Slamdance Screenplay Competition 2006 Winners
1st Place Drool (Dark Comedy) By Nancy Kissam Contact: nedkiss (at) yahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: After Anora kills her abusive husband, she, her kids and her new girlfriend take a family road trip in their purple "Kathy K. Kosmetics" car to go bury daddy. 2nd Place Black Dove (Bio/Historical Drama) By Phil Penningroth E-mail: ppenningroth (at) yahoo.com Location: Longmont, CO Logline: When no pilot will teach a black woman to fly proud, defiant Bessie Coleman decamps from jazz age Chicago to France where she falls in love with a WWI ace. Sacrificing personal happiness, she returns to America and battles white racism, black sexism and fear of a falling death, barnstorming her way to respect and her own flight school before she dies flying. 3rd Place Ball (Drama) By Julian Breece Contact: breece (at) post.harvard.edu Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: Cast out by his family for being gay and determined to support his terminally ill son, a teen prodigy finds strength and survival in New York's underground world of gay vogue Balls. 4th Place Pennsyltucky (Comedy-Drama) By Francis Abbey Contact: pennsyltuckylarry (at) gmail.com Location: Hyattsville, MD Logline: Larry, one of the worst and most self-deluded actors ever, leaves his small town for Hollywood. Los Angeles chews Larry up, but he meets Jody, who takes him under her wing. Jody restores Larry's long forgotten joie de vivre and actually molds him into a decent actor. But just as things in Hollywood are looking up for Larry, he must drop it all to rescue his best friend from back home. 5th Place Vampire Strippers Must Die! (Action, Comedy) By Keith Hartman Contact: DirectorKeith (at) yahoo.com Location: West Hollywood, CA Logline: A group of B-string male strippers on tour in Eastern Europe must battle the undead. 6th Place Jump the Void (Drama) By Goro Toshima Contact: goroto22 (at) hotmail.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: After their mother's unfortunate accident, two teenage girls are left alone to fend for themselves. 7th Place Three Latin Girls (Magical Realism/Fantasy) By Yamin Segal Contact: threelatingirls (at) gmail.com Location: New York, NY Log Line: After being abandoned by her crazy father in New York City, 22-year-old Zoila must learn how to care for her two younger sisters. As her teenage sister becomes more rebellious, and the youngest more lost in her own fantasy world, Zoila struggles to keep herself and her family together. 8th Place Reserved Seats for the Plain and Unconscious (Drama/Comedy) By Steve McCall & Zak Hilditch Contact: mcevo83 (at) hotmail.com Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia Logline: A high octane and darkly comic tale about a drifter named Henry who embarks on a road trip up the West Australian coast to reconcile with his dying father. 9th Place Sugarcane Blues (Drama) By Chris Gordon Contact: humbert111 (at) hotmail.com Location: Austin, TX Logline: With time run out on his bargain with the devil, a depression-era bluesman must make it back to the cane fields of his youth in order to save his eternal soul. 10th Place Struck (Magical Dramedy) By Lynne R. Kamm Contact: vikingscribe (at) hotmail.com Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Logline: In a world where energy is power, if fourteen-year-old Sunny is ever to belong, she desperately needs to be struck by lightning. Best Short Length Screenplay: 4 Corners (Comedy) By Ken Pisani kpslam (at) earthlink.net Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: A stranger crashes his bike in the Four Corners region – the only place in the U.S. where four state borders meet in a perfect-cross intersection – and finds himself stranded in a place where unlikely people and improbable events intersect… where anything can happen, and does. Special Final Draft Presentation of the Slamdance Screenwriters Lab Award: Drool (Dark Comedy) By Nancy Kissam Contact: nedkiss (at) yahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: After Anora kills her abusive husband, she, her kids and her new girlfriend take a family road trip in their purple "Kathy K. Kosmetics" car to go bury daddy. Feature Length Semifinalists with Honorable Mentions: Adonis (Drama) By Jeff Tetreault Contact: jeff.tetreault (at) gmail.com Location: Nashville, TN Logline: A bodybuilder at a Southern college struggles to overcome bigorexia when he meets a girl who likes him for who he is. The Boy From Settignano (Historical / Italian Renaissance) By Maureen Johnson Contact: maureenjohnson (at) verizon.net Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: Florence, 1490. A young and yet undiscovered Michelangelo Buonarroti accepts an invitation to study stone at the Palazzo Medici where he falls in love with the inspiration for his greatest work: Davide (the "David"). It seems a match made in heaven until Davide is exposed as a sodomite by the Office of the Night, a magistracy charged with the duty to enforce Florentine morality laws. Frank & Lola (Psychological Thriller) By Matthew M. Ross Contact: Shawn Simon at Anonymous Content (Manager) shawns (at) anonymouscontent.com Location: New York City, NY Logline: On Halloween night, Frank, a chef at Brooklyn restaurant, falls in love with Lola, a mysterious girl who’s new in town. Betrayal then forgiveness soon follows. But the damage has been done, as Frank’s obsession soon leads him to Paris and revenge. Rational Panic (Psychological Thriller) By Robert Rhyne Contact: randprhyne (at) aol.com Location: Orange, CA Logline: When a professor's wife, who suffers a panic disorder, disappears mysteriously during Mardi Gras, the professor obsesses on one of his students who seems to know a little too much about his wife and may be in on the disappearance. Virgin (Coming-of-age, Comedy/Drama) By Danny Passman & Gadi Dechter Contact: contact.montemar (at) gmail.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: When an extremely young-looking 16-year-old virgin falls for a much more “experienced” family friend, he uses an easy girl to get more experienced... but loses himself in the process. Feature Length Semifinalists: Adelitas (Action, Period, Epic, Drama) By Sarah Vaill Contact: adelitas.sarahvaill (at) gmail.com Location: Venice, CA Logline: When Pancho Villa raids the haciendas in Mexico, 1910, teenage Adela escapes the fields to join his revolution. In the chaos of war and passion, she finds the courage to lead, battling wills with Villa himself. Sung into legend by his fighting men, ŒLa Adelita‚ remains a much-loved folksong in Mexico today. The feature script ŒAdelitas‚ brings the legend to life in an action-packed tale about loyalty, love, and learning which one is worth fighting for. AfterLife (Psychological/Supernatural Thriller) By Philip Schaff & Corey Schaffer Contact: nqr (at) email123.net Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: A tormented artist's dreams and ghostly encounters force him to take responsibility for his own choices and face the horrific consequences. Al Qaeda Management Trainee (Dark Comedy) By Michael Shriro Contact: michael.shriro (at) gmail.com Location: Richardson, TX Logline: A Muslim FBI Agent must go undercover to stop the Texas branch of al Qaeda from using a nuclear weapon to destroy the most strategic target of all, the suburbs. American Sumo (Comedy) By Trevor Boelter & John Burish Contact: American_Sumo_Movie (at) yahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: To win the Japanese woman of his dreams an overweight American goes to Japan to train as a champion Sumo wrestler. Angel's Wing (Drama, War, Romance) By Alan Johnson Contact: alan.scripts (at) gmail.com Location: Denver, CO Logline: In war-ravaged Vietnam, a disillusioned American advisor rescues an orphaned baby girl. Against orders he risks everything to keep the baby and meets a Vietnamese woman who helps him secretly raise the child, while the terrors of war surround them. A Beginner's Guide to Seduction (Romantic Comedy) By Keith Hartman Contact:DirectorKeith (at) yahoo.com Location: West Hollywood, CA Logline: A gay freshman and an overweight girl team up to seduce the popular jock that they both have a crush on. Beijing Driving Academy (Comedy) By Don Shearn Contact: bdascreenplay (at) yahoo.com Location: Highland Park, IL Logline: Lyle Merton, an out of work actor, living and drinking in his parent's basement is chosen by the shadowy, yet ruthless Champin Chou, to be " the public face of safe driving in China," and although way out of his element, Lyle with the help of Rita Wong, Champin's ex-girlfriend, must overcome his drinking, his fear of poultry, and ultimately a bus load of Mongol Warriors. Campaigner (Comedy) By Greg Rock Contact: Grock006 (at) aol.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: A Karl Rove-esqe political consultant is hired to win a small town mayoral election for the lombotomized son of a wealthy businessman, but discovers the opposition is his ex-fiancé: the woman who broke his heart. Columbia Gorge (Comedy, Drama) By Les Kanekuni Contact: kanekuni (at) optonline.net Location: Hoboken, NJ Logline: A serial killer meets his match when his girlfriend puts down her foot about his "hobby." Crackatooq (Family Fantasy/Adventure) By Mitchell Rose (story by Mitchell Rose & Derek Ivan Webster) Contact: Crackatooq [at] mitchellrose.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: The Nutcracker contemporized. The petty sparring between the human and mouse kingdoms goes too far when the Mouse Queen transforms the beautiful human princess into a monster. The princess sets out on a quest to remedy the curse—a quest that hurtles her into present day reality. Dust My Blues (Drama) By Peter Koslik & Jon Morris Contact: Lizardking28 (at) hotmail.com Location: Seattle, WA Logline: A gifted musician confronts his troubled past and finds redemption in the deep South after rekindling the career of a reclusive blues legend. Finding Micah (Romantic Comedy) By Julie Anne Wight Contact: julieannewight (at) gmail.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: When superstitious American expatriate Megan McCormick was fifteen, an Ouija board predicted she’d marry her best friend Micah before her 29th birthday. Now 28, living an ocean away, and engaged to another man, Megan decides to give fate a second chance and search for the true love she left back in the States. Fred and Ginger (Comedy) By Toni Martinson Contact: tonimartinson (at) hotmail.com Location: San Diego, CA Logline: The names Fred and Ginger once stood for stylish sophistication, but then came the 80's, MTV hair bands, and a new Fred and Ginger - who now cling to their fading fame as the former video vixen attempts to revitalize her boyfriend's career while being blackmailed by his former bandmate. Hellados (Drama) By Dato Bakhtadze Contact: dato777 (at) sbcglobal.net Location: Woodland Hills, CA Logline: The life of a violin prodigy fraught with personal tragedy, triumphs over adversity. Hope and Salvation (Drama/Comedy) By Melissa S. Gage Contact: gagefilms (at) gmail.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: Hope, a repressed Bible thumper, finds her true salvation when she's forced to become a phone sex operator in order to fulfill a church fundraising pledge—and falls in love with a client in the process. Jazz is Dead (Drama) By Michael Longarzo Contact: mikelongarzo (at) yahoo.com Location: Jersey City, NJ Logline: A young jazz musician loses his ability to perform and struggles to find a new niche in life. The Last Narrative of Edgar A. Poe (Period Drama) By Jeffery W. Protzman Contact: Tom-O-Hawk (at) att.net Location: Pittsburgh, PA Logline: Edgar Allan Poe is rescued from would-be murderers by a gang of counterculture poets with their own plans for his future, and though their plot contains "much of madness and more of sin," Poe realizes such a fantastic existence is more desirable than his ceaseless struggle to adapt to reality. Mother of Frankenstein (Historical Drama/Comedy) By Ian Simpson Contact: isimpson (at) afifellows.org Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: A darkly comedic biopic of Mary Shelley that re-imagines how she finds her 'true' inspiration for FRANKENSTEIN... Nature Boys (Black Comedy) By Paul Peditto Contact: paulyvegas (at) hotmail.com LOCATION: Chicago, IL LOGLINE: A master marijuana grower recruits an unlikely duo to guard the mother of all pot fields in the final days of a million-dollar harvest. The Newman Shower (Coming-of-age, Comedy/Drama) By Danny Passman & Gadi Dechter Contact: contact.montemar (at) gmail.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: When almost-15-year-old Willie Newman, a counselor-in-training, and his younger brother Gabe both fall in love with the same older, wilder, camp counselor, Newman is forced to deal with his own feelings of inadequacy. Sam and Dean (Drama) By Donna Bonilla Wheeler Contact: filmmakerdonna (at) yahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: A wealthy, selfish businessman with brain cancer finds true love and redemption when he agrees to help a dying younger man he meets at his chemo treatments. Santa on the Spot! (Romantic Comedy, Family, Holiday, Fantasy) By Andrew B. Smith Contact: andrewbsmith123 (at) NOSPAMyahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: After Diana Neill, a tabloid TV reporter, exposes his operation at the North Pole, Santa Claus closes up shop, sends his elves packing, and heads to New York to make an anonymous life for himself. De-bearded, de-bellied, and debunked, Santa tries toy store customer service, community activism, and finally the topsy-turvy world of TV development, but his good will always gets the better of him - and eventually Diana’s cynical heart. Shark Valley Slough (Crime Drama, Thriller, Mystery) By Christopher D. Brown Contact: cdbrown (at) cozen.com Location: Miami, FL Logline: A DA obsessed with cold cases is hired by a judge to investigate his daughter's unsolved murder in a story inspired by actual events in 1980s Miami. Nothing is what it appears as he falls in love with a beautiful suspect and is led through Miami's morass of corruption and double-dealing. The Space Within (Drama) By Eyal Podell & Jonathon E. Stewart Contact: thespacewithinscreenplay (at) gmail.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: Struggling in war-torn 1940s America, an impassioned young architect sets out to change the world. Led by the legendary genius, Frank Lloyd Wright, he learns to build a new future for himself and his family, but becomes blinded to the ultimate designs of his aging mentor. Risking everything, he is forced to decide: fulfill the legacy of his life's work, or salvage the love of a woman that is slowly slipping away. The Sky Below (Science fiction/Action) By David Thome Contact: davethome22 (at) gmail.com Location: Milwaukee, WI Logline: Two hundred years from now, people live on mile-high platforms to escape the toxic air below…or so they believe. Police pilot Joshua Cain discovers the truth--that the rich and powerful use Earth as their personal Eden while generating murky clouds to maintain the illusion of an unlivable surface and leads rebels in a fight to end the oppression. Squeeze Play (Romantic Comedy) By Darren Whisker Contact: darrenwhisker (at) yahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: Set in the world of minor league baseball, a dictatorial manager forces his struggling young pitcher to have an affair with his wife so he can divorce her and take her money. But when the wife falls for the pitcher, the pitcher falls in love with their college aged daughter. Strang in the Night (Horror/Noir) ByJohn A.C.Kennedy Contact: johnackennedy (at) yahoo.com Location: New York, NY Logline: When a self-destructive, classic-noir Detective tails a mystery-man‚s beautiful wife, he‚s swiftly implicated in the gruesome “Hollywood Vampire Murders” of 1939. The Detective’s struggle to extricate himself pulls him into a festering mess of dead cops, supernatural evil, and his own unresolved, haunted past -- and, when he finally falls for the woman he‚d been tailing, the betrayals, double-crosses and slashed-throats lead to the ultimate sacrifice, in a face-off with the ultimate evil. Taking Liberties (Drama) By Sam Ingraffia Contact: Thewritesam (at) Yahoo.com Location: Los Angeles, CA Log Line: During his second term in office, President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke and is left almost totally incapacitated. His beautiful young wife EDITH launches a massive cover up and secretly takes over the duties of the U.S. Presidency. (Based on a true story.) Triton (Fantasy) By Ryan P. Cooke Contact: jimmymaker (at) optonline.net Location: Sloatsburg, NY Logline: A man in search of escape has it land in his backyard. Whistler's Ridge (Drama) By Cynthia Webb Contact: cmwebb (at) earthlink.net Location: Helena, MT Logline: Hiding a career-ending injury, a footloose rodeo cowboy struggles to make a place for himself in the family he left behind. Short Length Finalists: 4 Corners (Comedy) 1st Place By Ken Pisani kpslam (at) earthlink.net Location: Los Angeles, CA Logline: A stranger crashes his bike in the Four Corners region – the only place in the U.S. where four state borders meet in a perfect-cross intersection – and finds himself stranded in a place where unlikely people and improbable events intersect… where anything can happen, and does. 2nd Place The Mariner’s Debt (Thriller) By Sarah Dodd & Cory Kinney Contact: corykinney (at) shaw.ca Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Logline: Forty years after being the only man to survive a devastating shipwreck, Pius Turpin opens his front door to the devil, who has come to collect his debt in the form of Pius’s beloved wife. 3rd Place Mary's Last Day (Comedy) By Jennifer D. Corley Contact: jenniferdcorley (at) aol.com Location: Charleston, SC Logline: A troubled teenage girl tangles with a quirky British ghost who brings daily news of her upcoming demise. 4th Place The Hoarders (Drama/Dark Comedy) By Maree Gutterson Contact: mareezy45 (at) hotmail.com Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Logline: A woman with a hoarding compulsion struggles to separate the garbage from what's real in her troubled marriage. 5th Place Sigurnost (Black Comedy / Sci-Fi) By Isabelle Marinov Contact: isa.marinov (at) hotmail.com Location: Luxembourg, Europe Logline: Imagine a service informing you of your impending death. Imagine they get it wrong... 2006 Slamdance Screenplay Competition Awards GALA
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