2005 Feature-Length Scripts


Winner:
Bloody Lane - Robert Savage


2005 Feature-Length Script Finalists (in alphabetical order)

A Bar Called Elegante - William Bienes
A cynical and disgruntled Cupid, tired of his thankless job, finds liquor, trouble and a few surprising definitions of love.

Bloody Lane - Robert Savage
A modern teenage girl and her dysfunctional parents move into a subdivision on a Civil War battlefield, where she reunites with her old boyfriend -- from 1862.

Civil - Jonathan Talbert
As tarnished LAPD officer Ben Adams unravels the set-up that sent him to prison ten years ago, his teenage son Taylor must avoid repeating his father's mistake during the 1992 LA riots.

A Heritage of Honor - Cleo Bresett
Marine Embassy Security Guards find love and adventure during the greatest helicopter rescue in history, the evacuation of Saigon, South Vietnam.

Huskers - A.J. Devlin
Tragedy strikes a football family when one brother tackles his brother in high school and cripples him, leaving the healthy brother racked with guilt and heading down a dangerous path.

Live Not On Evil - Tim Kernc
The lives of three men collide in a suspenseful, provocative road movie that explores capital punishment and the nature of evil.

Matatoro - John Baker
A South American herpetologist goes to a small southern town in search of a giant snake terrorizing locals. But when he befriends a local girl, he learns there's more to fear in the South than a giant snake.

A Sporting Life - Peter Sutcliffe
A roguish gambler involves his pet bulldog in the sport of bullbaiting while pursuing a young beauty from a higher social caste in late 18th century England.

Spirit Rocks - Kevin McCarthy
A young rock climber abuses rare friendships and takes huge risks, gaining redemption at last through forced intimacy and the abundance of the natural world.

Whereabouts Unknown - Allen Glover
In the late 1970's, a thief is sent to Europe to retrieve a painting looted by the Nazi's during WWII and subsequently lost.

2004 Feature-Length Script Semi-Finalists (in alphabetical order)

Avalon Bound - Brandon Rosin
A Bar Called Elegante - William Bienes
The Baron - Kile Williams
Birth Rate - Rick Fonte
Bloody Lane - Robert Savage
But That’s Not All! - Patricia Mahon
Blood Stones - Julius Ramsay
Civil - Jonathan Talbert
The Dance of Isaiah - Jomo Merritt
Elephant and Castle - Wilmer Lin
Fifty-Love - Dick Keith
First Impressions - J.W. Carey
The Guilty - Marc Pappalardo
The Gunslinger - Thomas Clark
A Heritage of Honor - Cleo Bresett
Huskers - A.J. Devlin
The Kewpie Doll Kiss - George Birimisa
Lady Jazz - Jean Hunter
Lessons from the Gypsy Camp - Elizabeth Appell
Linda Learns to Dance - Judith Carlin
Live Not On Evil - Tim Kernc
Matatoro - John Baker
Pangborn - Dennis DeBon
Pirates of Lesser Providence - Colleen De Maio
Pulse - Dion Cook
Rational Panic - Robert Rhyne
Spirit Rocks - Kevin McCarthy
A Sporting Life - Peter Sutcliffe
Still Life - Kyle Sullivan
Whereabouts Unknown - Allen Glover