DEATH IS THE ULTIMATE SPACESHIP — Dramatic thriller
Logline: A hobbyshop owner is forced to take drastic action against a blackmailer.
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Fourth Place Winner - Angie M. Comer

CAREER VIRGIN — Comedy
Logline: A neurotic 16-year old girl is convinced that she is the last virgin in her school. With her quirky, self-induced pressure, she must decide if she will give in or remain a virgin.
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Fifth Place Winner - Aaron Kennedy

REALITY SUCKS — Comedy
Logline: Hoping to save his career, a desperate Hollywood agent tries recruiting a construction worker as a client after hearing his idea for a reality show.  
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Sixth Place Winner - Hannah Sanderson

SECOND HORIZON — Drama
Logline: Fresh out of rehab, Samantha can't seem to hang on to anything. As the sober lifestyle quickly loses luster, she begins to push its boundaries, and finds herself reconnecting with someone from her dark past.
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Seventh Place Winner - Tom Rossi

A LETTER FROM AVRAM — Drama
Logline: An Israeli father has sent his son off to war and months have passed without a word from him. Day after day, he is assaulted with the lethal realities of war. He has lost his faith; he has lost his hope; but has he lost his son as well? Then he receives word that a letter is waiting for him, a letter from Avram.
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Eighth Place Winner - Bruce Smolen

THE EXECUTIONER — Drama
Logline: Government creates a program designed to satisfy the families of victims of violent crime.
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Ninth Place Winner - Hana Abdul

LAST DAYS OF EXODUS — Drama
Logline: Last Days of Exodus is a provocative, high impact, fast moving story of a black working-class family’s struggle to save their home and family business. 
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Tenth Place Winner - Joseph Costa

WINGNUT — Comedy
Logline: A mentally handicapped plumbing savant—with a love of peanut butter and a fetish for stealing plumbing parts—finds happiness and his place in the world, in a plumbing supply store.
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ABSOLUTE ZERO — Drama
Logline: An account of the grim and ironic death by freezing of a man trapped inside a refrigerated meat wagon.
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Mark Wasserman

COYOTES OF HOLLYWOOD — Drama
Logline: A desperate young musician stalks an established Rocker. But who is the predator and who is the prey?
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Vicki Speegle

DOLORES — Dramatic Comedy
Logline: A twelve-year old girl desperate to grow up develops a painful platonic crush on her super-cool sixteen-year old babysitter.
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Blane Suizu

FALLING ANGELS — Drama
Logline:  This is the story of Allan Becker’s life as he deals with his lonely father, his overbearing mother, a friendship on the rocks, and a dying child that helps him see the bigger picture.
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Mya Baker

MAYA THE ILLUSION — Drama
Logline:  Through animated battle scenes we see how the HIV Virus attacks a young woman's body from within. Blended with jazz music and specs of RED colors to symbolize caution, we see how a pretty face can have rotten insides.
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Martine Meah

MAGGIE — Drama
Logline: Fur flies when a young special needs girl is forced to give up the kitten she rescues by her dominant mother.
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William Bienes

PRISONER OF LOVE — Drama
Logline: James, with dreams of becoming a “jazz-man”, hangs around Shoebox Rollins, hoping to become his one and only student. Giving up his first love – music, for Ethel, his second, Daddy Sweet Keys returns to Harlem after 40 years gone, convincing Shoebox to pass on the love he never left.  
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Michael Edward Croney

COURTING DEATH — Drama
Logline: Joel is lonely and would like to meet someone, but he’s not able to stomach the commitment. Out of desperation, and via the Internet, Joel meets a beautiful, mysterious woman. There’s just one problem, though: she’s looking for an extremely long-term relationship.
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Jennifer A. Elamparo

NAMES ON A GROUND — Dramatic Comedy
Logline: A hilarious, sad, and personal encounter of a mortician, two teenagers, an ex-girlfriend and young dying man all in the cemetery.. 
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Juli King Royea

SINGLE WHITE WAITRESS — Black Comedy
Logline: Eponine Jones, a singing waitress at “Baklava on Broadway,” maniacally stalks a table of eight that did not show for their dinner reservation.
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Eric Edson

UNLIKELY PLACES — Drama
Logline: A wounded homeless man running from the cops barges into a small all night drugstore seeking medical help. The pharmacist says okay, but in exhange for a killing. His own. Before dawn breaks, these two desperate strangers will discover that sometimes new hope can be found in unlikely places.
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Gary Kohatsu

NECK OF THE WOODS — Drama
Logline: When two college students are hired to transport an exhibit crate through the woods, they discover that the worst nightmare is not the serial killer on the loose.
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Rodney Cook