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THE HOLLYWOOD SYMPOSIUM THIRD ANNUAL SCREENPLAY CONTEST: 2001 WINNERS ANNOUNCED The Hollywood Symposium takes great pleasure in announcing the winners of its 2001 contest. Our heartfelt congratulations to our winning screenwriters, four honorable mentions, and all finalists. New! New! New! Beginning this year, in addition to THS cash awards and Symposium promotion, our newest sponsor Writers Script Network will place the three winning scripts on their password protected website, include the winners' loglines in the Writers Script Network print magazine Players Marketplace, and send out a special e-mail announcement with writer contact information to the Writer Script Network Industry Pro List (some 6,500 agents, producers, managers, and film professionals). In the last 14 months, 16 full-length scripts and 12 screenplay shorts have been purchased or optioned through the Writers Script Network. Also, 50 writers have gained representation and 4 others have obtained writing work. We warmly welcome Writers Script Network into The Hollywood Symposium Screenplay Contest family. WWW.WRITERSSCRIPTNETWORK.COM We wish to congratulate our 2001 contest finalist Chris Farnsworth who has just sold his screenplay, The Academy, to MGM. Chris received an option and a guaranteed first rewrite against a mid-six figure purchase price. Marc Evans at Industry Entertainment will produce. Chris was represented by Hohman Maybank Lieb.The Hollywood Symposium went looking for good stories well told. This is where we found them. FIRST PLACE: Grendel, written by Bob GiordanoAfter a local high school shooting, a small town lives in fear because one of the assailants eludes capture. After the son of a beloved teacher at the school is accused of the crime, the desperate teacher pursues her own investigation to uncover the truth. $2,000 PRIZE, with promotion from The Hollywood Symposium and The Writers Script Network. SECOND PLACE: Suttle's Hollow, written by Sandy Cope & Sandy Dillbeck A Southwest Missouri farm family struggles to survive during the Civil War when a ruthless band of bushwhackers known as Quantrill's Raiders terrorizes them and drives them from their home. $500 PRIZE, with promotion from The Hollywood Symposium and The Writers Script Network. THIRD PLACE: USS Little Fish, written by Cynthia Webb A burned out ex-Navy Chief must forge a crew from a gathering of naive "save-the-whale" college students aboard a rusting ole World War II submarine before they're sunk by a vicious priate whaler. $200 PRIZE, with promotion from The Hollywood Symposium and The Writers Script Network. HONORABLE MENTION (alphabetical by author):Unsportsmanlike Conduct, by Donnie Becker A self-proclaimed former "king" of Nebraska high school football finds himself jobless, broke, and the town joke. When an arena football franchise comes to town, Bobby decides to try for a comeback. But he finds out his new coach will be his old high school coaching nemesis, the very man he hasn't spoken to for a decade--his father.A Butterfly in Brazil, by Steven Holton A 22nd century time traveler rediscovers his humanity after a heroic 21st century nurse saves his life. His new conscience is tested when he must choose between saving the nurse's life and preserving his governments' version of history. Blade Heart, by Genie Lim An orphan girl raised as a cold-blooded assassin sets out to avenge the murder of her boss. She finds a family at last in an odd group of misfits, and falls in love with the hit man who has been sent to kill her. Human Core, by Terrence Mollendor & Christopher Watkins In the near future, Bethany Randolf is pregnant with the world's first genetically perfect human clone. To save her child from the powers of evil she must put her life in the hands of a complete stranger.
*****Our most sincere thanks to everyone who participated. We hope to see you all again next year with your new or extensively rewritten screenplays! Keep writing! ************************************************** FINALISTS FOR 2001: The Hollywood Symposium takes great pleasure in announcing the finalists for its 2001 screenplay contest. On different levels, each and every script had something to offer. Choices were not easy. We're delighted to report that many of you were submitting for a second year, and some old friends for a third. Your screenwriting skills continue to improve! Thank you for your ongoing faith in us, we will keep working hard to live up to it. 381 screenplays were submitted. If your script did not become one of our 48 finalist, please understand that this does not necessarily reflect on the value of your story concept, or even on its current state of execution. It simply means that in our estimation some screenplays are further along toward a presentation draft than others. Writing a screenplay is an ongoing process of growth and refinement. As THS Executive Director Eric Edson tells his university screenwriting students, "There's no such thing as a bad screenplay, only an unfinished one." Congratulations to our finalists for 2001. May inclusion on this list bring you one step closer to your dream. The Hollywood Symposium Screenplay Contest: Finalists 2001 (alphabetical by author) THE FIRE by Steve Atkin FADE OUT by Matt Barr UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT by Donnie Becker HAMPTON HOLIDAY by Glen Brackenridge & Curtis Brien FIRST KISS by Laura Brennan THE BABY-SITTER by Jim W. Callahan INTERSECTION by Craig Cambria SUTTLE’S HOLLOW by Sandy Cope & Sandy Dillbeck FORTY THINGS ONE WOULD FIND IN A KITCHEN by Doug Davidson AQUA by Rich Davis & Mike Pfaff A DARKER SHADE OF GRAY by Stacy Dymalski UNDERSTANDING EDISON by Regine Ebner THE LAST EXPEDITION by Jim Forbes THE ACADEMY by Chris Farnsworth THE RIDDLE by Brendan Foley GRENDEL by Bob Giordano THE BIG SECRET by Joseph Greco & Brian Szot MARIACHIS IN MAZATLAN BY Ted Gurich THE LIBRARY by Jan Graham GENDERCIDE by Kris Hall SHELL GAME by Gerald Hess A BUTTERFLY IN BRAZIL by Steve Holton ROCKS DON’T BURN by Lance E. Hoovestal DOG SOLDIERS by Ron Hopp BLACK DIAMOND by Karen Marie Howland NEIGHBORHOOD GIRL by Mike Jones & Courtney Jones BACK SHOOTER by Gary Kohatsu DRAMACELES by Mark J. Krupp BLADE HEART by Genie Lim MECHA by Wilmer Lin THE HUNDRETH GENERATION by Tom Mitchell HUMAN CORE by Terrence Mollender & Christopher Watkins JERSEY JOHN by Joanne Powell COPPER CANYON by Bronwyn Queen & Alex Lyans-Jones TOSCA’S KISS by Sue Rauch BENEVOLENCE by Carla Robinson BUENOS AIRES by Olga Elaine Rojer THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF KID DYNAMO by Craig A. Schwartz WILL POWER by Tom Sevener EXIT HERO by Dawn Shurmaitis THOR’S CROSS by Andrew Skafte & Dianne Skafte BREATHE FIRE by Brian Szot UNNATURAL by Chris Tuttle THE CUCKHOLD by Tamise Van Pelt REAL DREAMS by Rimga Viskanta USS LITTLE FISH by Cynthia Webb BIG BRENDA SHOCKS THE WORLD by Bob Yates EVELINA by Monica Zepeda |