The 2008 Blazing Quill Screenwriting Competition
We would like to each and every one of the entrants for the 2008 Blazing Quill Screenwriting Competition. We received a record amount of entries and a record amount of good, solid screenplays. Entries were judged on originality, creativity, and industry standard formatting. We were looking for a writer’s sincere effort to produce a quality story. All winners will receive a congratulatory letter with details of their prizes enclosed. The winners of the 2008 Blazing Quill Screenwriting Competition are as follows:
First Place
Name: Julia Cunningham
Screenplay: Damien and Isabella
Brief Synopsis: Damien and Isabella are two star-crossed sweethearts in 19th century France. However, when Damien wounds the son of the Vicomte defending Isabella’s honor he must go to war to serve out his sentence. Now believing Damien to be dead, Isabella is driven into madness and the arms of another man. With Damien’s return the two lovers must fight the class system and Isabella’s impending marriage to a man she doesn’t love in this grown up fairy tale of passion, loss, and revenge.
Second Place
Name: Jeremy Dorfman
Screenplay: Love Me Don’t
Brief Synopsis: When the husband in a couple who were married purely out of spite has an affair, he decides to search out a man for his wife to have an affair with, so as to put her at fault for the divorce.
Third Place
Name: Timothy Armstrong
Screenplay: Trash
Brief Synopsis: A boy and a girl fall through the city dump into a magical underground world where they befriend strange thrown-away creatures called Trash. The Trash are wary of wasteful humans, but they accept Jack and Desiree, and together they fight the Deadpans – evil scrap-iron soldiers who are plotting to blow up the world above.
Honorable Mentions
Gridiron Gaels by Andrew Black
Mistress of the Sea by Rebecca Howland
Finalists:
Merzouk by Ryan Allison
A Task of Draculian Proportions: The Quest for Kermit the Vampire by Dave Vaughan
The Avon Man by Dave Vaughan
Flying With the Devil by Roi J. Tankin
Gridiron Gaels by Andrew Black
Long Way Home by Chris Morrison
Straightening Simon by Gary Barrett
The Moon and the Sea by Kristina Tew
Killer Solitaire by Tom Basham
Putting Honey on Fractures by Courtenay Dolson
Mistress of the Sea by Rebecca Howland
Damien and Isabella by Julia Cunningham
Love Me Don’t by Jeremy Dorfman
Trash by Timothy Armstrong
Journal of a Dinka Boy by Jomo Merritt
Semi-Finalists
The Swimmer Manuscript
Cold Blooded
Putting Honey on Fractures
Lone Cypress
The Ace of Aces
Splintered Porch
Borders of Paradise
Kamikaze
Fortune Cookies
Devil’s Due
The Devil’s Chaplin
The Day Rock Died
Draft Pick
Damien and Isabella
The Nutcracker
A Death in Concord
The Raven’s Treasure
‘a fish story’
Love Me Don’t
Journal of a Dinka Boy
Outside the Box
Allargando
Welcome to Gary
Looking for Leonardo
From Time to Time
The Year of the Dragon
King of Tragedy
Sleep Traveler
Falling Into Place
Brave
Powder Brown
Girls on the Run
Milkweed
My Own Private Myocardial Infarction
Mistress of the Sea
Blood Angel
Long Way Home
Savage Paradise
Realm of the Goddess
Doll
Trash
W.A.S.P.
Judgement Way
Merzouk
Lone Dog Barking
Olas Altas
Savage Paradise
Long Way Home
Countdown to Bliss
Attempting to Connect
Money Dearest
Just Like Chicanery
Gridiron Gaels
Straightening Simon
Opposites Attract
Killer Solitaire
Moon Walkers
When Women Rule
Flying With the Devil
Switched Fate
The Moon and the Sea
The Dragon’s Lair
The Avon Man
The Sketch Comedy Movie
A Task of Draculian Proportions: The Quest for Kermit the Vampire
The Dubious and Dangerous Legacy of Lady Zac-Kuk
Competition Prizes
The top three winners will receive from InkTip.com:
1) An e-mail announcement about your winning screenplay to their list of
industry professionals.
2) Placement of at least your logline and synopsis on their password
protected web site. You may also place the treatment and/or script.
3) Include a logline (pitch) for your winning screenplay in their printed
publication, which is snail-mailed to 4500 industry professionals.
The top three winners will receive from So You Wanna Sell A Script:
1) Total Script Express, a personal e-query to over 3,000 industry professionals
comprised of studio executives, producers, agents, etc.
2) One Year free listing in The Script Marketplace, a private online database, open
and regularly viewed by only industry professionals looking for screenplays for
option/purchase.
3) Logline and author information placement in one issue of The Hollywood Bugle,
an e-newsletter sent to over 2,500 indsutry professionals.
4) Six-month access to the Writers Rolodex, which consists of contact information
for 2,850 studios, production companies, producers, literary agencies, managers
and executives. It also allows writers to manage their contacts and submissions
with its exclusive My Contacts feature.
Other Prizes
1st Place:
· $500 cash prize
· Exposure on Wilson Wheaton Productions’ website
2nd Place:
· 1 year subscription to Creative Screenwriting Magazine
· WriteWare, an e-book listing more than 100 production companies, agencies, and managment companies who are open to unsolicited query letters
· Exposure on Wilson Wheaton Productions’ website
3rd Place:
· Exposure on Wilson Wheaton Productions’ website
