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Grand
Prize
Winner
Doug Karr
MY THERMONUCLEAR FAMILY
Drama
Logline: A life sentence in eight hour shifts.
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CATEGORY
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(Action/Adventure; Thriller/Horror/Supernatural; Animation/Fantasy;
Mystery/Suspense; Sci-Fi) |
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Elite
Prize Winner -
Scott Lloyd Randall and Jocelyn Freulon
HUMAN BEING HUMAN
Science Fiction
Logline: A man who has been created as an adult by genetic engineering is desperately in quest of his identity.
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Diamond
Prize Winner
- Joe Kisch
SWIMMING AGAINST THE CURRENTS
Period / Historical
Logline: A historical drama detailing the most important and pivotal period in electrical science in the late nineteenth century where two famous and influential men Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla battled for public supremacy in the knowledge the outcome would ultimately affect every single future human life.
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Platinum
Prize Winner
- Diane Namm
GREED
Horror / Thriller
Logline: After Nikki
Selby breaks out of jail, she heads to Vegas to marry fast and well.
She snags charming millionaire-widower Johnny Rivers and thinks she's
got
life wired; until she learns that greed comes at a price, and it might
just
be her life.
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CATEGORY
2
(Drama/Family) |
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Elite
Prize Winner
- Daniel Dorian
CONFIDENCES OF A CHINESE DEALER
Drama
Logline: From the violent, addiction-laced underworld of Chinese-American drug syndicates, to betrayal and the hopeless corridors of Attica prison, the powerful love shared by high-school sweethearts JACKIE and ANGELA is put to the ultimate test.
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Diamond
Prize Winner
- Patrick Hegarty
FLOWER OF FIRE
Drama
Logline: After killing a man in a Juarez bar, a troubled ex-Marine evades the FBI and a group of mercenaries on his way to California to keep a promise he made to a fallen friend.
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Platinum
Prize Winner
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Sullivan Savage-Elizabeth
NO RUNNING
Drama
Logline: Bullied American born Hispanic adolescent tires to
save her family from deportation by entering a writing contest with
the help of a disillusioned teacher.
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CATEGORY
3
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Elite
Prize Winner -
Jake Helgren
FRIVOLITY
Comedy
Logline: A gay high school journalist goes undercover as the cheer captain's straight boyfriend in order to expose the in-crowd after his quirky gal pal falls for a popular actor who acts gay to get
laid.
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Diamond
Prize Winner
- Joe Acton
MARRIED SEEKING SAME
Comedy
Logline: When Mark Blackburn realizes he and his wife are drifting apart, he asks his best friend a psychologist to help him figure things out. Little did Mark realize that his friend would recommend Mark have an affair with a married woman far less what would happen when she got pregnant!
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Platinum
Prize Winner
- Wernher Ovalle
LOVELOCKED
Comedy
Logline: Young prodigy surgeon, Arden Nixx, reluctantly comes back to the small town of Lovelock, Nevada to care for his drunken, out-of-control father. While he can't wait to return to Harvard, what he discovers in this small town through his contemptible father, an unlikely "little brother," and in a budding love interest, may just help him stay and become a better person.
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11th Place Winner - Lois Henry
DRY HEAT
Drama
Logline: Desperate but determined, Charlene must confront
her familys dark history in a dusty oil town to pursue her own
future and a long-lost love even as secrets from the past threaten to
destroy her.
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12th Place Winner - Jeremy Fischer
CHILDREN OF TOMORROW
Drama
Logline:
The future is now. Tomorrow is today.
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13th Place Winner - Lance
Bradley
DARK SKY PART 1 FINDING FAITH
Science Fiction
Logline:
With the Earth run by the evil
emperor known as the Dark One, the sky has turned black and demons
roam the Earth. Mankind's only hope is a young man named Machina and
with the help of an old prophet he can find faith and release Earth
from the grasp of evil.
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14th Place Winner - Harvey Papush
CAT'S
EYES Horror/Thriller
Logline: A struggling, dysfunctional screenwriter seeking
solitude to focus on his work rents an old house in the South, and
soon finds himself confronted by an extremely aggressive, vengeful and
sensuous ghost with a very definite agenda of her own.
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15th Place
Winner -
Oscar Vasquez
BOUNDS OF REVERIES
Supernatural
Logline:
(unavailable)
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16th Place Winner - Meeghan Holaway and Grace McKeaney
BLIND SPOT
Thriller
Logline: A painful event from his childhood is haunting
respected homicide detective Daniel Sykes. And that's not his only
problem. He has a mentally unstable brother to care for, he's sleeping
with his psychiatrist, he may have put the wrong man in jail for
murder, and a serial killer seems to know more about his past than he
does...
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1 7th Place Winner -
Alex
Williams
ACES AND EIGHTS
Comedy
Logline: A small town bookie becomes an accidental hero
when he inadvertently captures a ruthless gangster, but he has to
become a hero for real when the gangster escapes and comes back for
revenge. And its a romantic comedy. No, really.
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1 8th Place Winner - Richard
Sartore
CHIMPFUSION
Animation/Fantasy
Logline: A wacky comedy about two lab chimps, one a
clone, who are strangers in a strange land. Κ Bobo
wants to live in the African jungle, whereas the
human-like Udo prefers American human society.
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19th Place
Winner -
Jarred Thorpe
DEPTH OF FOCUS
Drama
Logline:
(unavailable)
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20th Place Winner - M.D.
McCarthy
BURNOVER
Drama
Logline: Firefighters race the wind to stop a Washington
wildland fire from spreading across three states.
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