TLLjournal is proud to announce that The Writers Store is now an official sponsor of our logline contest! They’ve kindly offered up their Hollywood Screenwriting Directory to one of our finalist each contest. “With over 1,500 listings for Industry insiders from studios to independent financiers, the Hollywood Screenwriting Directory is the specialized resource you need for discovering where and how to sell your screenplay. Plus, it includes how-to instructions on script format, query letters, treatments, and log lines, so you can produce a professional submission.”  Thanks guys!
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TLLjournal is proud to announce that The Writers Store is now an official sponsor of our logline contest! They’ve kindly offered up their Hollywood Screenwriting Directory to one of our finalist each contest. “With over 1,500 listings for Industry insiders from studios to independent financiers, the Hollywood Screenwriting Directory is the specialized resource you need for discovering where and how to sell your screenplay. Plus, it includes how-to instructions on script format, query letters, treatments, and log lines, so you can produce a professional submission.”  Thanks guys!

June/July Contest Finalist

#3linesorless || #june #july || #finalists || #loglines

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The top seven prize-winning loglines are listed in order.  The rest are listed randomly.

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Genre: Comedy

Logline: Can a Broadway diva find a cure for the hot flashes that are ruining her life? Sure, but first she has to convince the hormonally-crazed women of Dr. Zelnik-Chan’s menopause support group to crash the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and save a sexy Mauritian botanist — without getting herself killed.

Screenplay title: Hot Flash

Accolades:

Winner, Best Comedy category, 2011 Just Effing Entertain Me screenplay competition

Written by: Su Hoyle and Nina Wishengrad

Email: hotflash.us@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 1226078

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Genre: Contained Thriller

Logline: A billionaire rare book merchant uses the premature reading of his will to seal the heirs into an airtight room, and only by solving a thousand year old mystery can they escape.

Screenplay title: Settling The Books

Accolades:

Finalist/Screenplay Search

Quarter-finalist/Chicago Screenwriters Network

Winner/Contest Of Contest Winners for the feature Jenna’s Gone

Written by: Russ Meyer

Phone: 651-308-4499

Email: tortoise@att.net

WGA Registration Number: I233686

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Genre: Comedy

Logline: A nerdophobic writer infiltrates the world of pocket protectors, bad haircuts, and ill-fitting polyester clothing to rescue the woman he loves, find inner peace, and defeat an alphanerd with delusions of grandeur.

Screenplay title: Nerds Among Us

Accolades:

Author of a dozen books, including:

-Fun With Phone Solicitors (Warner Books)

-When Good People Write Bad Sentences (St. Martin’s)

-101 Things NOT to Do Before You Die (Thomas Dunne)

Written by: Robert W. Harris

Email: robert@rwhstudio.com

WGA Registration Number: 935539

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Genre: Action/Thriller

Logline: Russian mercenaries take over an Iowa farm with plans to use a crop duster to spray weaponized smallpox on an air show in Des Moines. Only a small town sheriff and an ex-Mossad agent out for revenge stand in their way.

Screenplay title: HeartLand

Accolades:

Winner/Amazon Studios (for the feature Devil’s Pass).

Seven scripts optioned

Three-time Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist.

Written by: Michael Coady

Email: coady2y@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 1195988

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Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller

Logline: A serial killer from an alternate universe searches for his specialized prey to boost his business while satisfying his burning passion to find the perfect woman. It will depend on his latest victim’s ability to recognize the impossible in order to save herself.

Screenplay title: Deadly Dimensions

Accolades:

Finalist/Shriekfest Screenwriting Contest

Top 20% out of 3,000/L.A. Expo Competition

Top 25% out of 5200 (still live)/Page Contest

Written by: Sandra Mytys

Email: rmytys@comcast.net

WGA Registration Number: 1566696

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Genre: Horror

Logline: Investigating an attack that left her teen sister in a coma, Laura Evans explores a dilapidated old house in the woods haunted by the vengeful spirit of a Gypsy witch and her clowder of mangy, demonic cats.

Screenplay title: The House That Evil Built

Accolades:

Finalist/Amazon Studios (The House That Evil Built)

Winner/Amazon Studios (for the feature Devil’s Pass)

Three-time Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist.

Written by: Michael Coady

Email: coady2y@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 1592027

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Genre: Family Drama/Biography

Logline: The true story of a noted, terminally ill Boston journalist who embarks on an extraordinary journey that alters her fate, and ultimately, leaves an indelible mark on humanity.

Screenplay title: Pippa’s Song

Accolades:

Winner /Creative World Awards

Finalist/ Moondance

Quarter/Nicholls

Written by: Diana Mitchell

Email: dmitchelltn@yahoo.com

WGA Registration Number: 1569486

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Genre: Drama

Logline: A rogue war correspondent follows his conscience and dodges military censors to score the great scoop of World War II. Based on a true story.

Screenplay title: Operation Jackplane

Written by: Joe Livernois

Email: santalechuga@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 1542195

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Genre: DarkComedy/Thriller

Logline: After humanity hits bottom, government and media conspirators stage the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in an attempt to herd billions of people into a death trap.

Screenplay title: Peak Jesus:Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Their God(s)

Written by: Jason Calabro

Email: calabrofilm@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 1588120

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Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller

Logline: A prized medical student tries to reanimate a cadaver who he’s fallen in love with.

Screenplay title: Anatomy Fellow

Written by: Robert E Hoxie

Email: Hoxienation@yahoo.com

WGA Registration Number: 1589676

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Genre: Adventure

Logline: A timid high school student in Phoenix recruits a brave female classmate to help him save his mother from a hit man in Los Angeles.

Screenplay title: The XY Factor

Written by: Glenn Derrick

Email:glenn49derrick@yahoo.com

WGA Registration Number: 1590047

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Genre: Thriller

Logline:Based on true events, this is the story of the psychic CIA spy Lieutenant Mary Quinn who can locate remote targets, interrogate people from miles away, but has a hard time balancing work and family, especially when the Pentagon decides to get rid of her.

Screenplay title: The Zone

Written by: Mathieu Saliva

Email: mathieusaliva@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 1585644

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Genre: Drama

Logline: Married six times with a stint as a hooker Kitty goes to law school at 41. By 45 she has become the go-to defense attorney for La Familia drug cartel in Atlanta learning more than she ever bargained for about the intricate workings of drug trafficking. Based on real life practicing attorney

Screenplay title: Nassau Street

Written by: Cathy Alterman and Neli Soto

Email: cathyalterman@mindspring.com

WGA Registration Number: 1420036

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Genre: Drama

Logline: A haunted ex-pilot and his nihilistic cousin must contend with a crime boss and each other as they try to free their family from a life of suffering.

Screenplay title: Purgatory

Written by: Jason Ardolino

Email: jasonardolino@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 1541150

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Genre: Sci-Fi/Action

Logline: An ancient alliance between aliens, ninja, and demons crumbles leaving the only ninja left in the bloodline to go on an intergalactic killing spree bring all those responsible before the mighty demon council to be judged and tried for their betrayal.

Screenplay title: Demon Ninja

Written by: Max Teasdale

Email: maxteasdale@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 1440567

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#Screenwriting #Business Debunking Screenwriting Myths, Part 4: Networking & Marketing by Geno Scala      I was recently involved in a discussion with several screenwriters regarding the importance of networking and marketing one’s projects and/or themselves. One of the screenwriters debated the effectiveness- or, in his opinion, ineffectiveness- of a networking and marketing strategy. I couldn’t develop the right words fast enough to respond, and even if I could have, I wouldn’t have been able to utter them due to my lower jaw slamming against the floor. He followed this mind-numbing point of view with the comment “I just work on my script. A great story always finds its way to the screen!”      Oh, really?      I realized then that there is yet another myth about screenwriting- the myth that all one needs is a great screenplay. Now, having an excellent screenplay is a great goal, and should be the number one goal of the screenwriter. But, it’s still only number one. There have to be goals to set and goals to reach. One of these goals has to include the development of both a networking strategy and marketing strategy. What you do AFTER writing that wonderful screenplay is EQUALLY important to writing that screenplay. Let this sink in for a second- marketing your screenplay properly, with an effective, well-conceived plan, is EQUALLY as important as writing a great screenplay. Recently, one of my student/clients reached out to me asking this very question- “Where do I go from here?” I provided her a ten-step marketing process that is really the basis of a 40-50 point, full-scale marketing and network plan. STEP #1: Understand that your script is NOT ready to be marketed.     Once you accept that, you’ll breathe a bit easier. The reason is simple- you have but one chance to make a first impression. One of the reasons there are so few “new” success stories is usually due to violating this very rule. Ninety nine percent of the hundreds of thousands of writers blow their first opportunity by rushing it. However, for the process of developing the rest of the steps, we will just ASSUME the following is true: You’ve written this screenplay the best it can possibly be, and your family and friends love it! (your cheerleaders, or “CHEERS” for short!) You’ve received a number of extremely positive feedbacks from your PEERS those other writers whom you respect and whose opinions and advice you treasure. You have entered and won, or placed well, in several screenwriting contests, including several of the most respected, highly regarded contests. You’ve received one (preferably more) “recommend” from a highly-regarded script coverage service, script doctor, consultant or mentor (your “ROCKETEERS”) STEP #2: Enhance your networking opportunities. By now, it is assumed you have hundreds of business-related connections, to include fellow screenwriters, filmmakers, script readers, executives, producers, marketers and almost anybody affiliated with the entertainment business. These connections are often made through the Internet at Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and a host of different sites. Work on spending at least one hour a day at these sites, cultivating relationships through discussions, and inquiries. Avoid getting political or too personal. Comment on a photo, ask what their latest project is, and learn about their likes and dislikes before jumping in and talking about yourself.      The worst thing you can do is turn a personal, comfortable relationship into an obvious means to a stepping-stone to get introduced somewhere else or TO someone else. Btw, if you are NOT on these mediums, you are far behind the rest of us! STEP #3: Post your script. Sites like Moviebytes (www.moviebytes.com), Talentville (www.talentville.com), Triggerstreet (www.triggerstreet.com) and Ink Tip (www.inktip.com), allow you to post your script for marketing purposes, while others may give additional feedbacks, in exchange for script reads. STEP #4: Determine which movies are like yours in genre and/or subject matter, and research them. This is a great technique that many writers fail doing correctly. If your high concept movie is similar to “Star Wars”, you’ll want to research Star Wars through IMdbPro, and find all of the key players from the movie- the screenwriter, director, producer, the talent, etc. Through IMdbPro, you can then find out what other movies they’ve worked on, and create a talent tree. You will find that some of the same talent usually work with each other picture after picture; this is especially true with Clint Eastwood, Ron Howard, and Judd Apatow films. In IMdbPro, you can trace back all the way to their representatives, including managers and agents. Again, it is not unusual for an agent representing Daniel Craig (James Bond) to also rep other “action” stars. Therefore, if you have an action script, you would want to target those who are probably most interested in that genre. STEP #5: Prepare you query letter. This letter is quite different from most other business or marketing letters. Much like your logline, it is designed to develop a “taste”, some intrigue, some interest in your project. STEP #6: Create a Facebook “like” page, Twitter account and other networking pages for your projects. This keeps the name out there, and also keeps your supporters up-to-date on any happenings involving you or the script. STEP #7: Attend any and all “pitch fests” and conventions possible. Include film festivals, producer conventions, director conventions, etc. If you are not in LA schedule a future visit and center it near these important events. Through networking, you may develop an opportunity to stay with a fellow writer for a period of time, in exchange for them piggy-backing to a producer’s lunch or meeting with you. It will help defray the travel cost, and the lunch bill when it comes time to “pick up the tab”. STEP #8: Sign up for Skype. You may be able to schedule face-to-face meetings through Skype without having to make the trip. STEP #9: Have multiple projects prepared when the meeting is scheduled. Most producers will ask to see or hear additional projects that you might have, so be prepared to at least discuss the logline and/or a synopsis with them. They want to see if you are in this for the duration, and not just a one-trick pony. They’ll get an immediate feel as to the way you and your creative mind works. STEP #10: Be someone everyone would want to work with. Don’t be argumentative, picayune, difficult, demanding, overly sensitive, overly shy, embarrassed, overly humble, not humble enough, outrageous, outlandish, over-the-top, unprofessional, or boring. Be perfect- just be yourself. —————————— Geno Scala has been writing for over twenty years, and was one of the Executive Directors for the 1999-2000 Academy Awards presentation. He is an optioned screenwriter with nine screenplays to his credit, and is an alumnus of ScreenwritingU. He maintains a business in Hollywood, and resides in beautiful Huntsville, Alabama with his rocket-scientist wife, a daughter in grad school, another daughter in college in CA, and two teen-aged sons. Catch up with Geno || twitter: @Sharkeatingman & @thescriptmentor || facebook: Shark-Eating Man Productions & The Script Mentor  —————————— Read more TLL articles on the business of Screenwriting
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#Screenwriting #Business

Debunking Screenwriting Myths, Part 4: Networking & Marketing

by Geno Scala

     I was recently involved in a discussion with several screenwriters regarding the importance of networking and marketing one’s projects and/or themselves. One of the screenwriters debated the effectiveness- or, in his opinion, ineffectiveness- of a networking and marketing strategy. I couldn’t develop the right words fast enough to respond, and even if I could have, I wouldn’t have been able to utter them due to my lower jaw slamming against the floor. He followed this mind-numbing point of view with the comment “I just work on my script. A great story always finds its way to the screen!”

     Oh, really?

     I realized then that there is yet another myth about screenwriting- the myth that all one needs is a great screenplay. Now, having an excellent screenplay is a great goal, and should be the number one goal of the screenwriter. But, it’s still only number one. There have to be goals to set and goals to reach. One of these goals has to include the development of both a networking strategy and marketing strategy. What you do AFTER writing that wonderful screenplay is EQUALLY important to writing that screenplay. Let this sink in for a second- marketing your screenplay properly, with an effective, well-conceived plan, is EQUALLY as important as writing a great screenplay. Recently, one of my student/clients reached out to me asking this very question- “Where do I go from here?” I provided her a ten-step marketing process that is really the basis of a 40-50 point, full-scale marketing and network plan.

STEP #1: Understand that your script is NOT ready to be marketed.

    Once you accept that, you’ll breathe a bit easier. The reason is simple- you have but one chance to make a first impression. One of the reasons there are so few “new” success stories is usually due to violating this very rule. Ninety nine percent of the hundreds of thousands of writers blow their first opportunity by rushing it. However, for the process of developing the rest of the steps, we will just ASSUME the following is true:

  1. You’ve written this screenplay the best it can possibly be, and your family and friends love it! (your cheerleaders, or “CHEERS” for short!)

  1. You’ve received a number of extremely positive feedbacks from your PEERS those other writers whom you respect and whose opinions and advice you treasure.

  1. You have entered and won, or placed well, in several screenwriting contests, including several of the most respected, highly regarded contests.

  1. You’ve received one (preferably more) “recommend” from a highly-regarded script coverage service, script doctor, consultant or mentor (your “ROCKETEERS”)

STEP #2: Enhance your networking opportunities. By now, it is assumed you have hundreds of business-related connections, to include fellow screenwriters, filmmakers, script readers, executives, producers, marketers and almost anybody affiliated with the entertainment business. These connections are often made through the Internet at Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and a host of different sites. Work on spending at least one hour a day at these sites, cultivating relationships through discussions, and inquiries. Avoid getting political or too personal. Comment on a photo, ask what their latest project is, and learn about their likes and dislikes before jumping in and talking about yourself.

     The worst thing you can do is turn a personal, comfortable relationship into an obvious means to a stepping-stone to get introduced somewhere else or TO someone else. Btw, if you are NOT on these mediums, you are far behind the rest of us!

STEP #3: Post your script. Sites like Moviebytes (www.moviebytes.com), Talentville (www.talentville.com), Triggerstreet (www.triggerstreet.com) and Ink Tip (www.inktip.com), allow you to post your script for marketing purposes, while others may give additional feedbacks, in exchange for script reads.

STEP #4: Determine which movies are like yours in genre and/or subject matter, and research them. This is a great technique that many writers fail doing correctly. If your high concept movie is similar to “Star Wars”, you’ll want to research Star Wars through IMdbPro, and find all of the key players from the movie- the screenwriter, director, producer, the talent, etc. Through IMdbPro, you can then find out what other movies they’ve worked on, and create a talent tree. You will find that some of the same talent usually work with each other picture after picture; this is especially true with Clint Eastwood, Ron Howard, and Judd Apatow films. In IMdbPro, you can trace back all the way to their representatives, including managers and agents. Again, it is not unusual for an agent representing Daniel Craig (James Bond) to also rep other “action” stars. Therefore, if you have an action script, you would want to target those who are probably most interested in that genre.

STEP #5: Prepare you query letter. This letter is quite different from most other business or marketing letters. Much like your logline, it is designed to develop a “taste”, some intrigue, some interest in your project.

STEP #6: Create a Facebook “like” page, Twitter account and other networking pages for your projects. This keeps the name out there, and also keeps your supporters up-to-date on any happenings involving you or the script.

STEP #7: Attend any and all “pitch fests” and conventions possible. Include film festivals, producer conventions, director conventions, etc. If you are not in LA schedule a future visit and center it near these important events. Through networking, you may develop an opportunity to stay with a fellow writer for a period of time, in exchange for them piggy-backing to a producer’s lunch or meeting with you. It will help defray the travel cost, and the lunch bill when it comes time to “pick up the tab”.

STEP #8: Sign up for Skype. You may be able to schedule face-to-face meetings through Skype without having to make the trip.

STEP #9: Have multiple projects prepared when the meeting is scheduled. Most producers will ask to see or hear additional projects that you might have, so be prepared to at least discuss the logline and/or a synopsis with them. They want to see if you are in this for the duration, and not just a one-trick pony. They’ll get an immediate feel as to the way you and your creative mind works.

STEP #10: Be someone everyone would want to work with. Don’t be argumentative, picayune, difficult, demanding, overly sensitive, overly shy, embarrassed, overly humble, not humble enough, outrageous, outlandish, over-the-top, unprofessional, or boring.

Be perfect- just be yourself.

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Geno Scala has been writing for over twenty years, and was one of the Executive Directors for the 1999-2000 Academy Awards presentation. He is an optioned screenwriter with nine screenplays to his credit, and is an alumnus of ScreenwritingU. He maintains a business in Hollywood, and resides in beautiful Huntsville, Alabama with his rocket-scientist wife, a daughter in grad school, another daughter in college in CA, and two teen-aged sons.

Catch up with Geno || twitter: @Sharkeatingman & @thescriptmentor || facebook: Shark-Eating Man Productions & The Script Mentor 

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Congrats to Russ Meyer who received a script request from Prolific Entertainment! Prolific discovered Russ’ The Organic Svengali after placing in Three Lines Or Less logline contest.  Submit your loglines now for a piece of the $1635 in prizes and industry exposure: http://threelinesorless.tumblr.com/thecontestsubmit
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Congrats to Russ Meyer who received a script request from Prolific Entertainment! Prolific discovered Russ’ The Organic Svengali after placing in Three Lines Or Less logline contest. 

Submit your loglines now for a piece of the $1635 in prizes and industry exposure: http://threelinesorless.tumblr.com/thecontestsubmit

April/May Contest Finalists

#3linesorless || #april #may || #finalists || #loglines

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The top seven prize-winning loglines are listed in order.  The rest are listed randomly.

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Genre: Adventure/Horror

Logline: 1880. Montana. A condemned outlaw leads a band of mercenaries into the Rocky Mountains after a Blackfoot war party, only to find themselves hunted by a cunning, vengeful Werewolf. With their horses slaughtered and winter coming, it becomes a fight for survival as they wind their way down the mountain.

Screenplay title: Devil’s Pass

Accolades:

BEST SCRIPT/Amazon Studios Competition

UNDER CONSIDERATION/Amazon Studios, for the horror feature, The House That Evil Built.

Two scripts have made the SEMI-FINALS of the Nicholl Fellowships.

Written by: Michael Coady

Email: coady2y@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number:1259684

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Genre: Comedy

Logline: “Tootsie” meets “Get Shorty”…When a desperate, down-and-out actor crosses paths with a hitman searching for redemption, he drunkenly improvises a plan to win the role of a lifetime - but hiring a hitman to eliminate the competition can have deadly consequences.

Screenplay title: Just Kill Me Already!

Accolades:

FIRST PLACE/California Independent Festival

FIRST PLACE/RIIFF-Rhode Island (Oscar-recognized)

FINALIST/Page International Screenwriting Awards

Written by: Sundae Jahant-Osborn

Email: wysiwygprod@compuserve.com

WGA Registration Number: 1478232

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Genre: Romantic comedy

Logline: A brilliant young astronomer not only discovers a new comet, he meets a woman who could be the love of his life. Trouble arises, however, when his comet seems to be on a collision course with Earth and it turns out the woman is an astrologer.

Screenplay title: Not In the Stars

Accolades: FINALIST, Nicholl Fellowship (top 10 of 6073 entries)

Written by: Wendy Jane Henson

Email: wendy@angelfire-arts.biz

WGA Registration Number: 1583001

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Genre: Animated/Action-Adventure

Logline: On a modern day cattle drive, the father-daughter drivers become stranded during a flash flood, and while searching for them, their cattle stumble upon a slaughterhouse and discover the true purpose for their journey: becoming food. The herd must decide whether to return to save the people who raised them, or escape.

Screenplay title: Beef

Written by: Benjamin Caro

Email: benj.caro@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 614349756

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Genre: Drama

Logline:Imagine that your helicopter is attacked and you are thrown into the heart of a war… A young rock diva headlining a USO tour in Afghanistan must survive with the help of a wounded Marine after their helicopter is shot down and they are hunted mercilessly by Insurgents.

Screenplay title: Chora

Accolades: QUARTER-FINALIST, Annual Fade In Awards

Written by: Frank Lozanski

Email: fzl@rogers.com

WGA Registration Number: 1409212

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Genre: Mystery Thriller

Logline: A young woman haunted by lost memories falls in love with a mysterious, scientific-minded music professor, whose secret experiments help her recall her devastating past - but also start stealing memories of the present.

Screenplay title: The Organic Svengali

Accolades:

-FINALIST in the BizOfScreenwriting Rewrite Contest.

-BEST LOW BUDGET Screenplay Award at Toronto’s Female Eye Screenplay Contest.

-ACTOR’S CHOICE Award at The Screenwriters Conference in Santa Fe.

Written by: Russ Meyer

Email: tortoise@att.net

WGA Registration Number: I12725-00

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Genre: Action/Adventure

Logline: A slave raced for freedom and lifted an empire to its feet; as a champion he raced for justice and drove an emperor to his knees. Based on the true story of the first million-dollar celebrity athlete in the world.

Screenplay title: Charioteer

Written by: Steve A. Hartman

Email: sahartman@sbcglobal.net

WGA Registration Number: 1265545

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Genre: Action/Thriller

Logline: A highly trained secret service agent wakes up from experimental brain surgery with amnesia and struggles to determine his true identity before a ruthless government scientist kills him.

Screenplay title: Justice Jones

Accolades:

FIRST PLACE, The GreenLight screenwriting contest.

FIRST PLACE, Zed Fest Film Festival.

Written by: David Santo

Email: davidsanto@hotmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 1571687

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Genre: Comedy

Logline: LA’s toughest cop meets his match when he’s suspended and ordered to take part in a public relations program, where he finds himself coaching inner city kids in a kickball tournament.

Screenplay title: Officer Friendly

Written by: Michael Coady

Accolades:

-$20,000.00 BEST SCRIPT award from Amazon Studios.

-Two scripts have made the semi-finals of the Nicholl Fellowships.

Email: coady2y@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 1546493

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Genre: Action/Adventure

Logline: When a geologist drunkenly suggests an ill-conceived plan to avert global warming to a high ranking politician, he must immediately race to halt his misguided suggestion from hitting the political fast track and destroying the planet.

Screenplay title: A Nuclear Option

Accolades:

-FIRST PLACE, Action Adventure Thriller, 4th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest, for A Nuclear Option, 2011.

-WINNER, AEXposure (Write Movies), January 2012, for Frost on the Pumpkin. 

-QUARTER FINALIST, Nicholl Fellowship, for Neon Cactus, 1990.

Written by: Philip Sedgwick

Email: philip@philipcsedgwick.com

WGA Registration Number: 1451210

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Genre: Science-Fiction, Fantasy

Logline: Seven seemingly unconnected passengers are mysteriously transported to the dying utopia of Aztlan, where the fate of mankind rests in the common denominator of their individual destinies. It’s The Lost Horizon meets The Matrix.

Screenplay title: Aztlan, the Awakening

Written by: Lori Smiskol

Email: atlantis.screenwriter@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: 1392018

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Genre: Horror

Logline: A centuries old ghost, previously exorcized, is resurrected by a gathering of unwitting cheerleaders, and now seeks to fulfill its ancient yearning for revenge, no matter what.

Screenplay title: Frost on the Pumpkin

Accolades:

-FIRST PLACE, Action Adventure Thriller, 4th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest, for A Nuclear Option, 2011.

-WINNER, AEXposure (Write Movies), January 2012, for Frost on the Pumpkin. 

-QUARTER FINALIST, Nicholl Fellowship, for Neon Cactus, 1990.

Written by: Philip Sedgwick

Email: philip@philipcsedgwick.com

WGA Registration Number: 1541916

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Genre:Thriller

Logline:Ten days in paradise could kill you. On-the-edge, suspense/thriller rollercoaster ride into the dark world of drug trafficking. A cold-blooded drug dealer/loan shark sends a devoted couple to Colombia, South America to pay off her debt with a twist and turn ending.

Screenplay title: 10 Days in Paradise

Written by: Kevin Wesley Goodson

Email: kgbond2@yahoo.com

WGA Registration Number: 1536012

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Genre: Comedy/Farce

Logline: The great British icon suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous farce when a black fry cook, Shakespeare, and an illiterate English twit, Will, team up to become the world’s single greatest playwright.

Screenplay title: Will ‘n Shakespeare - Episode One: Barred From Stratford – The Final Chapter

Accolades: Talentville.com Monthly Finalist – December 2011 – Silver

Written by: Tim Lane

Email: cynosurer@aol.com

WGA Registration Number: 1425785

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Genre: Drama

Logline: A desperate high school football coach chases his playoff hopes as his wife of a teacher begins a relationship with the all-star quarterback.

Screenplay title: Glory Days

Written by: Robert E. Hoxie

Accolades:

The 13th Sign - Screenwriter

Urban Miners - reality TV show co-writer

Email: hoxienation@yahoo.com

WGA Registration Number: 1584631

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Genre: Sci-Fi

Logline: Trapped in a virtual reality safari, a conceited science scholar faces perilous dangers of the jungle, and must rely on help from his jealous, estranged sister to escape.

Screenplay title: Dream Vacation

Written by: Edward Leech

Accolades:

-FINALIST in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Category, Reels International Screenplay Competition, for Future Development

-QUARTER-FINALIST, Story Pros Screenwriter’s Competition, 2012, for Future Development

Email: eddiekabeddie@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: East - VSYA8E8F7B96

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Genre: Drama

Logline:When a group of Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn opens a kosher meat-packing plant in a struggling Iowa town, the locals think their problems are over, but a culture clash begins that turns the American melting pot into a pressure cooker.

Screenplay title: Postville

Written by: David Kassin Fried

Email: david@fried.cc

WGA Registration Number: 1510607

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Genre: Historical Romance/Drama

Logline: A university student researching a long ago legend about President Lincoln discovers her own link to it. She must reach back in time to uncover its potential impact on her future, his past and on a young nation on the brink of war. Along the way, she learns the unshakable truth that it is our losses that ultimately define us and that love has the power to transform us all.

Screenplay title: Lincoln’s Love: The Legend of Ann

Written by: Millie Ayala Raphael

Email: mraphael@ias-specialists.com

WGA Registration Number: I239332

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Genre: Comedy

Logline:A Caucasian chef in a struggling family-run Chinese restaurant takes on a sleazy competitor determined to shut it down.

Screenplay title: Wok & Roll

Written by: Paul E. Zeidman

Email: paul@maximumz.com

WGA Registration Number: 846871

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Genre: Fantasy/Drama

Logline: A broken family struggles to reunite in an inherited house where the laws of physics don’t work quite right.

Screenplay title: The Mirror Room

Written by: Frank Schlapansky

Email: fsbeep@gmail.com

WGA Registration Number: (WGC) S12-01381

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