FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards  - 2007 Screenplay Competition Results

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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 1
(Action/Adventure; Thriller/Horror/Supernatural; Animation/Fantasy; Mystery/Suspense; Sci-Fi)

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)

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 - 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 
(Comedy)

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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Runners Up 11-20

11th Place Winner - Lois Henry

DRY HEAT — Drama
Logline: Desperate but determined, Charlene must confront her family’s 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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(unavailable)

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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17th Place Winner - Alex Williams

ACES AND EIGHTS — Comedy
LoglineA 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 it’s a romantic comedy. No, really. 
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18th Place Winner - Richard Sartore

CHIMPFUSION — Animation/Fantasy
LoglineA 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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