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2010 PROGRAM
ENTRY CALL
SLAMDANCE 2010 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
Submissions are closed for this year, please check back next March for more information on the 2011 competition!
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2010 Slamdance Writing Competition
Top 200 Finalists
(The top five in each category and the grand prize winner will be announced on or before September 20th.)
FEATURES:
12:25 AM by Kristina Brown & Ashley Brown
A Burning Thing by Johnny Ferguson
Already Gone by Bill Balas
Among Thieves by Douglas Winningham
Angeltown by Kenneth Dyson
Arthur’s Salvation by Karen Webb
Balloons by Nikki Braendlin
Balls to the Wall by Antoine Tardif
Bank Robbing for Dummies by Robert Watson
Baron of Havana by Alex Simon
Bush League by Steven Shank
Confidelity by Juliet Hanna & Gejaa Gobena
Conspiracy by Adam Walsh (Adapted from work by William Campbell Gault)
The Crimes of Love by Chris Kloetzel
Deceptive Cadence by Teddy Cecil
Fickle by Kris Daw
Fishing with Dynamite by Randy Sumeraj
For Greenwood by Dwayne Alexander
Fugue by Andrew Gettens & Laura Lee Bahr
Ghost Train by Michael Coast & Kyle Levenick
The Girl With no Name by Alex Ranarivelo
Humane by Shana Selway
Incarnation by Steve Anthopoulos
Into the Arms of America by Nicholas Dunlevy
Jack Pine and the Mendicant by Ty Reeb
Letters from Wolfie by James Christopher
Little Eden by Timothy Jay Smith
Macau Twilight by Tony Shyu
The Nobodies by Mike Giampa
Robbing Hoods by Joe Reiter
The Shadow Man by Nir Paniry
Stealing Canada by Tyler Smith
Take My Wife by Brett Carlson & Brian Graves
Tequila Moonrise by Brian Christgau
Uncommon Warrior by John Cirignani
Under the Rising Sun by Michael McCoy
The Villain by Maziar Lahooti
The Vultures by Chance Muehleck
Welcome to Akron by Stephen Vladimir Bugaj
West Memphis Three by William Johnson
HORROR/THRILLER:
100 Bloody Acres by Colin & Cameron Cairnes
The A Train by Michael Brettler
Black and Blue by Carlos Gutierrez
Black Stork by Wayne Mogilefsky
Blood Carvings by Lori Huck
Bloomtown by Caroline Cooney
Cold Valley by Cameron Alexander
Coven by Eduardo Aguilar
Crave by Hus Miller & Paul Kramer
Dangerous Waters by Matthew Altman & David Matalon
Dark Desert by Paul Porter
Dead Crows by Chris Todd
Dead Reckoning by Esperanza Villegas
Deadly Passage by C.M. Robinson
Deep Freeze by Charlie Charbonneau
Ding-Dong-Ditch by Erin Donovan
Driven to It by Allie Edwards
Embassy Row by Scott Reardon
Extinction by Colin Hendershott
The Greatest Show on Earth by B.D. Flory
Greed by Josephine Romano
The Guilty by L.M. Harter
Heaven Sent by Alison McMahan & John Leary
Hoax by Matt Allen & Scott Park
The House on Spirit Lake by Jerry Cullinen
Infinity by Chris Bonneau
Jesse James vs. Jack the Ripper by Alasdair McMullan
Killer Granny by Kevin Armento, Eric Lee, & Taylor Jackson
Lamatsu by Rick Watkins
Leather, Wood & Iron by Sherrie Robertson & Isaac Diaz
Malleable Shapes by Tommy Cook
The Manuscript by Louis Rosenberg & Joe Rosenbaum
Ouija by Robert Hayhurst
The Projectionist by Alison Star Locke
Revenant by Jerron Spencer
“Sharks” by Ralph Stein (Story by Chris Johnson)
Tremble by Lukas Schepp
Undeserving by Brett Finnell
Viktor by Matt Wheeler
Zombie Lesbian Sluts by Lesley Schroeder
SCRIPT ACCESSIBLE:
Bearcat by Jeannie Bolet
Below the Waist by R. Ian Simpson
Bikini Vampires Save the World by Donna May
Bus Riders by Andrew Bluestone
Chase by Michael Mynatt & Ben Lawson
Exit Strategy by Jameel Saleem
F Dating by Roja Gashtili & Julia Lerman
Fatso and Toothpick by Jason Sinclair Long
Flinch by Steve Savitz
Follow Me Outside by Jenna Strauchen
Go For Broke by Joseph Kim
Halfway Home by David Schroeder
The Invisible Enemy by Anand Raghavan
Jazz Hand: Tale of a One-Armed Woman by Mary Theresa Archbold & Pat Shay
The Last Weekend by Pavel Sanaev
The Lil Rednecks and a Town Full of Bullies by Trina D. Flint
Master’s Key by Kelly Anelons
Mindplay by Louis Rosenberg & Joe Rosenbaum
A Minute of Silence by Harris Freedman
Mister Gimp by Miska Draskoczy
Nicky Flynn Finally Gets a Life by Art Corriveau
No More Humans by Brandon Jones
Opportunity Knocks by Raef Eric Lawson
Puddles & Pools by Suzanne Guacci
Reclaim by Barbara Stoker
Revere by David Whitcroft & Philip Whitcroft
Riding the Rumble Strip by Bradford Willis & Anne Dunkin
Romance and Higher Primates by Heidi DuBose (Story by Stacie & Troy Dunn)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Rush to 5am by Alex Pena & Randy Henry
Seek Help by Sam Hancock, Dan Mayer, & Matt McKay
Something Incredible by Megan Breen
Special Delivery by James Turley
Spectrum by Nadine Piche
Storyville by Abigail Bean
Thought Disorder by Honey Lauren
Wet Dreams by Nick Driggs
Who’s Driving Doug by Michael Carnick
The Worst Disaster the World has Ever Seen by Jacob Sloman
Zander’s American Revolution by Samuel Johnson
SHORTS:
American Woman by Jb Carlin
A Bad Night in a Small Town by Andrew Alonso
The Beast on 92nd Street by Bruno Bonugli
Beautiful // The Janssen Twins by Michael Dunn
Bobby Ellis is Gonna Kick Your Ass by Craig Packard
Busted by Rachel McNevin
Carbon Dating by Louis Rosenberg
Crossbar Hotel by Karrie Crouse
The Curfew by Brian Hauser
The Day We Burned by Thomas (Hyungkyun) Kim
Dead in the Room by Marjory Kaptanoglu
Disambiguation by Paul Uddo
Down by Shane Tilston
Eternal by Robert Chappel
Frames by Ryan Carbrey & Richard Moser
Goon by John Tan
Handjobs by Xaque Gruber
Happy Downloadday by Phil Ferriere
Him Himself by Pierre Dawalibi
His First Time by James Martin
The Hit by John Cruz
How We Do by Brianna Bennett
The Incumbent by Alexis Perkins
Inertia by Stephanie Phillips
Interview Date by Grant Lyon & Mike Lemcke
Kaleidoscopic Visionary by Stephanie Tait
Kitten by Magali Rennes
The Ladder by Faisal Qureshi
Mariscal by Marco Antonio Rodriguez
Momfia by Dean Watts
My Brother Dean by Matt Doyle
Potter’s Field by Brad Crowe
The Prodigal Daughter by Surita Parmar
Senseless by Diana Lesmez
Seven Years of Winter by Marcus Schwenzel, Olafur Jonsson, and Vidi Fridbertsson
Steven Spielberg’s Bar Mitzvah by Terry Keefe & Michael Wechsler
The Stranger’s Room by Shan Cleland
To Remember by Phil Seneker
True Blue by Phil Yuhas
Worse than Nothing by Zachary Starer Stor
TELEPLAYS:
Area 1: Kangaroo Court by Alex Simon
Bad Ads by Mickey Hadick
Bad Karma by Joseph Halstead
Bad Land by Rachel McNevin
Carnival Doll by Michael Hemmingson
Clarity by Tory & Victoria Walker
Crossing “Pilot” by Alan R. Baxter & Rosemary Alderete
Dixie Land by Eleanor Hutchins & Caleb Scott
Folk Soldiers by Julien Deladriere
Frog Kissers by Debra Kirschner
The Future’s So Bright by Cooper McMains
Garden of Eden by Michael Montgomery
The Graham Scheme of Things by Charlie Charbonneau
Great Lakes by Zeke Farrow & Andersen Gabrych
Greater Chicago by Peter Kimball
Inflated Dreams by Scott Burkhardt
Life Swap by Marty Johnson
Marty Brown by Marie Robinson
Murphy’s Last Stand by Bill Balas
Noah Wise by E.L. Silver
Orchestration by Celeste Conrad
Paper Boy by Marco Campani
Powerless by Christopher Bergeris
Protocol by Adam Sigel
Queensbury Rules by Terry O’Brien
Salvagers: Pilot by Francisca Hu
Scar Tissue by Nathaniel Crocker
Shifting Gears by Sarah Newman
Sinclair’s America by Gene Pina
Static by Keith Davidson
Subs - “The Pilot” by Tom Sutch, Aileen Loughlin, Jason A. Biener, & Lenny Gomez
Sunny Days by Alex Herrity & Marcus Miller
Transmissions from the Apcoalypse by Helen Truong
TROGS (Shadow Puppets) by Tim & Martin Marks
Untitled News Magazine Project by Mansur Ahmed
Veterans “The New Guy” by Anna Tkatch
Voodoo Tattoo by L.M. Harter
The Wakes of Wilbur Poe by Vicki Speegle
The Wandering Jew by Steven Cohen
Welcome to Stankley by Teddy Goldsmith & Sara Cravens
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