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The interview becomes some- Set in 1894 in the company town of Pullman, the lives of thing she did not expect or could have ever imagined. three families intertwine in unexpected ways, confronting issues of racism, sexism, and the rights of government in Scriptapalooza Television the months leading up to the bloody railroad strike that Writing Competition defined the American Labor Movement. The Size of the Fight in the Dog (Drama – Television Nevermore (Fantasy – Television 1-Hour Pilot) 1-Hour Pilot) David Samuels Lilly Slaydon Leanne is conflicted after seeing Mendez take advantage Suffering from nightmarish visions, Edgar Allan Poe of an unconscious Piper in the hospital. attempts to unravel the mystery of his wife’s death and discovers that his own stories contain the secrets of his SR Socially Relevant haunted past. Film Festival New York Nightingale (Drama – Television 1-Hour Pilot) Harry’s Harvest (Comedy – Television 1/2-Hour Pilot) A.J. Bermudez Cilla Lowen In the aftermath of a career-ending surgery, rising star A drop-dead gorgeous, single farmer is unknowingly physician Joseph Reyes returns to the dark neighborhood entered into a reality dating show by his conniving mother, of his former life and discovers a new calling as under- but a computer glitch draws an overload of suitors to their ground surgeon for the brutal gangs of inner Baltimore. remote farm. The farmers’ version of The Bachelor gone horribly wrong. Filmmatic Screenplay Awards Competition TVWriter.com People’s Pilot Contest The Hundredth Monkey (Horror) Justin Michael Terry Matryoshka (Drama – Television 1-Hour Pilot) Angela Berliner As a sociological experiment, a trio of grad students tries to pass off a fictional murderer as real. Traveling to the A girl being raised by an international crime boss grows hometown of their made-up killer, they discover that up to become a secret agent tasked to hunt down and the locals believe the legend to a deadly degree. kill the very man who raised her. The series unfolds along three timelines, revealing a decades-long mystery into the The Sower (Thriller) Davin Affrunti making of the woman who becomes known in spy circles An abstinent cynic gets pulled into a manic web of intrigue, as the Matryoshka. (Winner of the TVWriter.com People’s manhunt, and culture warfare when he unwittingly becomes Pilot Contest. Represented by Lisa Callamaro, Callamaro the sole carrier of a mutated “viral phage” STD that erad- Literary Agency.) icates all human disease. (Best Overall Winner – 2016 Filmmatic Screenplay Awards; Best Thriller – 2016 Filmmatic The UK Film Festival Feature Screenplay Awards. Represented by Eric Williams, Zero Script Competition Gravity Management.) Garden of Delight (Horror) Paul Gerard Grammatico Fresh Voices After being fired from his job, Marvin, at his wife’s request, Screenplay Competition tends to their large backyard garden. Gardening and revenge is taken to another level after he saves a man Preincarnation (Sci-Fi) Kendall Castor-Perry from choking at a restaurant who is a professional killer. When his mother surfaces after 26 years on the run, an historian, who’s living multiple past lives as they happen WeScreenplay through a “fissure” in space-time, investigates his distant Darlings (Western) Aaron Yeung traumatic pasts – and discovers that back in 1349, he was the channel for a resurrected alien monster that will arrive On a farm in the middle of nowhere, a mysterious old in 2015 and annihilate the Earth. woman and her eight-year-old niece welcome in a band of violent criminals seeking shelter from a blizzard. For these scripts and many more, go to our website: www.InkTip.com Action/Adventure 5 Feature Scripts – Grouped by Genre Action/Adventure outpost: taunting the Americans. Lieutenant Dave Briganti is determined to bring them home – against incredible odds. The 13 of Glory Georges Salo Alex Anico The quest for El Dorado by Francisco Pizarro takes the Born Losers: Hell in Heelz conquistadors, known as The 13 of Glory, to a land rife Billy, a retired Army veteran traveling cross country by motor- with gold. Their altruistic start spirals into the subjugation cycle, helps a family attacked by a female biker gang called the of the Inca nation and the genocide of its people. Hell in Heelz. Adapted from the film The Born Losers (1967). (Official Selection of the 2017 Beverly Hills Film Festival; Zed Fest Agent Foster Kid Jamey Durham, MFA Film Festival and Screenplay Competition 2016 – finalist; 2016 Nine-year-old Jace has been abandoned by his mom, so he ScreenCraft Action/Thriller Screenplay Contest – quarter-final- is placed into foster care. Jace thinks his mom is a spy and ist; Boston International Film Festival 2017 – semi-finalist.) something has gone wrong with her mission, so he puts together a team of kids to rescue her. The kids battle inept Broken Wings Robbert Marcel Snijders spies who have their eye on a secret military weapon. During WWII, a bomber pilot has an unusual encounter with the enemy on his way back from a mission. He shoots Almost Utopia John Gascoigne down a German fighter with his pistol as a last and des- A young couple with unresolved grief over the death of perate resource to save ship and crew. A superior officer their child in 2030 join neighbouring recreation commu- insinuates he is a liar, making him lose his temper and nities as mutually hostile as themselves. The neglectful ruining his career. But not forever. husband uses pain as his teacher to reconnect with his wife and return the warring groups to playfulness. Cache Rick Tester Apache Echo David McCartney While rock climbing on the Missouri River for a cache, Ryne’s wife vanishes. He receives a ransom note two weeks A feisty, big-city editor turned small-town newspaperman later that forces him to search extremely dangerous loca- struggles with moral dilemmas and his own fears when he tions for a cache worth millions. As time runs out, the true follows the bloody trail of a fierce, Geronimo-like warrior identity and deadly intentions of his partner are revealed who has emerged in this day and age. on the face of a 3,000 foot cliff. Or did Ryne know all along? The Aviatrix (Pancho Barnes) Stephen Kelly Counterchance Con Kringas A Roaring Twenties socialite takes up the dangerous An FBI sniper goes rogue to save his family. “sport” of flying, then spends the rest of her life proving a woman can out-fly anybody. (Consider from: ScriptXpert, Country Robert M. Kaufmann ScriptShark, ScriptPalooza, The Black List, and Stage 32.) When two brothers, one of whom is mildly autistic, are Bend Anthony Dionisio orphaned in a botched home invasion, they struggle to escape An aspiring reporter manipulates a seemingly indestruc- a town overrun by neo-Nazis, ultimately resulting in a climactic tible vigilante into becoming a superheroine, in order confrontation between the entire town and the population of to stop the Russian Mafia from selling a Cold War nerve the local mental hospital.