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BROWSE BY GENRE:

ACTION / ADVENTURE  |  COMEDY  |  CRIME CAPER  |  DRAMA  |  FAIRY TALE  |  FANTASY

GHOST STORY  |  HORROR  |  MOCKUMENTARY  |  MONSTER MOVIE  |  MYSTERY

POLITICAL SATIRE  |  ROMANTIC COMEDY  |  SCI-FI  |  SUSPENSE  |  THRILLER

 

Scripts from the Screenwriter's Challenge 2007 will be added by next Friday, March 21, 2008 - Thanks for your patience!

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ACTION / ADVENTURE

 

''Mile 42''  BY: John Dowgin  (USA)

GENRE: Action / Adventure  SUBJECT: A Race  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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.

 

''Lucid Mobius''  BY: Richard Schimpf  (USA)

GENRE: Action / Adventure  SUBJECT: A Diary  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A bike messenger's dream diary leads her on a journey through her worst nightmare.

 

''The River Raven''  BY: Andy Cannistra   (USA)

GENRE: Action / Adventure  SUBJECT: A Person is left for dead  YEAR: 2004  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A useless old fisherman navigates a ravenous river to rescue his only grandson.

 

 

COMEDY

 

''Big Turk's Spirit Journey Weekend''  BY: F. Chong Rutherford  (USA)

GENRE: Comedy  SUBJECT: Hunting  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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.

 

''Iron Magnolia''  BY: Aimee Parrott  (USA)

GENRE: Comedy  SUBJECT: Weightlifting  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A Southern belle takes up weightlifting to show her traditionalist father she can stand on her own two feet.

 

''Nasty, Brutish and Short''  BY: Heather Hughes  (USA)

GENRE: Comedy  SUBJECT: Hunting  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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.

 

''Chump Change''  BY: Ken Chadwick  (USA)

GENRE: Comedy  SUBJECT: Lunch Money  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A police detective matches wits with a class of spoiled third graders when one of them - the governor's son - finds his lunch money stolen.

 

''Wednesday Night at Spanky's''  BY: Amy Neswald  (USA)

GENRE: Comedy  SUBJECT: Lost Luggage  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: May, 30, a shy but hopeful romantic, falls in love at second sight with a mysterious airline commuter.  While trying to get the goods on him, she learns about pushing fate, looking for love and living happily after the end of the story.

 

''Plastic Chief''  BY: Scott Dacko  (USA)

GENRE: Comedy  SUBJECT: Plastic Surgery  YEAR: 2004  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Plastic surgeons battle head-to-head in a "Dukes of Hazzard" - themed Japanese game show.

 

''Recognition''  BY: Ryan Ocello  (USA)

GENRE: Comedy  SUBJECT: An Inventor  YEAR: 2004  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Mona Lisa Antonia Maria da Vinci, the greatest scientific mind in history, has always let her brother Leo take credit for her inventions.  Until now.

 

 

CRIME CAPER

 

''In Deep''  BY: Joni Brainerd  (USA)

GENRE: Crime Caper  SUBJECT: Oil  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: After witnessing a shooting that may or may not have happened, Marcy Collier must battle her sanity and her scheming husband in order to save her life.

 

''The King''  BY: Joseph Kelly  (USA)

GENRE: Crime Caper  SUBJECT: Amateur Con-Artist  YEAR: 2004  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A struggling actor gets the shot of a lifetime working for a charismatic con boss as a bit player in a wild sting.  On the night of his "debut," he discovers that there's more to his role than he's lead to believe.

 

 

DRAMA

 

''Bakari's Hands''  BY: Bart Rawlinson  (USA)

GENRE: Drama  SUBJECT: Musician(s)  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Unappreciated and misunderstood by their families, an old woman and a gifted child form an unexpected musical friendship.

 

''Butchery''  BY: Vijay Vanniarajan  (USA)

GENRE: Drama  SUBJECT: Soldier(s)  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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?

 

''Come Alive''  BY: Pete Able  (USA)

GENRE: Drama  SUBJECT: A Statue  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A man salvages his crumbling marriage when he embraces a new hobby – performing as a living statue.

 

''Dogface''  BY: gabrielle pace  (USA)

GENRE: Drama  SUBJECT: Soldier(s)  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: In a house deep in the woods, a man builds a fort around himself and the rest of the world.

 

''Fathoms Deep and All Alone''  BY: Richard Calantropio  (USA)

GENRE: Drama  SUBJECT: A Statue  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round) LOGLINE: In the depths of loneliness, a man discovers he's never alone.

 

''Muerte de los Torros''  BY: Stephen Lyman  (USA)

GENRE: Drama  SUBJECT: A Fighter  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: When a cunning Havana street urchin reminds a retired bullfighter of the twist of fate that denied him the glorious death he'd hoped for, he finds that he's finally ready to finish his battle with the fiercest bull he'd ever faced, the deadly El Malvado.

 

''Ricochet Effect''  BY: Candice S. Jones  (USA)

GENRE: Drama  SUBJECT: Unemployment  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A calm older man, usually regarded as someone refined in nature, succombs to the worst of his humanity after an extensive period of unemployment.

 

''Tame Dragons''  BY: Ryan Semerau  (USA)

GENRE: Drama  SUBJECT: A Fighter  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: When a young Chinese peasant is threatened that he and his family will be killed if he doesn't join the murderous Red Guard, he must decide if the price of living with shame is greater than the price of saving his and his family's lives.

 

''A Time of Need''  BY: Mary O'Kicki  (USA)

GENRE: Drama  SUBJECT: An Anti-War Protester  YEAR: 2004  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Eighteen year old Maria, from a small rural town where people pride themselves on answering Uncle Sam's call to duty, is tired of seeing people she loves depart for a war she doesn't understand or believe in.  Risking the wrath of her family, boyfriend and the townspeople, she joins the war protest to halt recruiting in her town, and in doing so is forced to come to terms with her own ideals, and the reality of her situation.

 

 

FAIRY TALE

 

''The Deluge''  BY: Jayson McDonald  (Canada)

GENRE: Fairy Tale  SUBJECT: Global Warming  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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.

 

''The Forest''  BY: David Dembkoski  (USA)

GENRE: Fairy Tale  SUBJECT: Global Warming  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: An amazing invention in the elf village changes the forest forever.

 

''The Volunteer''  BY: Spencer Christian  (USA)

GENRE: Fairy Tale  SUBJECT: An Internet Virus  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: If the fate of the world is in the balance and they're looking for one good man, don't volunteer unless they make you.

 

 

FANTASY

 

''The Office Fantastic''  BY: Derek Keyeski  (USA)

GENRE: Fantasy  SUBJECT: A Window  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Larry's getting hairy; will the figments of his imagination let him get away with it?

 

''There's A Dragon in My Cubicle''  BY: Dan Roth  (USA)

GENRE: Fantasy  SUBJECT: A Window  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: "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."

 

''Wilderness''  BY: Amy Neswald  (USA)

GENRE: Fantasy  SUBJECT: Steps  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (final round)

LOGLINE: Reticent from birth to live the first of many lives, Robert, now 40, shies away from any attachments -  until he finally meets his soulmate. 

 

''The Shoestring Tree''  BY: Joni Brainerd  (USA)

GENRE: Fantasy  SUBJECT: Steps  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  2nd Place (final round)

LOGLINE: A vow to scatter their eccentric mother's ashes according to her wishes reunites wayward siblings, until they learn of the other-worldly location she's chosen. 

 

''Wedding Dance''  BY: Spencer Christian  (USA)

GENRE: Fantasy  SUBJECT: Steps  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  3rd Place (final round)

LOGLINE: Sometimes it's the steps you don't take that make all the difference.

 

''Walking Still''  BY: Joe Rye  (USA)

GENRE: Fantasy  SUBJECT: Steps  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  4th Place (final round)

LOGLINE: Osmond has been fleeing death since the womb.  Walking to the ends of the earth, he must decide if it's worth the hurry. 

 

''Step #5''  BY: Richard Schimpf  (USA)

GENRE: Fantasy  SUBJECT: Steps  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  5th Place (final round)

LOGLINE: Who knew running off to join the circus meant jumping  through so many hoops?

 

 

GHOST STORY

 

''Rx''  BY: Dana Moe Halley  (USA)

GENRE: Ghost Story  SUBJECT: A Lost Trail  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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.

 

''You Hurt Sissy''  BY: joan Philo  (USA)

GENRE: Ghost Story  SUBJECT: Strange Telephone Calls  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: You Hurt Sissy is a supernatural short script about two 12-year-old Earth scouts who are tormented with a barrage of harrowing phone calls after they gleefully destroy a plastic doll they found in the woods.  The boys must reunite the doll with it's Banshee Spirit Mother before the slow death of the boy who smashed, "Pretty Girl."

 

 

HORROR

 

''Disgorgement''  BY: Elizabeth Chase  (USA)

GENRE: Horror  SUBJECT: A Note  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (final round)

LOGLINE: Evil and illness come together to create the most feared products of a pandemic: conspiracy realized and the death of hope itself.

 

''Sick Note''  BY: James Harris  (UK)

GENRE: Horror  SUBJECT: A Note  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  2nd Place (final round)

LOGLINE: Grand Guignol meets Phys Ed as cricket bat meets Ken's head.

 

''Salvation''  BY: Clark Kline  (USA)

GENRE: Horror  SUBJECT: A Note  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  3rd Place (final round)

LOGLINE: A subdued man wakes up in a room full of dead bodies and  can only listen and wait his turn as a doctor begins to remove organs  from the living man beside him.

 

''The Undead Penthouse''  BY: Derek Keyeski  (USA)

GENRE: Horror  SUBJECT: A Note  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  4th Place (final round)

LOGLINE: Life looks good from the top floor of Mercy Hospital, as Lockwood Residential unveils plans to convert the abandoned property into condominiums, but beneath the surface the hospital already has vacancies it's looking to fill. 

 

''Karbala''  BY: Ali Imran Zaidi  (USA)

GENRE: Horror  SUBJECT: A Note  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  5th Place (final round)

LOGLINE: 1400 years after a bloody massacre on the banks of the Euphrates, a survivor from a downed Black Hawk mission fights for a life he was ready to give, in a land branded by misery.  Inspired by the true history of Karbala.

 

''Helpless''  BY: Clark Kline  (USA)

GENRE: Horror  SUBJECT: Tears  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A limbless man in a basement can only listen as his mother is brutally attacked above.

 

''Mad Cow''  BY: Amy Neswald  (USA)

GENRE: Horror  SUBJECT: Gambling  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A dead, angry cow travels from slaughterhouse to contemporary kitchen, leaving a trail of horror and death along its path to its final destination.

 

''The Devil Made Me Do It''  BY: Carl M Roth Jr  (USA)

GENRE: Horror  SUBJECT: A Hypnotist  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Simon Rich is a man whose life seems full of tragedy and convoluted memories that don't make any sense.  He wakes, suddenly not knowing where he is or why he's there, but he's about to find out.

 

''The Legend of Reunion House''  BY: Clare Darlington  (Canada)

GENRE: Horror  SUBJECT: A Family Reunion  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A dysfunctional family is strangely transformed during a weekend retreat at a picture-perfect country inn.

 

''The August Sun''  BY: James Felder  (USA)

GENRE: Horror  SUBJECT: A Strange Radio Broadcast  YEAR: 2004  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Two strangers who find themselves at a gas station in the desert catch a ride with a third stranger who's stopped in to get gas.  An hour from the station, in the middle of nowhere, they hear on the car radio that the gas station attendant was found butchered and that the murderer is suspected to be one of them.

 

 

MOCKUMENTARY

 

''Pretty Penny''  BY: L. Scott Dunlap  (USA)

GENRE: Mockumentary  SUBJECT: Modeling  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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.

 

''Nigel Tandensburg's "The Wild" : Episode 94 - Mascots''  BY: Derek Rhodenizer  (Canada)

GENRE: Mockumentary  SUBJECT: Mascots  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Ripped from their natural habitat, torn from their families, humiliated on a nightly basis...all for your entertainment.

 

 

MONSTER MOVIE

 

''Belief In Cod''  BY: Caroline Coxon  (UK)

GENRE: Monster Movie  SUBJECT: Fast Food  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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?

 

''Feedback''  BY: Matthew Ryder  (South Africa)

GENRE: Monster Movie  SUBJECT: Fast Food  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Ronald orders a monster meal from his local Yeehaws and gains a disturbing insider's insight into the ecology of the fast food industry. 

 

''Night Fishing''  BY: Anne Sagel  (USA)

GENRE: Monster Movie  SUBJECT: Fishing  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A Cajun father and son go night fishing in the Louisiana bayou, stirring up more than fish with their voodoo-inspired angling.

 

 

MYSTERY

 

''Lick Me Deadly''  BY: James Harris  (UK)

GENRE: Mystery  SUBJECT: A Funeral  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Paul must escape from his own funeral, and seek and destroy the ice-cold killer that has conspired to bury him alive.

 

''What the Vicar Saw...''  BY: Brizec Isabelle  (UK)

GENRE: Mystery  SUBJECT: Plagiarism  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

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?!

 

''Adopted''  BY: Christos Kouros  (UK)

GENRE: Mystery  SUBJECT: Plagiarism  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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.

 

''Indigestion''  BY: Aaron Williams  (USA)

GENRE: Mystery  SUBJECT: A Funeral  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A boy attempts to find out who belongs to the severed finger he finds in the stomach of his dead dog.

 

''Stray Babies''  BY: Joe Rye  (USA)

GENRE: Mystery  SUBJECT: Ice  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: This week a lonely orphanage matron finds a possible suitor in the ice-cream maker across the street.  She also finds a mysterious baby on her door step every night.

 

''The Big Thaw''  BY: Michael Compton  (USA)

GENRE: Mystery  SUBJECT: Ice  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: On a remote, arctic island known by the Inuit as "The Land that Never Thaws," an old man with a long-buried secret finds global warming poses a very personal threat.

 

 

POLITICAL SATIRE

 

''Closing Costs''  BY: Derek Keyeski  (USA)

GENRE: Political Satire  SUBJECT: Real Estate  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: When a mayoral candidate falls far behind in the polls, his campaign must take drastic action to close the gap.  Will the cost of closing that gap prove too much for a real estate agent turned politician?

 

 

ROMANTIC COMEDY

 

''The Great Bon Jovi Pilgramage''  BY: Paul Griffin  (Canada)

GENRE: Romantic Comedy  SUBJECT: A Road Trip  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Two wives join their husbands on an annual motorcycle trip to New Jersey and find a love that has been buried within each other.

 

''Suleyman's Travels''  BY: Ali Imran Zaidi  (USA)

GENRE: Romantic Comedy  SUBJECT: Immigration  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A Muslim immigrant recalls muddling his way through the maze of love, America, and love in America. With all apologies due to Jonathan Swift.

 

''Graceland''  BY: Elisha Eppihimer  (USA)

GENRE: Romantic Comedy  SUBJECT: A Road Trip  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: An Alzheimer's patient escapes from her retirement home and runs off to get married while being pursued by her daughter and the police.

 

''Blame it on the Bandit''  BY: Kirk White  (USA)

GENRE: Romantic Comedy  SUBJECT: Senior Citizen Dating  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: You can't let go of the best you were.  Relive the life...revive the love!

 

''The Magic of Love''  BY: Ben Wilson  (USA)

GENRE: Romantic Comedy  SUBJECT: A Wedding  YEAR: 2004  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A model backs out of marrying a magician when she fears the magic has left their relationship.

 

 

SCI-FI

 

''Bloodline''  BY: Geva Patz  (USA)

GENRE: Sci-Fi  SUBJECT: Video Game  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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.

 

''Future Imperfect''  BY: Helen Slater  (UK)

GENRE: Sci-Fi  SUBJECT: Divorce  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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 

 

''POD''  BY: Shelli Wright  (USA)

GENRE: Sci-Fi  SUBJECT: Underwater  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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.

 

''A Toaster in Space''  BY: Chris Messineo  (USA)

GENRE: Sci-Fi  SUBJECT: A Blind Date  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Thomas is a middle-aged inventor living at home with his mother and obsessed with the fourth dimension, time.  On a blind date, Thomas finds a kindred spirit in Sarah as they explore the true nature of time, love, betrayal, and small home appliances.

 

''Teddy''  BY: Timothy Cooper  (USA)

GENRE: Sci-Fi  SUBJECT: Bird Watching  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Demetrius, an ornithologist whose parents gave him up for dead after he was born severely crippled, uses his studies of the canary's unique neuroregeneration capabilities to help make insterstellar travel possible for humans.  But when his far more celebrated twin brother, Teddy, becomes ill, Demetrius must make a nearly inconceivable sacrifice.

 

''Pilot Man''  BY: Brandon Hopkins  (USA)

GENRE: Sci-Fi  SUBJECT: Oxygen  YEAR: 2004  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: "It won't be black as sackcloth - it'll be bright, like a rain of gold.  And then it will be quiet..."

 

 

SUSPENSE

 

''The Highest Bidder''  BY: Jeff Sears  (USA)

GENRE: Suspense  SUBJECT: A Home Video  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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.

 

''Where's Mommy?''  BY: Katie Harding  (USA)

GENRE: Suspense  SUBJECT: A Power Outage  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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 moth

 

''Conclusions''  BY: Carl Roth Jr  (USA)

GENRE: Suspense  SUBJECT: A Home Video  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: con·clu·sion (n) pronunciation  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.

 

''Araucaria''  BY: Martin Lancaster  (Germany)

GENRE: Suspense  SUBJECT: An Old Record  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: A detective races to decipher a cryptic message left by a serial bomber.  He soon realizes that the message reveals not the killer's identity, but the identity of his next victim.

 

''Safe & Drowned''  BY: Andy Cannistra  (USA)

GENRE: Suspense  SUBJECT: A Locked Door  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Trapped and facing certain death, six and a half year-old Jake must choose between his dog, his toys and his own welfare or the life of the adopted sister he sorely resents.

 

''Pink Slip''  BY: David Whitney Jr  (USA)

GENRE: Suspense  SUBJECT: A Locked Door  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  2nd Place (first round)

LOGLINE: Ideas are the basis for any literary work.  Syd Field has dedicated his life to making ideas for the film industry but he is about to discover that all good things come to an end in Pink Slip.

 

''Watching Kate''  BY: Beth Danesco  (USA)

GENRE: Suspense  SUBJECT: A Child's Bedroom  YEAR: 2004  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: To save herself and her family, a woman must outsmart the criminals who are monitoring her every move.

 

 

THRILLER

 

''Maddie's Quick Trip''  BY: Elizabeth Chase  (USA)

GENRE: Thriller  SUBJECT: A Photo Album  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: While trying to clean up her life, Maddie gets more than she bargained for.

 

''The Lesser of Two Evils''  BY: Kenneth Kemp  (USA)

GENRE: Thriller  SUBJECT: A Dying Wish  YEAR: 2006  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: 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.

 

''Inside David Cane''  BY: Rachel Langley  (USA)

GENRE: Thriller  SUBJECT: An Ambulance  YEAR: 2005  NOTES:  1st Place (first round)

LOGLINE: An ambulance takes a detour into the dark corners of one man's mind.