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It is the only place I go now.” – NANCY CRISS, NANDAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP 4 Contest/Festival Winners 11th Annual StoryPros Awards The Golden Script Competition A Father’s Son (Drama – Feature) Early Retirement (Romantic Comedy – Feature) Michael Harriel Becky MacDormand A father and son, estranged due to a family tragedy, battle When a spoiled former child star destroys what’s left of to resolve their differences as they find forgiveness for the her career with a poor publicity stunt, she decides to unfortunate events that haunt their past. check herself into a retirement home and live as an elderly person to prepare for an audition she believes will save City of Trees (Drama – Feature) her career. Christian Lybrook Bobby Burnham’s life is best described as “the one that Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship got away” – the girl, the career, the family. Returning to White Trash Heroes (Comedy – Television ½ Hour Pilot) his hometown to care for his dying mother provides a Peter Stallo chance to rewrite the past, but a rekindled romance with White Trash Heroes is the story of an ambitious federal his now-married high school sweetheart and resurfaced agent forced to fuse his elite CIA training with the intoxi- resentments with his outcast older brother push Bobby to cated ingenuity of a white trash family in rural Alabama to confront hard choices about love and family. save the world from alien invaders. Barnstorm Fest Latino Screenwriting Competition The Bad Habits of Unhappy People (Comedy – The Countertenor (Romantic Comedy – Feature) Feature) Chantal Massuh Andrew Gomez Frances, a troubled young adult who runs her life on sex, In 1800s Mexico, peasant Emilio tempts fate to win true drugs, and bad decisions, attempts to find happiness love in a national singing competition. He enlists a rag-tag despite her troubling past. In the wake of the #MeToo band of misfits who help him discover he has a beautiful movement, where glass ceilings and misogyny have been voice and a chance at stardom! There’s just one problem exposed, this film is about a woman’s treacherous journey – he sings like a woman. Before The Voice, before American from dysfunction to success and self-discovery. Idol there was The Countertenor! The Tea Room (Drama – Feature) Terrie Anderson Long Island International Film Expo A merger announcement begins to unravel the lives of Jamie and Sophie in ways they could never imagine. The Until the End of the Ninth (Drama – Feature) Russian Mob has been the invisible hand in their lives and Beth Bollinger now that hand is about to reveal the truth. The 1946 Spokane Indian baseball players know how to be a team and know how to win, but when their bus crashes Tobacco: An Offering of Fire (Crime/Murder/Mystery – midway through the season and nine of them die, their spirits must learn how to die too young and, even in death, Feature) Nicholas Gillam stay together as a team. (Inspired by the true story of the After his hick uncle comes back to town with a job offer, worst professional sports accident in U.S. history) Jeff finds himself a part of a strange crime that will cost him his girlfriend and his arm. New Renaissance Film Fest (London, UK) Harm for the Holidays (Comedy – Feature) Go to www.InkTip.com and Jonathan LaPoma After his brother attempts suicide a few weeks before search by title or author for Christmas, an unrepentant asshole with a heart of gold the scripts that interest you! moves back in with his comically dysfunctional family to help his brother, only to discover that his brother is the sanest of them all. (Silver Linings Playbook meets Bad Santa) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure 5 Feature Scripts – Grouped by Genre Action/Adventure Black Friday Matthew Sorvillo An aging ex-con hopes to spend Thanksgiving reconciling The 13 of Glory Georges Salo with his estranged daughter, but his vindictive ex-partner The quest for El Dorado by Francisco Pizarro takes the forces him to reattempt the same botched bank heist that conquistadors, known as The 13 of Glory, to a land rife sent him to prison and broke up his family to begin with. with gold. Their altruistic start spirals into the subjugation of the Inca nation and the genocide of its people. Black Pearls Robert Miles and Leslie Mitts Two kick-ass women break the rules in a male-dominated Across the Divide Dennis O’Flyng world by choosing the pirate life, becoming history’s most A despondent backpacker on a wilderness pilgrimage infamous pirate women. A true story. reluctantly rescues the injured sole survivor of a plane crash, a woman of clandestine purpose, and confronts the Blind Vector Charles Beale anti-government militia who sabotaged the plane. Three U.S. Naval airmen hijack a Boeing 777 in mid-air by remote control from the ground and hold it for ransom. Adama Alvin Berger A top secret agent with a dark past must overcome his Broken Wings Robbert Marcel Snijder fear of failure in order to stop a powerful DNA computer from falling into the wrong hands. His task is fraught with A U.S. bomber pilot, bringing a battered B-17 to base, danger from deceptive friends and enemies alike. takes a desperate and unheard move against a deadly, threatening enemy, saving ship and crew. But WWII won’t pause for him to prove he isn’t a storyteller, a barefaced Af*ckinstan Jim Maceda liar. War isn’t in his favor. In a war where nothing is as it seems, a U.S. Marine squad hunts for a fugitive Taliban bomb-maker set on mass mur- der – only to discover that they are the hunted. Cleto Randy Zuniga Abi, daughter of a powerful political figure is kidnapped American Fighter Ryan Flynn by an extreme separatist group to try and force the Spanish government into negotiations. One of her guards Rhino O’Neill goes from a homeless bodybuilder who sells his is actually an undercover operative who befriends Abi until dog to survive, to badass U.S. Marine all in hopes of regaining political pressure tightens and he is ordered to kill her by custody of his son, Patrick. After an honorable discharge, he the government. He now has to decide – betray his morals begins sparring boxers for extra money but finds himself or betray his country. competing on the Olympic stage – all on a prosthetic leg. Code: Red Scorpions Robert W. Daniel Angelica’s Touch Jan Dalby A Pearl Harbor redux for this Navy SEAL Team who must With the power to mystically end one’s evil desires, an capture and destroy a rogue North Korean nuclear-armed innocent young woman agrees to help the FBI uncover submarine which issues a 48-hour ultimatum to annihilate an event supposedly “bigger than 9/11” by assuming an Pearl Harbor and start World War III.