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(Represented by David Saunders, APA) La Prova (Artistic – Feature) Eliana Crestani When a tormented writer loses all faith in life as an inspi- ration, she makes a last-ditch effort to publish her bizarre Filmmatic Screenplay Awards autobiography, only to discover that waking and dreaming The Funny Farm (Horror – Feature) Robert Ward realities bleed together into a surreal adventure, and she must let go of any notion of actuality in order to find her A colorful yet ruthless demon – in the form of a cocky, own possible inherent nature. beer-swigging California surfer – murders the parents of a teenage girl, then attempts to take her back to hell as his eternal bride, but she fights for her life in a creative battle Rebel Tides (Action/Adventure – Feature) Andrea Gibson to the death. When the modern world descends into chaos, a monster of a man takes control. A former member of the SAS closes (Horror – Feature) Mike Stern himself off from the apocalyptic world until its savagery Mid-Century reaches his doorstep. He will be forced to make a choice, A husband’s and wife’s weekend in a mid-century modern to abstain, or intervene. What he doesn’t know is that the vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers oppressive king is his former best friend, long thought dead. the home is haunted by the legendary architect – who has a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife. Big Apple Film Festival The Monster of Perfect, California (Comedy – Feature) Screenplay Competition Paul Sheridan The Fearless Four (Crime/Murder/Mystery – Feature) On Halloween night, a squad of socially awkward goofball Byron B. McKim teens find themselves squaring off against a bloodthirsty Unable to prolong their financial struggles on a police- reptilian monster created in a military experiment gone man’s salary, four desperate officers come to a decision horribly wrong. to rob banks. When one of the four is arrested, emotions soar, phone calls are made, and a poor decision end up Muse in the Mazeum (Horror – Feature) with the murder of an entire family. Clay Fusco and Pamela Chiacchiaro After a young horror author receives an invitation to an art Kane the Gunslinger (Sci-Fi – Feature) Benjamin Reeves exhibit based on her work, she becomes trapped inside After a deep space jail break, convicted criminal Norris the increasingly surreal, hellish, and personal museum Kane must save his distant ancestor – a young Apache girl and must find a way to escape. – in the old American West. Sol (Sci-Fi – Television 1 Hour Pilot) James Fox The Understudy (Horror – Feature) Brendan Jesus After a shocking assassination, citizen and soldier alike A young actress in NYC lands a gig as an understudy in plunge into a sinister interplanetary civil war between a a play led by a famous director, but her life takes a turn corrupt Earth government and a Martian colony that has when she begins having a series of bizarre, teeth-centric earned its independence. hallucinations. Woke (Sci-Fi – Television 1 Hour Pilot) Johnny Gilligan Cynosure Screenwriting Awards When a wonder-drug makes sleep obsolete, a famous hyp- notherapist works with police to solve new waking-dream The Clever Girl (Western – Feature) David Carren crimes called Recals, as malevolent forces strive to find When a mysterious illness besieges a segregated Texas new ways to manipulate human minds, including his, in this town, the only person who can save it is the transplanted newly woke world. Think The Mentalist meets Bladerunner. young woman neither side trusts. (Represented by Elaine Rogers, Fish & Richardson) Final Draft Big Break Contest Lullabies of la Jaula (Drama – Feature) Freefall (Biographical – Feature) Jacob Migicovsky Karen McDermott Before Armstrong, before Yeager, there was Joe Kittinger, Separated from her mother during a desperate border a daring test pilot who provided the blueprint for NASA’s crossing and held in a cage for migrant children, 14-year- astronaut program, risking everything to rise above Earth old Dahlia Ramirez draws strength from the poetry of and jump from the edge of space. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 5 Garden State Screenplay Competition The Lease of Nature (Drama – Feature) Anderson Boyd A woman in search of vengeance infiltrates a dark crime Auntie – The Black Widow Baker (Crime/Murder/ syndicate that traffics in organs and dangerous technol- Mystery – Feature) Mary Albanese ogy. As she pivots to use their weapons against them, her A victimized wife learns to break free when she inherits her gambit hits closer to home than even she could imagine. great-aunt’s recipe for freedom. Based on the true story of my great-great aunt, the black widow baker of Courtland, NY. Rockabye (Drama – Feature) Michael Ackerman A marriage is tested when two parents are forced to inves- Soul Custody (Horror – Feature) Filomena Laforgia tigate whether there is truth behind their son’s disturbing, An overprotective mother flees to the suburbs for a fairy- yet inconsistent stories about a night with the babysitter. tale life with her husband and infant son, but it is not the happily ever after she expected. WriteMovies Winter 2019 Screenwriting Contest KAIROS Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays Bad Listing (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) Brent Hartinger When two strangers share an Airbnb unit, they each worry the Searching for Sheida (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) other has a dark secret. But, in fact, a supernatural presence Anne Cattaruzza and Kim Feeney is toying with them both. (A small-cast, minimal-location A spirited small-time journalist travels to Iran in a pas- script. A winner in both the StoryPros and WriteMovies sionate attempt to rescue a Christian convert woman contests by a twice- produced writer. Thriller/horror) sentenced to a horrific death. In an improbable twist of fate, she finds herself ensnared in a web of political turmoil and terrorist activity, overcoming impossible cir- Havenwood (Horror – Feature) Jai Brandon cumstances and discovering faith along the way. After escaping an abusive relationship, a former boxer must regain her inner strength to protect her children when a supernatural evil threatens the family in their new home. Scriptapalooza Television Writing Competition Madame Cavell (Non-Fiction/History – Feature) Bunnie (Comedy – Television Half-Hour Pilot) Phillip Ramati Corey Swim and Bunnie Rivera During World War I, English nurse Edith Cavell helped After a life spent selflessly serving others, an imaginative nearly 200 British and French soldiers escape German- Hispanic-American grandmother determines to break occupied Belgium before she is arrested and put on trial. society’s norms in a quest to find her authentic self and experience the fullness of life, come what may. Outcast (Action/Adventure – Feature) Sarah Bellwood A Roman soldier’s orphan, banished by the British tribe The Oak (Drama – Television 1 Hour Pilot) Geoffrey Garza who raised him, is seen as a barbarian for his Celtic tattoos A seasoned counselor at a last-ditch teen rehab fights to and naivety.