TOP 10 SCREENPLAYS

1st SONG OF SILENCE
(Drama)
by Miranda Kwok
(323) 936-1916
mirandakwok@shadowdancepictures.com
--After 50 years of silence, Su Jin exposes the untold history of herself and thousands of other woman forced into sexual slavery by Japan during WWII.

2nd THE PARACHUTE FACTORY
(Urban)
by Tanya Steele
(718) 398-9316
ts308@nyu.edu
--Trapped in a small Southern town, Manny and Lula set off cross country, when a justifiable murder sets off a chain reaction of events.

3rd WIZARD OF GENOA
(Period Epic)
by Gary L. Miner
(925) 756-1359
garylminer@yahoo.com
--Violin Virtuoso of the Romantic period, Niccolo Paganini, was music's first shock-rock icon, who performed with such force, it was thought that he was in league with the devil.

4th BROBOT
(Short, Comedy)
by Kiyong Kim
(310) 940-4731
kiyong@umbrellaprojects.com
--Jeff, an awkward 8-year-old convinces his younger brother, Shawn, that he's in fact a robotic slave built by his parents.

5th GO DOWN LIGHTLY
(Drama)
by Gary Fisher
(604) 874-2946
helicon@telus.net
--Robert, a con man, and his girlfriend Frankie drift into a nascent lumber town in 1922 and get mixed up in a murder investigation.

6th THE DIVINE ORGASM (in 3 movements)
(Urban, Comedy)
by Rod J. Emelle
(323) 964-5221
groovciti@aol.com
--Three different stories, tied together by the presence of television reporter, follow characters struggling desperately to find some meaning in life and their own divine orgasm.

7th UNTITLED GIRL GUIDE COOKIE THRILLER
(Comedy)
by Alana Garrop
(818) 681-9713
agarrop@aol.com
--An idealistic Girl Guide accidentally discovers the diabolical selling methods of the Troop's top cookie seller: techniques that include blackmail and murder.

8th SCALP PEELED FORWARD
(Action, Horror)
by Jud Cremata
(310) 251-0028
jud@cremata.com
--A dead man realizes that he's a zombie and tries to set things straight
with his estranged daughter before being consumed by the need to kill and
eat brains.

9th NELSON: ROCK AND ROLL DETECTIVES
(Comedy)
by Brian Farrelly, Jay Barba
(718) 349-7424
brianfarrelly@yahoo.com
--Glam-metal icons, Matthew and Gunner Nelson, are hard-rockin' identical twin private eyes who disguise themselves as roadies to investigate a string of mysterious deaths.

10th THIRD CLASS CRY
(Drama)
by Sang Kyu Kim
(847) 475-9328
BEATLE23@HOTMAIL.COM
--Two British football hooligans from dysfunctional families, have to question their destructive lifestyles when they meet an abused wife and her young son.

SEMI-FINALISTS: (listed alphabetically by genre)

ACTION:

FIRST HOSTAGE
Darrell James
djames@pacbell.com

HIGH MOON
Scott Sullivan
stuffforscott@hotmail.com

STONE FREE
Bill Wingard
wingard@aol.com

THE TYRANT OF SWIFT CURRENTS
Michael H. Muzerall
starwis@hotmail.com

COMEDY:

WAITING FOR THE MAN
Stan Johnson
johnsonRS2000@aol.com

DRAMA:

BREAKER
Lisa Robinson, Alex Macinnis
rockgarden@hotmail.com

DAMNATION
Reno Dakota
rdakota@nyc.rr.com

DISTORTIONS
Kai Salim
kai_forg@hotmail.com

DOWN THE DIRT ROAD
Tony Mosher, Mitch Larson
REVFILM@AOL.COM

DUNANT
Edmund Stubbing
luedstubbing@aol.com

THE IMPERFECT CELL
Lance Hammer
lancehammer@hotmail.com

UNTITLED #12
Charles Burmeister
charles@rubycanoe.com

FAMILY:

BOOKWORM
Sharon Clark
sclark@arts.ucla.edu

ROMANCE:

LAST RITES
Kerrilyn M. Simmons
kms33@aol.com

PERIOD EPIC:

THE ACTOR
Demetrious Polychron
demetrioumail@aol.com

ENRIQUILLO
Steve La Montagne
stevela48@aol.com

THE GREAT FIRE
Chad Hodge
chadhodge@sbcglobal.net

ILLUSION
Kevin Jones
knljones@earthlink.net

LULU
Bill Oliver, Peter Nickowitz
swoliver@hotmail.com

SHORTS:

LIBERTY, LOS ANGELES
Laura Behary
laurabehary@attbi.com

SKY OF AN ARCHANGEL
Matvei Jivov
mattjivov@hotmail.com

PRESIDENT’S DAY
Mark Myers
markmyers777@aol.com

STIGMATA PINATA
Craig McCallister
theevildead@earthlink.net

URBAN:

4 YEARS TO LIFE
Rod J. Emelle
groovciti@aol.com

SCIENCE OF PROGRESS
Andrew Brellisford
ajbfilms@hotmail.com

QUARTER-FINALISTS: (listed alphabetically by genre)

ACTION:

IDEM by Erwann Marshall, Amanda Hartsey
erwanngmarshall@hotmail.com

MEDIA CIRCUS by Dan Borengasser
dborengasser@ozarkvideo.com

THE MIND OF GOD by Jeremy Wilmarth
jeremy@wilmarth.org

COMEDY:

AMERICAN AQUARIUM by Steve Gribben
gribben@2004.law.ucla.edu

BACH DOUBLE by Barbara Marshall
bthove@aol.com

BAR MITZVAH BLUES by Lawrence M. Vencent
vincentdoc@aol.com

BLOCK PARTY by Steve Gambutti, Stan Medoza
gambutti@optonline.net

DREAMS OF MASSACHUSETTS by Ela Basak
Elabasakus@yahoo.com

MANITOBA DRIFTWOOD by Nathan Webber, Jeff Nielsen
natewebber@hotmail.com

MARIA DEL HUDSON by Dick Keith
rmkeith@comcat.com

THE SECOND COMING by Tony Mosher, Mitch Larson
Revfilm@aol.com

TUNNELMAN! by Adam Nadler
themagicbox@earthlink.net

SURROGATE by Nancy Rampson
nrampson@aol.com

DRAMA:

THE ANGEL¹S JOURNEY by Mitt B. Stampler
spookymitt@aol.com

BEGOTTEN by Amir Ohebsion
amiro@sbcglobal.net

BESSIE SMITH: EMPRESS OF THE BLUES by Theresa Moreau
theresamoreau@hotmail.com

THE DEAD BOY by Greg Pak
greg@gregpak.com

DREAM OF DRAGONS by Theo Lee-Yahng
ktleeyahng@earthlink.net

ESCAPING HADES by Nathan Foulger
nathanfoulger@earthlink.net

GROPING FOR LUNA by Chris Martino
chris@projectxmedia.com

HARLEM FAITHFUL by Edmund Stubbing
luedstubbing@aol.com

I CAN¹T HEAR YOUR NAME by Rachel L. Goldberg
rgoldberg@earthlink.net

RAWKITTEN by Lori, Przybylo, Brian K. Johnson
lori23caspian@excite.com

RENAISSANCE FEARS by Brian Mitchell Warshawsky
brianwar@juno.com

SINS OF THE HEART by James Stevens-Arce
jstevens@prdigital.com

THE SOLITUDE OF SELF by James Buess
aiyahjim@aol.com

SUN KING by Tim Carpenter
tim@mtsfs.org

TIN STAR by Garrett Tache
gjtache@yahoo.com

WORLDS APART by Thomas A. Snyder
ragebull80@aol.com

PERIOD EPIC:

PIRATES OF LESSER PROVIDENCE by Colleen Cooper De Maio
colleen_demaio@yahoo.com

SAN FRANCISCO by Tom Sylla
tom@syllafilms.com

ROMANCE:

EYE OF DAWN by Philip W. Dumas
philipdumas1@yahoo.com

RAW by Eric T. Finkel
eric@finklefilms.com

URBAN:

HIGH AGAIN by Joanna Louise Johnson
lujohnson@earthlink.net

STIR CRAZY by Seth Nesenholtz
hypercritic@hotmail.com