*****COMING IN JUNE 2008 TELEPLAY COMPETITION DETAILS *****
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
STAGE SIX PANDEMIC
(Hour Drama)
By Barbara Marshall
RUNNER'S UP
FAIRY
(Half-Hour Comedy)
By Anthony Roberts
THE UNION
(Hour Drama)
By Matthew Patrick
FINALISTS
HOUR PILOTS
1ST AND MAPLE
By Barbara Marshall
babsmarshall1@hotmail.com
-A family's life is drastically altered when a troubled teen with a mysterious talent for healing is adopted into their home.
AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
By Lemise Rory
lemise@gmail.com
KENDALL'S STORY
By Elyce Strong
elyceanfields@yahoo.com
-This is a one-hour drama about a war-reporter, Kendall Lovejoy, who starts to question career and life decisions after she is nearly killed in a car bomb explosion.
RENEGADES
By Thomas Sonntag
tms44444@yahoo.com
STACKS
By Kathy J. Forti
kjforti@aol.com
-A young male stumbles upon an inter-dimensional portal in the Library of Congress which takes him to an ancient depository containing the true facts on everything and everyone that has ever existed.
STAGE SIX PANDEMIC
By Barbara Marshall
babsmarshall1@hotmail.com
-Bubo Pneumonia II, the first great plague of the 21st century, has swept across the country killing millions. Each episode of this hour drama follows three struggling families through a single day of enforced quarantine. In plague-infested America, survival is no longer a guarantee, but a privilege.
STATE OF EMERGENCY
By Abra Deering & Tim Norton
adn310@aol.com
-In the dead of night, the city of Los Angeles suddenly goes black. But this is no ordinary blackout. Not only is there no electricity -- vehicles no longer work. A group of Angelenos fight to survive and solve the mystery of what has suddenly kicked loss Angeles back into the dark ages. Our teleplay is a science-fiction, action-packed mystery, in the vein of LOST meets 24.
THE DEVIL'S CHILDREN
By VJ Boyd
boyd.vj@gmail.com
-Over the past 30 years, the world's most infamous serial killer donated sperm hundreds of times, producing hundreds of criminally insane killers. Now an elite FBI task force must team up with one of those offspring in order to hunt down the rest.
THE UNION
By Matthew Patrick
matthewpatrick@gmail.com
-Teetering on the precipice of civil war, Abraham Lincoln desperately struggles to reign in a cabinet filled with rivals while on the battlefield, young bounty-hunter Mosley Coburn scrambles to bring in a vigilante leader. At home, Coburn's family is ripped apart when sectarian violence claims the life of his young cousin, thrusting them onto both sides of the coming war.
THE WILL
By Dennis Capps
thecapps@pacbell.net
THIRD EYE
By Barbara Marshall
babsmarshall1@hotmail.com
-Third Eye, a supernatural drama, follows a small group of psychics through their daily lives as they struggle through the present, burdened by the future.
UNSETTLED
By Stacy Schneider Malvino and John McLaughlin
filmdreams@earthlink.net; maddie-mocha@prodigy.net
-Unsettled chronicles the trials of legal hotshot Robbi Duval, who confronts a midlife crisis by giving up her prestigious practice to enter the confidential world of mediation, where she must resolve contentious disputes between high profile clients willing to pay big bucks to avoid a trial and publicity.
Z
By Stuart Feldman
feldmanstu@aol.com
-Dr. Alan Zandry, a leading Manhattan neurologist, runs the Z Clinic -- a lab he founded to research and treat sleep disorders. But while Zandry is an expert at helping others, he is haunted by a secret that keeps him from ever finding a restful night’s sleep of his own.
HALF-HOUR PILOTS
Dr. VON KAISER
By Aaron Matthew Kaiser, John M. Osborne & Michael Callahan
aaron@antikaiser.com
-What do evil scientists do when they aren't plotting to take over the world?
FAIRY
By Anthony Roberts
anthony_roberts81@hotmail.com
-A drunk and cantankerous Tooth Fairy befriends an abandoned ten-year old girl on a routine collection.
HOW'S THE FAMILY
By Rocco V. Iacovone
pspanther@hotmail.com
-What would happen if a man pretending to be in the mob and his neurotic brother share an apartment with their gay father and are constantly interrupted by their “invisible” mother?
THE NIGHT CREW
By Richard Cavan
berowne@earthlink.net
-A janitorial crew struggles to get through each night -- and life -- while cleaning up after the richest lawyers in Manhattan.
STAGED
By Kay Christianson
kaychristianson@aol.com
-Lorna is a compulsive acting teacher and proprietor of a tiny theater in LA, caught between the dream of being the catalyst to stardom for one of her young students...and her unwillingness to criticize them much, and be responsible for slaughtering a dream. The real problem is, she's drank the Kool-Aid too, and can be more naive than they are.
WHAT HAVE I GOT?
Zach@iknowzach.com
By Zach Ayers
-Mike Yeager travels back in time to the year 1992 in order to right the wrongs of his high-school self.
YELLOW CARD
By Dana Greenblatt & Jaffar Mahmood
dana.greenblatt@gmail.com
-PING "ALEX" LO has lived in San Francisco for twenty-two years. He's as American as can be. Problem is... he was born in China, and his student visa's just expired. To prevent him from being deported, Alex's best friend, LINDSAY GOLDFARB, offers to marry him.
THE 2008 TELEPLAY COMPETITION *****COMING SOON*****
*DETAILS AND SUBMISSION DEADLINES COMING IN JUNE 2008*