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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:  

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.

 

"You Were Once Called Queen City"

Contact Writer "David Ebeltoft"   

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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"

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"

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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

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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)

 


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