Loglines for kids
Source: @Bambookiller
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“Every year, the National Endowment for the Arts hosts The Big Read, a program where kids all over the country read the same book and participate in related events. Last year it was 11th grade and The Maltese Falcon, prompting me to spend a semester on film noir. This year it’s a collection of 20 Mexican short stories published specifically for this year’s Big Read.
The good thing about that is that the kids like it. We’re the first class reading the book at our school, so they’re excited to think almost nobody else has read this book, and they LOVE reading Mexican literature because almost all of them are Latino. The downside is there isn’t a whole lot of information on these stories as a collection. Several of them I’m able to look up and research, but for the most part I have to do a lot of the prep work myself. Not that I mind, because I’m having fun learning, but it involves a lot of staying after school in my room and working.
I decided that since we just finished reading a novel as a class, I’d let the kids handle the stories on their own. We read Octavio Paz “My Life with the Wave” as a group, and now they’re going to split into groups and each group will take either one long story or two shorter stories and research and present them to the class.
In order to help them choose, I had to go through each story one by one, count page numbers, and create a logline. That was the learning part, creating the loglines. I had to come up with one sentence that summed up the story but kept it sounding interesting enough that the kids would want to read it.
“After a man buys the statue of an Aztec god, his life changes for the worse as the god gets progressively stronger” sounds interesting. “Philosopher Pao Cheng thinks about existence” does……”
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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Good grief, there are some #killer #comedy #loglines this round! Announcements will be made on Monday, so stay tuned!
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Past Mystery/Suspense Finalists
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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/BizOfScreenwriting Rewrite Contest.
BEST LOW BUDGET Screenplay/Toronto’s Female Eye Screenplay Contest.
ACTOR’S CHOICE Award/The Screenwriters Conference in Santa Fe.
Written by: Russ Meyer
Email: tortoise@att.net
WGA Registration Number: I12725-00
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Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Logline: When a young ex-Army MP returns to the small town of Paper Trail in the mountains of Colorado to become a private investigator, his first case reveals a town full of secrets, including one that destroyed his family years before.
Screenplay title: Paper Trail
Accolades: FINALIST, Bare Bones Film Festival. THIRD PLACE, Divebomber Radio Screenwriting Contest. SEMI-FINALIST, Fade In Awards Contest.
Written by: Russ Meyer
Email: tortoise@att.net
WGA Registration Number: 1233450
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Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Period
Logline: Slightly disturbed genius playwright, Will Shakespeare, turns spy for Queen Elizabeth and finds himself caught in a labyrinth of deceit that threatens his sanity, his life and his country.
Screenplay title: The Stage
Written by: Jonathan Volz
Email: j-volz@hotmail.com
WGA Registration Number: 1364045
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