Writemovies.com Contest #17 Results
Results: WriteMovies.com International Writing Competition:
We received 1000 screenplays, books, plays, short stories and articles from the following countries: USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Belgium, India, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, Italy, Greece, Nigeria, Georgia, Mexico, Japan, South Africa and The Cameroon. The overall standard was very high, hence the large number of writers we found to be eligible for the final rounds. If you do not find your name on this list, it does not mean that you are a “bad” writer. We sincerely believe that anyone who sacrifices, nights, weekends and often a lot more, to the dream of becoming a writer, is deserving of respect. We decided against many competent works for a variety of reasons. Some were not suited for the cinematic medium. Others were conceptually flawed, in that they either delivered last year’s movie or an idea that was just not feasible. There is nothing sadder than a brilliantly executed “bad idea”, (well, unless it’s a badly executed good idea). But in all honesty, the shelves of most Hollywood pros are lined with these. We hope that those who did not make will stay in touch with us. We have enjoyed our myriad of email exchanges and are working hard at making this site more relevant to your careers. Don’t forget that many of our writers got their careers going by using our consulting service: Click here
With thanks and best wishes to you all,
The WriteMovies.com team
Grand Prize Winner:
Cyrus Aaron Hill – Disbelief
Second Place :
Charles Winecoff – Split Image
Third Place:
Christian Bourgeois – LE KATANA NOIR
Honorable Mention:
Werner Gerl – Mord auf Entzug
| Semi-Finalists (official): | Finalists (official): |
| Oni Adekunle Micheal – THE DAY AMERICA MOVE | Elizabeth Appell – Moon Walkers |
| Deborah Allen – Chronicles of the Judges Chair | Tony Bloodworth – Driving A Stick |
| Liz Alper – Wheat In Chicago | Christian Bourgeois – LE KATANA NOIR |
| Nelly Antona – Danses Macabres | Rosemarie Buehler – Das andere Leben |
| Simona Antonova – Blackbeard | Curtis Burdick – JONNIE THE BLACK |
| Elizabeth Appell – Moon Walkers | Alexandria Casey – Love Struck |
| Alan Armstrong – Preemptive Strike | Laurent Cassar – VLAST ORUJIA |
| Kermit Ashby – White Hats | Benjamin A. Chohon – Nothing Lasts Forever: Pilot |
| Richard Bagley – Till Death-Putting Around | Dylan Costello – Ollywood |
| Stacy Baker – Leaving So Soon | Marion Donnelly – Lettre a mon Frere Eternel |
| Winston Barber – Double Dribble | Jean-Guy Ducreux – The Oakglen Murderers |
| Lisa Barrass – A WOLF IN EDEN | Dirk Eichhorst – Cumberland’s Gold |
| Karl Bauer – BattleWorld: Cerxes 7 | Khnata EL HILALI – CD |
| R.D Bawa – The Result | Johnathan Fagundes – City of Killers |
| Ken Beckrich – Hard Sell | Jason Ford – The Last Picks |
| Scot Beidelman – Instant Hero | Sebastien Freymann – ATLAS |
| Phil Berger – Scrambled Eggs | Werner Gerl – Mord auf Entzug |
| Skip Berry – Gone | Henri-Philippe Grig – TULUM |
| Skip Berry – Another Time Another Place | Cyrus Aaron Hill – Disbelief |
| Tony Bloodworth – Driving A Stick | Tom Hobbs – Trauma Junkie |
| Christian Bourgeois – LE KATANA NOIR | Julie Kuss – Finisterre |
| Alan Brash – Tail Spin | Jillian Lauren – The Great Pretenders |
| Laura Brothers – Homecoming | Elisabeth Loesch – Tango Interruptus |
| Brian Buccellato – I Used To Be Brad Pitt | Antonia Martin – Das Mass der Dinge |
| Rosemarie Buehler – Das andere Leben | Ina May – Todestrakt |
| Curtis Burdick – JONNIE THE BLACK | Ina May – Leiser Schimmer Tod |
| Jennifer Byer – Writing the Roses | Pierre Mezerette – Hills |
| Josh Campbell – Big Ideas | Frances Overheu – The Round Table |
| Alexandria Casey – Love Struck | Jeffrey Poehlmann – Ultra Girl |
| Laurent Cassar – VLAST ORUJIA | Pamela Ryan-Hick – Lost Earring in Coit |
| Marissa Cerar – Human Resources | Santa Sierra – Being a Santos |
| Ray Charles – Kings of the World | Belinda Stanley – Graphic Novel |
| Michael Chatlien – Avant Garde | Marie-France VOULOT – Khoul-Rahoul et le général Otto-Dafé |
| Henry Cherry – Big Chief | Gilles Warembourg – ChroniquesPosthumes |
| Benjamin A. Chohon – Nothing Lasts Forever: Pilot | Kelly Wells – The Office – ‘A Dwight Schrute Production’ |
| Benjamin A. Chohon – Nothing Lasts Forever: Treatment | Charles Winecoff – Split Image |
| Benjamin A. Chohon – 30 Rock: Just 4 Kids | |
| Michael Choi – Cranes | |
| Michael Choi – Gods and Men | |
| Shawn Chou – The Mother Hood | |
| Melanie Chung – Ghosts Of Summer | |
| Romeo Ciolfi – The School | |
| Michael Coleman – A Call to Duty | |
| Dylan Costello – The Secret Boulevard | |
| Dylan Costello – Ollywood | |
| Darren Coyle – The Exceptions | |
| Sandi Craig – Saving Face or Nice Mask Dude! – MY NAME IS EARL | |
| Kenneth Crosby – Men of Duty | |
| Matt Dallmann – The Best Revenge | |
| john darko – five ways to split apart the day | |
| Emmanuel DAVEZAN – Ou est l’Ocean? | |
| Paul de Leonardo – Messiah | |
| Leigh Delahanty – Reality Tripp | |
| Justin & Chris DeNino & Norris – Superman Man of Steel | |
| Wood Dickenson – Circular Evidence | |
| William Dickerson – Unknown Soldiers | |
| Michael DiGiorgio – The End Of Time | |
| Marion Donnelly – Lettre a mon Frere Eternel | |
| Jean-Guy Ducreux – The Oakglen Murderers | |
| Jean-Guy Ducreux – Pharaon | |
| Robert DuPont – The Regiment | |
| Wilke Durand – Dance with me | |
| Lacey Dyer – Pine Wood Elementary | |
| Claudia Eckmann – Suicide | |
| Michael Eging – Blood Money | |
| Dirk Eichhorst – Marshall’s Hero | |
| Dirk Eichhorst – Cumberland’s Gold | |
| Khnata EL HILALI – CD | |
| Johnathan Fagundes – City of Killers | |
| Lucy Ferriss – THE JOURNEY OF MADAM KNIGHT | |
| Rachel Fischer – Consulting Fees | |
| Pernilla Flyg – Realm Of Goddess | |
| Jason Ford – The Last Picks | |
| Richard Fordyce – Guardian of the Shore | |
| Sebastien Freymann – ATLAS | |
| Rafael Friedan – Superhuman | |
| Matthew Furman – Counseling the Devil | |
| Eric Gaunaurd – Loss Of Innocence | |
| Keren Genitle – Chiara auf der Suche nach dem Richtigen | |
| Werner Gerl – Mord auf Entzug | |
| Amy Giaquinto – FORTUNE COOKIES | |
| David Gillis – The Gray Ghost | |
| Micah Gordon – Company Town | |
| Michael Graham – Hiroshima | |
| david greenberg – The Besserman Codex | |
| Henri-Philippe Grig – TULUM | |
| Kevin Hager – The Power | |
| Paul Harkabus – Death Among Us | |
| Jonathan Harnisch – Freak | |
| Ethan Haymovitz – A Step in the Right Direction | |
| Richard Herstek – Teaching Our Sons to Swim | |
| Cyrus Aaron Hill – Disbelief | |
| Michael Hindle – Two Capes and a Cowl | |
| Michael Hogan – Hunger | |
| Wayne Holloway – Gods Wounds | |
| Adam Hong – Blood Snow | |
| GERAINT HORWOOD – KNIGHT KNIGHT | |
| Olugbemiga Idowu – American Dream | |
| Stephen Irwin – Revenant | |
| James Izrael – Murdermouse: Student/Mutant/Killer-for-Hire | |
| Robert Jennings – WHO KNEW? | |
| Gordon Jones – The Goats of Rye Grass Hill | |
| Graham Jones – 30 Rock: The Sport of Kings | |
| Angela Jorgensen – Seos | |
| David Kane – Boat People | |
| Michael Klausner – PASSAIC | |
| Susan Klos – Voices | |
| George W. Krubski – X’s and O’Briens | |
| Steven Kung – 30 ROCK – ‘Rainbow Connection’ | |
| Julie Kuss – Finisterre | |
| Jeff L White – Passage | |
| Tim Lake – The Eyes Have It | |
| David Landau – Caretaker | |
| Tom Lane – Five Minutes Alone | |
| Jillian Lauren – The Great Pretenders | |
| Denise Lehr – Comedy Series | |
| Valerie LeMaitre – Mister Bates | |
| Josef Lemoine – Knocksville | |
| Teresa Lewis – Beyond Reason | |
| Mark Littleton – THe Miracle Dogs | |
| John Loar – Can’t afford One | |
| Elisabeth Loesch – Tango Interruptus | |
| Shawn Mahoney – Innocence Is… | |
| gero mannella – Skeletons in the closet | |
| Kelly Marchand – The Thunderbird | |
| Antonia Martin – Das Mass der Dinge | |
| Tony Mason – The Reef | |
| Liliane Matta – Dangerous Ground | |
| Shawn McGee – Unplugged | |
| Brian McKinley – Protecting the Blind Side | |
| Thomas McLaughlin – Millstone Angels | |
| Ina May – Todestrakt | |
| Ina May – Leiser Schimmer Tod B. Meyer – People That Dream Whales That Dance | |
| Pierre Mezerette – Hills | |
| Mary Ellen Michael – The Maestro | |
| Cheryl Miller – Fairies Landing | |
| Rick Momii – Limelight and Cold Pizza | |
| Clint Morey – The Last Master | |
| Paul Morris – Rebound | |
| Tony Mullen – Learning Games | |
| Tony Mullen – Learning Games | |
| Matthew Myers – An Improbable Life | |
| William Nelson – Through These Iron Eyes | |
| Adrienn Nyistor – Paternity Unavailable | |
| Victor OJEDA – Au-delà du tunnel | |
| Gregory O’Leary – The Office: A Copier and A Camera | |
| Lynn Oliver – The Baby Hunter | |
| Frances Overheu – Refuge | |
| Frances Overheu – The Round Table | |
| Justin Owensby – Chapman | |
| Emre Ozpirincci – How To Write A Romantic Comedy | |
| Jeanne Painchaud – Marie | |
| Kelly Parks – Experimental | |
| Gabriell DeBear Paye – Morally Impossible | |
| Gabriell DeBear Paye – Mankeydog! The Ultimate Genetically Enhanced Pet. | |
| Monica Peck – Keeper of Sheep | |
| Ryan Peek – A Pawn in the Game | |
| Jeffrey Poehlmann – Ultra Girl | |
| Margaret Polglase – Berry | |
| Gerard Readett – Roadworks | |
| G. Alan Reitsch – Bird Of Paradise | |
| Juden Rift – Alyssa Rallo Bennett | |
| Robert Rinow – Delayed Departures | |
| Robert Rinow – Fables | |
| Sam Roberts – A Fish Story | |
| Frank Rogala – There’s No Place Like ‘A Home’. | |
| Christopher Roth – Brandert The Mercenary | |
| Karen Rouse – The Closer “Copycat” | |
| Adam Russell – Charlestown | |
| Sean Ryan – KillerApp | |
| Pamela Ryan-Hick – Lost Earring in Coit | |
| Anne Sagel – Shameless | |
| Ryan Saucier – Perfectly Frank | |
| George and Lyn Scholomite – Life Insurance | |
| Gerry Scott – Sir Real : And The Nights Of The Spherical Table | |
| Luke Scrase – Reality Check | |
| Brett Seamans – Californication_Say It Ain’t So | |
| Kyle Shannon – V.I.R.T.U.E | |
| Jon Sharpe – Outside the Box | |
| Kevin Shea – Love Shy | |
| Jennifer Sheppard – Addicted | |
| Santa Sierra – Being a Santos | |
| William Sikorski Jr. – CHOSEN ONE | |
| Brian Simpson – ACT OF CONTRITION | |
| Stephen Smith – NEWS | |
| Doug Spoors – The Cannons of Costa Rica (The Jarvis Mueller Memoirs) | |
| Belinda Stanley – Chiang | |
| Belinda Stanley – Graphic Novel | |
| Jerry Stark – Runaway Rescue | |
| Anne steinberg – Every town needs a russian tea room | |
| Kristin Page Stuart – Frontera | |
| Emiliano Styles – If Love Could Kill | |
| Carlton Sugarman – The Shadows | |
| Gina Surles – Beautiful Dawn | |
| Chris Swider – Peter and the Chrome Plated Fish | |
| michael teitelbaum – Deadly Addictions | |
| Christopher Touchton – Get it On | |
| Matthias Trawny – Seafood | |
| Jeff Turboff – Kaboom! | |
| Mark Vickery – Impasse of Honor | |
| Marie-France VOULOT – Khoul-Rahoul et le général Otto-Dafé | |
| Scott Walker – Screwed | |
| Robin Warder – The Henchman | |
| Robin Warder – Cinephile | |
| Gilles Warembourg – Les Escamoteurs | |
| Gilles Warembourg – ChroniquesPosthumes | |
| John Warrener – Some Kind Of Normal Life | |
| Craig Wellington – Broken | |
| Kelly Wells – The Office – ‘A Dwight Schrute Production’ | |
| Maximillian Whitney – Winter Term | |
| Ed Wiles – THE TOWER | |
| Charles Winecoff – Split Image | |
| Marion Wolf – Faustas Irrungen | |
| Lou Wollin – God Only Knows | |
| Richard Worthy – Pelgrivan | |
| Geoffrey Yeh – Deadweek | |
| Jack Young – Southern Fried Yankees | |
| Steven Zawacki – Orcadia | |
| Francis Zuccarello – Holy Hell |