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SPRING/SUMMER 2011 SCREENPLAY WINNERS
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THE IMMACULATE GIRL by Charles McNamara
(comedy)
- When an irreverent, small-town Arkansas girl becomes pregnant
through a bizarre accident, her fundamentalist dad convinces everyone in town she's the new Virgin Mary.
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INFIDELS by Richard Jean LeBlanc, Jr.
(drama)
- Upon returning to civilian life, an Iraqi War vet embarks upon a Faustian
journey that forces him to confront the demon that has haunted him his entire life.
HOBBY AND FITZ by Jim Milton
(period comedy)
- When novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald is hired by a studio producer in 1940, he struggles,
with the help of an alcoholic schemer left over from the silent era, to learn the ways of Hollywood and to create “the greatest movie ever written.”
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YARDSTICKS by Debra Murphy & John Murphy
(dark comedy)
- Just when the suicidal misfit from an ultra-successful family finds a reason to live,
he must do battle with a flamboyant “Angel of Death” who seeks to gain cosmic powers by collecting designer suicides.
DREAMWORLD by Brent Hartinger
(fantasy/family)
- An eleven-year-old girl plagued by nightmares wakes up in Slumberia,
a place inside her own brain where they “film” her dreams.
THE HECKLER by Michael J.E. Hanson
(comedy)
- Heckling wars break out between a slacker comic and sent-down Major League slugger.
CHOICE by Richard Jean LeBlanc, Jr.
(comedy)
- A vegetarian struggling to keep the family butcher shop afloat has given up on finding the
perfect woman--until he meets a female lawyer who is a closet cannibal and is defending the man that killed his mother.
MY SAVING GRACE by Karen Higbie
(drama)
- A young model on the path to destruction discovers the key to
living her life after her daughter is diagnosed with a rare disease.
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THE HOUSE THAT PETERBILT by Carl B. Clark
THE PACT by Shari Carpenter
WEEKEND DAD by Barbara Albers Jackson
GRASS FIRE by Steve Daniels
MISSING LOVE by Ronald Marchand & Rhonda Ewing
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FALL/WINTER 2010 SCREENPLAY WINNERS
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ADESI’S JOURNEY by Chad Handley
(family/historical)
- When his quarrelsome but beautiful
fiancée is taken in a slave raid, an arrogant 15-year-old prince sails to America to rescue her.
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THE VOYEUR by John Bengel
(drama)
- An ethicist/college dean with an obsession
for voyeurism sees something that creates the ultimate ethical challenge.
BETWEEN 2 WORLDS by Paul Byrne
(action/drama)
- Kicked off the throne during a military coup, a princess escapes to Montana
where she falls for a cantankerous rancher who gives her the courage to retake her country from a bloodthirsty dictator.
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TALES OF THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE by Harish D. Mandyam
(romantic comedy)
- The rogue bachelor in an Indian extended family fights his parents’ efforts to marry him off.
INSIDE KNOWLEDGE by Brook Smith
(mystery/thriller)
- A young female defense lawyer, hungry for a marquee win,
is faced with a client who wants the death penalty.
CHIN by Bruce Trampler
(drama/bio)
- A young boxer rises to the top of the America mafia during the 1960s,
the story of Vincent Gigante.
THE KITTY HAWK PROJECT by Richard Nitchman
(science fiction)
- After an incident at Kitty Hawk involving the Wright Brothers alters the course of history,
two American spies go to Nazi Germany to try to find the world’s first atomic bomb.
IN THE RUNNING by Raef Eric Lawson
(political comedy)
- A fun-loving small town Libertarian gets drafted into running for the Ohio senate.
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SMALL CHANGE by Paige Macdonald & George Anderson
SNATCHING ST. NICK by Myra R. Taylor
VENGEANCE--A DISH BEST SERVED COLD by Linda Potts
WANNABE by Carol Turley Cohen
HOUSES ON THE ROCK by Daniel Mahoney and Kenneth Masler
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