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2001 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION WINNERS!

    1st Place
  • THE WOODSMAN by Steven Fechter and Nicole Kassel
  • Genre - Drama
    A recently released convicted sex offender struggles to rebuild his life and resist temptation after 12 years in prison.

    2nd Place
  • WAR by Barbara Marshall
  • Genre - Sci Fi /Drama
    The lives and fates of three young people are inextricably bound together by the vagaries of an apocolyptic global war.

    3rd Place - Tie
  • MARIA FULL OF GRACE by Joshua Marston
  • Genre - Drama
    A defiant 17-year-old Colombian girl undergoes a harrowing coming-of-age when she quits work at a flower plantation and naively agrees to swallow a half-kilo of heroin and transport it the United States.

  • THE RIVER by Lonnee Hamilton
  • Genre - Period Drama
    In rural Louisiana in 1967, a midwife’s daughter must choose between tradition and progress when a young doctor arrives in town to train local healers in modern medicine.


Recognition of Excellence
  • CUT OFF by Roger Aylward
  • Genre - Period Drama
    An American war correspondent finds himself trapped behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge with two Jewish children as travel companions.

  • MOUNDVILLE by Kristin Levine
  • Genre - Coming of Age Drama
    A young white boy and a black girl become friends admist prejudice in a small Alabama town.


    Finalists
  • A KING'S SECRET by Michael Cheung
  • Genre - Period Drama
    An outcast warrior's dream of being a king comes true after tragedy befalls the kingdom.

  • BRIT OR MISS by Lisa Rothstein
  • Genre - Comedy
    A charming, British ne'er-do-well escapes his past and a loan shark by fleeing to Newport, Rhode Island where he falls in love with a rich American widow.

  • MIMI'S TATTOO PARLOR by Lisa Luciani
  • Genre - Drama
    In the aftermath of domestic violence, three young women seek refuge in a tattoo parlor.

  • NUDE WITH STRATOCASTER by Scott Louis Clevenger
  • Genre - Romantic Comedy
    Two New Yorkers filled with mutual irritation find romance when the wall separating their apartments is torn down during seismic retro-fitting.

  • PILGRIM OF ETERNITY by Andrew Arthur
  • Genre - Period Drama
    In 1812, Lord Byron becomes a publishing success and a passionate defender of weavers’ rights before being forced into a lifetime of exile.

  • THE DEVIL’S ECHO by Darryl Smith
  • Genre - Horror/Western
    An aging and beleaguered Marshall of small western town must fight off outlaw gunslingers who won’t die.


CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2002 SCI FI SCREENPLAY COMPETITION WINNERS

    FEATURES
  • 1st Place THE PIXELATED MAN by J.A. McEvoy
    A detective following a serial killer targeting low income males discovers the kilings are linked to a corporation’s attempt to enslave the population with virtual reality headgear.

  • 2nd Place ROBOTS NEVER DIE by David Van Hooser
    A hardboiled cop and his robotic partner battle a squad of killer robots.

  • 3rd Place THE CASSINI EFFECT by Charles Hall and Kara
    McCourt When a rogue asteroid strikes the moon, a team of scientists is dispatched aboard a high-tech orbiter to study the impact crater, only to discover their benign mission will destroy mankind.

    Finalists
  • AT PUBLIC EXPENSE by Royce Buckingham
    After a terrorist’s bomb annihilates a planet, a first-year lawyer defends a young man with no recollection of the event and faces the death penalty on Earth.

  • FLAG DAY by Brian Smith and Vincent Vinas
    George Washington and Abraham Lincoln rise from the grave to kill teens who flunk American history.

  • OTHERWORLD by Mark Garbett
    Two spacecrafts, engaged in an interstellar war, crash land on an uncharted world where magic rules over technology.

  • UNDERWORLD by Patrick Devery
    After finding her husband dead, a woman teams up with a cosmic partner to battle techno-terrorists, cyber-punk thieves and dehumanizing technology to find her kidnapped baby and unlock the keys to her past/future.

    SHORTS
  • 1st Place RECALLING SAM by Christopher and Donald Barr
    Based on Bishop Berkeley’s belief that matter can not exist except in the perception of others, Sam Taubensell discovers that the loss of his job also means the loss of his existence.

  • 2nd Place ACTORTRAZ by Bryan Deats
    Set in a futuristic prison where prisoners are “A” and “B” actors, an A-list actor is sentenced to spend the rest of his career in B-movie roles.

  • 3rd Place HUNGRY by Stacia Saint Owens
    An isolated Midwestern housewife suffering from bulimia has hallucinations that both she and her young daughter turn into werewolves with tragic results.

  • BACK TO ONE by Kurt Evans
    A strange event erases the memory of a couple who wake to find they are unknown to each other and themselves.

  • THE DAMNDEST LUCK by Loreen Niewenhuis
    World War I soldiers discover “luck” is on their side and find a moment of peace.

  • LAST LAUGH by Sonya Sobieski
    “Evil” meets and becomes obsessed with a woman who is unaffected by his tricks.
For more information, see our press release at Propaganda. Many thanks to everyone who entered, and don't forget to call about your Screenplay Coverage!

2002 Screenplay Competition


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