Screenplay Finalists
Title: BROKEN WORLD: INFECTION
Writer: Ryan Chase Lee
Synopsis: A year into the zombie apocalypse, Alex is apart of a small group of survivors that have converted an abandoned boarding school into a fortress to protect them from the undead. When a powerful storm and a lone traveler threaten the walls of the compound, Alex must decide what is safer: leaving with the traveler or staying in weakened fortress.
Title: CRACKER ATTIC
Writer: Lorraine Portman
Synopsis: Cleaning out her deceased father’s farmhouse, Piper discovers a meth factory and is forced to defend her life against a terrifying onslaught of attacks from sadistic meth cookers hell bent on protecting their secrets, while she uncovers the truth about a father she never knew. A contained thriller with one location and four actors.
Title: INTELLIGENT DESIGN
Writer: Michael Kane
Synopsis: The creator of the first fully sentient robot struggles to achieve success in a
world that has turned it’s back on him.
Title: ISAIAH’S REST: AN EDISTO GHOST STORY
Writer: William Blackmon
Synopsis: Somewhere on Edisto Island a deed showing the true ownership of the resort town of Edisto Beach is buried and William Jeffers, a vile and ruthless man, will do anything, to include murder to find it. His only problem is the deed and its secrets are guarded by a vicious hellhound, the reincarnation of the son of slaves who were deeded the island by their former masters and then brutally murdered by Jeffers’ ancestors to keep them from it in 1889.
Title: LOVE SCENE
Writer: Bethany Ashton Wolf
Synopsis: LOVE SCENE chronicles the passionate, tumultuous 25-year love affair of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier that begins in 1935 from their height of fame together on screen and stage. Together as Hamlet and Ophelia, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, with Leigh as Scarlett in GONE WITH THE WIND and Olivier as Heathcliff in WUTHERING HEIGHTS, the two stars fall madly in love with each other while married to other people. For three decades–through Leigh’s undiagnosed bipolar disorder, Olivier’s obsession with the theatre, and numerous infidelities on both their parts–Leigh and Olivier try desperately to hold on to their great love for each other while living a poetically blurred line between their art and their real lives as the most iconic, celebrity couple of their time.
Title: MARRIAGEHOOD
Writer: John F. Harris
Synopsis: Four close friends bring their recently widowed and suicidal teammate back home for the 25th anniversary of their high school state basketball championship. While trying to help their teammate recover from his tragic loss, the four friends confront their own relationship issues.
Title: MARVEL ROSE
Writers: Margaret Ford Rogers and Dane Krogman
Synopsis: Marvel Rose is a black comedy about a sweet, little lady who lives with her centurion father and devoted friend, Annie. For years Marvel has been growing the most remarkable roses. Marvel’s success lies in a secret buried deep in her past and a strange recipe given to her by a Gullah root doctor. When a pair of unlikely twins comes to live with her, and a nosey newspaperman suspects her secret, Marvel begins to fear for her prize winning “babies.”
Title: THE BRATNAPPING OF BRIANNA BRECKENRIDGE
Writer: Jimmy Monack
Synopsis: Brianna Breckenridge is the richest eleven-year-old in New England, and also the worst brat in the world. She spends her days trying to win the affections of her very wealthy and successful mother who, along with the house staff, must endure Brianna’s numerous pranks and mock-kidnappings. As Brianna struts around in her little designer business suits, name-dropping tycoons like Steve Jobs and generally trying to be like her mom, one of her dreams comes true: she is actually kidnapped.
Title: THE SKIMMER
Writer: Mel Strait
Synopsis: Rediscovering of a mysterious Confederate boat, hidden since the Civil War sparks interest in its dark past. A journal in an old trunk chronicles deadly missions of silent incursion and its covert place in history.
Title: THE STAVROS AGENDA
Writer: Amy Dyal Bailey
Synopsis: A former Navy Seal learns his murdered wife is the sole heir of a wealthy shipping magnate. Now he’s on the run with his two young daughters to keep them safe. And while our hero and his ex-Seal team deal with tremendous perils, he discovers evidence that his wife may still be alive.
