to all
participants in the
Impractical
Ventures
Screenwriting
Competition
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SCREENWRITING COMPETITION
First Prize
Author: Marge Alexander
Title: SIGHTLINES
Genre: Drama
Email: catholic_chick1981@yahoo.com
Logline: A murder investigation leads the investigating detective to conclude that he is his own best suspect.
Second Prize
Author: Don Parchese
Title: SEX WITH THE EX
Genre: Comedy
Email: don_parchese@yahoo.com
Logline: The definition of insanity is making the same mistake over and over again -- even if it feels good!
Third Prize
Author: Charles Cleary
Title: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEVIL
Genre: Drama
Email: cklcleary@hotmail.com
Logline: After the funeral of a lifelong parishioner, an aging priest finds himself justifying his faith during a series of mysterious conversations with the deceased's son.
Finalists
Author: David Vaughan
Title: RIDE TO VENGEANCE
Genre: Western
Email: avonman@hawaii.rr.com
Logline: What's for dinner. Death warmed over is what's for dinner. High Noon meets the Wild Bunch.
Author: Robert Gately
Title: HAT TRICK
Genre: Comedy
Email: gately@verizon.net
Logline: Two cranky old men help their friend atone for a fumble made a long time ago during the NFL Championship game by performing the full monty forty years later on the football field during the Super Bowl.
Author: John Durazo
Title: CRASHING HOLLYWOOD
Genre: Dramatic Comedy
Email: durazojr@aol.com
Logline: Three B-Actors instigate mini riots, commit felonies, fake insanity and stage wacky publicity stunts in order to become Hollywood icons.
Author: James Ossi
Title: HEALING MARIE
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Email: james.ossi@earthlink.net
Logline: She's delusional. He's nuts. They're perfect for each other.
Author: Stephanie Elie
Title: BIRTHMARK
Genre: Thriller
Email: seliewrites@yahoo.com
Logline: A woman discovers the man she is hired to kill is her father. Now she must do everything to keep him safe from the next hired hand in time to tell him the truth.
Author: Ronn Kaiser
Title: HOODWINKED
Genre: Action/Adventure
Email: ronn.kaiser@prodigy.net
Logline: A washed up rodeo cowboy and a beautiful art appraiser wind up in the Caribbean, each claiming to own a 100 million dollar Van Gogh now in the hands of a colorful mogul who is determined to keep the painting at all cost.
Author: Neil Kocsis
Title: IMPROV
Genre: Comedy
Email: neil@kocsis.com
Logline: In the world of Bettys and Veronicas, the successful woman is both.
