibility?Todd Roy
Kwoon
thekwoon@yahoo.comClaire Ruane, Dorothy A. Hogg
Raven's Heir
Magda731@aol.com
The supernatural and real worlds collide when a dead war hero returns as a protective Raven to save his only child from killers intent on stealing the boy's inheritance.Montae Russell
I Was a Teenage Art Thief
wrus107293@aol.comBetty Ryan, Carinn Mammen
Imagiro
dosdivas@hotmail.com
When a young girl discovers the ancient secret of origami she is catapulted into a fantasy world where her only chance of survival is her own imagination.Jeffrey Ryback
The Red Dragon Cometh
jryback@gmail.com
Robert Maclaren, a young lawyer, is sent on a mission to investigate the Chinese takeover of Tibet. His search leads him to an American and an occult monk who had fought with the Khamba horesemen in a war that was perhaps the worst case of genocide ever ignored by the west. It is a story of love, honor, and a spiritual quest that leads to a bloody war on the plains of Tibet, a war that could lead to the extinction of the Tibetan people.David Salley
K & R: (Kidnap & Ransom)
uthorn1995@yahoo.com
London college intern by day, bookie by night, Danny Colby was never one to find the value in education and an honest day’s work. After landing an internship with an insurance brokerage firm, he finds that some people will pay handsomely for the names on kidnap and ransom policies. But Danny pays the ultimate price when finds himself caught between a crooked insurance company and Columbia drug ring when he sells the name of his girlfriend’s father.Catherine Schreiber, Joshua Grenrock
Desperate Writers
marcliffe@aol.comGregory Schwartz
Visions
baileywit@aol.com
A teenager with profound psychic abilities is haunted by America's #1 homegrown terrorist, an idealistic genius gone amok. Will the teenager lead the F.B.I. to him before his final apocalypse, Harvard's Graduation Ceremony, where he plans to kill three generations of privilege in one fell swoop.Michael Scotto
Fat Tuesday
mscotto@andrew.cmu.edu
Forced to bartend alone on Mardi Gras, a naive bar owner must contend with a frustrated girlfriend, an unbalanced cook, outlandish customers--and the murder of his foul-mouthed parrot.Mike Sherer
King of the Earth
csherer@fuse.net
Post-Apocalyptic zombie tale from the zombie’s point of view. Victims of a virus that has devastated humanity fight to save what is left of their world. It is all out war between the Mob, who are nearly brain dead, and the Survivors, who are stricken to a much lesser degree, and the Carriers, who are infected but show no ill effects, and the Virgins, who are clear of the virus.Steven Siceloff
Inviting Disaster
ssiceloff@bellsouth.netWilliam Sikorski Jr. & William Sikorski III
Blood of the Chosen (Legend of Lung-Yin-Chi)
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An ancient Chinese sorcerer and a hellish creature both seek hidden powers in the blood of a Chosen One.Andy Silverman
Santa and Sons
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A toy inventor, who thinks his father is Santa Claus, fights to protect Christmas from his scheming older brother.Ian B Solomon
The Shooter
ianbsolomon@hotmail.com
A young sportsman pursuing his dream of selection for the National Olympic Shooting Team discovers that his coach is one of President John F Kennedy’s assassins when some FBI field agents attempt to recruit him in a sting operation.James Stansberry
The Second
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In the aftermath of a catastrophic attack on The United States, a group of teenage boys rise to defend their small American town against all foes, both foreign and domestic.Alexandra Steele
Pt. White
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Throughout her high school basketball career, Ryan has been a bench warmer. Now, with the season in the balance, her life unraveling and the karmic damage that infidelity and homophobia bring, Ryan must face her most daunting opponent: herself.Jessica Stone
Earth Heart
jessicastone@optusnet.com.auMichael Strode
Suffer The Children
michaeltstrode@yahoo.com
A scientist accidentally injects himself with insect DNA, and begins transforming into a life-size assassin bug intent on eating his own children. He infects other town adults, and it’s up to the town’s teenagers to figure out the conspiracy and fight back.Nir Studnicki
Day of Revelation
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A religious Jew learns deep hidden truths that are about to be revealed and shatter the very fabric on which humanity is built.Andrew Thompson
Auntie Claus
andrew@keysina.com
An insecure elf must discover the reason why children don't get the presents they wanted on Christmas day before Santa is forced to retire.Ashley Tull
Billy Liar: Agent for Hire
tootsturbo@yahoo.comJoyce Tyler
The Designated Somebody
jltyler2@yahoo.com
Heartthrob serial dater, Terry Walker becomes obsessed with neglected housewife, Ellen Meloy, whose husband is currently cheating on her with Terry's most recent ex. But can Terry succeed in convincing the adorable, brainy, beaten down love of his life to dump the unapologetic adulterer she thought was the love of hers?Julie Umbreit
The Youngest Convict
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Based on the true story of Herbert Niccolls, a 12-yr-old cop killer, who was sentenced to an adult prison for life and emerged 10 years later on his way to making a killing as a Hollywood studio executive.Gustavo Ventocilla
Erase
gventocilla@yahoo.com
The dream of a second chance knocks at the door of a failed actor when hired for a movie role -- but he would need to balance himself over the thin line separating performance from reality to save his life from what actually is a twisted and deadly contract.Simon Wakelin
Manifesto
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Dark Comedy. When an obnoxious commercial director accuses an ad agency of destroying his commercial masterpiece, a subversive circus clown convinces him to launch a revolution.D.C. Walker
Lost Tomorrow
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When time seems expendable, today's dreams can become lost tomorrows.Adam Walsh, Evan Schoonmaker, Eric Finkelman
Malek
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After the fall of the Soviet Union, a desperate arms dealer abducts Malek, an artist held for years by the KGB, who is thought to draw the future. But what Malek actually draws, in uncontrollable fits and with startling suggestive power, are the most secret and unspeakable thoughts of those around him.Guy Warren
Maltese Murder Mystery
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Police Detective Laura Posey places Frank Maltese under arrest for a murder that took place 30 years ago in his small town. Det. Posey was at the time of the murder the eight-year old daughter of the victim.Michael Wentz
Fatal Exam
mwentz3@mac.com
In a repressive society, where a single test determines your future, a promising young student becomes marked for death to protect a powerful senator’s family.Dawson Williams
The Oxford
leewilliams@digitalconnections.comDon Zolidis
Gifted
donzolidis@yahoo.com
After being fired from his job, a perfectionist father vows to transform his underachieving six year-old into the perfect gifted child.
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