HONORABLE MENTIONS (listed alphabetically)

Chronically Single
(Romantic Comedy)
By Abby Anderson
Logline: Alex, a freelance writer, gets a job writing a magazine column about dating - except that she never dates. Luckily, she has her friend Nathan for support. She assumes he's gay, but he's not.in fact, he has a huge crush on her. When Nathan realizes he's the "gay friend" in Alex's column, he 'stays gay' in order to be close to her.
movies@ca.inter.net

Strike!
(Historical Drama)
By Mary McKay
Logline: "No well-behaved women ever made history." In the snowy streets of Lawrence, Massachusetts in the winter of 1912, a young Irish widow leads other immigrant women mill workers as they battle the forces of bigotry and economic oppression in the famous "bread and roses" strike.
mcmm1@aol.com

When God Sleeps
(Drama)
By Daniel S. Elliott
Logline: In Africa, a young brother and sister are abducted from their village and forced to become ruthless child soldiers, and an American relief worker attempts to free them.
elliott.daniel@mayo.edu

SEMIFINALISTS (listed alphabetically)

A Fine Line
(Drama, Thriller)
By Sang Kyu Kim
Logline: A murderer on the run and the failed FBI agent in pursuit unknowingly befriend each other, when the killer loses his memory and starts a new, peaceful life as a different man.
Beatle23@hotmail.com

Alessandro
(Drama)
By Edmund Stubbing
Logline: Alessandro, 19, kills his friend, Maria (St. Maria Goretti). Alessandro does 30 years in prison. Maria comes to him in a vision and he promises to help Maria's mother, Assunta, who rejects God and will never forgive Alessandro.
luedstubbing@aol.com

Anglophile
By Heather Stricker
Logline: A neglected girl in Texas becomes obsessed with everything British, hoping to fulfill her dream of living in the UK and leaving her trailer park behind. Guiding her along the way is a recently widowed and retired professor who shares her affinity.
hjstricker@gmail.com

The Bonsai
(Drama)
By Jason Whiton
Logline: A Japanese American man reconnects with his family and his heritage when a mystical Bonsai tree takes him on an emotional journey through its past.
jasonwhiton@hotmail.com

The Boxer Molineux
(Historical Drama)
By P.A. Kent & Stuart Lindsay
Logline: When a tough American slave boxes his way to freedom, he confront racism and power politics on his way to a fight with the British bare-knuckles boxing champion, Tom Cribb. Based on a true story.
mackent1@comcast.net

Callous Behavior
(Genre-Drama)
By Francesco Gangemi Logline-A group of high school students decide to kill a classmate, just to see what it would be like.
email-joesbrotherproductions@hotmail.com

Confession
(Drama)
By Jim Macak
Logline: A female attorney teams up with a young cop on disability leave with AIDS to clear a mentally handicapped man of a murder charge.
jimmacak@rcn.com

The Court of Lions
(Epic Love Story)
By Amy Quick Parrish
Logline: A young Christian Spanish woman held captive in a Moorish harem questions her loyalties when she falls in love with the Sultan who killed her father.
thecourtoflions@yahoo.com

Derailed
(Legal Thriller, Drama)
By Peter Pham
Logline: When a runaway train is purposefully derailed, spilling deadly chemicals in a small town and causing mass injuries and deaths, a big-city lawyer returns home to defend the case and faces the ghosts of his past.
peter.pham@usc.edu

Embracing Emily
(Drama)
By Jenny Lee
Logline: Haunted by her past, her future in trouble, Emily Park is forced to make a grown-up decision when she turns 30: she embarks for Korea, to seek out her long-estranged father and move forward with her life.
thejl@yahoo.com

Endings
(Drama)
By Chris Hansen
Logline: On what may be their last days on earth, three people -- a little girl dying of leukemia, a drug addict, and a housewife with breast cancer -- meet and see their lives altered forever as a result.
christopher_hansen@baylor.edu

Fun with Real Numbers
(Dark Comedy)
By Brie Williams
Logline: A high school freshman investigates the mystery of her mutilated cat, while her Algebra teacher is haunted by a phantom limb.
brielwilliams@gmail.com

Good Reasons To Freeze To Death
Genre: Drama
By Scott Honea
Logline: After being forced out of college for failing to pay tuition, a young girl returns home to find her emotionally bankrupt family on the verge of collapse. American Beauty set in a doublewide.
sahonea@yahoo.com

Ice Cold Kingdom
(Drama)
By James Mc Farland
Logline: A multi-layered narrative following the mysterious murder of a young woman in a remote town.
jamesanthonymcf@yahoo.ie

MAD
(Biopic)
By Nicholas Carr
Logline: The true story of infamous 1950's comic book publisher William M. Gaines, creator of Mad Magazine and Tales from the Crypt
nickcarr@gmail.com

Middle of Nowhere
(Drama)
By T.J. Brady
Logline: An angry young man feels trapped in his small town life until he discovers a way out - the brutal sport of Cage Fighting. When he loses his first match (badly), he turns to a reclusive retired Green Beret who teaches him how to survive both in and out of the cage.
thomasjbrady@hotmail.com

The Obit Writer
(Drama/Dark Comedy)
By Lisa A. Tignor
Logline: After realizing that her life will result in a boring obituary, a depressed young woman of Puritannical upbringing decides to embark on a series of adventures before committing suicide.
Adrenalisa@aol.com

The Paper Devil Game
(Drama)
By Jeni Yamada
Logline: An American woman and her reluctant husband take in a black South African man fleeing apartheid, and vow to bring his family to the United States, impacting their conventional Northeastern town and profoundly affecting the lives of all involved, including the woman's young son, who forms a deep bond of friendship with the visitor.
jeniyamada@gmail.com

Refuge
(Drama)
By Frances Overheu
Logline: There are some decisions no-one should ever have to makeÉ An Englishman struggles to save his family and closest friends from a plague that is plunging the world into anarchy.
foverheu@bigpond.com

Schooling Fish
(War Drama)
By John Franklin Grooms
Logline: Fractured by Hitler's schemes, a German family must survive WWII to be made whole once more.
jgr3779394@bellsouth.net

Rough Country
(Drama)
By Lee Ann Gun & Peter Phinny
Logline: A self-exiled thirty-six year old, forced to return to his Arizona hometown after eighteen years away, confronts human smuggling across the Mexican border.
pphinny@aol.com

Silent Thunder
(Drama)
By Leonard W. Miller & Leonard T. Miller
Logline: The true story of America's first black auto racing team owner, who earns his way to the Hall of Fame, battles a prejudice racetrack official on the grand prix circuit, while striving to sustain his family.
ltm02@earthlink.net

Stage Dad
(Family Comedy)
By Steven Butler
Logline: Gary desperately tries to mold his son (Earvin) into a great athlete, with no avail. When Earvin shows promise in the world of competitive dance, Gary embraces the situation and becomes "Stage Dad."
stevieopgraphy@aol.com

Stellunia
(Drama, Adventure)
By Jerry L. Jennings
Logline: "Stellunia" is the amazing true story of how a young girl uses her charm and intuition to survive impossible odds during the Holocaust and ends up in the same barrack with Anne Frank.
jerryj100@comcast.net

Sucker
(Comedy)
By Jerry Mahoney
Logline: A suicidal man's worst nightmare comes true when he's bitten by a vampire and realizes he's now immortal.
heyjerry@pacbell.net

Swoone
(Romantic Comedy)
By Loretta Chen
Logline: Sam G. Swoone, a famous, reclusive East Coast writer, must overcome his fear of open spaces to find and woo a San Francisco artist before her ex-fiancŽ manipulates his way back into her life.
lc_writer@sbcglobal.net

The Sword of Gary
(Comedy)
By Tim Stitzel
Logline: An arrogant fantasy writer with dreams of highbrow literary fame is banished to the world of his critically panned sword and sorcery novels. There he must complete a quest to save the kingdom he inadvertently doomed when he killed off the hero in an attempt to please the critics.
tim_stitzel@yahoo.com

Ta Kimbia
(Drama)
By Yasmine Bandali
Logline: When a Kenyan boy is forced to become breadwinner for his family, he must give up his dreams of professional running. But neither abject poverty nor corrupt officials can deter ambition - of running the grueling trails of the Rift Valley - and of winning the Boston marathon.
YBandali@peoplepc.com

The Unknown Actor
(Action/Historic Epic)
By Demetrious Polychron
Logline: When a young Unknown Actor meets William Shakespeare in London in 1601, he must overcome Court Intrigues, War and Rebellion to become the first actor to ever perform Hamlet.
dpolychron@aol.com

Wakeful
(Drama/Comedy)
By Rocco V. Iacovone
Logline: What do you get when you cross an enforcer for the mob who faints at the sight of blood and a man who commits a crime whenever he falls asleep in a town where three slacker cops havenÕt made an arrest in years intertwined with other unique personalities? A character driven drama with a touch of comedy.
pspanther@hotmail.com

When Days Run Short
(Horror/Supernatural)
By David Hoofnagle and Jerome Hoofnagle
Logline: The owner of a family-run funeral home discovers a monstrous secret his family has been hiding for generations.
dave@west10productions.com

Your Gay Friend Finder
(Romantic Comedy)
By Michael Shriro
Logline: A metrosexual man tries to avoid sexual harrassment by pretending to be gay, only to fall for his boss who believes she has found the ultimate gay male best friend.
michael.shriro@gmail.com