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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