2009 Top 4 Winners:

1st Place
THE JUNIOR DETECTIVES AND THE CITIES OF GOLD IRIN EVERS neuroticboy@earthlink.net
Family Adventure: When a boy who's afraid of the dark joins forces with other misfit kids to find a hidden treasure on a Caribbean island, they must overcome their phobias in order to triumph.

2nd Place
DRAMA JUSTIN POLLAK justinwpollak@yahoo.com
Drama: When a 15-year-old girl defies her mother's order to keep a low profile by winning the part of Juliet at her new school, she finds the courage to reveal her deepest secret-that she's really a boy-only to see her mother's dire predictions of her fate unfold in unexpected ways.

3rd Place
ARTIFICE STEVE HOCHMAN tabletennisnow@aol.com
Political Satire: When a genius con man who specializes in creating large scale, global hoaxes gets hired by the D.O.D to help them increase their defense budget, he creates a fake alien invasion that prompts multiple government agencies to publicize phony emergencies to compete for funding.

3rd Place
VAGINA RADIO CHERYL SHIPP cherylnbart@msn.com
Comedy: When a plucky farm girl sets out to fulfill her late mother's dream of seeing the world, her plans go awry after she's seduced by the money at an insanely dysfunctional radio station and tricked into a long-term contract until she realizes she must be true to herself.

2009 FINALISTS: (in alphabetical order by script title)

ARKAN: THE LAST CAMPAIGN PARRISH GRIGGS parrishgriggs@yahoo.com
Horror: When a group of hardcore Civil War re-enactors restage a mysterious battle in the unforgiving wilds of Appalachia, they find their dedication put to the test when descendents of the original conflict view their actions as a fresh incitement to war.

BROKEN GLASS MARY LAMONT mlamont@loy.org
Period Drama: In the 13th century, when an aspiring cathedral glass artist wants to make a name for herself, she commissions a massive tower that threatens the ambitions of the local bishop until she finally learns the truth about what's really important in life.

DUDLEY CHARLES & THE DEADLY CON DAVE SHRAMEK dshramek@gmail.com
Screwball Romantic Comedy: When a beautiful starlet, eager to secure a role in the next big superhero movie, hires a comic book geek professor to educate her, plans go awry when an ex-con producer decides to kill them both so he can steal the production's multi-million dollar budget.

gOD'S mAN JAMES EDWARDS writecorp585@zianet.com
Horror: When an exorcist priest, determined to do God's work, tracks his demonic brother to a back woods village where mass possessions have occurred, he discovers that the devil he must confront and battle is really himself.

KILLING TIME LARRY WHATCOTT ldwscrnwrtr@cox.net
Supernatural Thriller: When a determined female Texas Ranger hunts a young serial killer cowboy who believes that love is stronger than time, she discovers that he's on a mission to avenge his wife's murder-an event which occurred over 130 years ago.

WRINKLES MICKI PAGANO & TONY PARENTE paganoparente@gmail.com
Comedy:When a broke 40-year-old woman who's terrified of aging is forced to rely on her pestering senior citizen neighbors to save her anti-wrinkle business, she unexpectedly discovers the real fountain of youth.

2009 SEMI-FINALISTS:

40 MILLIMETER STEVE HOCHMAN tabletennisnow@aol.com
A TASTE OF FREEDOM MIKE BOSS hdmovies@aol.com
ATOM SMASHERS PHIL FERRIERE write@philferriere.com
BLACK LEAF FALLS BRANNAN DOYLE ryandhq@yahoo.com
CLUTTER MARK LINDBERG linndy1@aol.com
DIRECT DESCENT MARJORY KAPTANOGLU margiebk@comcast.net
LIFE OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR MICHAEL KAVEN mikekaven@yahoo.com
MARY DARREN KOONS djkoons@nc.rr.com
PLAY IT BY YEAR TAMMY JOHNSON amlcprods@yahoo.com
SECOND LADY GODIVA JONATHAN DENN sqlaps@aol.com
STRIDE RICK WHELAN rickwhelan@sympatico.ca
THE AUDITION VICTORIA AUGUSTINE vaugustine@nyc.rr.com
THE INVISIBLE CAR GREGG CAVANAGH gjcavanagh@yahoo.com
THE LIME PIT CLEO BRESETT jr4797@sbcglobal.net
TO PROTECT AND DEFEND GREGG CAVANAGH gjcavanagh@yahoo.com

2009 HONORABLE MENTION:

CEMETERY TOWN DEVON HENNIG d.h.bryce@hotmail.com
EVERY BOY'S DREAM GLENN BROWN bo_brown_jr@yahoo.com
FALLING EMPIRE TOM HADFIELD thomas.s.hadfield@googlemail.com
GHOSTS OF THE STORM DANE FRIEND danefriend@yahoo.com
GRIEF FROM MADAME BUTTERFLY BARRY LEACH barryrjohn@yahoo.com
MISSING LOVE RONALD MARCHAND ronaldlmarchand1@aol.com
NOAH & NADINE SETH COHEN akgenbiz@earthlink.net
SEPTEMBER 10TH DAMIEN BRIGGS damienbriggs@yahoo.com
SPACE RACE ERIC CARLSON carlsonew@juno.com
STARTING SMALL SETH WHITTNER & ROB BAKER bizzvanwa@cox.net
THE ACE OF ACES GEOFFREY BREUDER gbreuder@yahoo.com
THE GOOD GUY JASON ROBERTS zero_hour_direcktor@mac.com
THE HAPPY DANCE PAMELA RODEHEAVER & LISA KATZ prodeheaver@virginia.edu/lkatz33@gmail.com
THE REBOUND GUY LISA SUPER lisasuper77@yahoo.com
THE ROUND TABLE SCOTT MADDEN savage_henry27@yahoo.com
TWO MEN OF KENYA PAM WYLIE p.j.wylie@att.net
WILD TURKEY STEVE CONCOTELLI web@concotelli.com

2009 SPECIAL "BEST OF" AWARDS:

Best Opening Scene
INDUSTRIAL CUT JAMES EDWARDS writecorp585@zianet.com
Best Closing Scene
KILLING TIME LARRY WHATCOTT ldwscrnwrtr@cox.net
Best Female Character Not Used As A Murder Prop Or Decoration On The Leading Man's Arm:
SECOND LADY GODIVA JONATHAN DENN sqlaps@aol.com

2008 Top 3 Winners:

1st Place
SHAKE. RON VINCENT rubytim@sbcglobal.net
Action Drama: When a former gang member/college student discovers Shakespeare's original Hamlet, he finds himself in the fight of his life as thugs nearly kill him and tear his family apart.

2nd Place
NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK IRIN EVERS neuroticboy@earthlink.net
Romantic Comedy: When an obsessive young woman thinks she's found the perfect man on a reality dating show, she stalks him, meets him and falls in love, until she discovers he's not perfect.

3rd Place
CANARIES CRAIG CAMBRIA crcambria@comcast.net
Sci-Fi Thriller: An experiment in biosphere living goes awry when mysterious changes both inside and out threaten the inhabitants.

2008 FINALISTS: (in alphabetical order by script title)

DELIRIUM TREMENS GRAHAM MANSON primal@talktalk.net
Drama: When an alcoholic romance novelist struggles to get sober, he falls in love with a beautiful woman who seems to want to help him but finally realizes that her love could be fatal.

DOG KELLY PARKS kelly.parks@gmail.com
Horror: When two teens call a porn ad about a submissive who demands punishment, they fight for their lives and a way to end their torment after unleashing a beautiful force of evil that feeds on death and gets off every time the teens kill her.

ORCADIA STEVEN ZAWACKI zawacki@msn.com
Historical Romantic Drama: When a recently widowed nurse must work at a WWII prison camp, she overcomes her hatred of the enemy that killed her husband and lets down her barriers when she falls in love with a POW.

OUT OF RANGE LIZ MEDES n/a
Dramedy: When the youngest daughter in a dysfunctional family goes to Belgium as a foreign exchange student, she struggles to fit in as her mother deals with a family crisis and both learn that understanding can bridge the broadest chasms.

PROSE & CONS PHIL FERRIERE writer@philferriere.com
Drama: When a busy-body Boston socialite tries to help a homeless con artist and his drug-addicted daughter turn their lives around, she finally confronts the personal issues of her own life that have been long neglected.

SILENT KILLER PHIL FERRIERE writer@philferriere.com
Thriller: When she discovers animals dying of a disease transmissible to man at a profitable ranch, a tenacious veterinarian risks her life to investigate and expose a monumental cover-up.

SISTERS IN ARMS BARRY LEACH barryrjohn@yahoo.com
Period War Drama: When her fiancé is killed in WWII and Germans take over her island home, a young woman risks her life as well as her family's when she hides an escaped Russian slave laborer and joins the Resistance.

2008 Honorable Mentions:

Best Opening Scene
VEGAS VAMPS PAT CRAWFORD wjcpatpend@aol.com

Best Closing Scene
CANARIES CRAIG CAMBRIA crcambria@comcast.net

Best Female Character Not Used As A Murder Prop Or Decoration On The Leading Man's Arm:
UNITY EUGENE & PAUL LANGLAIS gll3@matterfixer.net

2008 Other Honorable Mentions

BALANCE Michael Zealey mike@mywriting.co.uk
B DEVILED Billy Maddox & Vivien Cooper n/a
CLOSER TO THE FIELD Sue Berg skylenberg@gmail.com
DEVIL'S LURE Marjory Kaptanoglu margiebk@comcast.net
FEELING MAGEDDO Michael Zealey mike@mywriting.co.uk
FERAL Wil Denson densonwt@uwec.edu
FLYING TIGERS Vincent Ho vho@cyke.com
GINGERBREAD Dirk Levinsohn dirk.levinsohn@yahoo.com
HOMELAND (A FAIRYTALE) Greg Brotherton gregory.brotherton@gmail.com
LONG OVERDUE Eric Carlson carlsonew@juno.com
LOST CITY Phil Ferriere writer@philferriere.com
NIGHT OF REFLECTIONS Craig Cambria crcambria@comcast
ONE NATION UNDER Eugene & Paul Langlais gll3@matterfixer.net
ROCKET DOCKET Brooks Barnes brooks747@comcast.net
RUN FOR THE MONEY Madeline Langford maddiel@yahoo.com
THE ACE OF ACES Geoffrey Breuder gbreuder@yahoo.com
THE KNIGHTS OF CARPATHIA Audrey Beller nyscreenwrt@aol.com
TRUE NORTH Eric Carlson carlsonew@juno.com
ULTRAVIOLET CHILD James Ossi james.ossi@earthlink.net
UNITY Eugene & Paul Langlais gll3@matterfixer.net
VEGAS VAMPS Pat Crawford wjcpatpend@aol.com
VOICES Susan Klos susan@bigtimepic.com

2007 Winter Top 3 Winners:

1st Place
ALL THAT I AM Diane Hanks Eire96@aol.com
Psychological Thriller: When a young man finds himself locked up in a mental facility and doesn't know why, he remembers enough to know he must break out to save his love, but quickly discovers that he must face the truth and take responsibility for his own actions first.

2nd Place
GHOUL Kelly Parks Kelly.Parks@gmail.com
Horror: When a young lawyer and his girlfriend dine at a new restaurant, the cops raid it for serving human flesh and the couple soon discover they have insatiable appetites, growing supernatural powers and a slew of mortal and immortal enemies who all want to kill them.

3rd Place
THE TOUCH Naomi Lamont naomi.lamont@gmail.com
Supernatural Drama: When a young man lies about his amazing ability to heal, he loses those close to him and nearly costs the woman he loves her life.

2007 FINALISTS: (in alphabetical order by script title)

A PAWN IN THE GAME Ryan Peek ryanpeek777@yahoo.com
Drama: When a gifted inner city youth struggles to live up to his demanding father's expectations of him on the basketball court, he foregoes his real passion and true calling in the game of chess until he learns to fulfill his true potential.

CHILDREN OF THE SUN Madeline Langford maddiel2002@yahoo.com
Action/Adventure: When an ambitious journalist who thinks she doesn't need anyone's help gets dangerously entangled with rebel forces in Peru, she must learn to trust and accept help from a charming archeologist.

FELIX THE FLYER Christopher Canole ccanole@ucsd.edu
Adventure Drama Bio: When a Cuban mailman runs in the 1904 Olympic marathon, he recounts everything that led him to the most bizarre race in Olympic history, including his 1200 mile super run up the Mississippi River.

PLANTER OF MEN Jack Robbins jrobbins@cruverlaw.com
Drama: A grieving lawyer who can't get over the death of his son quits his job to work at a cemetery where he painstakingly honors the departed. When he befriends a widow whose teenage son is on the verge of committing suicide over the death of his father, the lawyer-turned-gravedigger finally learns that life is for the living.

SOLDIERS OF THE SHADOW SUN Richard Shand rshand@shaw.ca
Drama: When a soldier, wounded in Iraq, returns home and descends into a personal hell, he falls in love with a provocative young Arab woman who holds the key to his escape.

TEN SHOTS OF TEQUILA Ted Gurich Tedgurich@adelphia.net
Romantic Comedy/Adventure: When her bail bondsman stepfather is murdered, a mousy woman follows her feuding sister to Mexico to catch a suave bail jumper but falls for the man while being pursued by treacherous drug smugglers. .

THE LAST CHA CHA Devi Snively deviantpix@hotmail.com
Dark Romantic Comedy: When a wallflower and a male stripper dog-sit for an ornery Chihuahua (or ten), they wrestle with romance and rabies on the road to true love.

2007 Honorable Mentions:

Best Opening Scene
BRAIN STORE Fabricia Geeting fabriciageeting@yahoo.com
Tired of your life? Get a new brain. When an ordinary broken-hearted woman exchanges her brain, she become a celebrity and changes the world.

Best Closing Scene
A TASK OF DRACULIAN PROPORTIONS: THE QUEST FOR KERMIT THE VAMPIRE Dave Vaughan avonman@hawaii.rr.com
When an effervescent vampire falls in love with her clueless "civilian" lover, she can't convert him because he's too ticklish so she must slay Kermit, the vampire who converted her, in order to abide by the vampire constitution. But in the end, even though Kermit gets his head lopped off, he still gets the last word.

Best Female Character Not Used As A Murder Prop Or Decoration On The Leading Man's Arm:
BLACK STAR RISING Doug Williams doug@lonestarwriters.com
Barbara Jordon overcomes poverty and racism to become the most prominent black political voice in American only to be "assassinated" by her allies for her refusal to be stereotyped.

2007 Other Honorable Mentions

A SOLEMN PATH TO CONTENTMENT Jeffrey Musmanno musmanno@ptd.net
BLESS ME, FATHER David Termuhlen amlcprods@afeedingfrenzy.com
CLOSE QUARTERS Nicholas Turner NHTURNER@aol.com
DAYJOB Dimitri LaBarge Dimitril@sprynet.com
HYSTERICAL Patricia Crawford wjcpatpend@aol.com
IN THE LION'S DEN S. Douglas Knox sd_knox@yahoo.com
NATURAL SUNLIGHT Christopher Weismantel cgweismantel5150@yahoo.com
OLD FLAMES Patti Nommensen pnommensen@sbcglobal.net
ONCE A TEACHER Frank D'Aprile anchorsdome@yahoo.com
ONE! THE GARRY DAVIS STORY Arthur Kanegis ArthurKanegis@onefilms.com
PERSPECKTIVE Michael Deuschel storyforms@yahoo.com
PETITE RESISTANCE Barry Leach BARRYRJOHN@Yahoo.com
SAVING CINDERELLA Harvey Jacobs & Donna Brodsky harvey@networdcs.com
SHOES ON THE LOOSE Mich Avant amlcprods@afeedingfrenzy.com
SOULSELLER Jack Dawe writecorp585@zianet.com
SKIZZERZ Sarah Dowling screenpresents@gmail.com
STUNTMEN Seth Cohen akgenbiz@earthlink.net
THE AMERICAN B&B Mike Sherer csherer@fuse.net
THE AVON MAN Dave Vaughan avonman@hawaii.rr.com
THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE Mike McGeever zeppofan@aol.com
THE HIGH COST OF PARENTING Michael Smith/Tracy Poverstein tracyandmichael@gmail.com
THE REAL MONICA LANE Steven Howard amlcprods@afeedingfrenzy.com
THE SPIDER WEB Lola Martin Balaguer Lmbalaguer@aol.com
THE STREETS OF SARAJEVO David Dalley horseshu@cableone.net
TOUCH David Hurlburt david.hurlburt@hpmatty.com

2006 Summer Top 3 Winners:

1st Place
I WAS A TEENAGE ART THIEF MONTAE RUSSELL TBA
Drama: Based on a true story of a black youth from the ghetto who stumps the FBI when he goes on a lucrative two-year reign as a teenage art thief and learns a priceless lesson about life, love and the value of education.

2nd Place
THE RADIANT BOYS JEREMY WILMARTH jeremy@wilmarth.org
Supernatural Thriller: Troubled orphan brothers unleash dark supernatural forces that unlock their foster family's private hell of suppressed guilt, rage and tragic death.

3rd Place
THE KRAY SURVIVORS RON RANDOLPH steverenthal@yahoo.com
Sci-Fi Thriller: Nightmares or hallucinations? Drug-induced or alien-induced? A futuristic mercenary on a mission to save the human race can't be sure whom to trust, especially himself, when he doesn't know if his memories are real or not, or whether he's awake, dreaming or hallucinating.

2006 FINALISTS: (in alphabetical order by script title)

A GLASS HALF FULL JEFFREY MUSMANNO Musmanno@ptd.net
Drama: When a hopeless young man faces the death of a loved one, he recounts his past and learns once again to embrace the beauty of life and hope.

DOING TIME IN A BOTTLE GINA CRESSE ginacresse@adelphia.net
Romantic Comedy: When a daring archaeologist gets locked in a bottle by a genie for 100 years, he must outsmart the genie to win back his freedom and the love of his life by figuring out the path to true happiness.

HEROIN(E) Ken Sandbank KenSandban@aol.com
Drama: A strung-out, beaten-down Times Square Hooker "adopts" a Geisha stranded at Port Authority, and struggles to learn geisha arts to escape her violent pimp and dismal life.

THE MONA LISA CAPER GINA CRESSE ginacresse@adelphia.net
Period Drama: When a poor carpenter claims he pulled off the greatest art theft in history by stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, the real mastermind confesses his story to a reporter.

THE OUTLAW LARRY WHATCOTT ldwscrnwrtr@cox.net
Supernatural Thriller: When a determined female joins the Texas Rangers, her first case is to hunt down a serial killer who can not age.

SWEETHEART DEAL MARK RYKOFF mark_rykoff@timemagazine.com
Crime/Caper: When a financial reporter gets conned by a shady investment banker and a high-priced call girl, and the call girl subsequently gets dumped by the banker, the reporter and the call girl team up to give the banker a taste of his own medicine.

UNITY EUGENE LANGLAIS III TBA
Horror/Thriller: When an obsessive FBI psychologist investigates a seemingly inexplicable crime, she discovers the legacy of hideous government experiments on human behavior that prove that the pursuit of the greater good leads to the greatest evil.

2006 Honorable Mentions:

Best Opening Scene
ASCENSION Steve Sparks ss@hawaiiantel.net
The spectacular beauty of a drop of water is captured as it ascends from the Bay of Bengal to the Himalayas, where an American wrongly accused of a murder by the Chinese army goes on the run for his life.

Best Closing Scene
10 MINUTES FROM PARADISE Janyce Lapore janyce46@aol.com
A failed commuter train robbery destroys a desperate man's dream of reaching paradise but he does get a glimpse of it in a most unusual way.

Best Female Character Not Used As A Murder Prop Or Decoration On The Leading Man's Arm:
MRS. FELDSCHREIBER, SECRET AGENT Claire Riley clairevriley@aol.com
A 50-year-old menopausal sex kitten drenched in big hair, make-up, gaudy jewelry and loud polyester, the CIA will never be the same when meddling match-maker Mrs. Feldschreiber decides to stick her nose in their business!

Other Honorable Mentions

10 MINUTES FROM PARADISE Janyce Lapore janyce46@aol.com
ARTIFICE Mike McGeever zeppofan@aol.com
ASCENSION Steve Sparks zss@hawaiiantel.net
BOLIVAR'S BRIDGE Elizabeth Medes TBA
BUG MAN Nick Diaz TBA
CARNIVAL TRAP Ryil Adamson ryil1@msn.com
CITY OF NETS Debbie Bolsky Debbie@Dbolskywriter.com
FAST AWAKE Alex Williams alexkrty@hotmail.com
NOT HERE, YOU WON'T Jack Kilpatrick Amlcprods@afeedingfrenzy.com
MISSING PERSONS Michael Weinstein mcwein@comcast.net
MRS. FELDSCHREIBER, SECRET AGENT Claire Riley clairevriley@aol.com
PINOT GRIS AND CURLY FRIES Mark Saunders msaunderswriter@yahoo.com
PRINCESS REBORN Lee Tidball leesius@netzero.net
RED TULIPS Elise George Egeorge@nc.rr.com
ROCKET DOCKET Brooks Barnes tbarnes3@houston.rr.com
TAO OF JONES Bill Ryan bill.ryan2@comcast.net
THE BEST CHEST IN THE SOUTHWEST Ryil Adamson ryil1@msn.com
THE FLOWERING OF KELLY O'HARA Cathy Salenger TBA
THE LAMB Guy Winch glw555@aol.com
THE TORTOISE AND THEY HEIR Russ Meyer turtoise@att.net
VOICES Susan Klos susan@bigtimepic.com