A FILM WRITER FIRST 30 PAGES CONTEST WINNERS 2014

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A FILM WRITER SCREENPLAY CONTEST WINNERS 2013

First Place Winner Mike Donald with CODE RED

Michael Donald is a blogger, novelist and award winning screenwriter.  He has written for television and film and worked as a script analyst for gap financing company Aramid Capital on projects including The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Hurt Locker, and The Wrestler. He works in all genres but is drawn towards writing tentpole action screenplays.  He also recently wrote the lyrics and script for a musical heist thriller Fiestaval, to be shot in Chile in 2014.  When he’s not writing action movies he’s often helping out with his wife Dorrie’s  thriving pet care business and a variety of happy pets.  You can visit him at www.touchwoodpicturesltd.com  

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Second Place Winner Jimmy Bromberg with GIVING UP GIRLS

Jimmy Bromberg was born and raised in Santa Monica, California. After graduating from the University of Washington, Jimmy returned home and completed the year-long UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting, where he wrote two screenplays, one of which was Giving Up Girls. Jimmy has written several screenplays in the past few years, including the romantic comedy, Textbook Love, a winner of the Script Savvy Screenplay Competition and the action/thriller, Dealers, which has been a finalist in a number of screenplay contests. In addition, Jimmy's screenplay Enemies Closer, an action/thriller he co-wrote with his brother was recently bought and produced by After Dark Films and is slated to be released in the fall of 2013. Jimmy currently works as a 7th grade history teacher in Santa Monica and last summer had the opportunity to teach screenwriting to middle school students, something he hopes to do again in the future.

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Third Place Winner Cristina Pippa with PHILIP THE GREAT

Winner of the National Playwriting Award and finalist for the Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers, Cristina Pippa completed the undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Columbia University and an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where she received the Iowa Fellowship for the Arts and the Norman Felton Fellowship. Cristina's screenplays and television pilot have placed in the top 10% in the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, top 10 for drama in the StoryPros screenplay contest, and second place with Acclaim Film and Television. Cristina also developed hundreds of stories with kids as Artist in Residence at a children’s hospital, where she discovered that fantasy is the best medicine. www.cristinapippa.com

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WINNERS 2013

FIRST PLACE: Mike Donald for CODE RED

SECOND PLACE: Jimmy Bromberg for GIVING UP GIRLS

THIRD PLACE: Cristina Pippa for PHILIP THE GREAT

Finalists

Candy Fox      Bring Cooper Home
Charles Richardson  Death Squad
Corneliu Filip     Counterpart
Cristina Pippa   Philip The Great
Diana Alldredge & Dennis Harrington  Scrolls of Valhalla; Mark of the Warrior
Ian Noakes & Brian Paisley  Killing Time
Jeremy Rigby  Stalin’s Warriors
Jimmy Bromberg   Giving Up Girls
Joseph Baker   The Blunt Edge
Leonardo Reis  Storm Dragons
Mark V. Bedard   Chinese Whispers
Michael (Mike) Donald   Code Red
Ourdia Hodge  Baby War
Philip Sedgwick    Considerare
Vivian Lermond  Gillespie’s Son

Semi- Finalists

Candy Fox  Bring Cooper Home
Charles Richardson  Death Squad
Christopher  (Chris) James   Alchemy
Corneliu Filip  Counterpart
Cristina  Pippa Philip The Great
Dave Vaughan Donald and The Dragon Lady (Dragon's Lair)
Diana Alldredge/Dennis Harrington Scrolls of Valhalla; Mark of the Warrior
Diana Alldredge/Dennis Harrington  My Mom’s A Ninja
Everett Anson   The Third Party
Ian Noakes & Brian Paisley  Killing Time
Jacob Burstein-Stern Dobler Effect
Jeremy Rigby Stalin’s Warriors
Jeremy Twigg  In Dreams We Live
Jimmy Bromberg  Giving Up Girls
Joe Borriello  The Tiniest Prince in the Galaxy
Joseph Baker  The Blunt Edge
Leonardo Reis Storm Dragons
Mark V. Bedard   Chinese Whispers
Michael (Mike) Donald  Code Red
Natalie Hardy   All God’s Children
Ourdia Hodge Baby War
Philip Sedgwick    Considerare  
Robert Rhyne  Passing Through
Ron Lundmark  Eagle Scout
Ryan Widner  Jacob’s Attic
Shanan Melland  The Yard Sailors
Stacy Talus Reminiscence
Sundae Jahant-Osborn  Seeing Red
Sundae Jahant-Osborn  Just Kill Me Already
Tony Chassion    The Last Fairy Tale
Vivian Lermond  Gillespie’s Son

Quarter-Finalists

Alma Tagliaferri, & Roberto Palmieri Twice A Minute
Billie Reynolds  Naked Innocence
Bob Gately  Hat Trick
Brandon O’Reilly  Stung
Brian Bozick  Matter of Time
Candy Fox  Bring Cooper Home
Cathy Freericks   Sunset Lake
Charles Richardson  Death Squad
Charlie Barnett   I Am Not A Happy Camper
Cheryl Farr  Flirting With Death
Christopher  (Chris) James   Alchemy
Corneliu Filip  Counterpart
Cristina Pippa Philip The Great
Dale Williams  Ee-dah-how
Dave Vaughan Donald and The Dragon Lady
David Minaskanian  Wham Bam Merci Ma’am
Dawn Guernsey The Basement
Diana Alldredge & Dennis Harrington Scrolls of Valhalla; Mark of the Warrior
Diana Alldredge & Dennis Harrington  My Mom’s A Ninja
Erin Dalian Eastland
Everett Anson   The Third Party
George Spicer  Birthday Magic
Hamilton (Ham) Mitchell  Game On
Ian Noakes & Brian Paisley  Killing Time
Jacob Burstein-Stern Dobler Effect
Jeff Jones   The Lazarus Grid
Jeff Jones   Moeta
Jeremy Rigby Stalin’s Warriors
Jeremy Twigg  In Dreams We Live
Jimmy Bromberg  Giving Up Girls
Joe Borriello Live From the Milky Way
Joe Borriello  The Tiniest Prince in the Galaxy
Joe Kisch  Devil’s Machine
Joel Reeves Pardon My French
Johnny Russell   Higher Divine
Joseph Baker  The Blunt Edge
Kimberly Kaplan  Warsaw Freedom
Lenette Olivier   Tins of All Evil
Leonardo Reis Storm Dragons
Maria Lennon   A Timeless Fairy Tale
Marjorie E. Glantz & Scott Fickas Brat In America 
Mark Bedard   Chinese Whispers
Michael (Mike) Donald  Code Red
Natalie Hardy   All God’s Children
Ourdia Hodge Baby War
Philip Sedgwick    Considerare
Rhonda Clark (Morris/Ermel) Closer Than Death 
Richard Hector  Nova Life
Robert Gately    Hat Trick
Robert Rhyne  Passing Through
Ron Lundmark  Eagle Scout
Russ Meyer   Settling the Books
Ryan Widner  Jacob’s Attic
Sean Agard Dreamland Confidential 
Shanan Melland  The Yard Sailors
Sherry Moore  Wetness
Stacy Talus Reminiscence
Sundae Jahant-Osborn  Seeing Red
Sundae Jahant-Osborn  Just Kill Me Already
Tony Chassion    The Last Fairy Tale
Tony Chassion   America The Brave
Vivian Lermond  Gillespie’s Son
Wendy Memoli  Last Laugh