The 2008 Finalists!
In order to choose the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners for Screenplay Festival, there are three rounds to the competition. The scripts listed below made it through the second round and deserve recognition as Screenplay Festival 2008 Finalists.

We appreciate everyone's hard work and would again like to congratulate everyone for their great writing!

View the 2008 Winners
View the 2008 Semi-Finalists

2008 Finalists:

Action/Adventure:
Casting Stones -- Brian Hartshorn
Click to my Choo -- Miyako Akina Fuqua
Espionage -- Carlo Treviso
Fort Defiance -- Brian Hill
Her Swastika Sword -- Christopher Canole
How To Kill A Dead Man -- Don Filipoff & Henry Cohn
Killed in Action -- Katrina Nicholson
Kings of Maria -- Wesley Hull
Lost Island -- Douglas William Castle
Mikado -- Walter Bauer
Mosquitoes -- Jason Kaleko
Mutant Killer -- Joseph J. Wheeler
Rage & Redemption -- Douglas Anderson
The Escape -- Kent Wong
The Harlem Story -- Danny Holst
The Last Sentinel -- Stephen M. Pace
The Russian Kiss -- Raef Eric Lawson
Tin Necklaces -- Wesley Hull
Trumpet -- Robert Macklin
Union -- Chris Moolekamp
War Of Choice -- John Brinling
Whisper Hollows -- Brannan Doyle
White House Down -- Martin Holloway

Comedy:
13 Notches -- Sandy Scherer
As You Are -- Claudia Myers
Beluga Shuffle -- jens Pil Pilegaard
Beyond Dating -- Tanya M. Wheeler
Buried on Page 8 -- Jennifer Harrison
Counting The Ways -- Ronald Ecker
Dreamweaver -- Kim Townsel & Jeff Sargeant
Frat Boys -- Raef Eric Lawson
Head Trip -- Craig Phillips
Help Your Self -- Jason Roti & Robert Silva
Lionel's Blue Period -- John Letzing
MISOCAPNIA (Oh tobacco!) -- Sylvain Doucet
Modern Meat -- Michael Kaplan
Oblivious -- Brian Lucas
Out of Practice -- Linnea Liu Dakin
Pop Goes The Weasel -- BatSheva Vaknin
Run Ran Run -- Tom Nolan
Soaked -- Joseph J. Wheeler
The Big One Eight -- Jermon Wright
The Fools' Journey -- Miyako Akina Fuqua
The PORNovski Brothers -- Rick Halpern
The Senior List -- Spiro Adam Siavelis
Til The Fat Lady Sings -- Thom Wilder
Trial and Erin -- Lawrence Shulruff
Tricks of the Trade -- Robert Dorian
Water Logged -- Jenny Copeland
Who Would've Thought -- Julie Kirk

Drama:
Bellingham -- Pablo Valiente
Checkered Past -- Michael Mihalek
Closure -- Darren Swanson
Endless Baggage -- Barbara Albers Jackson
Falling Into Place -- Lily Mercer
For Life -- Steve Weissman
Glory's Men -- Alan Bryce Grossman
Jailbait -- Bryan Carrigan
Kingbird -- Donald Thomas Adams
Moorestown High -- Derek O'Brien
Red, White and Blue -- Darrel Anderson
Say Something Funny -- Jim Nevins
Shake the Heavens -- Joseph J. Wheeler
Short Season -- Shannon Kracht
Sparrow On The Roof -- Craig Clyde
Suck -- Ursula Holloman
Surviving the Fall from Bennington Bridge -- Jeff Myers
The Joppa Flat -- Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid
The Knuckleballer -- Michael L. Murphy
The Problematic Virtue -- James Heskett
Wrocklage -- Steve Daniels

Family:
Ant-ics -- Donald Ashe
Calliope -- James T. Frazier
Chasing Midnight -- Kim Wells
Finding Patience -- Aaliyah Miller
Freezer Born: The Adventures of Carl The Ice Cream Sandwich -- Erin McLaughlin
Hope for Christmas -- Casey Jason Jr.
Jack and Chip -- Robert Bronstein
Learning to See -- Robert Lamborn
Lisa's Angel -- Marilou Trask-Curtin
Miracles -- Sandy Scherer
Pandamonium -- Susan St. Peters
Sandy Mills -- Nathan Carliner Goldman
Screaming My Heart Out -- Janyce Lapore
Serena's Thunder -- Jean Hunter
SKILLZ -- Onnie Terrell
Space Race -- Eric Carlson
Stage Dad -- Joel Doty
Stealing First -- Joan Golden and Cynthia Drew
The Ace of Aces -- Geoffrey Breuder
The Vigil Aunties -- Andrew Bailey Fumento
Toucans of the Amazon -- Donna Lisa
True North -- Eric Carlson
Trumpet -- Robert Macklin
Weekend Dad -- Barbara Albers Jackson
White Elephant -- Susan St. Peters

Thriller/Horror:
A Son of Maine -- Ian Sax
Blood Trail -- Michael Strode
Blowback -- Jeff Travers
Burnerz -- Joseph J. Wheeler
Canaries -- Craig Cambria
Crow's End -- Colin M. Maguire
Cult Following -- Robert Dorian
Daddy's Little Girl -- Erica Sutherland
Dana's Inferno -- Andrew Bailey Fumento
Darkroom -- Alex Cope
Down Under -- Per Mühlow
Is That A Gun In Your Pocket? -- Emanuel Ruggeri
Isolation -- David Sakmyster
Lifeline -- Stacy Baker
Llanada Villa -- Chuck Whitton
Lunatic Fringe -- Bruce D'Amato
Mutant Killer -- Joseph J. Wheeler
Red Sierra -- Amrando Figueroa
Secrets of Scape Ore Swamp -- Jocelyn Rish
Southern Macabre -- Richard Stringham
The Boy Next Door -- Jayson Amoroso
The Shorting -- Arlo Devlin-Brown
The Summoning -- Mark Lukens
The Theater -- Paul J.J. Pastore
Tooth Lake -- Richard Topping

"Keep writing, everybody, and then keep putting what you write out there for people to read. Sometimes they like it. Thanks, Screenplay Festival."

Steve Harper, Quantum Forces
Grand Prize Winner, 2004

"After years of knocking on doors to promote my screenplay, now – as a winner in the Screenplay Festival – producers are knocking on my door."

Steven Schwab, The Adventures of Captain Paragon
Honorable Mention Winner, 2004

"What a ride it has been! With the placement of my Honorable Mention award on Inktip, I  have had more than 400 producers or directors checking out my work. And to top it off, because of you I now have a great agent who is putting Felix in the right hands."

Chris Canole, Felix the Flyer
Honorable Mention Winner, 2004

"Screenplay Festival was the first (and only) contest my screenplay was entered in, and needless to say, I was thrilled with the results!  The entire experience was wonderful, including the added bonus of attending the follow-up pitch sessions!"

Catherine Paul, UPRISING - In The Midst Of Darkness
Honorable Mention Winner, 2004

"I really appreciate having my script, The End, receive Honorable Mention recognition from Screenplay Festival 2004. The application process was easy and the contest was conducted in a very professional manner. I have received several requests for my script as a result of this contest."

Jack Kolkmeyer, The End
Honorable Mention Winner, 2004

"As a Japanese born writer who grew up with American movies, I have always wanted to win an award in an American competition.  I feel much honored that your festival chose my screenplay. It seems like a part of my life-time dream comes true!"

Hiroshi Nakajima, White Room
Honorable Mention Winner, 2004

"I wrote an off-beat script which I thought would get no attention.  Well, it did.  A lot of attention, thanks to the variety of categories in this competition."

Russell Bouthiller, Dragula
Honorable Mention Winner, 2004

"The Paper Route is a very personal project that explores difficult feelings about parents and siblings and growing up, and so it is especially gratifying to have it recognized in the family category of this contest.  Screenplay Festival has done a wonderful thing in spotlighting screenplays from such a variety of genres and for giving encouragement to writers whose works are a little outside of the mainstream.

Danny Howell, The Paper Route
Honorable Mention Winner, 2004