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HEAT 1 - Monster
Movie / Fast Food |
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"Belief In Cod" - Caroline Coxon (Buxted,
East Sussex, UK) - Two cranky sisters, owners of the finest
fish and chip shop in Scotland, find their livelihood
threatened by a greedy American property developer and his
side-kick, an over-zealous environmental health officer.
The source of strange rumblings in the cellar may prove to
be their saviour, but what has happened to wee Bobby’s dog? |
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"Feedback" - Matthew Ryder
(Killarney, Johannesburg, South Africa) - Ronald orders a
monster meal from his local Yeehaws and gains a disturbing
insider's insight into the ecology of the fast food
industry. |
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HEAT 2 - Comedy / Weightlifting |
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"Iron Magnolia" - Aimee Parrott (San
Diego, CA, USA) - A Southern belle takes up weightlifting to
show her traditionalist father she can stand on her own two
feet. |
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HEAT 3 - Thriller / A Photo Album |
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"Maddie's Quick Trip" - Elizabeth
Chase (Pasadena, CA, USA) - While trying to clean up her
life, Maddie gets more than she bargained for. |
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HEAT 4 - Drama / Musician(s) |
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"Bakari's Hands" - Bart Rawlinson
(Forestville, CA, USA) - Unappreciated and misunderstood by
their families, an old woman and a gifted child form an
unexpected musical friendship. |
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HEAT 5 - Mockumentary
/ Modeling |
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"Pretty Penny" - L. Scott Dunlap
(Phoenix, Arizona, USA) - Forced into the world of modeling
as a child, Elizabeth Archer fought to find her own
identity. What she found was that no matter how far you
run, destiny can not be escaped. |
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HEAT 6 - Suspense / A Home Video |
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"The Highest Bidder" - Jeff Sears
(Indianapolis, IN, USA) - When a man attempts to sell the
exclusive rights to home video of a plane crash, the highest
bidder isn't the media...it's the government. |
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"Conclusions" - Carl Roth Jr
(Duarte, CA, USA) - con·clu·sion (;n)pronunciation
n. 1. The close or last part; the end or finish. 2. The result or outcome of an act or process. 3. A judgment or decision reached after deliberation. |
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HEAT 7 - Fantasy / A Window |
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"The Office Fantastic" - Derek Keyeski (Oak Creek, WI, USA) - Larry's getting hairy; will
the figments of his imagination let him get away with it? |
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"There's A Dragon in My Cubicle" -
Dan Roth (Cresskill, NJ, USA) - "A young woman working a
dead end job has been vying for the best cubicle in the
building: the only one seated next to the sole window in the
office. When she finally gets it she discovers that the
cubicle comes with a price." |
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HEAT 8 - Thriller / A Dying Wish |
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"THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS" - Kenneth
Kemp (Woodland Hills, California, USA) - When the woman of
his dreams becomes a nightmare, Marshal Kinkaid must face
his greatest fear. Find out what drives him over the edge
in, THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS. |
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HEAT 9 - Comedy / Hunting |
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"Big Turk's Spirit Journey Weekend"
- F. Chong Rutherford (Brooklyn, NY, USA) - This is a story
about a man, another man, a bear, and a canteen full of
hallucinatory medicine water. It features a very fat man,
full frontal male nudity and a unicorn. |
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"Nasty, Brutish and Short" - Heather
Hughes (Seattle, WA, USA) - Kitty Lyon's sleep deprived
attempt to protect her little brood from danger leads her on
a hunt that results in bagging a somewhat unusual prey. |
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HEAT 10 - Sci-Fi / Video Game(s) |
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"Bloodline" - Geva Patz (Swampscott,
MA, USA) - When a contestant in a futuristic underground
blood sport sets out to regain his honor, the game threatens
to spill out into the real world. |
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HEAT 11 - Ghost Story / A Lost Trail |
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"Rx" - Dana Moe Halley (San Mateo,
CA, USA) -
A single woman moves to the city where she was born, leaving
behind a bad relationship and a prescription drug problem.
She soon finds that the hallucinations that haunted her past
take on visual form in her new life. |
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HEAT 12 - Sci-Fi / Divorce |
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"Future Imperfect" - Helen Slater
(South Croydon, Surrey, UK) - Anna and Max won’t be allowed
to decide who gets custody of their son Jack and neither
will the courts; not even Jack himself has a say. Instead
scientists award access based on what is happening in the
infinite number of parallel future universes which exist
alongside our own. |
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HEAT 13 - Drama / Soldier(s) |
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"Butchery" - Vijay Vanniarajan (San
Jose, CA, USA) - Five soldiers in Iraq come across the body
of an insurgent. One wants to decapitate him to send a
message to other insurgents. Another wants to stop him.
What's a body ultimately worth? |
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"DOGFACE" - gabrielle pace (New
York, NY, USA) -
In a house deep in the woods, a man builds a fort around
himself and the rest of the world. |
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HEAT 14 - Fairy Tale / Global Warming |
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"The Deluge" - Jayson McDonald
(London, Ontario, Canada) - As the fields and forests wither
under an increasingly poisonous atmosphere, two warring
kingdoms unwittingly set the stage for a long-prophesied
event...a cataclysmic deluge that will swallow the world. |
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"The Forest" - David Dembkoski
(Merrimack, NH, USA) - An amazing invention in the elf
village changes the forest forever. |
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HEAT 15 - Horror / Tears |
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"Helpless" - Clark Kline (Frederick,
MD, USA) - A limbless man in a basement can only listen as
his mother is brutally attacked above. |
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HEAT 16 - Horror / Gambling |
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"Mad Cow" - Amy Neswald (New York,
NY, USA) - A dead, angry cow travels from slaughterhouse to
contemporary kitchen, leaving a trail of horror and death
along its path to its final destination. |
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HEAT 17 - Suspense / A Power Outage |
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"Where's Mommy?" - Katie Harding
(Salem, MA, USA) - Abby is a strong yet innocent
seven-year-old girl on a mission to find her mother to help
her grieving father. She is on her way through the hospital
when suddenly the power goes out and she is left alone in
the dark with only the knowledge that her mother cannot be
far away. |
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HEAT 18 - Romantic Comedy /
Immigration |
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"Suleyman's Travels" - Ali Imran
Zaidi (Orlando, FL, USA) - A Muslim immigrant recalls
muddling his way through the maze of love, America, and love
in America. With all apologies due to Jonathan Swift. |
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HEAT 19 - Sci-Fi / Underwater |
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"POD" - Shelli Wright (Cape Coral,
FL, USA) - Five reality show contestants wake up to find
themselves in an underwater pod. They must complete tasks
and resist the urge to panic in order to become the ten
million dollar winner... or so they think. |
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HEAT 20 - Mystery / A Funeral
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"Lick Me Deadly" - James Harris (Saltburn,
Cleveland, UK) - Paul must escape from his own funeral, and
seek and destroy the ice-cold killer that has conspired to
bury him alive. |
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"Indigestion" - Aaron Williams
(Liverpool, NY, USA) - A boy attempts to find out who
belongs to the severed finger he finds in the stomach of his
dead dog. |
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HEAT 21 - Romantic Comedy / A Road
Trip |
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"THE GREAT BON JOVI PILGRIMAGE" -
Paul Griffin (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) - Two wives join
their husbands on an annual motorcycle trip to New Jersey
and find a love that has been buried within each other. |
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"Graceland" - Elisha Eppihimer
(Marietta, Georgia, USA) - An Alzheimer's patient escapes
from her retirement home and runs off to get married while
being pursued by her daughter and the police. |
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HEAT 22 - Mystery / Plagiarism |
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"What the Vicar Saw..." - Brizec
Isabelle (Ealing, London, UK) - LOGLINE: An innocent
children's story book turns out to be a raunchy novel. But
how did it end up in the public Library of a respectable
English country town?! |
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"Adopted" - Christos Kouros (London,
London, UK) - After a long absence, a young woman, Sonia,
decides to visit her father’s grave, where she will be
surprised finding that someone else, Lazarus, pretending to
be her brother, visits her father’s grave very often. After
the interventions of her father’s lawyer she will not only
discover that she has been adopted, but also that Lazarus is
an orphan who decided to “adopt” her dead father. |
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HEAT 23 - Action/Adventure / A Race |
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"Mile 42" - John Dowgin (Spotswood,
NJ, USA) - When an extreme distance runner encounters a
human trafficking ring during a 100-mile desert
ultramarathon, he must battle both exhaustion and the
criminals to save the innocents. |
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HEAT 24 - Drama / A Statue
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"Come Alive" - Pete Able (Woodway,
TX, USA) - A man salvages his crumbling marriage when he
embraces a new hobby – performing as a living statue. |
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"Fathoms Deep and All Alone" -
Richard Calantropio (San Jose, California, USA) - In the
depths of loneliness, a man discovers he's never alone. |
