SPRING/SUMMER 2008 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION WINNERS

WINNER

LONG OVERDUE by Eric Carlson (drama)
During WWII a famous bandleader is trapped behind German lines with a female correspondent, an African-American truck driver, an accused deserter and his escort, and a medic with three patients.

RUNNERS UP

VIRGIL by Jim Beck (drama)
After inadvertently saving a young girl's life from a rapist, an office drone is consumed by the desire to do right, and refines himself in order to become his city's savior.

THE LOST BRIGADE by Paul Joseph Gulino (drama)
While on the run for a crime against a white officer, a group of African-American soldiers is trapped behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge.

FINALISTS

SECOND BORN by David Jagernauth (sci-fi)
Matthew Green is reborn in the body of the man who murdered him.

BLOOD AND WATER: A New England Story by Richard Barbour and Joseph Barbour (drama)
When a small town mechanic’s family is threatened, he must take the law into his own hands to save their lives.

SLIM GOODIE by Stephen G. Weinstein (drama)
A young woman becomes a hooker to earn money for her and her boyfriend’s life together, but when her boyfriend grows arrogant and abusive, she struggles to break free from the world of prostitution.

PEACE ON EARTH by Ken Richards (drama)
Two enemy soldiers spark a friendship that causes a cease fire during WWI.

LAST DAYS OF THE CATERPILLAR by Gayla Kraetch Hartsough (drama-family)
A little girl whose family is bitterly uprooted becomes friends with a suicidal GI who survived the tortures of a Japanese prison camp in WWII.

CENTENNIAL by Jacob Mendelsohn (western)
In the middle of an Indian war, a mysterious stranger comes to a small frontier town seeking revenge.

McBEGGAR’S by Jack Blumberg (comedy)
A rehabilitation engineer risks everything to keep a demonic entrepreneur from destroying New York’s challenged community.

HEALING ARTS by Len & Ali Lippman (fantasy)
A hospital orderly begins painting on bedpans to cheer up his patients, only to find his art magically speeds up their recovery.

HI-HAT HATIE by Larry Parr (biography)
Hattie McDaniel reached the pinnacle of her career by becoming the first African-American to win an Academy award, but she was subsequently shunned by her own race, who claimed she perpetuated racial stereotypes.

BLOOD AND WATER by Gayla Kraetch Hartsough (political thriller)
When a success-driven American businessman is falsely accused of murder in Latin America,he partners with an underground rebel and must choose between his own freedom and the lives of others.

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