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A Trip to Rome begins as the bod- Pokey Nose (Animation – Feature) Tami Ryder ies of two Catholic priests are discovered in a car, shot A city-wise girl gives up on Christmas when the recession gangland style. We then cut to months earlier and follow bears down costing her mother’s job. Homeless, they the lives of Father Reynaldo Ruiz, Washington, D.C.’s most arrive at Grandpa’s broken-down farm with his old- celebrated and powerful priest and Father Patrick Healy, a fashioned rules. Angry and disheartened, she stumbles kindhearted worker at Baltimore Catholic Charities shelter. upon a tightly held secret from 1935 that challenges her to believe as she learns of a curious elf who journeyed out during the Great Depression to save Christmas. Action on Film International Film Festival & Writers Event Filmmatic Screenplay Awards Georgia (Drama – Feature) Jennifer Miller The Mushroom King (Action/Adventure – Feature) Can a mother protect the family she loves? And can they Steve Trebilcock protect her from the danger that waits for them all? Radioactive fallout approaches as a small-town deputy leans on the strength of his unmarried neighbor to help Godless Skies (Action/Adventure – Feature) him deal with saving his family and a crumbling society. Joshua David Harris In the near-to-distant future, walls are built around the Jefferson State FLIXX FEST remaining U.S. cities to separate the civilized from the sav- ages. A father exiles himself from the walled city to seek Building Season (Comedy – Feature) Anita Gomez revenge on the man who killed his family. A colorful group of retirees takes a road trip in their RVs going from “Habitat for Humanity” site to site helping to Big Apple Film Festival build houses while building relationships. (Dramedy) Screenplay Competition The Plowshare Paradox (Non-Fiction/History – Feature) The Girl in Green (Drama – Feature) James Beaman Justin Lifflander In this true story of 19th-century New York, a sociopathic In a true story, at the end of the Cold War a wannabe teen becomes entangled with a beautiful prostitute, lead- American intelligence officer moves to the Soviet hinterland ing him down a dark path of depravity and murder. to work on a disarmament treaty at a nuclear missile factory. While discovering that the Evil Empire is less evil than he Creative World Awards believed, he falls in love with a Russian counterpart and must choose between pursuing his career or following his heart. Post No Bills (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) Page Nazarian and Tania Meneguzzi Moondance International Film Festival A graffiti artist records the slaying of a prominent art figure and embarks on a journey to avenge his death. Graffiti Boy <3 Guerrilla Girl (Crime/Murder/Mystery – Feature) Tara Arkle Roadtrippers (Comedy – Feature) Rebecca de Fargues Baby Driver with spray cans! An introverted street artist must unlock the key to his best friend’s murder by prov- Things get out of control when a group of misfit taxi- ing what he stands for in his community as a man, a Sikh, dermists fake a friend’s death in a desperate attempt to and as an artist. Battling himself and his nemesis in an continue on their quest to find Bigfoot. epic, artistic landscape to win back his girl and his pride. (Represented by Alexis Grower, SSB Solicitors) Saving Esperanza (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) Betty Sullivan Money from the Clouds (Action/Adventure – Feature) Inspired by a true story. A mother who’s recently lost a Gregory McGee child travels to Mexico on business and, in a rash decision, On a honeymoon sail, pirates take everything he owns she saves a dying Mexican child from the local mafia, then and murder his wife. He’s left for dead 200 km from land, goes on a two-day dangerous journey to smuggle her into but embarks on a voyage around the world, assembles an the USA to save her life. unlikely crew, and exacts his revenge. For theseClick scripts each and title many above more, to see go theto our synopsis website: and www.InkTip.com script. 5 The Superb Lyrebird & Other Creatures (Drama – family relationship and headline-grabbing legal cases Feature) Wendy Britton Young in New York. When an isolated, home-schooled teen with Asperger’s enrolls in public school to compete for a life-changing art Pan (Drama – Feature) Horace Wilson scholarship, her guardian tries unsuccessfully to shield In the Caribbean, three persons experiencing overwhelm- her from the pitfalls of high school life. ing challenges in their personal lives face off in a music competition that will make the dream of the winner a reality. New Renaissance Film Fest (London, UK) Living in Harmony (Sci-Fi – Feature) Lauren Cordeiro Unorthodox (Drama – Television ½ Hour Pilot) Eafat Newton In a future technology-dominated society, a mandatory device is introduced to eliminate all negative emotion and When a near-death experience convinces an irreverent to allow people to control the emotions they do have. A screw-up to become a rabbi, she breaks more command- young woman is brought to trying to break free from these ments than she keeps while chasing her calling. Wholly limitations, but she becomes trapped in a cycle that shows unqualified for religious life, can this repentant rebel find a this might no longer be entirely possible. way to lead the faithful? PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Warrior Girl (Drama – Feature) Laurie Whitaker Aquitaine (Drama – Television 1 Hour Pilot) Sarah Zeiser After a horrific car accident claims the life of her father and ends her professional gymnastics hopes, 15-year-old Amy Praised and condemned in equal measure, famed 12th-cen- is sent to live with her only remaining relative, her Native tury queen Eleanor of Aquitaine faces the struggle for American grandfather, a healer on a reservation. Amy begins self-determination in the historical drama series Aquitaine. to realize she must learn from her Native American past She must fight for her place in a marriage and kingdom before she can move forward toward rebuilding her life. that want to control who she is while struggling with the cutthroat politics and family drama of the French courts. Script Summit Blood at the Root (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) My Brother, the Taxidermist (Horror – Feature) Dimitri Yuri B. Kornblum Katz Austin, 1885. Following her sister’s brutal murder at the hands of America’s first serial killer, a former slave finds A transgender man watches as his long-lost older broth- an unlikely ally in her pursuit of the perpetrator: a former er’s hobby takes a turn for the gruesome. Confederate officer turned sheriff. Scriptapalooza TV A Custom of the Sea (Drama – Feature) Amanda Prentiss 16 Bars and Waiting (Comedy – Television ½ Hour Pilot) In 1884, when a yachting crew finds itself shipwrecked Eva Kantor and Frederick Burger and surviving in a lifeboat, their choices test the bounds of morality and legality as their story intertwines with that A young musical theater actress from Ohio is jilted at the altar of the young barrister who stakes his career on their case.