Finalists, October/November, 2012
#3linesorless || #october #november || #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: Romantic Comedy
Logline: After catching her husband in a nursing home affair, an elderly woman embarks on a cross-country quest for sexual liberation—only to discover that getting laid isn’t as easy as it used to be. Based on an award-winning stage play by the screenwriter.
Screenplay title: Senior Moments
Accolades:
Winner/Rocky Mountain Theater Association Playwriting Festival for Shakespeare Inc.
Winner/Front Range Playwrights Showcase for Senior Moments
Selection/Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region for Postville
Written by: Donald R. Fried
Email: don@fried.cc
US Copyright Registration Number: 1-E0HDFJ
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Genre: Romantic Comedy
Logline: After being crushed by love, a geek transforms himself into a stud and creates a private club for confirmed bachelors designed to get women into bed. But one beautiful female who wants to be with him belongs to her own club. It’s designed to get men to commit.
Screenplay title: God’s Gift To Women
Accolades:
Preliminary Finalist/Creative World Awards for the screenplay, Triggers
Round Two Quarter Finalist/Page Awards for the screenplay, Triggers
Written by: Jacqueline Hicks
Email: cdnccc@yahoo.com
WGA Registration Number: 1617152
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Logline: Running from failure, a gifted scholar opts for a family vacation in a virtual world that turns deadly….sabotaged by a twisted, dream programmer.
Screenplay title: Dream Vacation
Written by: Edward Leech
Email: eddiekabeddie@gmail.com
WGA Registration Number: VSYA8E87B96
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Genre: Comedy
Logline: A naïve teenager on the run from the law shacks up with seven middle aged men who live like hermits and harbor a deep seeded resentment of the Smurfs in this highly inappropriate take on the classic fairy tale.
Screenplay title: Snow What?
Written by: Steven Guggenheimer
Email: stevenguggenheimer@gmail.com
Registration Number: 1619967
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Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Logline: “Dexter” meets “Basic Instinct”; When a lonely, guilt-ridden werewolf falls hard for one of his beautiful redheaded victims, he must conquer his own murderous instincts to win her love. But a second mysterious killer with his same M.O may literally kill his only chance at happiness.
Screenplay title: Seeing Red
Accolades:
First Place/Rhode Island/RIIFF (Oscar-accredited festival)
First Place/California Independent Film festival
Finalist/Page Awards, Austin, StoryPros, Cinestory, Bluecat
Written by: Sundae Jahant-Osborn
Email: wysiwygprod@compuserve.com
WGA Registration Number: 1579249
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Genre: Drama
Logline:A blind cab driver in Detroit battles a lawyer from the Department of Motor Vehicles to keep his license so he can continue rescuing hospital patients that have been dumped in the ghetto because they can’t pay their medical bills.
Screenplay title: The Crucifixion ofHerald
Writer’s Name: David Santo
Email: davidsanto@hotmail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1594399
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Genre: Historical Action
Logline: The untold true story of how one man’s lifelong mission from God compels him to sacrifice everything to destroy slavery in America, becoming both a murderer and a martyr and igniting the Civil War.
Screenplay title: John Brown’s War
Written by: Jess Peláez
Email: volcanojess@gmail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1617905
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Genre: Comedy
Logline: An inventor strives to pop the world like popcorn, to save his home from being stolen by the government, if his dance-clubbing hunchback lawyer can keep him out of jail.
Screenplay title: It’s A Popcorn World
Accolades:
Honorable mention (runners up)/Script Savvy
Winner/Contest of Contest Winners, for the feature JENNA’S GONE
Winner/‘best in show’ screenplay at Trindiefest, for the feature PAPER TRAIL
Written by: Russ Meyer
Email: tortoise@att.net
WGA Registration Number: 149096
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Genre: Comedy
Logline: A young slacker quits Homeland Security to marry into money and gets a disturbed wife, a cougar mother-in-law, and a computer terrorist.
Screenplay title: Lovers and Laptops
Written by: Glenn Derrick
Email: glenn49derrick@yahoo.com
WGA Registration Number: 1571773
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Genre: Comedy/Drama
Logline: When ESSENCE magazine runs a “Win-A-Date With Rachel Ciemone” contest, the beautiful R&B singer finds herself falling in love with the winning contestant.
Screenplay title: Win A Date With Rachel Ciemone
Logline: When ESSENCE magazine runs a “Win-A-Date With Rachel Ciemone” contest, the beautiful R&B singer finds herself falling in love with the winning contestant.
Accolades:
Finalist/UMFF, for the feature, The Good Life.
Winner/Hollywood Black Film Festival, for the feature, Six Figures.
Written by: Regina Junior
Email: rjunior@windstream.net
WGA Registration Number: 1617698
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Genre: Animated Feature
Logline: Froggy went a-courtin’—but this frog’s no prince, and the bride is already spoken for. Mouse mayor Mary Lou and her beau Sly Snake fight back when a slimy land baron threatens to wreck the little bayou town of Sugarville—and their wedding.
Screenplay title: Local Sugar
Accolades:
Semi-Finalist/Act One Script Competition
Winner/“Best of Fest – Animated Feature Screenplay” Love Unlimited Film Festival & Art Competition
Finalist/ThrillSpy, for feature A Whisker Past Midnight
Written by: Andrew Garrett
Email: animwriter@yahoo.com
WGA Registration Number: 1495238
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Genre: Drama
Logline: The mysterious disappearance of his brother leads a mining magnate on a journey of self- discovery, enlightenment and ultimately, orchestrated revenge.
Screenplay title: My Father’s Son
Written by: Anthony O’Sullivan
Email: afjos@hotmail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1597255
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Genre: Science Fiction Thriller
Logline: Decades after his father’s murder in a mechanized uprising, a driven young rebel leads the offensive to take back his city and free mankind.
Screenplay title: Cities
Accolades:
Winner: Write Movies A/Exposure Competition
Written by: Jim Jackson
Email: jjackson5401@gmail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1614705
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Finalists, August/September, 2012
#3linesorless || #august #september || #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: Sam and Chris are rookie cops with the worst records in their precinct. When the duo lose a drunken bet to a rival pair of cops, Sam and Chris must issue twice their usual number of monthly tickets in only three days by relying on some of the city’s most outrageous and out-of-date laws.
Screenplay title: Dollars to Donuts
Written by: Benjamin Adair Murphy
Email: adairmurphy@hotmail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1242778
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Genre: Action/War
Logline: The true story of Richard Bong, a rookie WWII pilot who makes a brazen bet to beat the kill record of America’s top-scoring ace. But as the deadly competition spirals out of control, he is forced to confront the bitter realities of war and what it means to be a real hero.
Screenplay title: The Ace of Aces
Accolades:
First Place/World Fest
First Place/Indie Gathering Film Festival
First Place/Guild of Italian American Actors
Written by: Geoffrey Breuder
Email: gbreuder@yahoo.com
WGA Registration Number: 1138750
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Genre: Action
Logline: When a will leaves the heirs half of California, a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator finds the heirs are being killed by the same assassin that murdered his girlfriend, and must decide whether to save the remaining heir, or abandon him to hunt down the assassin.
Screenplay title: The Tortoise And The Heir
Accolades:
Winner - best action script - The Chicago Screenwriters Network Screenwriting Contest.
Semi-finalist - Writers On The Storm Contest.
Semi-finalist - The Fade In Awards Contest.
Written by: Russ Meyer
Email: tortoise@att.net
WGA Registration Number: 1450371
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Logline: In the near future, a gifted but cold microbiology student begins a dangerous journey when she creates a protein to turn on the conscience gene in psychopaths.
Screenplay title: The Johnson Cure
Written by: Glenn Derrick
Email: glenn49derrick@yahoo.com
WGA Registration Number: 1540637
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Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Logline: A young woman, dressed as a schoolgirl, baits killers and rapists to avenge their victims, only to become a suspect herself, on the run from a cop with a secret of his own.
Screenplay title: Unikorn
Written by: Mathieu saliva
Email: mathieusaliva@gmail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1578662
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Genre: Thriller
Logline:A female detective with suicidal tendencies must slay her own demons to follow horrific clues that lead to torture, murder and The Catholic Church cover up in a monastic insane asylum.
Screenplay title: The Unspoken
Written by: M.E. Avila
Email: Idgie3798@yahoo.com
WGA Registration Number: 1570074
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Genre: Comedy
Logline: Chuck fears his perfect life might bore him to death, Fred fears his furniture might bludgeon him to death, who’s got it worse? “The Inanimates” is a comedy about perception, reality, and the proper way to interrogate a footstool.
Screenplay title: The Inanimates
Written by: Steven Guggenheimer
Email: stevenguggenheimer@gmail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1603187
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Genre: Action/Comedy
Logline: The chase is on when a former stuntman turn mover unknowingly has money belonging to the mob and a alien artifact pursued by the military.
Screenplay title: The Mover
Written by: Michael Quintero
Email: jfklhr@rcn.com
WGA Registration Number: 231509
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Genre: Comedy
Logline: A dark comedy about the perils of having either too much or too little faith, “Rubrics” follows a deeply religious Catholic woman whose world is turned sideways when her son’s new high school principal becomes enamored by her unique ability to stomach him.
Screenplay title: Rubrics
Written by: Steven Guggenheimer
Email: stevenguggenheimer@gmail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1607712
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Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
Logline: In the near future a young woman named Evelyn works for a National Committee that forces radical parental exams on couples. After seeing the sinister nature of the committee she aids rebels in sabotaging the committee for good.
Screenplay title: Populous
Accolades:
Quarter-Finalist/Scriptapalooza
Top 100/Emerging Screenwriters
Written by: Michael Quintero
Email: jfklhr@rcn.com
WGA Registration Number: R15564
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Genre: Comedy
Logline: At the peak of it’s popularity, wanton alcoholic Eddie Valentine was America Online’s most notorious e-mail spammer. But when Eddie befriends a seven-year old boy, a series of comedic failures forces him to reevaluate his own life. Based on a true story.
Screenplay title: The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
Accolades:
Winner/Haag International Screenplay Competition
Finalist/Waterfront Film Festival
Second Rounder/Austin Film Festival (for These Freakin’ Robots)
Written by: Suneil Singh
Email: suneil.singh1979@gmail.com
WGA Registration Number:: 1609278
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Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Logline: A planned hot tub party at an abandoned house by four married former buddies turns into a psychological nightmare when one of then is found murdered.
Screenplay title: The Harte Home
Accolades:
Best Fantasy/GIAA Film Fest 2010
Buddy-Action-Finalist/ScripVamp 2010
Fantasy-Action-Finalist/The Writer’s Store 2012
Written by: Michael Pallotta
Email: pallotta_m@yahoo.ca
WGA Registration Number: WGC#: S11-03987 (Canada)
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Logline: After a microbiologist shares her conscience gene formula with scientists in other countries, she discovers a gene bank that contains the DNA codes of American senators and representatives.
Screenplay title: The Johnson Cure Part 2: Exposure
Written by: Glenn Derrick
Email: glenn49derrick@yahoo.com
WGA Registration Number: 1609450
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Genre: Coming of Age/Memoir
Logline: In 1980, a small farm girl moves to Chicago to jump start her career in animation. After two years studying and working in the city she becomes entrapped by the media and the FBI for having befriended a certain couple with a link to the Tylenol murders. She ultimately finds solace in her true friends and family.
Screenplay title: A Country Mouse
Written by: Wanda L. Brown
Email: Artist@theComputer.com
WGA Registration Number: 1601430
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Genre: Horror
Logline:A scorned woman is chained to the inside of her house and haunted by an evil entity from another realm that is determined to kill her then destroy all of humanity.
Screenplay title: Angry Slut on a Chain
Writer’s Name: David Santo
Email: davidsanto@hotmail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1551608
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Genre: Sci-fi/Comedy
Logline: After amassive robot invasion decimates humanity, a bumbling manchild must channel his reckless antics to dodge death, outwit killer machines, and win back the love of his life.
Screenplay title: These Freakin’ Robots
Accolades:
Finalist/Omaha Film Festival
Finalist/Gimmie Credit International Screenplay Competition
Finalist/L.A. Comedy Festival
Written by: Suneil Singh
Email: suneil.singh1979@gmail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1479967
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Genre: Drama/Comedy
Logline: A drugged out, self-proclaimed private investigator is mistaken for a double agent when he inadvertently snaps a Polaroid of a drug lord. Trance State Nation is a druggy, neo-noir comedy combining a Fight club and Fear and Loathing style unreliable narrator with a film-noir, hard-boiled narrator.
Screenplay title: Trance State Nation
Written by: Christian Chalklen
Email: chrischalklen@googlemail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1604265
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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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April/May Contest Finalists
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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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April/May Contest Finalists
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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:
-$20,000.00 BEST SCRIPT award from Amazon Studios.
-Two scripts have made the semi-finals of the Nicholl Fellowships.
Written by: Michael Coady
Phone: 503-806-8937
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 - Best Comedy - LA Film Festival
FIRST PLACE - RIIFF/Rhode Island (Oscar-recognized)
FIRST PLACE - California Independent Festival
Written by: Sundae Jahant-Osborn
Phone: (44) 208 7887486894
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
Phone: 503-612-9585
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
Phone: 703 209 6479
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
Phone: (613) 831-4376
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
Phone: 651-308-4499
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
Phone: 818-907-9681
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
Phone: 734.281.2359
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
Phone: 817 894-9222
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
Phone: 520.888.1920
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
Phone: 404 964-4404
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
Phone: 901.388.1969
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
Phone: 517 392 00290
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
Phone: 423 780-9771
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
Phone: 512-567-3414
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
Phone: 305-389-6909
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
Phone: 415.812.3562
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
Phone: 780 483 8226
Email: fsbeep@gmail.com
WGA Registration Number: (WGC) S12-01381
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