6.01.2011

ScriptDoctor's Contest of Contest Winners

FOR RELEASE:
April 15, 2011
ScriptDoctor.com
CONTACT: Howard Allen, thedoc@ScriptDoctor.com

The WINNERS of the CONTEST OF CONTEST WINNERS ™


There are dozens of screenwriting competitions held annually across the country. But which screenplay from among the winners of all of these quality competitions is the best of the best?

All of us at ScriptDoctor.com are amazed at the response – more than 50 entrants -- in this the sixth year of our Contest. To show our gratitude, we took the extra time and expense of getting two Writer Judge’s coverage-style evaluations sent to every single entrant in the Contest.

Who is the best of the best? The Contest of Contest Winners ™ hopes to answer that question and shine the spotlight on these accomplished, award-winning screenplays. A good showing in this contest proves your script stands out among the toughest competition. What a priceless marketing tool for your screenplay!

Our top ten Finalists also receive free Final Draft software.

Also as promised, we are directly contacting more than 200 publications, agencies and production companies with the names and screenplays of our 10 Finalists.

Our access to major studios and production companies is aided by the fact that many of our judges are working professionals. This includes ScriptDoctor (rated No. 1 in a national survey), Howard Allen. And Chris Haughom, who has been in the film business for over 25 years, starting out in the biz as Executive Assistant to the President of Filmways Pictures, Inc. Over the years, Chris evaluated scripts for AFI, CAA and many production companies, and also wrote many script novelizations. For the past 16 years, Chris has been a Judge for the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowships, reading over 250 scripts in a 4-month period each year. And Victoria Lucas with almost 20 years of experience as a development and production executive at both major studios and independent film companies.

Our First Place Winner receives the cash prize, storyboard software from FrameForge 3D, a free set of Story Notes from ScriptDoctor.com (valued at $700), as well as the prize given to the top ten Finalists.

We would like to thank our sponsors and the great response we got from all of the contest winners who entered. We remind everyone that some Entrants qualified just being Quarter-Finalists or Semi-Finalists in certain contests like the Nicholl Competition (see our web site for details).











And now our winner:

JENNA'S GONE
by Russ Meyer

When the waitress they both love goes missing, an untried deputy and an exceptional hunting guide strain their friendship tracking the kidnapper across the desert--each suspecting the other of playing a role in her disappearance.

Contact: tortoise@att.net


And our Finalist Winners in alphabetical order:

FINDING YOUR INNER DOG by Erna Mueller

Can a surly cop enter the gates of heaven? You bet: The Jerk Redemption Program. He just has to become his K-9 Partner dog first.

Contact: images9@comcast.net


JUST KILL ME ALREADY by Sundae Jahant-Osborn

A desperate down'n'out actor takes extreme and temporarily insane measures to make sure he wins the role of a lifetime. How? He hires a hitman to "eliminate" his competition.

Contact: wysiwygprod@compuserve.com


KING'S HEART by Svilen Kamburov

An extraordinary true story: a King risks everything to defy Hitler's Nazi Germany and make his small country the only nation in Europe to save its entire Jewish population.

Contact: svilenpk@yahoo.com


NEW MOMMY by Hamilton Mitchell

A boy falls for his baby sitter, and 12 years later--moving home from college--he discovers she’s going to marry his step-dad.

Contact: ham9875@aol.com


NORTH 40 by Timothy Jay Smith

A Special Ops soldier, whose grief over the loss of a son has torn his family apart, takes them on vacation hoping to relive happier times, when a perilous situation forces them to pull together to survive. Straw Dogs meets Ordinary People in this Hitchcockian suspense thriller.

Contact: timothysmith.paris@gmail.com


RED STAR by Ruth Johnson

She survived the un-survivable. The inspiring true story of Margaret Werner, the only American woman to endure the Gulag death camps in Stalinist Russia.

Contact: ruthiejohnsonofhb@gmail.com


TAKU'S QUEST by Michael Pallotta

An orphaned Japanese boy is chosen to thwart a diabolical scheme by the Lord of the UnderWorld ten years in his future.

Contact: pallotta_m@yahoo.ca


UNDERWOOD by Theresa Giese

While a teenage farm boy fights to save his family’s farm, a young squirrel battles his own fears to follow in his famous father’s footsteps. When their paths cross, both lives change in ways even they don’t truly understand.

Contact: bgiese@centurytel.net


WHEN TIGERS SLEEP by James Walker

In 2009, a Tamil boy arrives in London from Sri Lanka, having escaped the brutal civil war, but becomes embroiled in a violent Tamil gang instead.

Contact: jamesjmwalker@gmail.com


THE VOYEUR by John Bengel

An ethicist and college dean with a voyeurism obsession sees something that creates his ultimate ethical dilemma.

Contact: rbengel@ca.rr.com


And our Honorable Mention:

THE YUAN WIDE MOVIE by Wayne Diu

A fat kid unintentionally wreaks havoc in his hometown after a suspiciously not-so-random draw seals his fate: He will become the unfortunate student chosen to interview candidates in the upcoming election.

Contact: wayne@readmyscreenplay.com