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on AND review a minimum of
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- VOTER'S AWARD:
- $40 will be
awarded to the TOP REVIEWER of the
screenplay festival. They will have the option of submitting their
photo, email address, and brief bio to be posted on the "top
reviewers page (Screenplay Festival)."
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NOT count if you are bias (if you vote 5 stars on one Screenplay and 1
star on all the others).
- You may NOT vote on any contestant's
Screenplay more than once, if you do so you will be
disqualified.
- To vote on "Screenplays" Click the "Films"
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- VOTING ENDS ON
- DECEMBER 31, 2009,
11:59pm.
For Our Contestants:
- ALL CONTESTANTS
must VOTE ON and
REVIEW the TWO screenplays
BELOW their listed Screenplay in the
"ALL" Category. (For Example: Again Comes the Rain must VOTE ON
Devolution and Finding Patience. )The last screenplay
listed on a page in the "ALL" Category must VOTE
ON the first TWO Screenplays
listed ON THAT PAGE. (For Example: Jerusalem Idol must VOTE ON
Again Comes the Rain and Devolution.) If
you have any questions please email us at
phillyscriptfest@screenplayfest.com.
- Contestants are allowed
ONE FREE revised submission of their
Screenplay throughout the duration of the Screenplay Festival. You are
allowed to submit more revisions but you will be charged a processing
fee of $5. We do this to make the festival fair and more challenging
for our contestants.
- Email your revised
Screenplay Submissions to
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- You may vote on your Screenplay only once.
If you vote on your screenplay more than once you will be
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- You may vote on and review as many
screenplays as you'd like, but only once.
Click Each Screenplay to Read them.
CLICK HERE to look at 2009's Logline Festival
sponsored by BSIDE.COM!
2008'S
SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL FINALISTS:
GRAND PRIZE WINNER:
"You
Were Once Called Queen City" by David Ebeltoft
Tagline:
"Life is giving
Danny Mesersmits a full nelson."
Logline: Obsessed with the
past and worried about the present, small town teenager Danny Mesersmits,
struggles to decide whether to follow his deceased father’s footsteps in
high school wrestling.
Contact Writer
"David Ebeltoft" /
Writer's
Website
CLICK HERE: INTERVIEW WITH DAVID EBELTOFT
Congratulations to David for his
excellent and entertaining Screenplay!
"You Were Once Called Queen City"
is an Independent Film Type, Dry-Humored Dramedy on the likes of Little
Miss Sunshine, Thumbsucker, Running With Scissors, etc.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
| Category Finalists: |
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Drama:
Logline:
Obsessed with the past and worried about the present, small town
teenager Danny Mesersmits, struggles to decide whether to follow his
deceased father’s footsteps in high school wrestling.
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"You Were Once Called
Queen City"
Contact
Writer
"David Ebeltoft"
Writer's Website |
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Honorable Mention Drama:
Logline:
Growing up in the shadow of his revolutionary grandfather (Ben
Franklin), a rebellious young man emerges to forge a revolution of
his own. |
"
Kingbird"
Contact
Writer "Don Adams" |
| Comedy:
Logline:
When Santa gets mugged, stripped,
and arrested on Christmas Eve, a skinny black man who's afraid of
heights gets tricked into taking his place. |
Second
Story Santa
Contact Writer
"Stan Williamson" |
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Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi/Fantasy:
Logline: A
womanizing artist uncovers more than the nudes he captures on
canvas, when he finds love that changes his life and a fight against
terror that alters the fate of a nation. Based on a true story of
the abuse of power, versus the honor of a few brave hearts. |
"Rebirth"
Contact
Writer "Teresa Lewis"
Writer's Website |
| Thriller/Horror:
Logline:
An Agnostic Science Professor seeks answers from an experienced
Spiritual Psychic after a Near Death Experience grants him with
clairvoyant abilities only to find that the line between coincidence
and miracle, faith and doubt is in the soul of the beholder. |
"New
Hope"
Contact
Writer "Joseph Brennan" |
Best Reviewer Award (Winner of
$40):
Don Adams, (getsmarty@hotmail.com)
Best Reviewer Award Honorable
Mention:
LIMOLEE
and
M&M
FINALISTS HAVE BEEN
ANNOUNCED (in no specific order):
Second Story Santa
Harlem Story
Rhineland
You Were Once Called Queen
Dark Sky
Kingbird
New Hope
Rebirth
Reaching Across Time
Thank you for your patience and
participation in The Philadelphia Screenplay Festival!
For a list of Awards please check the
Awards Page.
Our 2008 Logline WINNER and HONORABLE
MENTIONS taking part in the Screenplay Festival (We encourage YOU to read
their Screenplays):
Winner:
The Second Story Santa
Honorable Mentions:
Kingbird,
Joe Schmoe's Plot,
Skunk-Boy,
Snowshoe
Best Reviewer Award (Winner of
$20):
Lois Wickstrom, (reluctantspy@gmail.com,
http://www.reluctantspy.com)
Best Reviewer Award Honorable
Mention:
Don Adams, (getsmarty@hotmail.com)
The 2008 Logline Festival has
ended. To see the results and read reviews on your Loglines
please
Click
Here.
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