Slamdance Screenplay Competition 2005 Winners
Top 10 Finalists1st PlacePreeti Girl(Drama) By Todd Holmes Contact: preeti@warpmail.net Location: New York, NY Logline: When she was 16, Preeti was forced by her mother to follow tradition in her rural Indian community and become a roadside prostitute. It’s a fate she’s accepted for herself, but after she witnesses her sister’s indoctrination, Preeti decides that girls in her village should have choices in their lives. 2nd PlaceStray(Urban Drama) By Amanda L. Weier Contact: amandaweier@yahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: The story of five broken people whose "wrong" turns bring them to the right place. 3rd PlaceGreen Shag Carpet Girls(Coming-of-Age) By Tamara Farsadi Contact: tamarafar@yahoo.com Location: Burbank, CA Logline: A sixteen-year-old girl with a troubled home life and dreams of stardom finds redemption through rock 'n' roll. 4th PlaceEmily's Window(Historical Drama) By Dayle Ann Hunt Contact: dahunt@nyc.rr.com Location: Brooklyn, NY Logline: In 1911 NYC, forty-something Emily flees west, narrowly escaping an asylum. She follows the trail of her Aunt Maddie Mayfield, a feisty suffragette who disappeared years before. While Emily's journey uncovers a life lived unconventionally, it forces her to confront her own dark past. 5th PlaceIt's Raining Men(Comedy) By Paul Sbrizzi Contact: sbrizzi@mac.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Log-line: In 1982 a teenage swimmer goes to his first gay bar, setting in motion a hilarious and bittersweet series of events involving his mom, his East Indian neighbor, a fading porno star, a porno producer, and a dominant dwarf, all desperately looking for love, as the regional swim meet approaches. 6th PlaceOverture(Historical Comedy) By Steven Frech Contact: ghost099@hotmail.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: Based on factual events, Tchaikovsky rediscovers himself, his love for music, and rekindles the pride of a nation by writing the 1812 Overture. 7th PlaceKamehameha The Great(Historical Epic) By Steven Drypolcher & Trudy Drypolcher Contact: trudydry@excite.com Logline: A Hawaiian warrior challenges the warring island chiefs, and, with the help of two stranded English sailors, becomes king. 8th PlaceLove & Letters(Comedy) By William Mac Marshall Contact: wmacmarshall@gmail.com Logline: After kidnapping his sixth grade sweetheart in an attempt to make sense of his feelings, a neurotic man soon realizes why lost loves should remain lost and, in the process, learns the difference between loving and obsessing. 9th PlaceTheo Cole(Comedy) By Kevin Cutts Contact: zoobird@earthlink.net Logline: With guts and guile a poor kid wins his sweetheart. To do so he must overcome her ex and his dad, as well as the determined efforts of his girl's very wealthy father. 10th PlaceDeathday(Supernatural, Thriller) By Amir Ohebsion & Omid Arabian Contact: amiro@sbcglobal.net Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: When a doctor delivers a premature baby that goes into a coma, it unleashes a series of nightmarish events for the doctor as she realizes that her past lives are coming back to haunt her. Skyline Screenwriting Award WinnerHay's Code (Historical Comedy) By Andrew B. Smith Contact: andrewbsmith123@yahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: (screwball comedy) A gay director in 1934 Hollywood must make a gay movie without revealing the film‚ s true content or, naturally, his own sexuality. He puts himself and his picture to the test when he defends it before the zealous enforcers of the Hays Code. Short Screenplay Finalists1st PlaceThe Saint of the Zuiderzee(Coming-of-Age Drama) By Brian Higdon, Virginia Friedman & Steve Hess Contact: Brian.Higdon@gmail.com Location: Charleston, SC Logline: A young girl struggles with the imaginary existence of her mother and a hill they name Zuiderzee. 2nd PlaceRobert For Apples(Romantic Comedy) By Brie Williams Contact: steamboatwilly_1@yahoo.com Location: San Francisco, CA Logline: Nine-year-old Robert has more to worry about than being an LSD baby – he can sense the impending apocalypse. 3rd PlaceMan Pillow(Comedy) By Teresa McGee & Kathleen McGee Contact: tmcgeebc@yahoo.com Location: North Vancouver, B.C. Canada Logline: Perpetually single Shelley is forced to reevaluate her impossibly high expectations of men when her birthday gift, a Man Pillow, takes on a life of its own. 4th PlaceCoyotes of Hollywood(Drama) By Mark Wasserman Contact: mjwasserman@yahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: A struggling young musician enlists the help of an older, established rock star. 5th PlaceHours Before Dawn(Drama) By James Tuverson Contact: jtuverson@comcast.net Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: Unraveled teenager Max holds his best friend, Peter, hostage the night before he plans a murderous assault on their high school. Desperate for his company, yet afraid to have his meticulous plans ruined, Max cuffs Peter to a pipe in his garage while he prepares for his deadly errand. Semifinalists (listed alphabetically)Balls (Coming-of-Age) By Maoz Brown Contact: maoz1985@yahoo.com Location: Kendall Park, NJ Logline: When a sex-driven teenager finds out he has testicular cancer and will undergo an operation that will render him impotent, he becomes determined to lose his virginity. BgFATLdy (Comedy) By Dexton Deboree & Adam Pertofsky Logline: Logline: A small town sheriff investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself. The Brane Universe (Science Fiction) By Stephen Dackson Contact: sdackson@gmail.com Location: New York, NY Logline: Jack Brane has his world thrown into upheaval when, out of nowhere, a beautiful girl shows up at his door to inform him that they are, in fact, highly advanced robots, the only two on the planet. Together they hit the road on a quest to find their origins. Chasing Monarchs (Urban Drama) By Michael Davidson Contact: MDavid1006@aol.com Location: Hollywood, CA Logline: Following the suicide of his brother, Matt Johnson sets out to right a wrong committed by his brother. In the process, metamorphosis takes place in human souls -- all because we refuse to stop chasing. Cleave (Drama) By Mike Miller Contact: Cleave@silverlining.net Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: Snip Freeman was kidnapped as a 7-year-old by her own father and raised as a boy so they could hide. Cleave is her story twenty years later as she goes in search of her past to heal the present. It is a dangerous journey from which she finds truth and freedom. Crescent City (Historical Drama) By Kira-Anne Pelican Contact: kiraanne@btinternet.com Location: London, England Logline: New Orleans, 1868. An idealistic doctor is told by an alluring clairvoyant that he’ll take the life of another man. When a fiction becomes fact, in a plot to change the face of the city, he learns that to save himself, his ideals must be sacrificed. Dog Year (Drama) By Melissa Brandt Contact: melissabrandt@charter.net Location: Rochester, Minnesota Logline: When a troubled woman leaves a failing relationship, she returns to the family farm to confront her disturbing past and meets a bereaved stranger who shows her that love doesn't have to hurt. Double X (Science Fiction) By Kristin Levine Contact: kslevine@cox.net Location: Alexandria, VA Logline: Twenty-five years after a virus decimated the world's male population, someone is killing women pregnant with male babies. Dysphoria (Urban Drama) By Brian Havelka Contact: brianhavelka@yahoo.com Location: New York, NY Logline: Nineteen year-old Veronica Logan is a stripper with an affinity for crystal meth. When credit card fraud leaves her with 9 felony charges, the cops make a deal with her: she can work for them, or she spends her 20‚s behind bars. The El Senor (Action, Suspense) By Jamie Rothenberg Contact: jamie@shenandoahproductions.com Location: New York, NY Logline: Set in a corrupt and sultry San Juan, a female card counter and her prostitute sister seek revenge against the man who murdered their parents, but end up his unwitting allies in his scheme to take over a luxury resort. Father's Day LA (Drama) By Tim Kirkman, Shaunt Benjamin, Douglas McGowan & Hernan Rodrigez Logline: Three different men. Fathering. Same City. The Get (Drama) By Justine Schmidt & Mugs Cahill Contact: justine@schmidt.net Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: An adrenaline junkie network news producer takes her self-absorbed correspondent and crew into Iraq to cover the war. She ignores the warnings and demands of the military and foolishly makes an ego driven decision that puts their lives at risk. Based on true stories from the front. Ghoul School (Family) By John Stancari Genre: Family Contact: JStancari@aol.com Location: West Hollywood, CA Logline: After a lonely boy gains the ability to see ghosts, he enrolls in a "haunted high school," where he's the only living student. There, he learns ghostly skills, makes some unusual friends and stumbles across a deadly plot. The Gospel According to Lebbaeus called Thaddeus (Historical Comedy) By Will Carlough Contact: lebbaeus@redheadedleague.com Location: Brooklyn, NY Logline: Two clueless palace guards get a different take on the life of Jesus as they become the eleventh and twelfth apostles. Hay's Code (Historical Comedy) By Andrew B. Smith Contact: andrewbsmith123@yahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: (screwball comedy) A gay director in 1934 Hollywood must make a gay movie without revealing the film‚ s true content or, naturally, his own sexuality. He puts himself and his picture to the test when he defends it before the zealous enforcers of the Hays Code. Hollywood & Vyin (Drama) By D. Scott Adams Contact: duluoz2001@hotmail.com Location: Hollywood, CA US Logline: An LA passion piece about the love between a successful writer, whose spirit is slowly being killed by an endless cycle of booze and nightlife, and beautiful rock star, whose hell raising ways mask a troubled soul. Home (Dramedy) By Samina Sami Contact: ss363@columbia.edu Location: New York, NY Logline: When a father dies, a Pakistani-American mother and daughter must negotiate newfound freedoms, relationships, and which one of them gets to go to the junior high spring fling-- a dance that is bound to give Bollywood a run for its money. In the Lives of Brothers (Drama) By Kelsey Simons Contact: Kelsey_Simons@verizonmail.com Location: Detroit, MI Logline: When a salt miner assumes care for his mentally-impaired brother, he must come to terms with the painful echo of a tragic day from their childhood. Independence (Historical Drama) By Matthew Barber Contact: matthewsmail@aol.com Logline: Two friends, one black, one white, make their way to Independence, Missouri during WWII when the black friend is told her army son is in jail for trying to kill the man who killed his father. It’s Not OK (Sci-Fi, Romanace) By Bruce Dundore Contact: dundoreb@aol.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Log-line: As his severed arm starts to grow back, a man struggles to manage a blossoming relationship with his horrified girlfriend when they both discover he's an alien and that she is pregnant with his child. Jake Curve (Drama) By Tim Cummings Contact: email: starblood73@yahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: An identical twin vanishes into thin air. The remaining twin vanishes into a crisis of identity. Jimmy Vestvood, Amerikan Hero (Comedy) By Amir Ohebsion & Maz Jobrani Contact: amiro@sbcglobal.net Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: A bumbling detective and his over-protective mother find themselves at the center of a Hitchcockian murder mystery as they study for their citizenship exam. Kennesaw (Urban Drama) By Saul Fussiner Contact: professorfussiner@gmail.com Location: New Haven, CT Logline: a young white bluesman goes searching for his soul in an all-black small town. The Lost Boys' Farewell Tour (Dramedy) By Alena Kastin Contact: AlenaKastin@yahoo.com Location: Brooklyn, NY Logline: A musically gifted little boy kidnaps an insecure 20-something musician, coercing him to go on tour through the California countryside posing as brothers in a strange rock band called The Lost Boys. Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (Historical Drama) By Cornelia Duryée Moore (Based on the novel by Madeleine L'Engle) Contact: leapfilm@gmail.com Location: Seattle, WA Logline: Mariana, a cloistered nun in seventeenth-century Portugal, has a scandalous affair with a French soldier, which threatens her convent, her sanity, and the Portuguese court with its scandal. Her yearning love letters to him are secretly published, and become popular reading all over the continent. Can she find redemption? M.T.A. (Urban Drama) By Anslem Richardson Contact: anslem_asylum@yahoo.com Location: New York, NY Logline: MTA worker Kurt Coulter wants to be more than an ignored subway cleaner. Inspired by his police officer uncle, Stan, Kurt rescues a woman and finds himself caught in a media firestorm which crowns him king of a city and draws the adoration of a down on her luck waitress, Fran. But when the media’s spotlight fades, an unlikely hero discovers he will do anything to regain the world‚s attention. Orwell (Biography) By Chris Angel Contact: filmangel@aol.com Logline: The transformation of George Orwell through his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. Ota Benga (Historical Drama) By Barbara Palmer Contact: bp@cyberport.net Logline: Based on the true story of a Pygmy who is sold into slavery, sent to America to be displayed in the zoo with an orangutan as his cage mate, and his struggle to find a way home. Pirates of Lesser Providence (Family, Adventure) By Colleen Cooper De Maio Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: When their New England fishing village is devastated by the Revolutionary War, five young outcasts must steal a boat and sail off to heist a pirate treasure, before their indebted families are hanged. Queen of Hearts (Drama) By Terry Jamieson Contact: tkjamieson@verizon.net Location: Sarasota, Florida Logline: Sherry - a housewife obsessed with mystery novels travels to Switzerland with her flamboyant sister and finds herself embroiled in a mystery of her own. Ruby Blue (Drama) By Jeremy Wadzinski Contact: lariski@hotmail.com Location: Minneapolis, MN Logline: When a shy, troubled teen falls in love with a small town gigolo, a terrible secret is exposed which unleashes the town's wrath, and destroys the couple's future. Snow Day (Drama) By Claire Lousie Partin Contact: cpartin@adelphia.net Location: West Hollywood, CA Logline: A Southern California businessman and father uses the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9-11 as an escape from his life. Station Men (Coming-of-Age, Drama) By William Mac Marshall Contact: wmacmarshall@gmail.com Logline: A young boy in rural South Carolina has his visions of the past and hopes for the future placed in jeopardy after he begins working at the family-s gas station. Syria (Action) By Ken Singer Contact: ksinger@shawnigan.net Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Logline: A father travels to the Middle East to search for his estranged son and, with the help of a sexy traveler, a dedicated police captain, and a taxi driver with a tragic past, uncovers a criminal organization trafficking in human organs. That Dead Book Thing (Comedy, Adventure) By Chip James Contact: chipjames@adelphia.net Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: To save the universe, twin brothers must battle sibling rivalry and the Egyptian Gods...in Vegas. Semi & Quarterfinalists listed by title only 2005 Slamdance Screenplay Competition Awards Presentation and Reception
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