A big congratulations to all the semi finalists this year. Congratulations!
We will be announcing the winner next week on Wednesday, October 28th.
It’s never easy figuring out which scripts should move on, there are lots of great stories and wish we could honor them all more fully.
But I’m incredibly proud to present this year’s crop of great scripts.
Feature Film Scripts:
Ghosts of Cape May (drama) by Tom Frangicetto
Log Line: Two suicidal people — a 31-year-old alcoholic ex-psychologist and a 19-year-old brilliant college student — help each other exorcise the ghosts that haunt their lives in a hotbed for paranormal activity–beautiful and spooky Cape May by the sea.
Herb Jenk (comedy) by Adam Seidel
Log Line: When Jenk is released from prison after doing time for drug trafficking, he’s determined to turn his life around. To facilitate, he can make one final run. The only problem? He needs to bring along his five-year-old daughter.
Skunk Hour (thriller) by Steven Snell
Log Line: A conscience-stricken uni student brings the friend he gave a false alibi to—and now suspects is a killer—to his ex-con older brother, the only person capable of uncovering the truth and ensuring the body disappears for good.
MR INBETWEEN meets DEATH & THE MAIDEN
The Monarch Project (thriller) by Jeff Warrick
Log Line: When a filmmaker’s documentary on schizophrenia leads him to investigating claims of a government mind-control program — and evidence that his own sister was one of its victims — his obsession with exposing the truth costs him his family, his crew, his sobriety and eventually his own grip on reality.
The Other Side of Life (drama) by Steffany Lohn Sommers
Log Line: A grieving mother believes the boy carrying her son’s heart is the last piece of him she has left, but her increasing attachment threatens to unravel the lives of both families forever connected by this extraordinary gift.
Tough Out (thriller) by Pat St. Phat
Log Line: On a sweltering night in 1955, three ad executives celebrating a career-making pitch are confronted by a mysterious young boy who knows impossible truths about their lives, forcing them into a harrowing, claustrophobic unraveling of secrets, faith, guilt, and fate as the night spirals toward violence inside a Brooklyn bar.
Short Film Scripts:
A Quarterback Flight To Anywhere (drama) by John Ravitz
Log Line: On the day of the national game of the week, a star quarterback going through the worst slump in his career must decide if he can step onto the football field one more time.
Arden (drama) by Dale Wolf
Log Line: At a creative writing summer camp, a girl with cerebral palsy looks for love while she competes for a full college scholarship.
Miami Runion (crime) by Timothy O’Brien
Log Line: An aging Tony Montana, long thought dead, reunites on Miami Beach with former allies he betrayed decades earlier. As old wounds resurface and uneasy forgiveness emerges, the past catches up with him in a final, inevitable reckoning.
Youniverse (sci-fi) by Justin Fontenot
Log Line: In 2035, history is a place you can rent by the hour. A woman spends one as a man — and idly becomes the greatest musician alive, humiliating the giants whose world runs on without her.
Ashley Scott Meyers