The American Gem's Short Screenplay Competition & Literary Festival Loglines Top 25

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First Place Winner - Phyllis Heltay

MUSTANG — Drama
Logline:
sexy girl and a ’67 Mustang…who wouldn’t kill for that?
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Second Place Winner - Vicky Kjaer Jenseny

THERE WAS A BOY — Drama
Logline:
When bullying of a teenage boy spins out of control, the boy takes matters in his own hands and takes revenge on his high school tormenters.
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Third Place Winner - David Chamberlain

WEDNESDAY'S CHILD — Drama

 

Fourth Place Winner  - Jimmy Sibila

WHEN THE BOND BREAKS Action Drama

 

Fifth Place Winner - Heidi Morrell

FLAGSTONE — Drama
Logline: Neighbors in a duplex, different social worlds, but they have something in common: guilt and personal loss.
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Sixth Place Winner - Kelly K. Anelons

BATCHES OF BILL — Comedy
Logline:
 A new widow consumes her husband's ashes only to discover his unfaithful ways have blocked her body and mind during his farcical funeral.
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Seventh Place Winner - Robert Cox

THE DOOR — Children Live Action

 

Eighth Place Winner - Stuart Creque

ONE CHILD BORN  Drama
Logline: A Rwandan Tutsi farmer’s third child is coming. As he waits on his front porch for the midwife to do her work, his oldest son arrives home with the news that a Hutu mob is also coming.
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Ninth Place Winner - Joseph Lyons

SALVAGING Family   

 

Tenth Place Winner - Robert Youngblood

INK — Horror/Thriller
Logline: An abused teenager struggling through a life of repression happens across a Gypsy tattoo artist whose artwork is said to be cursed. 
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Runners Up 11-16

11th Place Winner - Ron Podell

A RAIN REMEMBERED — Drama

 

12h Place Winner - Faisal Qureshi

THE SCREAMING PHONE — Horror 

 

13th Place Winner - Jomo Merritt

AUGUST SWEENEY: THE MONSTER BARBER OF HARLEM — Family
Logline: A cautionary urban tale read by a grandfather to his trouble-bound grandson, may not be a fairy tale at all.
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14th Place Winner - Louis Farley

THE ROBIN & THE DAISY — Drama 

 

15th Place Winner - J. Graham Ducker

MEDICINAL MUD — Family

 

16th Place Winner - Christina Brandmeier

BEER BONDING — Comedy

Runners Up 17-25

Mac Crutcher

THE APPARITION — Horror
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Mika Collins

THANKS ANYWAY — Comedy   

 

Solomon Grundy

THE ATTIC— Horror

 

Ron Podell

SILENCE OF THE BEES — Drama/Sci-Fi

 

Eli Bildner

PONYTAIL — Comedy

 

Jennifer Bogush

LOW-GRADE CHOCOLATE  — Drama



Ray Fiuza

THE LIZARD INN — Drama
Logline:  A guilt-ridden former boxer discovers his wife is cheating on him -- and contemplates murder.
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Shawn Cottrill

THE TRAGEDY AT EMMITT WHISTLE'S — Drama

 

Michael Wheeler Comedy

ODD MAN OUT
Logline: Otis Odman has grown weary of his virtual social life and decides to risk a night out at the local club. Will the night bring unexpected pleasure or brutal humiliation?
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TREATMENT WINNERS

Jomo Merritt

JOURNAL OF A DINKA BOY — Drama
Logline: The year is 1988. It is an unimaginably horrific time in South Sudan as hundreds of boys from the Dinka tribe desperately flee their suppressors and those that would torture them spiritually and physically. They are fleeing a military regime controlled by radical Islamists, and they leave a blood trail from bare feet torn by thorns.
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Louis Farley & Cynthia Reed

IN-LAWS & OUTLAWS — Comedy (tv series)
Logline: Can Ward and June, a baby boomer couple divorced for twenty years, who still don't get along, and who, by Ward's devious scheme, are living under the same roof again—their daughter's—learn to live in post divorce bliss? Of course not.
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Freddy Robinson

THE ABATTOIR - Thriller
Logline:
A man's nightmare may become reality if he fails to do the right thing.
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SHORT STORY WINNERS

Nellis Boyer

TO NANCY'S — Black comedy
 

 

Dennis L. Schultz

MAGGIE'S RABBITS — Family
Logline: It's about a dog and a group of rabbits who have developed a friendship of sorts. It didn’t start out at that first, friends, but after a couple of days, the friendship between these animals took place. The dog looks for the rabbits and the rabbits look for the dog. And when they see each other, let the fun begin.
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David W. Carter

ALL'S FAIR
Logline: An accountant falls for a co-worker, but a perpetual case of cold feet prevents him from asking her out. The romance ultimately comes to fruition through divine intervention, as Cupid – now long in the tooth and semi-retired – lends a well-meaning, but occasionally inept, hand.
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LOGLINE WINNERS

Mark Wasserman

FELONY EVASION — Action
Logline: After his girlfriend dumps him, a distraught motorcycle stunt rider tries to become the only person ever to elude LAPD on live television while his ex, a newly-minted TV newscaster, must cover the story.

 

Sonja N. York

LOST IN GANGLANDThriller
Logline: In a world of privilege, wealth, and hope, two men from the criminal underworld decide to take the most unlikely pair of women as hostages off the 405 LA freeway, turning each woman's sheltered world into a seductive nightmare when chance makes them sex slaves in the human trafficking business, leading them on a journey through Turkey and back.

 

Robert Youngblood

SCREAM QUEEN — Horror/Thriller
Logline: An aspiring, fame hungry Hollywood starlet gets abducted and held captive in an old, abandoned house where a mysterious red light probes her every move. When she fights her way through a series of maddening, torturous events she discovers a larger, infinitely more sinister scheme astir in the minds of her demented captors.

 

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