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2012 Screenplay Contest
The Winners of the 2012 Gotham Screen Screenplay Contest have beeen announced - congratulations to all the winners, semi-fininalists and shortlisted screenplays! Best of luck with your projects, and we hope to see you again in the near future...
Best Screenplay - Winner of the $2,500 Cash Award sponsored by Triboro Pictures:
The Macau Omen (Thriller), written by Tony Shyu
An American reporter investigating a human trafficking ring in Macau, finds his wife dead and his daughter missing, and his investigation reveals he's been targeted by a religious cult.
Category Winners:
The category winners of the 2012 Screenplay Contest have been anounced at the closing of the Gotham Screen Film Festival:
Best Action/Adventure:
The Gods of Death, by Phillip Watson
Weeks after high school graduation Anthony Santana, a Los Angeles teenager who is struggling with the death of his mother, and Sugar, a young Chinese anthropology student, race across China to conquer the evil presence that hunts them.
Best Drama
Walk to Mississippi, by Ellen Johnson
A white woman risks her career and relationship when she attempts to complete a civil rights Freedom Walk that ends in murder, and one thousand arrests, in 1963.
Best Horror
The Bloodline, by Christine Feldman
A troubled young woman inherits a haunted family estate and struggles to unearth its sinister secrets before her family gets wiped out.
Best Mystery / Crime
KopKiller, by Shane McCabe
A New York City Narcotics Detective has her world shaken to the core when she discovers she has lived a past life in which she was murdered by the very Cop now charged with promoting her.
Best Romantic Comedy
Materminated, by Carey Dunn
A pregnant finance executive tries to get fired from her job, scheming to bring a wrongful termination suit against her employer after being passed over for a promotion.
Best War / History
Charlotte the Soldier, by Jill O’Halloran
In a deeply divided country, Charlotte, the Countess of Derby, defends her family home from attack during the English Civil War.
Best Fantasy
Patchwork, by Amanda Keener
A modern day fairy tale about a teenage girl who overcomes the loss of her mother.
Best Sci-Fi
Tragic Acts of Cleavon Ray, by Joshua Montcalm
While acclaimed science fiction author Cleavon Ray wastes away in a cloud of advanced Alzheimer’s, his son, an aspiring writer with little talent, learns about the life of his father when he discovers three unpublished tales and emerges as the unwitting protagonist in his father’s final tragic masterpiece.
Best Family
My Greatest Mistake, by Rebecca Rocheford Davies
A fourteen-year-old misfit lands a coveted spot on the school's Engineering Team, and gets in a heap of trouble when she pretends to be somebody she is not.
If you are a producer, production company or agency rep and would like to contact any of the screenwriters or learn more about their projects please email us at contest@gothamscreen.com
Semi-Finalists of the 2012 Gotham Screen Screenplay Contest:
These are the Semi-Finalist screenplays and their authors of the 2010 Gotham Screen Screenplay Contest:
Big Brother’s Little Sister, by Molly Manning
Black Mustard, by Michael Clevenger
Charlotte the Soldier, by Jill O’Halloran
Friends and Romans, by Gregg Greenberg
God’s Castle, by Robert Wendt
Ironwood, by James Vlako
KopKiller, by Shane McCabe
Materminated, by Carey Dunn
My Greatest Mistake, by Rebecca Rocheford Davies
Moving Picture, by Stephanie Sanditz
Patchwork, by Amanda Keener
She’s Coming to Town, by Casey Jason
Spicasso, by John Boras
The Bloodline, Christine Feldman
The Code, by David Asmussen
The Gods of Death, by Phillip Watson
The Macau Omen, by Tony Shyu
Tragic Acts of Cleavon Ray, by Joshua Montcalm
Walk to Mississippi, Ellen Johnson
2012 Gotham Screen Screenplay Contest - Shortlisted Screenplays:
These are the shortlisted screenplays and their authors of the 2012 Gotham Screen Screenplay Contest:
Archangel, by Joe Tofuri
Big Brother’s Little Sister, by Molly Manning
Black Mustard, by Michael Clevenger
The Bloodline, by Christine Feldman
Break A Leg, by Julius Mordant
Broken World: Infection, by Ryan Chase Lee
Cake, by Patrick Tobin
Charlotte, The Soldier, by Jill O'Halloran
Cherry Blossom, by Corbett Sawyer
The Code, by David Asmussen
Cold Aspen Bullet, by Tony Muscio
Friends and Romans, by Gregg Greenberg
Fugly, by Brian Millard
God’s Castle, by Robert Wendt
The Gods of Death, by Phillip Watson
Haley's Flight, by Michael Carnick
Iniquities of the Father, by Jisen Ho
Ironwood, by James Valko
KopKiller, by Shane McCabe
Love Thy Neighbour, by Joseph Rossi
The Macau Omen, by Tony Shyu
Magda G, by Garrett Fischer
Materminated, by Carey Dunn
McIntyre's Mountain, by Nathan Goldman
Moving Picture, by Stephanie Sanditz
My Greatest Mistake, by Rebecca Rocheford Davies
Out of Left Field, by Doug Van Bebber
Patchwork, by Amanda Keener
Redemption, by Raj Patel
The River Road, by C. Alexandra Allen
Scarlet Sunshine, by Faith Brody
She’s Coming to Town, by Casey Jason
Snake Oil, by Alicia Hendley
Spicasso, by John Borras
Thunderstone, by Scott Wheeler
Tragic Acts of Cleavon Ray, by Joshua Montcalm
The Sons of Usna, by Martin Mc Cann
The Transcenders, by Paul Dupree
Walk to Mississippi, by Ellen Johnson
White Elephant, by Jessika Pilkes
