The Winners
of the Feature Screenplay category:
Hat
Trick
screenplay by Robert
Gately
Three older men fight impotency,
bladder problems, death and 100 security guards at the Super Bowl
as they follow a friend's fantasy. While taking the journey,
they show through their passion for living that growing old can be
the most exciting time of our lives.
East
Paris
screenplay by Margaret
Broucek
A Boston FBI agent with
a bad track record at work and love is sent to rural Maine to solve
the mystery of a missing girl. When her search for evidence
and a new relationship lead nowhere, she must find a way to break
the patterns in her life. (Ms. Broucek is also a filmmaker
with a film in competition entitled Beauty Parlor Census.)
Imperfectly
screenplay by Barbara
M. Wilson Arboleda
A brain-injured
young woman struggles to regain her independence and self-confidence
in spite of her brother's well-intentioned over-protection.
She finds both inner strength and love as she journeys beyond the
sheltered world to which she has become accustomed.