2009 Script Contest
SEMI-FINALISTS, FINALISTS and WINNERS of the 2009 GOTHAM SCREEN Screenplay Contest
WINNERS 2009
Best Screenplay – Coal Hard Cash, by Arthur Schurr - Winner of the $2,500 Circleframe Screenwriting Award, sponsored by Triboro Pictures.
Best Drama:
The Congo Redemption, by Ken Straw and Joey O’Connor
Best Comedy:
Sink or Swim: The Saga of Shore Break Rentals, by Keith Strausbaugh
Best Romantic Comedy:
FRENCHING aka OOH LA-LA, by Marie Rose
Best Family / Children’s:
Chances, by Jeff Trently and Anthony Stitt
Best Action / Adventure:
Graf, by M. Roman Rosales & Peter Loffredo
Best Thriller:
Cleo Parker, by Michel Palmer
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FINALISTS 2008
Beer Pong, by Chris Dell'Anno
Chances, by Jeff Trently and Anthony Stitt
Cleo Parker, by Michael Palmer
Coal Hard Cash, by Arthur Schurr
Daughters of Crime, by Dylan Brann
Earthly Justice, by Stephen Ponton
Free Me, by Brian Clores
Frenching, by Marie Rose
Giants, by Christopher Bailey
Grace Period, by Katherine Twomey Wahed
Graf, by M. Roman Rosales & Peter Loffredo
Her Swastika Sword, by Christopher Canole
Judgey, by Mary Casavant
Of Kings and Concubines, by Ronald L. Ecker
One Stop, by Rachel Shepherd
Pity & Fear, by Don Kinney
Season of Mists, by Kevin Stuart Brodie
Sink or Swim - The Saga of Shore Break Rentals, by Keith Strausbaugh
The Congo Redemption, by Ken Straw, Joey O'Conner
The Imam's Daughter, by Faiza Ambah
Wild Blue, by Josh Hope
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SEMI-FINALISTS 2009
A Special Education, by Edgar Martinez Schulz
Ambassdor's Son, by Andrew Bowler
American Ridge, by Carl B Clark
Beer Pong, by Chris Dell'Anno
Blowback, by Scott Reardon
Cereal 4 Killers, by Noua M. Phoenix
Chances, by Jeff Trently and Anthony Stitt
Cleo Parker, by Michael Palmer
Coal Hard Cash, by Arthur Schurr
Daughters of Crime, by Dylan Brann
Earthly Justice, by Stephen Ponton
Fifty Years in May , by Silvio Nacucchi
Free Me, by Brian Clores
Frenching, by Marie Rose
Giants, by Christopher Bailey
Grace Period, by Katherine Twomey Wahed
Graf, by M. Roman Rosales & Peter Loffredo
Graphic, by Jeff Rohrick
Great American Loser, by Jessica Digiacinto
Her Swastika Sword, by Christopher Canole
Hunger Pains, by Ginevra Arabia-Easton
Judgey, by Mary Casavant
Of Kings and Concubines, by Ronald L. Ecker
One Stop, by Rachel Shepherd
Oneironaut, by Alejandro Sesma
Partial Eclipse, by Christopher Bailey
Pity & Fear, by Don Kinney
Season of Mists, by Kevin Stuart Brodie
Sink or Swim - The Saga of Shore Break Rentals, by Keith Strausbaugh
The Abbey Yard, by Patricia Mahon
The Best Atheist, by Douglas M. Jones
The Congo Redemption, by Ken Straw, Joey O'Conner
The Imam's Daughter, by Faiza Ambah
The Lincolns, by April Pollack
The Revenant, by Christine Deitner
The Salus Imperative, by Walter W Sloan
The World at Large, by Shawn A. Diederich
Tombs of the Kings, by Tanya Klein
Valhalla, by Don Capria
Wild Blue, by Josh Hope
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