This year’s winning Script-to-Screen short screenplay is VOODOO by SwW member Peter Groynom. And the 2015 runner-up is SUNDOWN written by David Pollard. The winning script will be produced this Summer with a prize package of $2,000 co-sponsored by SwW and the Twin Cities Film Festival. The ten minute film will then be screened at the TCFF in October. Congratulations to Peter and David!
Below is a complete list of all 9 finalists. These writers could be open to working with producers and directors to produce their short scripts, so interested parties should contact SwW for referrals.
TITLE: Green Planet
WRITER’S NAME: Randy Holland
GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE: Teenagers clash over artistic differences while making a no-budget steampunk-magitech-fantasy webseries.
TITLE: Voodoo
WRITER’S NAME: Peter Groynom
GENRE: Paranormal Comedy
LOGLINE: Stewart, lonely and unemployed, discovers that his dim-witted childhood friend is now a millionaire. What’s his secret?
TITLE: Wildflower Saviors
WRITER’S NAME: Julie Meyer
GENRE: Drama
LOGLINE: A captain confronts a young private accused of deserting the army in the 19th Century.
TITLE: BUNKER BUDDIES
WRITER’S NAME: Randy Holland
GENRE: Political Satire
LOGLINE: Deep underground, America’s leaders face down a robot revolution.
TITLE: CAT PEOPLE
WRITER’S NAME: Dick A. Zonneveld
GENRE: Black Comedy
LOGLINE: A young woman, rushing to meet her husband and mother-in-law for lunch, runs into trouble on a deserted county road. It all goes downhill from there.
TITLE: Sundown
WRITER’S NAME: David W. Pollard
GENRE: Suspense
LOGLINE: An old man must take matters into his own hands when the hit man he hires fails.
TITLE: In the Clouds
WRITER’S NAME: Larry Matthews
GENRE: Drama
LOGLINE: A Man and a woman with very different visions discover how to work together.
TITLE: Ancient Spirits
WRITER’S NAME: Julie Meyer
GENRE: Drama
LOGLINE: A young man, still living in a claustrophobic apartment with his mother, receives mysterious text messages that lead him to even more mystery.
TITLE: Percipient
WRITER’S NAME: Dick A. Zonneveld
GENRE: Suspense
LOGLINE: Two researchers studying communications from the dead become the subjects of their own research when one of them dies.
