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GOTHAM SCREEN SCREENPLAY CONTEST 2010
The Winners of the 2010 Gotham Screen Screenplay contest have been announced at the closing festival brunch on Sunday:
Best Screenplay - Winner of the $2,500 Cash Award sponsored by Triboro Pictures:
Black Parables
By Andrew Williams Flores
“Cold War story about mass murder and political corruption that follows seasoned detectives and WW II veterans Ben Rockwood and Roy Hickcock as they pursue a ruthless serial killer, a former Nazi now working for the CIA.”
Category Winners:
Best Thriller:
Freedom at Midnight
By Jeffrey Ryback
“The young computer programmer responsible for the long awaited Missile Defense initiative leaves the base for the family farm in Kansas to patch up his relationship with his father and rekindle an old romance, only to learn that his computer efforts have resulted in foreclosures and a corporate military partnership whose Freedom at Midnight final launch celebrations could mean the deaths of over one million people.”
Best Horror:
The Life & Crimes of Dudley Segal
By Barry Kneller
“A man with an evolved sickness tells the story of his murderous development just before his day of execution.”
Best Young Adult/Family:
Strike
By Lucinda Ziesing
“The true story of an honest, ambitious man who seeks his fortune in the expanding West, from silver mining in NM to the land boom in LA in the late 1880's, and onwards to the discovery of oil in CA and Mexico. His quest for fortune, however, is realized only when he loses his wife, the one fortune he cannot reclaim.”
Best Adventure:
The Revenge of the Black Claw
By Dylan Paschke
“At a deep space listening post, a talented metaphysical detective must solve a series of weird murders tied to a missing comic book.”
Best Drama:
Relay
By Louise Bylicki
“A coming-of-age drama set in Detroit during the summer of 1967. Katie Novak, 13-years old, loves running and Motown music, and ultimately wants to go to the Olympics. She tries out for a community track team, but when the Detroit riots break out, her dreams seem lost amid racial division and chaos, especially since her father is a police officer working the riots.”
Best Comedy:
The Liquidator
By Ed Waugh & Trevor Wood
“Billy Yates is a hit-man with a difference, people pay him to kill them. His clients are money men in an impossible financial situation, and their insurance policies are all they and their families have left. When Billy is framed for a murder he didn’t commit and his girlfriend Roz discovers his real identify things look bleak in this blacker than black comedy”
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 2010 Gotham Screen Screenplay Contest
These are the semi-finalist screenplays and their authors of the 2010 Gotham Screen Screenplay Contest, as announced at the staged screenplay reading on Monday. Finalists and the overall Contest Winner will be announced at the Festival Brunch at The Loft on Sunday, October 17. The shortlisted screenplays can be found here.
Congratulations to everyone who made it this far!
And the Rest is Lies, by William J Lewis
Black Parables, by Andrew William Flores
Blood Carvings, by Lori Huck
Boxer's Revolution, by Matthew Farrell
Dark Pools, by Carole Ryavec
Flesh & Blood, by Terry O'Brien
Freedom at Midnight (UK), by Jeffrey Ryback
Halfway Home, by David Schroeder
My Life- My Words: Wiley Post, by Jim Butcher and AndyHorton
Passing Time in America, by Matthew Zoni
Relay, by Louise Bylicki
Spotnik, by Celeste Chan Wolfe
Strike, by Lucinda Ziesing
Tatt, by Rob Ingalls
The Gentlemen Bandit, by Richard Gold
The Life and Crimes of Dudley Segal, by Barry Kneller
The Liquidator, by Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood
The Revenge of the Black Claw, by Dylan Paschke
They Shoot Weddings, Don’t They?, by Mike Folie
William, Will you Dance?, byMary Huckstep
Shortlist of the 2010 Gotham Screen Screenplay Contest
These are the shortlisted screenplays and their authors of the 2010 Gotham Screen Screenplay Contest:
Congratulations to everyone who made it this far!
2010 Gotham Screen Screenplay Contest - Shortlisted Screenplays:
A Village Affair, by Christine Autrand Mitchell
And The Rest Is Lies, by William J. Lewis
Belfry, by Tim Wolfe
Black Parables, by Andrew William Flores
Blood Carving, by Lori Huck
Boxer’s Revolution, by Matthew Farrell
Call To Vengeance, by Angela Lewis
Choice, by Thomas Rushforth
Dark Pools, by Carole Ryavec
Edward and Ginnie, by Robin Parks
Face The Sun, by Mike Moroz
Flesh & Blood, by Terry O’Brien
Freedom at Midnight, by Jeffrey Ryback
Halfway Home, by David Schroeder
Hollywood Zombies, by Diana Woody
In the Company Of Vampires, by SJ Guidotti
Joe, by Toby Scales
Mhuwe, by Ted Sterns
Mr. September, by Joseph DiGiglio
My Life-My Words: Wiley Post, by Jim Butcher and Andy
Horton
Next of Kin, by Shane McCabe
Passing Time in America, by Matthew Zoni
Relay, by Louise Bylicki
Returning Stanley, by Patrick Bonner
Spotnik, by Celeste Chan Wolfe
Strike, by Lucinda Ziesing
Tatt, by Rob Ingalis
The Devil’s Shadow, by Chad Schultz
The Empress and The Sorcerer, by J. Mullee
The Gentlemen Bandit, by Richard Gold
The Iranian, by Amaryllis Fox
The Life and Crimes of Dudley Segal, by Barry Kneller
The Liquidator, by Trevor Wood
The Real Truth, by Thomas Moore
The Revenge of the Black Claw, by Dylan Paschke
The Sand Castle, by Russel C. Wojtusiak
The Three Sisters Café, by J. Mullee
The Wake Of The Poet, by Joan Sawyer
They Shoot Weddings, Don’t They?, Vy Mike Folie
William, Will you Dance?, by Mary Huckstep
