1st Place **FINALIST** 'Balls Out' by Tim Westland   LOGLINE - Legendary Surfing Pioneer, Mick "Balls Out" Shelly, hasn't hit the waves in over five decades. But an opportunity to reclaim the spotlight takes Mick and three people from his past on a trip down memory lane that none of them is likely to soon forget.   15 PAGES   (Heat 7)  

2nd Place **FINALIST** 'The Hang Ten Gang' by Marnie Mitchell-Lister   LOGLINE - Road Trip!  Join some old surfing buddies as they drive from New Jersey to California. . .for the second time.   15 PAGES   (Heat 7)  

3rd Place  'UNSUNG HEROES: BIG WAVE SURFING' by MICHAEL HAYES   LOGLINE - Jack Rigby this week tells us the tale of two unlikely and unsung heroes of one of the lengendary moments in big wave surfing.   15 PAGES   (Heat 7)  

4th Place  'SEARCHING FOR JOHNNY HOSTAS' by JEREMY LUBMAN   LOGLINE - When an awkward, middle-aged man from Long Island discovers that his real father was actually a notorious California surfer from the fifties who has since gone into hiding, he embarks on a quest to find him.   15 PAGES   (Heat 7)  

5th Place  'And Sometimes Wylan' by Tom Dell'Omo   LOGLINE - When Wylan, a cocky 13 year old from Kansas, decides to enter a surfing contest in California, he brings an entirely new surfing style to the national scene.   15 PAGES   (Heat 7)