Posts Tagged ‘contest’
Silver Screenwriting 2010 Latest
It’s Not About How You Play.
It’s About What You WIN.
With over $15,000 in prizes, The Silver Screenwriting Competition awards our Grand Prize winner with something even more awesome than a new MacBook Air, an all expense paid trip to Los Angeles, script reads by managers and producers, three grand and lunch with Shane Black.
More than all that?!
Yeah. That’s right.
______________________________________________
80% of success is showing up.
-Woody Allen
Add a good script to the mix and you’re golden.
-The Silver Screenwriting Competition
_______________________________________________
There’s nothing like coming out to Hollywood and playing the part of a writer on the rise.
Hey, we figure meeting the right people might be just the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. So enter today and see what happens. You might be coming to Hollywood sometime very soon and having the time of your life and the chance of lifetime. No pressure.
We’ll also back you to the hilt by developing the winning scripts with The Script Department’s Julie Gray and a host of top flight studio readers. Winning is just the first step and we’ll see to it that all the professional and commercial help you’ll need is on tap.
See what last year’s winner, Kodjo Akeseh Tsakpo had to say about his amazing week in Los Angeles, meeting Steve Faber (WEDDING CRASHERS) Josh Zetumer (THE BOURNE IDENTITY) and Jeff Bushell (BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA) to name only a few!
The Silver Screenwriting Competition seeks and rewards new screenwriting talent and encourage writers to raise the bar by writing innovative, well-executed scripts that take risks and think outside of the box office. Did you enter competitions for show, or do you want a real Hollywood writing career? The Silver Screenwriting Competition is the only contest with ongoing script and professional development. With over $15,000 in prizes, the 2010 SSC is better than ever in its third year, and taking entries until June 1st, 2010. Enter today for a chance to win an all-expense paid trip to Los Angeles where you will meet 3 managers to discuss your career and Kirsten Campo, CE at Fuse Entertainment with a new seven figure deal at Fox, plus Bedrock, Back Lot and Bedford Falls.
Execs from Fuse Entertainment and Bedford Falls are on the SSC selection committee, and will select the top three winners from the Competition’s top ten finalists. The Second and Third Place winner each receive two manager and producer reads of their screenplay, plus prizes totalling $6,750 in value: screenplay coverage and notes from The Script Department, gift certificates to the Writer’s Store, and $1,000 and $750 cash, respectively. All winners are also invited to attend SSC’s awards party in Los Angeles, where they will be recognized among industry players.
GRAND PRIZE
- MacBook Air
- Round trip flight to Los Angeles
- Lunch with SHANE BLACK
- A one-on-one conversation via Skype with Chris Sparling, writer of red hot Sundance feature BURIED, starring Ryan Reynolds
- 3 nights accommodations
- A meeting with Kristen Campo, CE, Fuse Entertainment, plus Bedrock, Backlot and Bedford Falls. Fuse just signed a 7 figure deal with Fox.
- A day of meetings with 2 managers
- $3,000 in cash
- Pilar Alessandra’s amazing 12 Week Weekly Workbook
- A free 30 Minute phone consult with Karl Iglesias
- A copy of Save the Cat Goes to the Movies plus the STC software package
Who We Are
Julie Gray, the founder of The Script Department, Hollywood’s premier script coverage service also directs the Silver Screenwriting Competition. Julie consults privately with a wide variety of writers and teaches classes at Warner Bros., The Great American PitchFest, The Creative Screenwriting Expo and has taught at San Francisco University in Quito, Ecuador, Columbia College in Chicago, West England University in Bristol and The Oxford Union at Oxford University. Julie lives in Los Angeles, California; her book Just Entertain Me is slated for release by Michael Wiese Publishing in April, 2011.
Named one of MovieMaker Magazine’s top blogs for writers and filmmakers, Just Effing Entertain Me is the destination for screenwriters interested in learning the ins and outs of Hollywood. With classes and workshops offered year round, mini-competitions and a forum for writers, Just Effing Entertain Me is the place to connect with Julie Gray. Read More
The Script Department
Let our crack team of professional readers give you the feedback you need to get your script into the right hands. Hands down the most respected coverage service in Hollywood, The Script Department has helped writers from all over the world get meetings, representation, options and competition wins time after time. Read More
Shane Black
Shane Black is one of the iconic screenwriters, justly famous both for his style, his headline grabbing ability to sign big ticket deals and his lasting contribution to the craft through his work with the Screenwriting Expo.
He sold his first screenplay Lethal Weapon released in 1987 for $250,000 and was paid $125,000 as a co-writer of Lethal Weapon 2 released in 1989. Since then he made substantially more money as a screenwriter. He received $1.75 million for his screenplayThe Last Boy Scout released in 1991, and $1 million for Last Action Hero released in 1993. At the height of his career he was the highest paid screenwriter in the Hollywoodmovie industry, making $4 million for penning The Long Kiss Goodnight. Black was the writer and director for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Kristen Campo – Fuse Entertainment
Fuse Entertainment, a full service creative management company with a production arm has clients like Josh Schwartz (THE OC, CHUCK, Gossip Girl), Matt Nix (BURN NOTICE), James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, Spiderman 4) and producer Dan Lin (Terminator 4, Sherlock Holmes). Kristen Campo, CE at Fuse will be judging the top ten scripts along with Julie Gray.
KARL IGLESIAS teaches at UCLA Extension’s Writer’s Program and Writers University. He is the best-selling author of The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, and Writing for Emotional Impact. He also writes the regular column on the craft for Creative Screenwritingmagazine. As a script consultant passionate about great storytelling, he specializes in the reader’s emotional response to the written page. He is a STAR Speaker of the Screenwriting Expo. Karl will be doing a 30 minute phone consult with the lucky Grand Prize winner.
PILAR ALESSANDRA is the director of the popular writing program “On The Page.” A sought after teacher and lecturer, she’s traveled the world teaching screenwriting and is in high demand at major writing conferences and film festivals. As a consultant, she’s helped thousands of writers create, refine and sell their screenplays. Her students and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers and Sony and have won prestigious competitions such as the Austin Film Festival, Open Door Competition, Fade-In Competition and Nicholl Fellowship.
Pilar jump-started her career in film as a script reader for Amblin Entertainment. With the formation of DreamWorks, she became Senior Story Analyst and a reader liaison between the studio and Robert Zemeckis’s company, ImageMovers. Her expert script analysis was also sought out by The Robert Evans Company, Cineville Entertainment, Handprint Entertainment and Saturday Night Live Studios, and work at Interscope Communications led her to a position as Senior Story Analyst for Scott Kroopf’s production company Radar Pictures.
Pilar teaches screenwriting and story analysis at the UCLA Writers’ Program. In 2001 she started her own company, “On the Page,” and in 2004 opened the On the Page Writers Studio in Sherman Oaks, California. In the interest of expanding access to her teaching tools, Pilar has created a new instructional “On the Page” DVD. She also presents weekly “On the Page” podcasts with guest hosts from within the industry. The shows regularly appear in the iTunes Top 100 list of film and TV podcasts.
How Do I Get An Agent or Manager?
So you’ve written several scripts, gotten feedback, done your homework, paid your dues and got into three fights with somebody on a message board. Now I’ll give you the keys to the kingdom. Drum roll, please….
In order of efficacy, here are the best methods for seeking representation:
1) Friend of a friend.
2) Be a competition winner or finalist
3) Query selectively using the HCD
4) The Schwab’s Drugstore Fantasy
FRIEND OF A FRIEND
The friend of a friend is obviously something very few people can take advantage of. But you can cultivate relationships in the business that could lead to a hand-off at some point in the future. You never know. That’s how I got my first manager. But as I look back, it was a long time coming until the stars were aligned and I just so happened to have a good script and it just so happened to be right up that manager’s alley. Luck = timing + opportunity. How can you tip the odds? Network, network, network.
COMPETITIONS
A much more realistic approach is to enter your scripts into competitions. There are many to choose from and by and large, they really are a terrific way to get noticed. I would avoid those contests that run competitions frequently and that don’t seem to have much in the way of industry credibility. In my opinion, some competitions which can really pay off for you are:
The Nicholls Fellowship
The Austin Film Festival
Final Draft Big Break
The Blue Cat Screenwriting Competition
Slamdance
The Silver Screenwriting Competition
Creative Screenwriting Expo Competition
Competition winners will have their work exposed to industry professionals. Some competitions are more illustrious than others – Nicholls comes to mind – but all of these competitions are designed to help launch writers. I urge all my clients to enter as many of these competitions as they can.
QUERYING
This is not the most effective method but hey, if you aren’t a neighbor of Jason Reitman or a friend of a friend of Josh Olsen, you gotta make like the regular people and buy yourself the latest edition of the Hollywood Creative Directory for agents and managers (it is updated quarterly) or get an online subscription of same. As you flip through the book, have your IMDB at the ready. Read the company descriptions carefully, look up execs and their resumes.
If you are a newer writer, the smaller boutique management shingles are the best place to look. The HCD will include absolutely everybody but there are two things to be very aware of: The long shots and the shysters. A short list of the long shot agencies and management firms would include:
CAA
ICM
WME (William Morris/Endeavor)
UTA
Benderspink
We know that these agencies represent the crème de la crème in both the literary and acting realms. Not the best place for a newbie to come a’ knockin’. Which is not to say you can’t try – just be aware that it would be quite an accomplishment to even get a response to your query through these venues. Just keeping it real, folks.
The shysters are usually the one-man outfits, usually. With addresses outside of Los Angeles or New York. Yes there are managers and agents in Chicago, Atlanta and Minneapolis; but that’s not where the business is. How effective and connected is a manager who can’t do lunch easily and regularly with potential buyers? As you peruse the HCD, IMDB the principal and see if anything comes up. If you do call or query, absolutely do NOT pay a fee for anything. Some of these unethical charlatans prey on new writers by charging fees to send your work out. These types of people are tempting for new writers because they will pick up the phone more or less immediately, they will talk to you and they will agree readily (most often) to read your material. That’s because they aren’t in the business of making deals – they are in the business of bilking writers. If it’s too good to be true – it probably is.
Do not pay any fees – ever. Believe more highly in your work than to be lured into the grasp of these bottom feeders.
The steps to get representation through querying are quite simple:
1) write a great script
2) then write another one
3) stick with the same genre
4) have a dossier of several great ideas in the form of loglines
5) write a brief, powerful, polite, effective query letter
6) get hold of a Hollywood Creative Directory
7) focus on 10 to 15 agents or managers that seem like a good fit
8) query
9) wait
10) wait more
11) follow up with an email or phone call if you haven’t heard back in six weeks
Pretty simple, right? It actually is. But here is what writers often do – they jump the gun. They query when they only have ONE good script. They don’t get feedback on what they think is a good script and so really have no idea where they stand. They query managers or agents all over town, indiscriminately, without doing any research. They send poorly worded queries with dull loglines and wonder what’s up with the silence.
If a manager or agent likes your query, you should hear back pretty quickly. If they like the read, you’ll hear back quite quickly. They’ll ask you what else you have. They’ll ask you about you – your writing experience, where you live, what competitions you may have placed in.
THE SCHWABS DRUGSTORE FANTASY
Legend has it that Lana Turner was discovered while sipping a soda at Schwab’s Drugstore in Hollywood. And hell, that’s not even true. It was the Top Hat café. See, you just cain’t never believe what you hear. The point being that we’ve all heard stories of an actor or writer being discovered at odd moments or locations. And yes, it can indeed happen. Which is why you should always be prepared to talk about your work. However. The instances of a writer making a profitable connection with a representative or producer while shopping for shampoo are – well – miniscule. If you are doing everything in this list to find representation and then you run into Tom Hanks while you are checking out with your Clairol Herbal Essence – terrific. But don’t count on it.
What Happens if You Win?
If your script does well in a competition this season, first of all, congratulations. That means your script was more original and better executed than the majority of other scripts in the same competition. This puts you in the top percentages. And that’s something to be very proud of. And maybe you even meet Shane Black and fly out to Hollywood for some meetings.
But what happens next? Is your phone going to start to ring? And if it does – what can you expect? Does this mean success is knocking at your door? It might. But proceed with caution.
Two things to think about:
One: Please be measured and thoughtful in your response to those who may contact you asking to see the script. Don’t freak out with joy and promise them exclusive rights to your script, all future scripts or your first born child. Don’t make a $1 option agreement with the first person who calls. Don’t be overly flattered; be cool and do a little research. Look up the person on IMDB Pro. What are his or her credits and professional credentials? Where is their office located? This may be a new company which has no credits, but click on the names of the principals; at a different company they probably do have credits of some kind. Or maybe this is a manager or producer who is starting off and is hungry and ambitious. That can work very much in your favor. But take a moment and look people up.
Two: You do have an arsenal, right? More than the one or two scripts you entered this year? Are you writing within the same genre? I hope so. You want to establish yourself as an expert in one genre. Many writers feel that they should write in many genres to prove that they have flexible chops. Don’t do this. It won’t prove anything, it just makes you less marketable. Line up your arsenal and have a look. Do you have another sample ready to send out if requested? Is it in great shape? Now is the time to get some feedback and assurance on your other scripts. A rep who calls and asks for more samples will be greatly turned off if it turns out the competition winning (or placing) script was your best work and that, in other words, you do not have “legs” as a writer.
So as you ready to turn in your script to competitions this year, make sure that while you wait for the results, you are hard at work on the next script. And the next one.
Proofread Your Script!
Hello everyone! The deadline for the Silver Screenwriting Competition is getting nearer! How are you doing on that draft? Make sure you give it a good proofread before submitting. We know that one or two typos makes you human, but more than that can definitely affect the score your script receives.
If your eyes are crossed even THINKING of looking at your pages one more time, ask a good friend to do it for you. Sometimes another pair of eyes is just what you need to catch those pesky typos and malaprops.
And now, for your entertainment, here are some of the most hilarious malaprops I have ever seen in scripts submitted to me:
Polished to a “I”.
A mop has gathered to watch the stoning.
Our time is neigh.
A medic sows up his leg.
You loose, I win.
The crowd clams down.
Sigmund approaches the Maiterde.
A gigantic blue portly fish bodied bird faced creature flew by.
Silver Screenwriting 2010
Screenwriters! Our scriptwriting competition is a contest like no other. In our neverending quest to make you a better writer, The Script Department and Julie Gray created the most effective screenwriting competition for writers. Even with over $13,000 in prizes, we reward our entrants with something even more precious than silver or gold — a chance to kick-start a career.
In this, our third year of existence, The Silver Screenwriting Competition has so far welcomed a record-breaking number of scripts and we love it! So much so that we had to extend our deadline to June 1st!
We’ve also raised the bar because this year, the top ten finalists will be judged both by Julie Gray AND by Kristen Campo, CE at Fuse Entertainment. Kristen will also be taking a meeting with the Grand Prize Winner.
See what last year’s winner, Kodjo Akeseh Tsakpo had to say about his amazing week in Los Angeles, meeting Steve Faber (WEDDING CRASHERS) Josh Zetumer (THE BOURNE IDENTITY) and Jeff Bushell (BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA) to name only a few!
Check out the grand prize for 2010!
GRAND PRIZE
- MacBook Air
- Round trip flight to Los Angeles
- Lunch with SHANE BLACK
- A one-on-one conversation via Skype with Chris Sparling, writer of red hot Sundance feature BURIED, starring Ryan Reynolds
- 3 nights accommodations
- A meeting with Kristen Campo, CE, Fuse Entertainment
- A day of meetings with 2 managers
- $3,000 in cash
Submit today for the chance to come to LA, kick-start your career by building relationships, and experience what it feels like in the day of a life of a writer in Hollywood.
For questions you may have about how to enter or more descriptions of our awesome prizes, please email us HERE. Be patient, you guys are going nuts this year!
Kodjo's LA Adventure
| 2009 Silver Screenwriting Competition Winner Kodjo Akeseh Tsakpo Kodjo Akeseh Tsakpo, the Silver Screenwriting Grand Prize winner, after being absolutely exhausted from flying to and fro and all of his meetings, etc. has returned to Merry Olde England, gathered his strength and sent us his brief take on what his trip was like:
**** So by winning The Script Department’s opportune Silver Screenwriting Competition 2009, I’ve been flown to Los Angeles for meetings with Hollywood insiders and won a cool haul of prizes. So here I am – back in the UK, suitcase empty, study area a mess and the script to my left boasting the win in thick bold type – the latter is all I wanted but I ended up getting so much more. I’ve spent the best part of a year in hibernation writing and rewriting SHIFT, and, whilst script-editors and writer-friends encourage, read and feed back nothing beats the accreditation of placing at competition. Nothing beats the accreditation of winning. Whilst always harbouring a passion for SHIFT I’ve always been aware that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Though employing the tenets of a standard thriller, its narrative hook gives it complexity and, hopefully, depth. It’s labyrinthine and multi-layered and, at times, convoluted but necessarily so. In short – it does itself little favours when presenting itself to readers. But I don’t care. I’ve loved it. I’ve loved writing it. I’ve loved re-writing it. And, up until now that fulfillment was a satisfactory reward. Due to the time difference, I awaited Julie’s call long after all my colleagues had gone home. I simply expected more questions about my eligibility to be in the competition – why can’t she just email me? So in that regards, being told – “You’ve won.” – pretty much made my year. Seriously – to go back to LA, meet agents, managers…taste root beer (which, for uninitiated, tastes like Coke but with MORE sugar in it) was more than I could have hoped for but exactly what I wanted when I entered the competition. So what did I take away from LA 2009? That Los Angeles is populated with more generous people than the rest of the world gives it credit for. From Julie and The Script Department going well above and beyond their capacity for hospitality to the writers, agents and executives that took time out of their heavy schedules to read some Japanese-sounding Brit’s ‘metaphysical thriller’ – and from them giving one-to-one advice and support regarding the maintenance of a Hollywood career to the yet-to-break-in writers who I was blessed to befriend at the Screenwriters Expo a few days later. Aside from the airfare, the hotel and the unrivalled access to inner-Hollywood, winning this competition has ensured that I’ve left town with two of the most valuable commodities any career-forging writer and/or director should have – validation and friendship… …and a Macbook Air, Final Draft 8 and money. In short, I’ve been humbled and I’ve had a blast but now the real work begins. So, till next time, which won’t be long, adios y buena suerte and my thanks to The Silver Screenwriting Competition and Julie Gray. |
![]() |
|
Kodjo and Steve Faber (WEDDING CRASHERS) one of my favorite people in this world.
|
![]() |
|
With the wonderful Jeff Bushell (BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA)
|
![]() |
|
Three time black list writer, Josh Zetumer (DUNE, BOURNE IDENTITY)
|
![]() |
|
Yay! Brand New MacBook Air!
|
2009 Winners & Finalists
Bet on Blood (horror) by Patrick Barb
Endowment (drama) by Ian Samplin
Everlasting (drama) by Brent Spencer and Jonis Agee
Horror Comic (thriller) by Stephen Hoover
Inugami (thriller) by Rich Figel
Life Among the Ruins (heist thriller) by Anthony Fisher
Shift (thriller) by Kodjo Akeseh Tsakpo
The Great American Loser (dramedy) by Jess DiGiacinto
The Happiness Experiment (dramedy) by Alex Darrow
Way to the Cage (drama) by Richard Michael Lucas
2009 Semifinalists
Bet on Blood (horror) by Patrick Barb
Chimana (romantic drama) by Paiman Kalayeh
Endowment (drama) by Ian Samplin
Everlasting (drama) by Brent Spencer and Jonis Agee
Fertile Attraction (rom-com) by Mariah Wilson
Hair Today (comedy/family) by Dennis Douda
Hero Quest (action/comedy) by Joel Dorland
Horror Comic (thriller) by Stephen Hoover
Hunting Picasso (thriller) by Marlene Shikegawa
Inugami (thriller) by Rich Figel
Life Among the Ruins (heist thriller) by Anthony Fisher
Meadowlanz (drama) by Moon Molson
Mechanicsville (drama) by Jason Thornton and Chris Thornton
My Brother Mick (drama/thriller) by Kim Nunley
Offramps (comedy) by Patrick O’Riley
One Night Stand (horror) by Ian Coyne
Plus Size (comedy) by Jacob Roman
Raeford’s Grill (drama) by David Meyer
Shift (thriller) by Kodjo Akeseh Tsakpo
The Basement (drama) by Scott Shackleford
The Cool Kids (thriller) by Cliff Zimonowski
The Great American Loser (dramedy) by Jess DiGiacinto
The Happiness Experiment (dramedy) by Alex Darrow
The Warriors of Westgate (drama) by Michael Harriel
Upgrade (sci-fi) by Louis Rosenberg
Way to the Cage (drama) by Richard Michael Lucas
When in Limbo (thriller) by Adam King
2009 Quarterfinalists
A
ALASKA SAAB STORY (comedy) by Clark Harding
B
BABY GIRL (dramedy) by Jennifer Babin
BET ON BLOOD (horror) by Patrick Barb
BLUE LADY (thriller) by Ron Cecchini
BURIED ON PAGE 8 (dark comedy) by Jennifer Harrison
C
CANARIES (thriller) by Craig Cambria
CHIMANA (romantic drama) by Paiman Kalayeh
CHRISTMAS CAROLE (comedy) by Heidi Bordogna
CRACKER JACK MAN (thriller) by Rich Sheehy
D
DJINN (horror) by Matthew Altman
DRAWING MARIA (drama) by Patrick Kadas
E
EMULSION (neo-noir) by Ryan Lewis
ENDOWMENT (drama) by Ian Samplin
ERASURE (thriller) by Michael Grebb
EVERLASTING (drama) by Brent Spencer
F
FERTILE ATTRACTION (rom-com) by Mariah Wilson
FIGURE 8 (thriller) by Bruce Glassman
G
H
HAIR TODAY (comedy/family) by Dennis Douda
HALFLAND (fantasy) by E. Arriaga
HEMLINES (comedy) by Rachel Parker
HERO QUEST (action comedy) by Joel Dorland
HOLMES (drama) by George Nicholis
HORROR COMIC (thiller) by Stephen Hoover
HUNTING PICASSO (Thriller) by Marlene Shikegawa
I
INUGAMI (thriller) by Rich Figel
IT’S A BIG TOP WORLD (comedy) by William Bienes
J
JACK THE RIPPER’S SISTER (thriller) by Robin Perry JASON (family) by James Khanlarian
JONESING (comedy) by Chris Hansen JUAREZ (action) by Scott Keiner
K
KITTY LOVE (dark comedy/thriller) by Julie Ransom
KOALAS ON BIKES (family) by Sam Gray
L
LIFE AMONG THE RUINS (heist thriller) by Anthony Fisher
M
MEADOWLANDZ (drama) by Moon Molson
MECHANICSVILLE (drama) by Chris Thornton and Jason Thornton
MILLIE AND DANIEL (drama) by Reid Waterer
MY BROTHER MICK (drama/thriller) by Kim Nunley
N
NINJA COWBOY (comedy) by Sean Hartofilis
O
OFFRAMPS (comedy) by Patrick O’Riley
ONE NIGHT STAND (horror) by Ian Coyne
OUTNUMBERED (thriller) by Gary Buglass
P
PIXEL GARDEN (drama) by Odin Ozdil
PLUS SIZE (comedy) by Jacob Roman
Q
R
RAEFORD’S GRILL (drama) by David Meyer
RAINDROP SKETCHES (neo-noir) by Kevin Parnell
REVENGE IN THE RED PALACE (drama) by Amy Quick Parrish (repeat)
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE (drama) by Melissa Goetz
S
SEASON OF MISTS (drama) by Kevin Brodie
SEEKING SAMARKIND (drama) by Felipe Cagno
SHIFT (thriller) by Kodjo Akeseh Tsakpo
SIMPLER (comedy) by Surita Parmar
SWIRLY (comedy) by Earl Bench
T
THE BASEMENT (drama) by Scott Shackleford
THE COOL KIDS (thriller) by Cliff Zimonowski
THE DEATHS OF ARCHITECTS (drama) by Nasar Abich, Jr.
THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF WANNABES(drama) by Bill Hawkins
THE FUNERAL ESCORT (comedy) by Michael Comstock
THE GREAT AMERICAN LOSER (dramedy) by Jess DiGiacinto
THE GREY (family) by Garth Pappas
THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT (dramedy) by Alex Darrow
THE OTHER GUY (rom-com) by Jae Yu
THE WARRIORS OF WESTGATE (drama) by Michael Harriel
THE WINE RUNNER (romcom) by Wenonah Wilms
THE WONDER (comedy) by Gregory Abbey
U
UNGRATEFUL DEAD (dark comedy) by Mark Roberts
UPGRADE (sci fi) Louis Rosenberg
V
VIKTOR (action-thriller) by Matt Wheeler
W
WAY TO THE CAGE (drama) by Richard Michael Lucas
WHAT’S DUE (thriller) by Keith Watson
WHEN IN LIMBO (thriller) by Adam King
WITHOUT CONSENT (drama) by Roberta Pleczenik
X
X-RAY AND THE SNEAK (comedy) by John Plunkett
Y
YOU AND ME (drama) by Casey Fenton
Z
123
360 DEGREES OF UNCONSIOUSNESS(drama) by Antwan Ward
2008 Winners & Finalists
Grand Prize Winner:
Freebird, Hilary Graham
2nd Place:
The De-Haunters, Calvin Field and Bryan Bagby
3rd Place:
The Orchard, Diane Stredicke
Top Five Finalists
Blood Snow, Adam Hong
Influence, Dov Engleberg
Snilderholden’s Jungle, Jennifer Thomas
Sleeping with the Lutefisk, Wenonah Wilms
Unsigned: The Feature, Danny Musengo and Christopher Wasmer








