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Please Read These Rules Before Entering The Festival:

  1. You must vote on AND review a minimum of TWO Screenplays for your vote to count.
  2. You must register as a B-Side member in order to vote on the Screenplays. To do so click "Register Here" on the following page. Please use your Email Address as your Desired Username if you wish to promote communication among members.
  3. PLEASE NOTE: To DOWNLOAD Screenplays onto your computer, RIGHT CLICK the link that allows you to read them and SAVE TARGET AS your computer.
  4. We encourage everyone to review, comment, and critique the contestants Screenplays so that they may improve their work. Feel free to email the contestants with critiques.
  5. 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)."
  6. VOTER BIAS RULE - your votes will NOT count if you are bias (if you vote 5 stars on one Screenplay and 1 star on all the others).
  7. You may  NOT vote on any contestant's Screenplay more than once, if you do so you will be disqualified.
  8. To vote on "Screenplays" Click the "Films" tab on the following page after registering.
  9. VOTING ENDS ON - DECEMBER 31, 2009, 11:59pm.

For Our Contestants:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Email your revised Screenplay Submissions to phillyscriptfest@screenplayfest.com. An application is required to be mailed to us after using your FREE Screenplay Revision Submission. Please click here for more information.
  4. You may vote on your Screenplay only once. If you vote on your screenplay more than once you will be disqualified.
  5. You may vote on and review as many screenplays as you'd like, but only once.

 


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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"   

Writer's Website

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"

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.

 

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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)

 


The 2008 Logline Festival has ended.  To see the results and read reviews on your Loglines please Click Here.

 

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