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American Gem Short Screenplay & Literary Festival
2011 Screenplay Contest

Enter your Short Screenplay, Short Story, Treatment in American Gem Short Screenplay Contest / Literary Festival. 

Winning Screenplay in the American Gem Short Screenplay Contest will be Produced.

Grand Prize Winner / Short Screenplay Gets to Pitch Screenplay to Producers, Studio Executives and Agents. Certificate of achievement awards to the Top 25 scripts and top 3 in each of the other categories.

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Grand Prize Winners

Ryan Lear & Jeff Wachsmuth
AMERICA: RED WHITE & BADASS Comedy
Logline: A bumbling farm-boy is forced to fight in the American Revolutionary War, and becomes the only one who can save George Washington from a secret assassination plot.

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Category 1
Action/Adventure; Thriller/Horror/Supernatural; Animation/Fantasy;
Mystery/Suspense; Science Fiction

 

Elite Prize Winner, Paul Moxham
AMERISTOCRACY — Crime Thriller
Logline: When a conspiracy theorist cop stumbles upon the secret society responsible for the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy, he becomes convinced that they now have the newly elected President squarely in their crosshairs.

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Diamond Prize Winner, George Nicholis
HOLMES — Crime Mystery
Logline: A young, street-wise African American man living in the slums of Brooklyn must solve crimes for cash in order to afford a bail bond for his imprisoned mother.

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Platinum Prize Winner, Silvio Nacucchi
FIFTY YEARS IN MAY War Action
Logline:
An US Army officer must fight his final battle against time to convince the Russians and save an honorable German officer unjustly sentenced to death for war crimes.

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Category 2
Drama

 

Elite Prize Winner, Chris Van Strander
25 — Drama
Logline:
25 is a satire about a group of friends, wrestling with the quarter life crisis, who embark on a series of radical quests to jump-start their dreams.

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Diamond Prize Winner, Mark Moon Molson
MEADOWLANDZ — Drama
Logline:
A troubled youth and his three friends spend the night looking for a safe place to take his estranged, incapacitated step-father - only to find the most dangerous place for any of them is with themselves.

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Platinum Prize Winner, Patrice Hamilton
GETTING EVEN — Drama
Logline:
To avenge her suicidal cousin, a headstrong young woman gets a cheating husband to fall in love with her then proceeds to break his heart, his family, and his career.

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Category 3
Comedy

 

Elite Prize Winner, Baldassaro Candella
ROY'S N THE HOOD
Logline:
Roy Astor's cushy boarding school life in Connecticut comes to an abrupt end when his dad is taken down in a Bernie Madoff-type financial scandal. Only 17 years old, Roy is forced to live with his estranged mom in inner-city Detroit.

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Diamond Prize Winner, Kathy C. King
HIP HOP DADDY
Logline:
An urban club promoter discovers he's a father and must learn to parent a newborn while competing for the biggest gig of his career and fighting for custody at the same time.

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Platinum Prize Winner, Jessica DiGiacinto
THE GREAT AMERICAN LOSER
Logline:
In an attempt to erase her nerdy past, a young woman becomes involved with the man who was both her teacher and tormentor in high school.

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