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The 2005 Work-in-Progress
Screen Writing Competition
WINNERS
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Awards will be given after the
Staged Reading on Wedneday,
August 3 at 7 PM |
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Each year, Wood Hole Film Festival, in association with the Harvard Square Script Writers and Yankee Classic Pictures, reviews submitted screenplays seeking excellence in up-and-coming screenwriter's new works. The judging is done by local screenwriters, directors, and development specialists. The competition includes three categories:
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Category 1. Drama and Comedy. The open category. Scripts between 75 and 120 pages.
Category 2. Science Drama and Science Fiction. Stories which "expand the audience's knowledge of science or technology, point out social or cultural elements of science and technology, or further the recording of science history." Scripts between 55 and 120 pages. This is not an escapist horror or monster category. Examples of films in this category might be "Madame Curie," "Charley," and "Andromeda Strain."
Category 3. Short Film Drama or Comedy. Scripts of less than 30 pages which involve filming with live actors in dialogue situations.
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The 2005 competition was our finest and most challenging to date. The judges had trouble not passing along the many excellent screenplays, forcing the final round to include ten finalists (we ususally expect six or less). As a result, for 2005, the Category 1 screenplays were divided into two categories: Comedy and Drama/Romance.
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CATEGORY 1:
The finalists for Category 1 are:
Sea Fever by Richard Guimond (Tiverton, Rhode Island)
The Paper Route by by Danny M Howell (McLean, Virginia)
The Terrible Tabloid by Ross Bengel (Los Angeles, California)
The Gunner's Daughter by Michael Misiolek (Dartmouth, Massachusetts)
3 Grace Lane by Miles J. Kimball (Paxton, Maine)
About Perry by Eric G. Woodbury (Belmont, Massachusetts)
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CATEGORY 1 - COMEDY:
 FIRST PLACE: Plainville, Vermont
by Jon Seamans of Hyde Park, Massachusetts
A New Haven scam artist retreats to his grandmother's Vermont home and tries to con the locals. After installing a stolen traffic light, he is elected mayor. The clock is ticking as he attempts to expose the corrupt ex-mayor who is trying to oust him after uncovering his sordid past.
Plainville, Vermont has been chosen for this year's screenplay reading, which takes place during the Festival.
 WHFF
gang -
Thanks for everything, I had a blast at Woods Hole and made some great contacts and many new friends. I just wish I could have seen more screenings. FYI my script just made it into the semi-finals of
Scriptapalooza!
Jon Seamans
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 SECOND PLACE: Sending Sam
by Sherman Kew of West Hollywood, California
Sam, a decesased geriatric leaves plans for his four best friends - estranged for 50 years - to drive his body to Canada and pitch it over Niagara Falls. The friends find more than fist fights and Canadian strippers: each finds a new lease on life as past friendships are remade.
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CATEGORY 1 - DRAMA/ROMANCE
 FIRST PLACE: PETER'S SONG
by Kevin Carey and Ed Boyle of Beverly, Massachusetts
Brought together unexpectedly, a divorced fisherman and his mute son struggle to find a relationship when the discovery of an extraordinary gift brings them together.
 SECOND PLACE: ABBOTT
by Stephen Starosta of New York City, New York
adapted from the novel "Oblomov" by Ivan Goncharov
In turn of the century New York, Abbott Coons the fifth, a diletantish bachelor, won't get out of his bed. He's not only completely bored with his life but he's also horribly depressed about the possiblity he may have to file for bankruptcy. When he meets the young Henrietta Whitman, one of NY's most desirable heiresses, Abbott jumps to turn his life around. That summer, Abbott faces his biggest challenge ever... himself!
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CATEGORY 2 - SCIENCE SCREENPLAY:
 FIRST PLACE: THE CASSINI EFFECT
by Charles Hall of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
When a rogue asteroid strikes the moon, a team of scientists is dispatched aboard a high-tech orbiter to study the impact crater only to discover that their benign mission will destroy mankind.
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CATEGORY 3 - SHORT SCREENPLAYS:
 FIRST PLACE: MENTOR
by Eric Gaunaurd of Miami, Florida
A man devises a scheme to blackmail and replace the president of a company to gain the ultimate power in the organization while seeking revenge against this mentor who happens to be his father.
 SECOND PLACE: THE CAT AND I
by Jean-Paul DiSciscio of Waltham, Massachusetts
This is the story of Tom, and his relationship with an alley cat, as they struggle to find meaning in their insignificant lives.
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