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The WINNERS of the CONTEST OF CONTEST WINNERS™
There are dozens of screenwriting competitions held annually across the country. But which screenplay from among the winners of all of these quality competitions is the best of the best?
All of us at ScriptDoctor.com are amazed at the response – well over 100 entrants -- in this the third year of our Contest. To show our gratitude, we took the extra time and expense of getting two judge’s evaluations emailed off to every single entrant in the Contest.
Who is the best of the best? The Contest of Contest Winners™ hopes to answer that question and shine the spotlight on these accomplished, award-winning screenplays. A good showing in this contest proves your script stands out among the toughest competition. What a priceless marketing tool for your screenplay!
Our top ten Finalists also receive free Final Draft software.
Also as promised, we are directly contacting more than 600 publications, agencies and production companies with the names and screenplays of our 10 Finalists. Our access to major studios and production companies is aided by the fact that many of our judges are working professionals. This includes Rick Schwartz, a partner at ScriptDoctor.com, who has worked for many years as a Senior Story Analyst at DreamWorks SKG and continues there in a freelance capacity.
Our First Place Winner receives a $1000.00 cash prize, storyboard software from FrameForge 3D, a free set of Story Notes from ScriptDoctor.com (valued at $500), as well as all of the prizes given to the top ten Finalists.
We would like to thank our sponsors and the great response we got from all of the contest winners who entered.
FIRST PLACE:
To The Ice by Ruth Ellen Johnson
ruthjohnson@socal.rr.com
In 1914 Newfoundland, a reluctant leader must face his fears to save 132 countrymen abandoned to Arctic Ice by a ruthless captain as a ferocious blizzard bears down.
Finalists (alphabetical order):
The Banner by Tina Juarez
ErnestinaJuarez@aol.com
To save his family, a slave accompanies his owner to Mexico to negotiate a slaveholding colony in Texas. But the men soon become entangled in the passion and violence of a revolution led by Miguel Hidalgo, father of Mexican independence and author of the first law against slavery in North America.
Bending Spoons by Jeff Lewis
oscarscribe@yahoo.com
A bright, witty, brave fifteen-year old girl has a life threatening disease so she befriends a mortician to learn about death but in the process teaches the undertaker everything about living. Together, they set out on a journey to see if she can learn to bend spoons with her mind and cure herself with the powers from within. A second goal for this girl is to find a mate for her single mother.
Checkpoint by Timothy Jay Smith
timothysmith.paris@gmail.com
An American journalist, on the trail of a story, becomes entangled in a terrorist plot that weaves together the lives of an Israeli war hero, Palestinian farmer, and Arab-Christian grocer.
Chuck Hodges Conquers The Universe by David Ball
dball@maine.rr.com
To save his girlfriend, an insecure science teacher enters a retro-future world where beliefs become reality, and finds himself competing with a simpleton who’s certain he’s a space hero.
Every Time I Go To Staten Island Something Bad Happens by Irin Evers
neuroticboy@earthlink.net
A Latino former gang member starts his life again in art school, as he tries to stop his brother from working with criminals.
Feral by Wil Denson
DENSONWT@uwec.edu
Ray is at large in McCone County Texas. Ray enjoys killing. Sheriff Aiden Blain must stop him.
Ghost Of The Crossroads by Michael Spohr
mikor2@aol.com
Set in Mississippi circa 1940, Ghosts Of The Crossroads follows the unlikely friendship between a Negro League baseball player and a mysterious white wanderer whose secret past could tear them apart forever.
Peace 101 by Eric Biskamp
mail@ericbiskamp.com
A controversial peace personality saves hundreds of innocent people at a terrorist attack, and not wanting to publicize a violent act, flees anonymously, intent on continuing his "on air" campaign against an ill-advised preemptive strike on nuke-armed Iraq, where his soldier sister is on the front-line.
Voices by Susan Klos
susan@bigtimepic.com
A single mother struggles to balance a business and a new romance with family life when her daughter's increasingly strange behavior is diagnosed as schizophrenia. Inspired by a true story.
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