FALL 2003 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION WINNERS
WINNER MICHELANGELO by Lorelei Armstrong
The discovery of Michelangelo's one great love could result in the destruction of all his work. RUNNERS UP IN THE CARDS by Mike Vogel
A man obsessed with tracking down the last baseball
card from his father's only year in the major leagues
is helped by a woman who's actually a reporter digging
for her next big story.
TALENTED TENTH by Cliff Pulliam
A former coke dealer-turned-activist enlists the help of a beautiful young journalist to investigate the disappearance of dozens of black men and women from New York City streets. FINALISTS NO HUMANS INVOVLED by Trish Cole
A corrupt homicide detective tries to solve a series of murder cases whose prime suspect is another dirty cop. NATALIE RISING by Donna Wheeler
After a new tenant moves into her mother's apartments, a young music prodigy beats the odds of a repressive family and environment to realize her ambition. A GREEK TRAGEDY IN ROME by Frank C. Vento
A comedy-drama about a Greek goatherd in 44 BC who travels to Rome to bury a brother that is not quite dead. SO THEY SAY by Sam Brannan
To make her performance in a traditional American Indian film credible, a diva actress is forced to live "the rough life" with a young Sioux woman on a reservation. THE YEAR I DID NOTHING by Ana Barredo
Set against the final, tumultuous year of the Marcos dictatorship, this coming-of-age story centers around three Filipino children during their last year in Manila before immigrating to America. SEMI-FINALISTS CHAMPAGNE by Anton Goldman
A stranded, penniless American who is mistaken for a rich investor literally finds unexpected love in the vineyards of France. THE MANY FACES OF CHARLES RITTENHOUSE by Vignendra Ariyarajah
A dissatisfied woman seemingly finds the perfect combo when she juggles two men who are identical in looks but otherwise total opposites---only to find that this scenario may lack the element she craves after all.
IN YOUR FACE by Doreen Orion
Humiliated for the last time by his fetish, a man contrives to get his fantasy fulfilled by using millions of unsuspecting women until he loses everything---except the most important thing he never knew he had: a woman who accepts him, fetish and all. ALIEN SON X by Andrew Marzan
A brilliant African-American scientist faces the ghosts of his past when he wages a one-man battle against drugs in his inner-city neighborhood. VOICES by Susan Klos
An independent woman struggles to balance a business and a new romance with family life when her daughter's increasingly strange behavior is diagnosed as schizophrenia.HONORABLE MENTION VIETNAM: WHO CARES?
by Carl Bradfield
The granddaughter of a homeless war vet doesn't care about Vietnam until she reads his memoirs.
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