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Scriptapalooza
2007
Welcome
to the 9th Annual
Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition
The 2007 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition has
a 1st Place Prize of $10,000 and Write Brothers' screenwriting software
for the top three winners and 10 runners up. All thirteen winners
will be considered by Scriptapalooza's outstanding participants;
A Band Apart, Samuel Goldwyn Films, HBO, Material, Disney and many
more. Over 60 production companies are reading all the
entered scripts!
9th Annual Scriptapalooza Screenplay
Competition
Supported by the Writers Guild of America, west Registry
Early bird deadline postmarked by
January 5, 2007—$40.00
First deadline postmarked by March 5, 2007—$45.00
Final deadline postmarked EXTENDED to April
20, 2007—$50.00
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Scriptapalooza for complete details and entry information: www.scriptapalooza.com
2006 Winners Announced!
1st place winner
Can't Live With 'Em
Chris Pentzell Pasadena, CA
Logline:
A womanizing divorce attorney undergoes hypnotherapy for his nicotine addiction
and unwittingly finds himself “cured” of his addiction to sex, prompting
nausea at the very thought of it, and sending him into a downward spiral as his
whole life goes through “detox”.
2nd place winner
The Patriot Act
Steven C. Oppenheimer Rockville, MD
Logline:
Former Secret Service Agent John Wilcox is on trial for murdering the President
of the United
States. There were
more than a dozen witnesses –- the shooting took place in the Oval Office
in the middle of a national security crisis, and John Wilcox freely admits that
he fired the fatal bullets. Why did a twenty year veteran of the Secret
Service, and head of the President’s own security detail, shoot and kill
the man he was sworn to protect -– and why does John Wilcox insist on his
own innocence?
3rd
Place winner
Danny LongLegs
Keli Rowley
Los Angeles
The
domestic bugs at 429
Easton St., led by a young and inexperienced
Danny LongLegs, live in harmony with the
human owner of the house until the owner
leaves on vacation and his money-hungry convict
sister tries to sell it out from under him.
Scared but determined, Danny launches an
all-out war - bugs vs. humans - to save the
one thing worth risking your life for: Home.
10
Runners-Up:
The
American Family
Adam
Moore Los
Angeles CA
Logline:
Being the husband of the President of the United
States isn't all it's cracked
up to be... First Gentleman Graham Taylor is the most miserable person in the
White House. When his teenage son runs away, and the President decides
to cover up the disappearance, Graham defies his wife's political agenda and
embarks on a cross-country journey to find him. The unexpected adventure
reunites him with his son and, in the process, revives his marriage and his own
sense of purpose.
The Wizard, the Farmer, and the Very Petty
Princess
Daniel Fox Canada
Logline: Rejected by the man she loves, a spoiled princess recruits a frightened
back-woods farmer into her quest to prove she has what it takes to be a "serious" Queen
- even if it means capturing the Most Evil Magician ever.
Match This
Anne
Wallace Colorado Springs CO
Logline: What if everyone is someone's date from hell? MATCH THIS
follows a klutzy executive trying to get back into the dating scene when she
shows up to her first date with her perfect man smelling like a skunk. Now
she must regain the interest of Mr. Perfect, or at least find Mr. He'll Do. Problems
occur when her well-meaning friends give her disasterous advice and every time
she sees Mr. Perfect she digs her hole of humiliation deeper.
The Stadium
Zer Gonzales Newbury Park CA
A deceased violent actor comes to life when his mother shows only his films in
her movie theater.
Triage
Shane
O'Neill South
Melbourne, Australia
Logline:
A sworn pacifist regains consciousness in a makeshift military hospital, unable
to recollect how he or his country came to be at war. With his condition deteriorating,
and his nurse strangely reluctant to help him regain his memory, he must reconcile
his beliefs with his predicament before he can find peace of mind, and make peace
with those he loves.
Jekyll & Heidi
Lisa
Yoffee Jacksonville FL
Logline:
Just
before
her
thirteenth
birthday,
a
girl
tries
to
find
a
cure
for
the common illness known as “becoming a teenager” before it’s
too late, before she becomes … one of them.
The Sunshine Blond
Marilyn
Mallory Burbank CA
Logline:
The Sunshine Blond”, a dark comedy, about cantankerous old Mack (70),
who courts Sunshine (60) a platinum blond gold-digger, (suburbia’s answer
to Dolly Parton), and ignites a family feud when he threatens to change his will
to give his estate to her and disinherit his estranged daughter, April (38). To
everyone’s surprise, Sunshine ends up reconciling Mack to April, and reforms
herself in the process.
The Uncertainty Principle
Nathan Bransford San Francisco CA
Logline:
Vaughn Choltitz is going to kill himself and a beautiful
woman while
the whole world watches, and he has known this since
the day he was born. Vaughn
doesn't want to go through with it, but in a world where
the future is completely known, no one has ever escaped
fate. Meanwhile, the greatest cientist and
talk show host in the country has his own designs for
the future. THE UNCERTAINTY
PRINCIPLE is Charlie Kauffman-esque science fiction where
a man faced with a horrific future and impossible odds
must find a way to break free before he pays the ultimate
price... even if there's no such thing as free will.
Down the Aisle
Jase Ricci Los Angeles CA
Logline:
Down-on-his-luck divorcee Milo and his buddies spend
their free time drinking beer and egging their ex-wives’ houses. But
when his daughter gets
engaged, he's forced to go toe-to-toe with her suave
stepfather for the role
of father of the bride.
Pencil
Men
Grant
Janes & Brian Edgar Brooklyn NY
Logline:
Six downsized, desperate accountants decide to break into the San Francisco Federal
Reserve.
The
2004 Winners!The
2003 Winners!
The
2002 Winners
Comprehensive
list of the 2002 Semi-Finalists
In
2000, Screenplay.com and Scriptapalooza, Inc. joined forces, uniting
the perfect "marriage" between the hottest screenwriting competition
and the top industry software company, to create the ultimate screenwriting
competition. The 2001 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition
offered cash and prizes, as well as enormous exposure and
potential career-making development opportunities.
What
makes Scriptapalooza unique in the competition arena is the quality
and support it gives its winners and runners-up. For a full
year Scriptapalooza continues to work for these writers long
after the prize money and software has been given, this includes
arranging meetings, phone calls, and pushing all 13 scripts.
The priority is to get the writers recognition and their script
read by production companies and literary representatives. Sometimes
a script is requested 6 months after Scriptapalooza announces
its winners. That is the Scriptapalooza difference. (If you are
new to screenwriting competitions, click
here to read an introduction).
"Prize
money alone doesn't start a career, having your winning script
read by Scriptapalooza's participating production companies can." This
is the opening statement of Scriptapalooza, which is a unique entity
among writing competitions. Started in 1998, it has proven to be
one of the best new entries on the competition scene.
Scriptapalooza's
main objective is and always will be to reach the untapped well
of genuine screenwriting talent that hasn't been able to get
their "foot in the door." Whether it was due to lack of contacts
or not being related to the "right people," Scriptapalooza can
help you reach the next level: Being paid to be a writer!
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