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LOG LINES - Top 20
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Grand
Prize
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Heather Ferrell
A DIFFERENT KIND OF RAIN
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Comedy
Logline: An obsessive compulsive vegetarian telemarketer
hawking frozen meat flees the law and her luckless life to help a
charismatic, dying widow hunt for a mysterious package.
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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 -
Lou Tasciotti
OF HIPPOCRATIC BLOOD
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Horror
Logline: “There is a
drop of truth at the heart of every myth…” An HIV-positive, pregnant
doctor discovers a cure for AIDS when her husband becomes infected
with the real blood-drinking disease at the heart of fictional vampire
lore.
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Diamond
Prize Winner
- Thomas M. Gastall, Jr.
DESTINY MEN
— Fantasy
Logline: The latest recruit of a secret organization devoted
to policing Reincarnation finds himself in an adventure of a lifetime,
or two.
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Platinum
Prize Winner
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Steven Martinez
PHOENIX RISING
— Action Adventure
Logline: A new team of
Superheroes is born out of a mysterious asteroid collision with the
planet Venus.
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CATEGORY
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(Drama/Family) |
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Elite
Prize Winner
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Kent Wong
THE ESCAPE
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Drama
Logline: A young man’s will to be free defies even death
during the Chinese holocaust – the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s
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Diamond
Prize Winner
- Mark Penberthy
THE BLACK CAT
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Drama
Logline: A passed over boxing promoter buys a nightclub for
his headstrong wife with money that turns out to belong to his
murderous ex-business partner.
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Platinum
Prize Winner
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Kevin Conder
FRONT MAN
— Drama
Logline: After a terrible accident a singer on the verge of
superstardom loses everything and winds up homeless on Venice Beach.
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CATEGORY
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(Comedy) |
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Elite
Prize Winner -
Colin Costello
BRIDEZILLA VS DEER
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Comedy
Logline: A type-A New
York City advertising executive goes "bridezilla" in a small
Connecticut town after a white tail buck crashes her perfectly planned
wedding and runs off with her $50,000 wedding band on its antler. With
her fiance in traction and 48 hours until hunting season, she turns to
the local sheriff for help. Bridezilla vs. Deer.
Something old. Something new. Something uninvited.
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Diamond
Prize Winner
- Sheri Davenport
KISS ME LUCKY
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Comedy
Logline: A struggling single mom experiences the ultimate
good news-bad news when she wins the lottery then discovers the
winning ticket is in her car…the same car that’s just been stolen. The
thief learns that the ticket is too hot to cash and launches a covert
scheme to win the girl so he can win the money.
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Platinum
Prize Winner
- John Horan
RABBIT TAILS
— Comedy
Logline: Matt Larsen, a family man evicted from home by a
wife weary of his mid-life funk, and long-time buddy, Vince Steinman,
a carousing bachelor with an acute fear of commitment, embark on a
mountain-biking trek through the Badlands in search of very different
things. Their seemingly unconnected encounters with a deranged
rest-stop-dwelling martial artist, a seductive Native-American
princess, a wild-haired backward-singing barfly, and an angry mountain
lion, come alive with new meaning and significance, thanks to a
day-old breaded mushroom, an unwanted trip through a Sioux Indian jail
cell, courtroom, and sweat lodge, and a psychedelic musical rendering
of "Alice in Wonderland," ultimately leading both men to the discovery
of . . . very different things.
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11th Place Winner - Mark Beech and Linda Gray
MOTHER LODE
— Comedy
Logline: When two old prospectors round up a load of cats,
then cross paths with the only turkey drive in history, what could
possibly happen next?!
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12th Place Winner - Richard Flynn
THE SHORES OF ILLYRIA
— Comedy
Logline:
Two Italian-American
sisters juggle family, infidelity and blackmail before an upcoming
wedding.
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13th Place Winner -
Debra Vance
HIGH PROFILE —
Political Thriller
Logline:
High Profile is a political
thriller/satire about a controversial news magazine host whose
indiscretion with a Presidential Candidate’s wife makes him the prime
suspect in her disappearance.
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14th Place Winner - Kieran Angelini
DRINKING IN CHURCH — Comedy
Logline: Drinking in Church is a comedy about two
criminals—one an atheist, the other an agnostic—who plan the
kidnapping of a wealthy woman while in a church. Then a devout, young
catholic girl who works for the woman enters to pray. But rather than
turn the men in, she offers to help.
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15th Place
Winner -
Brendan Gore
A PICTURE OF US —
Drama
Logline: As a well known actress struggles to overcome drug
addiction in an increasingly strange rehab centre, her estranged
lover/step-brother and young daughter are forced to reconnect in her
absence.
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16th Place Winner - Eset Akcilad
FISH
— Drama
Logline: The guide to survival in an aquarium.
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1 7th Place Winner -
Bill
Rhoads
WALLER IN THE HOLLER
— Comedy
Logline: (unavailable)
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1 8th Place Winner -
Elizabeth Savage Sullivan
CATCHING OUT
— Drama
Logline: (unavailable)
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19th Place
Winner -
Lily Mercer
FALLING INTO PLACE —
Drama
Logline: A quirky drama about a 39-year-old schoolteacher on
the verge of suicide who picks up a 99-year-old man hitchhiking. As
their relationship unfolds, he helps her to live and she helps him to
die.
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20th Place Winner -
Linda Delmont
YESTERDAY'S CHILD
— Drama
Logline: After the death of her child, a young pregnant
woman, overcome by grief and a growing disconnection with her husband,
seeks solace in her best friend's boyfriend.
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