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GRACE IN THE WILDERNESS

An earnest young seminarian battles a wayward former pastor for the future of a struggling small-town church.

Larry Sommers - larryandjosommers@charter.net

OEDIPUS TEX  (Finalist, Screenplay Festival)

A young cowboy raised by foster parents fulfills one prophecy by killing a belligerent stranger who had provoked him into a gunfight, unaware the man is his real father, and fullfills another prophecy by courting the man’s youngish widow, unaware she is his real mother.

Allan Amenta - aa34ferry@verizon.net

LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW (Finalist: WriteMovies.com Summer 2005 script contest)

A burned out LAPD detective takes his aggression out on his pacifist teenage son. Their destinies meet at a protest march where a nightmarish past comes rushing back.

Marc Hudgens - mahudgens@yahoo.com

UNCOMMON NOBILITY
A retired History professor goes to England and prevents a powerful evangelist, duped by terrorists, from destroying the tombs of Britain's Kings and Queens at Windsor Castle.

Max Whilom - maxwhilom@jvlnet.com

POINT OF BETRAYAL
In the year 1857, in Paris, Jean Louis Verger, a young, idealistic priest challenges the authority and excess of the Church, ultimately murdering the archbishop. The one man who knows the whole story refuses to testify, at great cost. Based on a true story.

John W. Currier - Merovech@charter.net

APACHE GOLD (Winner, 2004-05 WSF Screenplay Contest, Feature Division)
In 1870 Arizona territory, a young mixed race couple leading a group of fortune hunters gets more than they bargained for when greed and bigotry make a shambles of their company.

Patricia Semler - scriptdragon@cfl.rr.com - Phone: 407-344-8868

THE SECRET LASSO (2004 Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist)

The balance of power will change, hearts will be won, and a century-old mystery solved when African American cowboy Cole Adams meets his destiny in this 1972 Texas hill country drama.

Elizabeth  Thompson - indigo2u@chorus.net

"Wonderful romance with a strong female [supporting] lead...fascinating story about ties to the land and identity," says Joanne Garrett, award-winning documentary producer, PBS. "Rich imagery, director's delight."

HAIL MARY (2005 Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum Contest - 2nd place)

Kyle Krawczyk, a 35-year old, ex-high school quarterback attempts to use his last shot at playing in the NFL to get his life together and win back his wife and son. Even when he becomes a Green Bay Packer the fairy tale almost falls short…until it all rests on one last “Hail Mary“.

Greg Haag - ghaag@wi.rr.com

CONCENTRIC HEARTS
A loving relationship between two insecure people with addictive personalities is torn apart when the woman's self-esteem soars after losing weight and getting a makeover.  After being dumped, the distraught man is forced to piece his life back together.

Rob Hendrickson - henrixn@hotmail.com

LAUDERDALE
Adam Reed, fallen football hero, angry, lost and confused, finds salvation and redemption amidst the drunken, youthful, hormone-driven shenanigans of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida during Spring Break in 1967, complete with riots, looting, tear gas, curfews and some of the wildest partying the town has ever known.

Bill Hartin - bhartin@hotmail.com

LONG ROAD HOME

When Luke Jensen ruins his legacy as a small-town icon, he enlists an unlikely source to repair his image.

Mike Parent - mkparent@hotmail.com

SMART PILL
The sole survivor of an airplane crash in New Guinea, a girl for a decade afterwards suffers as an orphan in a mental hospital with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, rendering her mute. Rescued by a lab assistant and his experimental brain drug, she becomes CEO of internationally influential Smart Pill, Inc. 

Neal Graham - wb1cqw@together.net

IN THE LIVES OF BROTHERS
When a salt miner assumes care for his mentally-impaired brother, he must come to terms with the painful echo of a tragic day from their childhood. 

Kelsey Simons - kelsey_simons@verizonmail.com

EKE'BOLOS

In 1974, amid rising tensions in the Aegean, a megalomaniac seeks to resurrect the glories of ancient Greece by provoking a war between civilizations.

 
Stephen C. Settle - setdown@charter.net

VICTORIA
To avoid an arranged marriage, a farm girl runs from her home in 1980s Wisconsin, but in a strange city she has to deal with unexpected challenges to fulfill her dream to be a writer.

Dzung Tran–Koepsell - Tldzung2627@core.com