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Screenplay Winners 2008
SCREENPLAY COMPETITION WINNERS
FEATURES
SWEET MARY JANE (Staged Reading Winner)
By Jennifer Harrison, New Jersey
WINNER Comedy First Place
SYNOPSIS: Mary Jane, a 30 year-old woman still caught up in the punk rock scene, slams
nose to nose with her past and is forced to face her love-hate affair with her estranged father ... and her hips.
THE OTHER RIDE OF MIDNIGHT
By Bill Braudis, Massachusetts
WINNER Comedy Second Place
SYNOPSIS: The British are coming! But so is Saul Revere. That's right, Saul. It's the eve of
the American Revolution and the younger, lesser known Revere, a politically indifferent colonial comic, has to make a dangerous midnight ride in order to help the cause.
SANDWITCHED
By SharonContillo, Rhode Island
WINNER Comedy Honorable Mention
SYNOPSIS: The story of Linda Lopez, who’s sandwiched between caring for her 'me'
generation children and her, 'you owe me', elderly mother. After promising her dying father she’d unconditionally care for her hypochondriac mother, she quickly regrets it and with the help of her devoted friend, Patsy, uses outrageous strategies in attempts to covertly kick her mother out of the house without breaking her promise to her dying father.
LOVE ME DON’T
By Jeremy Dorman, Pennsylvania
WINNER Comedy Honorable Mention
SYNOPSIS: When the husband in a couple who were married purely out of spite has an affair,
he decides to search out a man for his wife to have an affair with, so as to put her at fault for the
divorce.
DUCK SEASON
By Robert Harte, New York
WINNER Drama First Place
SYNOPSIS: Father and son square off over the love of a woman against the backdrop of
lacrosse and Martha's Vineyard.
I’M WITH TAB
By Ryan Robison, Michigan
WINNER Drama Second Place
SYNOPSIS: What happens when a once popular, but now down-and-out motivational
speaker has lost his way? There’s only one thing to do’ rely on the few remaining wacky groupies to help him find his own inspiration. But when his long-term rival (the current #1 motivational speaker in the country) tries to keep him down, will he forfeit his integrity or can he bring an honest brand of motivation to the masses in time?
SOMETHING MAGICAL
By Jeremy Hammel, Massachusetts
WINNER Drama Honorable Mention
SYNOPSIS: A dying 14-year-old girl, Sarah, who will never be able to grow up, and a
lovelorn young man, James, who never got to be a kid, spend one last Summer doing everything that they think they missed out on in each of their lives.
HALFWAY HOME
By David Schroeder, Florida
WINNER Drama Honorable Mention
SYNOPSIS: Recently injured, twenty year old quadriplegic, Gabriel Matthews, undertakes a
journey to reaffirm his self-worth and sense of purpose. With his grandmother's '55 Cadillac convertible and his wheelchair, he sets off to reclaim his academic scholarship and return to college. But the focus of Gabriel's journey is interrupted, when he reluctantly accepts a summer job, sending him into the small-town world of the mentally retarded. Living with the five Halfway House boys challenges Gabriel's intellectual pride. But through a summer of comic adventures, galvanized by tragedy, they poignantly discover the emotional truths of their humanity--desire, belonging, and self-worth.
WONDER DRUG
By Caitlin McCarthy
WINNER Science Screenplay
SYNOPSIS: The repercussions of the drug DES (synthetic estrogen) is traced from it’s initial
discovery in 1938 London to present day Boston, as the story follows the implications of its lethal side effects from the perspective of hopeful researchers, greedy pharmaceutical marketers and unknowing patients.
STRAY
By Nena Eskridge
WINNER Thriller/Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi First Place
SYNOPSIS: Stray is a dark psycho/thriller about a killer who decides to give up a life of crime
to settle down in a small town to start a family. But first she must find the right guy to do it with - whether he wants to or not.
THE RAVEN’S TREASURE
By Connie Tonsgard, Alaska
WINNER Thriller/Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi Second Place
SYNOPSIS: Max Link's land venture in Mexico turns into a life or death struggle and helps
solve the mystery of the raven's treasure.
THE PARTING GLASS
By Philip Marcoccio, California
WINNER Thriller/Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi Honorable Mention
SYNOPSIS: A tale about a gang of bungling Depression Era malefactors and an elderly
Irishman, whose capacity for shots of turpentine and rancid sardine sandwiches lead the gang to a date with the executioner.
DURABLE BACK
By Dave Petonic, California
WINNER Thriller/Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi Honorable Mention
SYNOPSIS: Detective Micki Bradwell is propelled by restless energy inherited from her fiery
prosecutor mother. A promising career in dance and theatre tantalized Micki as a young woman.
Everyone knew that’s where she would succeed. Yet the grounded realism of police work beckoned louder to Micki. Her upscale suburb, however, offers up few samples of gritty crime fighting. That is, until the bizarre double-murder of the Trents occurs in her town. Micki is paired with big city veteran Lieutenant Paul Elliott, and together, they begin unraveling the mysteries behind the media-dubbed Dead Weight Murders. Double Back is a story of discovery, shocks, horrors, ripples and surprises. Follow the mystery as a mosaic of tragedy and tears is unveiled behind the proper doorways and tidy windows of Brexton Valley, Ohio.
SHORTS
UNFINISHED PEACE
By FrederickWeller, New York
SHORTS WINNER Comedy First Place
SYNOPSIS: A young woman is undergoing a crisis which leads to sexual misadventures with
her boyfriend and mild violence with her boss.
STREETCAR
By Frederick Weller, New York
Shorts WINNER Comedy Second Place
SYNOPSIS: A sexy, successful television actress undergoes a premature mid-life crisis and
auditions for an avant-garde production of Streetcar Named Desire.
THE CIGARETTE BOX
By Jorge Barboza
Shorts WINNER Comedy Third Place
SYNOPSIS: Vinicio is about to be part of the criminal elite known as 'Los Formales' but will
he be able to pass the final test?
FREE’S RAIN
By Marquette Jones, New York
Shorts WINNER Drama First Place
SYNOPSIS: A young South African woman must turn her back on her family obligations in
order to pursue her dreams of a better life.
THE WORDS AND THE BEES
By Ron Podell, Michigan
Shorts WINNER Drama Second Place
SYNOPSIS: Apocalyptic story from an ecological, entomological perspective of what will
happen if bees die off.
CENSORED
By Hilary Graham, New Hampshire
Shorts WINNER Drama Third Place
SYNOPSIS: Their sex scene is censored. Really censored!
INTO THE SEA
By Michael Medeiros, New York
Shorts WINNER Fantasy First Place
SYNOPSIS: A young woman writes to an exiled friend to help save her from a doomed
relationship.
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