2009 Top 4 Winners:

1st Place
THE JUNIOR DETECTIVES AND THE CITIES OF GOLD IRIN EVERS neuroticboy@earthlink.net
Family Adventure: When a boy who's afraid of the dark joins forces with other misfit kids to find a hidden treasure on a Caribbean island, they must overcome their phobias in order to triumph.

2nd Place

DRAMA JUSTIN POLLAK
justinwpollak@yahoo.com
Drama: When a 15-year-old girl defies her mother's order to keep a low profile by winning the part of Juliet at her new school, she finds the courage to reveal her deepest secret-that she's really a boy-only to see her mother's dire predictions of her fate unfold in unexpected ways.

3rd Place

ARTIFICE STEVE HOCHMAN tabletennisnow@aol.com
Political Satire: When a genius con man who specializes in creating large scale, global hoaxes gets hired by the D.O.D to help them increase their defense budget, he creates a fake alien invasion that prompts multiple government agencies to publicize phony emergencies to compete for funding.

3rd Place

VAGINA RADIO CHERYL SHIPP cherylnbart@msn.com
Comedy: When a plucky farm girl sets out to fulfill her late mother's dream of seeing the world, her plans go awry after she's seduced by the money at an insanely dysfunctional radio station and tricked into a long-term contract until she realizes she must be true to herself.

FINALISTS: (in alphabetical order by script title)

ARKAN: THE LAST CAMPAIGN PARRISH GRIGGS parrishgriggs@yahoo.com
Horror: When a group of hardcore Civil War re-enactors restage a mysterious battle in the unforgiving wilds of Appalachia, they find their dedication put to the test when descendents of the original conflict view their actions as a fresh incitement to war.

BROKEN GLASS MARY LAMONT mlamont@loy.org
Period Drama: In the 13th century, when an aspiring cathedral glass artist wants to make a name for herself, she commissions a massive tower that threatens the ambitions of the local bishop until she finally learns the truth about what's really important in life.

DUDLEY CHARLES & THE DEADLY CON DAVE SHRAMEK dshramek@gmail.com
Screwball Romantic Comedy: When a beautiful starlet, eager to secure a role in the next big superhero movie, hires a comic book geek professor to educate her, plans go awry when an ex-con producer decides to kill them both so he can steal the production's multi-million dollar budget.

gOD'S mAN JAMES EDWARDS writecorp585@zianet.com
Horror: When an exorcist priest, determined to do God's work, tracks his demonic brother to a back woods village where mass possessions have occurred, he discovers that the devil he must confront and battle is really himself.

KILLING TIME LARRY WHATCOTT ldwscrnwrtr@cox.net
Supernatural Thriller: When a determined female Texas Ranger hunts a young serial killer cowboy who believes that love is stronger than time, she discovers that he's on a mission to avenge his wife's murder-an event which occurred over 130 years ago.

WRINKLES MICKI PAGANO & TONY PARENTE paganoparente@gmail.com
Comedy:When a broke 40-year-old woman who's terrified of aging is forced to rely on her pestering senior citizen neighbors to save her anti-wrinkle business, she unexpectedly discovers the real fountain of youth.

SEMI-FINALISTS:
40 MILLIMETER                         STEVE HOCHMAN            tabletennisnow@aol.com
A TASTE OF FREEDOM               MIKE BOSS                      hdmovies@aol.com
ATOM SMASHERS                       PHIL FERRIERE               write@philferriere.com
BLACK LEAF FALLS                    BRANNAN DOYLE            ryandhq@yahoo.com
CLUTTER                                     MARK LINDBERG             linndy1@aol.com
DIRECT DESCENT                       MARJORY KAPTANOGLU margiebk@comcast.net
LIFE OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR MICHAEL KAVEN   mikekaven@yahoo.com
MARY                                          DARREN KOONS              djkoons@nc.rr.com
PLAY IT BY YEAR                       TAMMY JOHNSON           amlcprods@yahoo.com
SECOND LADY GODIVA             JONATHAN DENN            sqlaps@aol.com
STRIDE                                        RICK WHELAN                 rickwhelan@sympatico.ca
THE AUDITION                           VICTORIA AUGUSTINE   vaugustine@nyc.rr.com
THE INVISIBLE CAR                   GREGG CAVANAGH         gjcavanagh@yahoo.com
THE LIME PIT                              CLEO BRESETT                jr4797@sbcglobal.net
TO PROTECT AND DEFEND        GREGG CAVANAGH         gjcavanagh@yahoo.com

HONORABLE MENTION:
CEMETERY TOWN                      DEVON HENNIG            d.h.bryce@hotmail.com
EVERY BOY'S DREAM                 GLENN BROWN            bo_brown_jr@yahoo.com
FALLING EMPIRE                        TOM HADFIELD            thomas.s.hadfield@googlemail.com
GHOSTS OF THE STORM            DANE FRIEND              danefriend@yahoo.com
GRIEF FROM MADAME BUTTERFLY  BARRY LEACH       barryrjohn@yahoo.com
MISSING LOVE                            RONALD MARCHAND  ronaldlmarchand1@aol.com
NOAH & NADINE                         SETH COHEN               akgenbiz@earthlink.net
SEPTEMBER 10TH                       DAMIEN BRIGGS         damienbriggs@yahoo.com
SPACE RACE                                ERIC CARLSON           carlsonew@juno.com
STARTING SMALL                       SETH WHITTNER & ROB BAKER  bizzvanwa@cox.net
THE ACE OF ACES                       GEOFFREY BREUDER   gbreuder@yahoo.com
THE GOOD GUY                          JASON ROBERTS         zero_hour_direcktor@mac.com
THE HAPPY DANCE                      PAMELA RODEHEAVER & LISA KATZ                                                          prodeheaver@virginia.edu/lkatz33@gmail.com
THE REBOUND GUY                     LISA SUPER                lisasuper77@yahoo.com
THE ROUND TABLE                      SCOTT MADDEN          savage_henry27@yahoo.com
TWO MEN OF KENYA                   PAM WYLIE                 p.j.wylie@att.net
WILD TURKEY                              STEVE CONCOTELLI   web@concotelli.com

SPECIAL "BEST OF" AWARDS:
Best Opening Scene
INDUSTRIAL CUT                        JAMES EDWARDS         writecorp585@zianet.com
Best Closing Scene
KILLING TIME                              LARRY WHATCOTT      ldwscrnwrtr@cox.net
Best Female Character Not Used As A Murder Prop Or Decoration On The Leading Man’s Arm: SECOND LADY GODIVA              JONATHAN DENN          sqlaps@aol.com

2008 Top 3 Winners:

1st Place
SHAKE. RON VINCENT rubytim@sbcglobal.net
Action Drama: When a former gang member/college student discovers Shakespeare's original Hamlet, he finds himself in the fight of his life as thugs nearly kill him and tear his family apart.

2nd Place

NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK IRIN EVERS
neuroticboy@earthlink.net
Romantic Comedy: When an obsessive young woman thinks she's found the perfect man on a reality dating show, she stalks him, meets him and falls in love, until she discovers he's not perfect.

3rd Place

CANARIES CRAIG CAMBRIA crcambria@comcast.net
Sci-Fi Thriller: An experiment in biosphere living goes awry when mysterious changes both inside and out threaten the inhabitants.

FINALISTS: (in alphabetical order by script title)

DELIRIUM TREMENS GRAHAM MANSON primal@talktalk.net
Drama: When an alcoholic romance novelist struggles to get sober, he falls in love with a beautiful woman who seems to want to help him but finally realizes that her love could be fatal.

DOG KELLY PARKS kelly.parks@gmail.com
Horror: When two teens call a porn ad about a submissive who demands punishment, they fight for their lives and a way to end their torment after unleashing a beautiful force of evil that feeds on death and gets off every time the teens kill her.

ORCADIA STEVEN ZAWACKI zawacki@msn.com
Historical Romantic Drama: When a recently widowed nurse must work at a WWII prison camp, she overcomes her hatred of the enemy that killed her husband and lets down her barriers when she falls in love with a POW.

OUT OF RANGE LIZ MEDES n/a
Dramedy: When the youngest daughter in a dysfunctional family goes to Belgium as a foreign exchange student, she struggles to fit in as her mother deals with a family crisis and both learn that understanding can bridge the broadest chasms.

PROSE & CONSPHIL FERRIERE writer@philferriere.com
Drama: When a busy-body Boston socialite tries to help a homeless con artist and his drug-addicted daughter turn their lives around, she finally confronts the personal issues of her own life that have been long neglected.

SILENT KILLER PHIL FERRIERE writer@philferriere.com
Thriller: When she discovers animals dying of a disease transmissible to man at a profitable ranch, a tenacious veterinarian risks her life to investigate and expose a monumental cover-up.

SISTERS IN ARMS BARRY LEACH barryrjohn@yahoo.com
Period War Drama: When her fiancé is killed in WWII and Germans take over her island home, a young woman risks her life as well as her family's when she hides an escaped Russian slave laborer and joins the Resistance.

Honorable Mentions:

Best Opening Scene

VEGAS VAMPS PAT CRAWFORD wjcpatpend@aol.com

Best Closing Scene

CANARIES CRAIG CAMBRIA crcambria@comcast.net

Best Female Character Not Used As A Murder Prop Or Decoration On The Leading Man’s Arm: UNITY EUGENE & PAUL LANGLAIS gll3@matterfixer.net


Other Honorable Mentions

BALANCE                                          Michael Zealey            mike@mywriting.co.uk
B DEVILED                                        Billy Maddox & Vivien Cooper   bmaddox@aol.com
CLOSER TO THE FIELD                    Sue Berg                      skylenberg@gmail.com
DEVIL'S LURE                                  Marjory Kaptanoglu    margiebk@comcast.net
FEELING MAGEDDO                         Michael Zealey            mike@mywriting.co.uk
FERAL                                               Wil Denson                  densonwt@uwec.edu
FLYING TIGERS                               Vincent Ho                   vho@cyke.com
GINGERBREAD                                 Dirk Levinsohn           dirk.levinsohn@yahoo.com
HOMELAND (A FAIRYTALE)           Greg Brotherton          gregory.brotherton@gmail.com
LONG OVERDUE                              Eric Carlson                carlsonew@juno.com
LOST CITY                                       Phil Ferriere               writer@philferriere.com
NIGHT OF REFLECTIONS                Craig Cambria            crcambria@comcast
ONE NATION UNDER                      Eugene & Paul Langlais gll3@matterfixer.net
ROCKET DOCKET                            Brooks Barnes               brooks747@comcast.net
RUN FOR THE MONEY                    Madeline Langford        maddiel@yahoo.com
THE ACE OF ACES                           Geoffrey Breuder          gbreuder@yahoo.com
THE KNIGHTS OF CARPATHIA       Audrey Beller                nyscreenwrt@aol.com
TRUE NORTH                                   Eric Carlson                 carlsonew@juno.com
ULTRAVIOLET CHILD                      James Ossi                  james.ossi@earthlink.net
UNITY                                              Eugene & Paul Langlais gll3@matterfixer.net
VEGAS VAMPS                                 Pat Crawford                wjcpatpend@aol.com
VOICES                                            Susan Klos                    susan@bigtimepic.com

2007 Winter Top 3 Winners:

1st Place
ALL THAT I AM Diane Hanks Eire96@aol.com
Psychological Thriller: When a young man finds himself locked up in a mental facility and doesn't know why, he remembers enough to know he must break out to save his love, but quickly discovers that he must face the truth and take responsibility for his own actions first.

2nd Place

GHOUL Kelly Parks Kelly.Parks@gmail.com
Horror: When a young lawyer and his girlfriend dine at a new restaurant, the cops raid it for serving human flesh and the couple soon discover they have insatiable appetites, growing supernatural powers and a slew of mortal and immortal enemies who all want to kill them.

3rd Place

THE TOUCH Naomi Lamont naomi.lamont@gmail.com
Supernatural Drama: When a young man lies about his amazing ability to heal, he loses those close to him and nearly costs the woman he loves her life.


FINALISTS: (in alphabetical order by script title)

A PAWN IN THE GAME Ryan Peek ryanpeek777@yahoo.com
Drama: When a gifted inner city youth struggles to live up to his demanding father's expectations of him on the basketball court, he foregoes his real passion and true calling in the game of chess until he learns to fulfill his true potential.

CHILDREN OF THE SUN Madeline Langford maddiel2002@yahoo.com
Action/Adventure: When an ambitious journalist who thinks she doesn't need anyone's help gets dangerously entangled with rebel forces in Peru, she must learn to trust and accept help from a charming archeologist.

FELIX THE FLYER Christopher Canole ccanole@ucsd.edu
Adventure Drama Bio: When a Cuban mailman runs in the 1904 Olympic marathon, he recounts everything that led him to the most bizarre race in Olympic history, including his 1200 mile super run up the Mississippi River.

PLANTER OF MEN Jack Robbins jrobbins@cruverlaw.com
Drama: A grieving lawyer who can't get over the death of his son quits his job to work at a cemetery where he painstakingly honors the departed. When he befriends a widow whose teenage son is on the verge of committing suicide over the death of his father, the lawyer-turned-gravedigger finally learns that life is for the living.

SOLDIERS OF THE SHADOW SUN Richard Shand rshand@shaw.ca
Drama: When a soldier, wounded in Iraq, returns home and descends into a personal hell, he falls in love with a provocative young Arab woman who holds the key to his escape.

TEN SHOTS OF TEQUILA Ted Gurich Tedgurich@adelphia.net
Romantic Comedy/Adventure: When her bail bondsman stepfather is murdered, a mousy woman follows her feuding sister to Mexico to catch a suave bail jumper but falls for the man while being pursued by treacherous drug smugglers. .

THE LAST CHA CHA Devi Snively deviantpix@hotmail.com
Dark Romantic Comedy: When a wallflower and a male stripper dog-sit for an ornery Chihuahua (or ten), they wrestle with romance and rabies on the road to true love.

Honorable Mentions:

Best Opening Scene

BRAIN STORE Fabricia Geeting fabriciageeting@yahoo.com
Tired of your life? Get a new brain. When an ordinary broken-hearted woman exchanges her brain, she become a celebrity and changes the world.

Best Closing Scene

A TASK OF DRACULIAN PROPORTIONS: THE QUEST FOR KERMIT THE VAMPIRE Dave Vaughan avonman@hawaii.rr.com
When an effervescent vampire falls in love with her clueless "civilian" lover, she can't convert him because he's too ticklish so she must slay Kermit, the vampire who converted her, in order to abide by the vampire constitution. But in the end, even though Kermit gets his head lopped off, he still gets the last word.

Best Female Character Not Used As A Murder Prop Or Decoration On The Leading Man's Arm: BLACK STAR RISING Doug Williams doug@lonestarwriters.com
Barbara Jordon overcomes poverty and racism to become the most prominent black political voice in American only to be "assassinated" by her allies for her refusal to be stereotyped.

Other Honorable Mentions

A SOLEMN PATH TO CONTENTMENT Jeffrey Musmanno    musmanno@ptd.net
BLESS ME, FATHER                          David Termuhlen         amlcprods@afeedingfrenzy.com
CLOSE QUARTERS                           Nicholas Turner          NHTURNER@aol.com
DAYJOB                                            Dimitri LaBarge          Dimitril@sprynet.com
HYSTERICAL                                     Patricia Crawford      wjcpatpend@aol.com
IN THE LION'S DEN                          S. Douglas Knox        sd_knox@yahoo.com
NATURAL SUNLIGHT                       Christopher Weismantel cgweismantel5150@yahoo.com
OLD FLAMES                                     Patti Nommensen       pnommensen@sbcglobal.net
ONCE A TEACHER                             Frank D'Aprile             anchorsdome@yahoo.com
ONE! THE GARRY DAVIS STORY     Arthur Kanegis            ArthurKanegis@onefilms.com
PERSPECKTIVE                                 Michael Deuschel        storyforms@yahoo.com
PETITE RESISTANCE                         Barry Leach                BARRYRJOHN@Yahoo.com
SAVING CINDERELLA   Harvey Jacobs & Donna Brodsky  harvey@networdcs.com
SHOES ON THE LOOSE                    Mich Avant                  amlcprods@afeedingfrenzy.com
SOULSELLER                                    Jack Dawe                  writecorp585@zianet.com
SKIZZERZ                                          Sarah Dowling            screenpresents@gmail.com
STUNTMEN                                        Seth Cohen                 akgenbiz@earthlink.net
THE AMERICAN B&B                         Mike Sherer                csherer@fuse.net
THE AVON MAN                                 Dave Vaughan           avonman@hawaii.rr.com
THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE                     Mike McGeever          zeppofan@aol.com
THE HIGH COST OF PARENTING Michael Smith/Tracy Poverstein tracyandmichael@gmail.com
THE REAL MONICA LANE                  Steven Howard          amlcprods@afeedingfrenzy.com
THE SPIDER WEB                              Lola Martin Balaguer Lmbalaguer@aol.com
THE STREETS OF SARAJEVO            David Dalley              horseshu@cableone.net
TOUCH                                               David Hurlburt          david.hurlburt@hpmatty.com

2006 Summer Top 3 Winners:

1st Place
I WAS A TEENAGE ART THIEF MONTAE RUSSELL TBA
Drama: Based on a true story of a black youth from the ghetto who stumps the FBI when he goes on a lucrative two-year reign as a teenage art thief and learns a priceless lesson about life, love and the value of education.

2nd Place

THE RADIANT BOYS JEREMY WILMARTH jeremy@wilmarth.org
Supernatural Thriller: Troubled orphan brothers unleash dark supernatural forces that unlock their foster family's private hell of suppressed guilt, rage and tragic death.

3rd Place

THE KRAY SURVIVORS RON RANDOLPH steverenthal@yahoo.com
Sci-Fi Thriller: Nightmares or hallucinations? Drug-induced or alien-induced? A futuristic mercenary on a mission to save the human race can't be sure whom to trust, especially himself, when he doesn't know if his memories are real or not, or whether he's awake, dreaming or hallucinating.


FINALISTS: (in alphabetical order by script title)

A GLASS HALF FULL JEFFREY MUSMANNO Musmanno@ptd.net
Drama: When a hopeless young man faces the death of a loved one, he recounts his past and learns once again to embrace the beauty of life and hope.

DOING TIME IN A BOTTLE GINA CRESSE ginacresse@adelphia.net
Romantic Comedy: When a daring archaeologist gets locked in a bottle by a genie for 100 years, he must outsmart the genie to win back his freedom and the love of his life by figuring out the path to true happiness.

HEROIN(E) Ken Sandbank KenSandban@aol.com
Drama: A strung-out, beaten-down Times Square Hooker “adopts” a Geisha stranded at Port Authority, and struggles to learn geisha arts to escape her violent pimp and dismal life.

THE MONA LISA CAPER GINA CRESSE ginacresse@adelphia.net
Period Drama: When a poor carpenter claims he pulled off the greatest art theft in history by stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, the real mastermind confesses his story to a reporter.

THE OUTLAW LARRY WHATCOTT ldwscrnwrtr@cox.net
Supernatural Thriller: When a determined female joins the Texas Rangers, her first case is to hunt down a serial killer who can not age.

SWEETHEART DEAL MARK RYKOFF mark_rykoff@timemagazine.com
Crime/Caper: When a financial reporter gets conned by a shady investment banker and a high-priced call girl, and the call girl subsequently gets dumped by the banker, the reporter and the call girl team up to give the banker a taste of his own medicine.

UNITY EUGENE LANGLAIS III TBA
Horror/Thriller: When an obsessive FBI psychologist investigates a seemingly inexplicable crime, she discovers the legacy of hideous government experiments on human behavior that prove that the pursuit of the greater good leads to the greatest evil.

Honorable Mentions:

Best Opening Scene

ASCENSION Steve Sparks ss@hawaiiantel.net
The spectacular beauty of a drop of water is captured as it ascends from the Bay of Bengal to the Himalayas, where an American wrongly accused of a murder by the Chinese army goes on the run for his life.

Best Closing Scene

10 MINUTES FROM PARADISE Janyce Lapore janyce46@aol.com
A failed commuter train robbery destroys a desperate man's dream of reaching paradise but he does get a glimpse of it in a most unusual way.

Best Female Character Not Used As A Murder Prop Or Decoration On The Leading Man's Arm: MRS. FELDSCHREIBER, SECRET AGENT Claire Riley clairevriley@aol.com
A 50-year-old menopausal sex kitten drenched in big hair, make-up, gaudy jewelry and loud polyester, the CIA will never be the same when meddling match-maker Mrs. Feldschreiber decides to stick her nose in their business!

Other Honorable Mentions

10 MINUTES FROM PARADISE         Janyce Lapore            janyce46@aol.com
ARTIFICE                                           Mike McGeever           zeppofan@aol.com
ASCENSION                                       Steve Sparks              zss@hawaiiantel.net
BOLIVAR'S BRIDGE                          Elizabeth Medes          TBA
BUG MAN                                           Nick Diaz                    TBA
CARNIVAL TRAP                                Ryil Adamson              ryil1@msn.com
CITY OF NETS                                   Debbie Bolsky             Debbie@Dbolskywriter.com
FAST AWAKE                                     Alex Williams              alexkrty@hotmail.com
NOT HERE, YOU WON'T                   Jack Kilpatrick            Amlcprods@afeedingfrenzy.com
MISSING PERSONS                          Michael Weinstein      mcwein@comcast.net
MRS. FELDSCHREIBER, SECRET AGENT  Claire Riley          clairevriley@aol.com
PINOT GRIS AND CURLY FRIES       Mark Saunders           msaunderswriter@yahoo.com
PRINCESS REBORN                           Lee Tidball                  leesius@netzero.net
RED TULIPS                                       Elise George               Egeorge@nc.rr.com
ROCKET DOCKET                               Brooks Barnes            tbarnes3@houston.rr.com
TAO OF JONES                                  Bill Ryan                      bill.ryan2@comcast.net
THE BEST CHEST IN THE SOUTHWEST Ryil Adamson         ryil1@msn.com
THE FLOWERING OF KELLY O'HARA   Cathy Salenger       TBA
THE LAMB                                           Guy Winch                  glw555@aol.com
THE TORTOISE AND THEY HEIR       Russ Meyer                 turtoise@att.net
VOICES                                               Susan Klos                 susan@bigtimepic.com