SPRING/SUMMER 2007 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION WINNERS

WINNER

NIGHT OF REFLECTIONS by Craig Cambria (thriller/horror)
An obsessively controlling young man fights for his life, and re-evaluates it, when he is captured and controlled by a uniquely twisted psychopath.

RUNNERS UP

PAIN IS FOR GIVING by Chris Thorndike (comedy-drama)
A tennis player, an umpire, a model and a reporter all cross paths in a bizarre, life-changing way and learn to truly feel other people’s pain.

WHERE THE DEAD GO by Mark Kratter (occult thriller)
A by-the-book bio-weapons expert is deployed to war-torn Congo to investigate a suspicious outbreak of disease only to discover that it may be of supernatural origin.

FINALISTS

NIKE’S LAST STAND by Ted Park (drama/historical biopic)
A pagan, female philosopher accused of being a witch tries valiantly to save Western civilization but instead precipitates the Dark Ages.

HARPER AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS by Dennis Newport (dramedy)
A young man breaks out of his shell and escapes his mundane life when meets a stripper and her driver that takes him on lurid escapades.

SERENA’S THUNDER by Jean Hunter (family drama)
A girl’s relationship with a horse named Thunder helps her recover from an accident that killed her family and left her an amputee.

GHOUL SCHOOL by John Stancari (family)
When a boy gains the ability to see ghosts, he enrolls in a “haunted high school,” where he learns ghostly skills and stumbles across a deadly plot the he must stop by midnight, Halloween.

FAR ROCKAWAY by Myles Sorensen (drama)
A sweatshop worker’s life is thrown upside down when one of her own outfit designs is mistaken for that of a top designer..

INISHEEN by Joseph Boyce (action/drama))
Two American women risk their lives to fight an international conspiracy on an Irish island.

CRYSTAL DEATH by Martin Stack (horror)
A frustrated DEA agent teams up with mercenaries to thwart a drug lord’s plan to reclaim Mexican territory by turning meth addicts into crazed, flesh-eating zombies.

PROSE AND CONS by Phil Ferriere (drama)
A generous Boston socialite struggles to help a homeless con artist and his drug-addicted daughter turn their lives around and realizes the urgency to address her own personal needs.

THICKER THAN WATER by Brian W. Wright (action)
An FBI agent must rely on the help of a criminal to rescue his kidnapped daughter.

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