StoryPros Awards Contest Winners Circle

Grand Prize Winner
PURSUIT by Tobias Iaconis & Mikki Daughtry (CONTACT)
A corrupt TV producer lures the L.A.P.D. into a televised chase with the world's best rally-car driver, as a cover for a spectacular heist.

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1st Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
BANKING ON BETTY by Geno Scala (CONTACT)
An ex-con stunt driver must drive a witness, the Godfather�s 80 year-old mother, cross country — dodging bullets, corrupt cops, and one very scorned lover!

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1st Place - Comedy
HAMMERHEADS by Laurence Newnam (CONTACT)
It�s 1987 and the height of the New Age movement when a crew of Virginia redneck carpenters sign on to build a Healing Center for a group of Goddess Women healers. That should go well.

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1st Place - Drama
THE PEOPLE V. GOD by Paul Undari (CONTACT)
A lawyer defends a young girl charged with murdering her parents, but she claims she didn't kill her parents — God did! What if she's telling the truth?

1st Place - Family/Teen/Animation
THE WILD HELICOPTERS OF THE OUTBACK by Katrina Nicholson (CONTACT)
Flocks of pesky, artificially intelligent wild helicopters are a plague on Australia�s floating wind farms — always stealing their hard earned electricity — so when a young jillaroo turned aerospace engineer adopts one as a pet, she defies family, convention, and her own upbringing.

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1st Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
CRATER by Luke Pimentel (CONTACT)
A prison on a remote moon comes under attack — fueled by highly personal motivations, the prison's warden teams with an unusual convict to battle the threat.

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2nd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
ACTION FIGURES by John Crews (CONTACT)
When the world's most famous Superhero is killed by a mysterious new villain, his son sets out to catch the killer, but the only one willing to help him is his father's retired Arch-Nemesis.

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2nd Place - Comedy
JOBBER by Drew Mackintosh (CONTACT)
A talented but anonymous journeyman pro wrestler accustomed to playing the role of set-up man must overcome his fear of the spotlight when he suddenly becomes champion after snapping and pinning the champ during what was supposed to be a routine title defense.

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2nd Place - Drama
DIAMOND EXPRESS by Kyle Curry (CONTACT)
In the wake of a bloodbath, a medical family folds its upscale Hollywood narco-empire� and soon realizes the perils of clean living.

2nd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
JULIE CALCANKEROUS by Ian McWethy (CONTACT)
A magical, smart-ass babysitter helps an awkward 12-year-old navigate the perils of middle school.

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2nd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
NEW AVALON by Joe Weber (CONTACT)
An unstable young neuroscientist joins forces with the US Army to defeat her estranged father, whose technological rampage threatens to subvert the very foundations of humanity.

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3rd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
UNDERWAY by Michael Estes (CONTACT)
The Commanding Officer of a U.S. Aircraft Carrier steals his own carrier and seeks to destroy N. Korea to avenge his wife's death.

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3rd Place - Comedy
GOING POSTAL by Patrick Connelly (CONTACT)
A devoted mailman is laid off due to postal service cutbacks and takes desperate measures to prove that he and the mail still matter.

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3rd Place - Drama
PASSAIC by Michael Klausner (CONTACT)
A son stumbles onto a forty year-old unsolved murder case his estranged father wrote about as an investigative journalist � a story the son never knew about but now struggles to uncover.

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3rd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
FISH STICKS by Stephen Buck (CONTACT)
A comedic fantasy of �Jonah and the Whale� where Jonah, a self absorbed real estate tycoon, is swallowed by an eight-mile-long whale with an entire civilization living inside who are free of corruption � at least they are until Jonah learns he has 40 days and 40 nights to escape.

3rd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
LOVE THE MONSTER by Ross Raffin (CONTACT)
A kidnapped teen loses his free will to the manipulations of his sadistic, female captor.

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