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Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum 2002-03 Contest Winners Contest Coordinator: Mark Hobson To contact any of the writers below about their projects, please email Ted Babcock, contest0405@wiscreenwritersforum.org Features Division First Place:
Kristin Kirby - Seattle WA Epileptic and artistic Pauley Mackenzie battles the high school bully, his over-protective mother and his own condition just to get through the day. When a beautiful, troubled widow moves in next door, Pauley must rescue her with the help of a comic book hero he draws. Second Place:
Doreen Orion - Boulder CO A romantic comedy in which a woman, desperate to find her soul mate, regresses to her past lives, but has to fight her way back to the present before losing him forever. Ghost meets When Harry Met Sally. Third Place:
Pat Hunt - Laguna Hills CA Stock-car racing in the early 1950’s in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Mouse, a 16 year-old kid, and Fuzzy, a down-on-his-luck racer, team together and go all the way to the Nationals. Mouse redeems his alcoholic father and finds it’s not worth winning at any cost.
Mel Brenner Award for Risk-Taking in Screenwriting: Thomas Kearney - Santa Monica CA Paradise A biopic about the poet/fascist Ezra Pound -– “a failure worth all the successes of his age.”
Television Division TV Celebrity Judge: Burt Metcalfe First Place:
Travis Opgenorth - Sheboygan Falls WI Samantha comes face-to-face with a mystery of mankind – Eurotophobia. Carrie decides whether or not to try an internet blind date, while Charlotte struggles through a dilemma of whether or not she wants to date a blind man. Miranda gets excited over breastfeeding. Second Place:
Barbara Gaillard - Paris, France Sometimes the ones we love just can’t be who we need them to be – at any given moment. Third Place:
Ryan Harris - Studio City CA Larry must deal with an incontinent, freeloading cat and a very, very particular feng shui master.
Features Division Semi-Finalists Steve Warren - Austin TX The Ghosts of Bull Run A 16 year-old boy goes in search of his missing father and gets caught up in the Civil War, where he learns about betrayal, loyalty, love and honor. John Besmer - Madison WI Not Birds, Airplanes A gruff, middle-aged taxidermist takes a brash, wanna-be writer under his wing. Two peas in a rum-soaked pod, they come to realize that great art, and great lives, require great effort – something they’re both sorely lacking until it’s almost too late. Mark Petterson - Greenville NC Fire Sign Serial arsonist targets churches. Russ Meyer - New Prague MN The Fat Lady Sings When Duluth P.I. Byroan Dexter is asked by a politician’s wife to find a correspondence school plumber she only met via the Internet years ago, Byroan outruns his pursuers, travels the wilds of Ohio and finds the plumber, but to no one’s satisfaction. Doreen Orion - Boulder CO Perfectly Doug Despite the best efforts of a lovely local and her wacky tropical island bent on keeping a secret, an ambitious archeologist digs up the truth, threatening their entire way of life. Will he chase his perfect find over his perfect love? Robert M. Prisco - Cleveland Heights OH Luigi Board A young man from NYC inherits a haunted pizzeria on an Arizona Indian reservation. J. Paul Forbes - Wausau WI Conjuror Woods Three youths find the lines between reality and fantasy blurred when they find themselves in a realm where evil reigns; giant scorpions, orcs and other fictional creatures rampage freely. Their only allies are a stuck-up elf princess, a smart-mouthed goblin and a bum with a talent for bizarre magic. Jo Horne Schmidt - Mequon WI For Patriot’s Dream Inspired by the true lives of Hans and Sophie Scholl. During 12 brutal years of Nazi power there was another Germany – individuals like the Schools who did not look away, who stood up, spoke out and fought back with unsurpassed grace and courage. Brian A. Wilson - Glendale CA Quarterback of the Gods The Football Gods send a brash, underachieving quarterback of today’s Dallas Cowboys back in time to play for Vince Lombardi’s 1963 Green Bay Packers. Susan M. Rustick - Madison WI Empires and Alleyways The true story of Miriam Follin Leslie, a 19th Century woman who rises from humble beginnings to achieve fame, notoriety and fortune. L. Pat Taylor - Madison WI A Whisper In the Heart A doctor is accused of malpractice after his patient dies in surgery. The patient’s son has just the medicine to make the doctor realize the most important thing in life is living. Robert M. Prisco - Cleveland Heights OH The Monk Next Door A man on the run with a suitcase full of drugs assumes the identity of a Buddhist monk visiting a small Wisconsin town. Lee L. Krecklow - Milwaukee WI Fiction A woman is unaware that her voyeuristic novelist neighbor is using her life as material for a new book. George Scholomite - Chicago IL Tennis Ball A waiter turned failed salesman finds everything going wrong in his life – he is losing his girlfriend, failing at his job, and being audited by the IRS. He is dying for something to come along to change everything. Then it happen, a magical event, a simple yet elegant miracle that defies the laws of physics and changes his world and the world as we know it.
Television Divison Semi-Finalists Travis Opgenorth - Sheboygan Falls WI SEXT AND THE CITY, "Platonic Tectonics" Samantha and Miranda come into conflict over a man. Charlotte is confused by her boyfriend’s platonic stance on their relationship, and Carrie’s romantic relationship teeters on the brink of friendship. Ryan Harris - Studio City CA FRASIER, "Death and Glasses" Martin’s best friend, Duke, dies. Daphne falls in with a couple of unsavory society ladies to learn how to better get along at swanky functions and Frasier thinks his new pair of glasses are attracting the beautiful funeral director. Heather Paster - Los Angeles CA EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, "Home Cooking" When Ray has to cook dinner for his children, he passes off Marie’s cooking as his own, until Debra expects him to prepare her birthday dinner. |
