THE HOLLYWOOD SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCES ITS 2003 CONTEST WINNERS!!!
The
Hollywood Symposium takes great pleasure in announcing the winners of its 2003
contest. Our heartfelt congratulations to our three winning screenwriters, five
honorable mentions, finalists, and to all our entrants on their screenwriting
achievements.
In addition to THS
cash awards, Final Draft software, and Symposium promotion, our co-sponsor
InkTip.com will place the three winning scripts on their password protected
website and include the winners' loglines in the InkTip.com print
magazine Players Marketplace that goes out to some 5,000 industry
professionals. 130 production companies and representatives a week search for
scripts on InkTip.com. Our three top winners will also receive a free
subscription to MovieBytes’s “Who’s Buying What.”
So far,
seventeen former Hollywood Symposium Screenplay Contest finalists and winners
(that have informed us) have either sold screenplays, found representation, or
been hired to write scripts. Please let us know about professional queries made
on your scripts, and any writing representation, options, sales, or assignment
writing work achieved.
The
Hollywood Symposium went looking for good stories well told. This is where we
found them.
FIRST
PLACE: “The
Paper Route,”
by Danny M. Howell
howedm@aol.com
To pay the rent demanded by his unemployed
father, a fifteen year old boy must collect a way past due newspaper
bill from a crazy redneck neighbor. The boy’s collection efforts lead him
to discover an escape route out of his oppressive life—but fleeing would
mean leaving his little brother behind in the clutches of his abusive dad.
$3,000 PRIZE
SECOND PLACE:
“The
Hand That Shook the World,”
by Lee S. Shipman
waterbearprods@aol.com
(Formerly titled "Boston
Strong Boy.") In 19th century Boston
young Irishman John L. Sullivan fights poverty and
racism, rising to fame and fortune at the top of the shadowy world of
bare-knuckle boxing. But the toughest fight of his life—turns out to be
against booze.
$500 PRIZE
THIRD PLACE:
“Not Here, You Won’t,”
by Jack Kilpatrick
jackada@attbi.com
The residents of Gwynwillis, a hamlet in
Wales, all expect to follow their
ancestors and one day be buried in the village cemetery. Wrong. The
scheming new mayor declares it illegal to die in Gwynwillis—unless you
buy a plot in the mayor’s new competing boneyard down the road. The
plotting and dirt slinging have just begun.
$200 PRIZE
HONORABLE MENTION
(alphabetical by author):
“Death Takes A Vacation,” by
Gil Christner,
xnerg@aol.com
Sweet but depressed hotel manager Emily discovers
she cannot
commit suicide
because the Angel of Death has checked into her
resort to take a break, and he
refuses to work. Emily finds herself
falling in love with the Reaper as her
greedy
family and friends
scheme to use the Angel of Death for their own fast buck
agendas.
“Kennedy’s List,” by John Cripe,
riter@101freeway.com
A
Vietnam era MIA soldier returns home after living in rural China
for 30 years. Summoned before a congressional committee, he
reveals
secrets that turn Washington upside down. His testimony
of death and betrayal leads
to a purging act of violence.
“Through Angels’
Eyes,” by James C. Schlicker,
carlschlicker@hotmail.com
A 12 year old boy’s obsession
with angels brings him face to face
with the one sent
to collect his mother’s soul. As the boy fights to
save his mom’s life, this
death angel
proves to be full of surprises.
Is the angel a hated adversary-- or a mentor
come to
train the boy
for a very special mission?
“Sticks and Stones,”
by Kathryn Sheard,
sheardk@aol.com
Lilly suffers from a rare condition--she
feels no pain. Literally.
When she barely
escapes from a vicious attack, Lilly joins forces
with the moody man who saved
her
life and a TV journalist in
agony
over his missing wife, to find this serial
killer. Lilly
discovers that helping her partners heal the only pain she can feel,
too—heartache—is almost as important as stopping the murderer.
“Somewhere in the
Pacific,” by Spencer Trajan,
picpro2003@hotmail.com
When World War II breaks out in the Pacific, a peace loving young
man finds
himself trapped deep behind enemy lines, sworn to
protect his brother’s fiancée. He
must
assume a warrior’s identity
and fight the Japanese in an epic battle for the
Philippines.
Our most
sincere thanks to everyone who participated. We hope to see you all again next
year wit your new or extensively rewritten screenplays!
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FINALISTS FOR 2003
The Hollywood Symposium is pleased to announce finalists for its 5th annual
screenplay competition. All entrants will receive the numerical master judging
sheet for their script, and cash winners will be announced around the end of
October. Our sincere thanks to everyone who entered.
ASPHALT JACKS James Barclay james@runicstone.com
DOGMAN Haynes Brooke slybones@mindspring.com
BETWEEN THE LIES Clint Brownlee clintoniaster@attbi.com
CROWN OF THORNS Mugs Cahill mugs_cahill@earthlink.net
CANARIES Craig Cambria cambriajay@attbi.com
HYPERGOLICS Melissa T. Centeno melissa.young@mindspring.com
LONDON BRIDGE IS CALLING
MCGOWEN Susan Chappelle skynsea2u@aol.com
DEATH TAKES A VACATION Gil Christner xnerg@aol.com
KENNEDY'S LIST John Cripe riter@101freeway.com
THE COLONY Nick Diaz diaz777@earthlink.net
I SHOULD'VE BEEN A COWBOY Michael Dunn mkd25@hotmail.com
THE AMBASSADOR'S RACE Bill Flannigan bogeywood@yahoo.com
THE SPEAR-SHAKER Bronwyn Fryer & Nada Miljkovic bfryer@hbsp.harvard.edu
FILTHY WITNESS Rosa Graham rosa@artifactfilms.com
THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE GALAXY Kris Hall KrisHall@aol.com
A WEDNESDAY THING Paul Hall alcibiadeshall@aol.com
COLD WAR Susan C. Henry & Wade Marbaugh susanhenry@mail.clayton.edu
TEN MILE STRIP David B. Hodel artydooty2@aol.com
STUDY ABROAD Susan Holgate holgate@frontier.net
STIR THE CHILDREN Brennan Howard monkeycrab68@excite.com
THE PAPER ROUTE Danny M. Howell howedm@aol.com
A DEATH IN BERLIN David Jaher davidjaher@aol.com
THE BOTTOMLESS VICTOR ORANGE Chris Jalufka untitledforest@yahoo.com
INCA Nicole Jones nicole@srac.com
TRUE NORTH Curtis F. Kennedy & Matt Spieker mtvernon02@earthlink.net
NOT HERE, YOU WON'T Jack Kilpatrick jackada@attbi.com
GLENCOE Shawn Lamb ewe2@comcast.net
YELLOW HAIR AND THE GRAY GHOST Dan Loschack dcdannny@yahoo.com
THE WAY OF THE SPACE DOG Glenn Magas glennmagas@yahoo.com
THE VALIANT Dustin Michael Mahrt illinoisdust@hotmail.com
IT'S A DOG'S LIFE Erna Mueller ernam@pagliacci.com
THE EYE IN THE SKY Jennifer Mui jmui99@yahoo.com
MAYBE IN MY NEXT LIFE Doreen Orion, MD orion@antistalking.com
MAGIC BULLET Blake Dean Posey blakeposey@msn.com
GETTING IT RIGHT Thomas D. Robinson tntrobinson@hotmail.com
SURVIVING GLINA Michael Romanelli mcroman@optonline.net
SAMARANG Gordon Hugh Rothwell ghrothwell@msn.com
THROUGH ANGEL'S EYES James C. Schlicker carlschlicker@hotmail.com
RIDING THE BUBBLE Kenneth R. Sharp kensharp@pacbell.net
STICKS AND STONES Kathryn Sheard sheardk@aol.com
RICHARD Kathryn Sheard sheardk@aol.com
FRATRICIDE James B. Shein jshein@mwe.com
THE HAND THAT SHOOK THE WORLD Lee S. Shipman
waterbearprods@aol.com
LAST RITES Kerrilyn M. Simmons kms33@aol.com
OUT OF THE LOOP Harvey Solomon hjsolo@erols.com
THE STORY OF A SIMPLE MAN Mark Tachovski tachovsky@yahoo.com
FOOL THE EYE Lisa S. Thompson & John R. Thompson sirkisT@aol.com
SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC Spencer Trajan picpro2003@hotmail.com
TRANSFERENCE Peter Vanderwall pvanderwall@attbi.com
PRISONERS OF THE HEART Steve Warren stevewarren@aol.com
SILVER WINGS Cynthia Mack Webb cmwebb@earthlink.net
AMERICAN JIHAD Clayton Wold dclayton@compuplus.net
GUY FLICK Rick Wolf rickcinegunner@hotmail.com
(Email addresses are included at the request of the writers.)
