Film Premise & Screenplay Contest
TITLE: A Gray Shadow
WRITER: Laura Kirk
PREMISE: The true story of Australian diving champion Rodney Fox, who after surviving one of the most horrific great white shark attacks in history overcame his debilitating fear of the ocean (while enduring more terrifying shark encounters) to emerge as the leading expert on great whites and creator of the shark cage.
Originally posted 2019-09-02 07:59:44.
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The longtime assistant of a famous singer must navigate the rocky waters of the LA music scene to make her dreams of producing music a reality.
Agency: United Talent Agency
Agents: Anna Flickinger, Bill Zotti
Financier: Universal Pictures
Producers: Working Title
Originally posted 2019-10-10 15:46:45.
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TITLE: The Deuce Four
PREMISE: Vampires attack the 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army during the Battle of Mosul in 2004. Units from the 24th known as “Deuce Four” fight vampire insurgents in the vicinity of the Yarmuk traffic circle, in the heart of western Mosul.
GENRE: Horror action, Military drama, War
TIME: 2004
SETTING: Mosul, Itaq
MARKET: USA, International
WRITER: Alan Nafzger
CONTACT: alan.nafzger@gmail.com
COPYRIGHT: 2015
OTHER INFORMATION: It is a complete and ready to shot screenplay.
Originally posted 2019-08-20 09:28:36.
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TITLE: The Fox
WRITER: Kevin Leahy
PREMISE: In 1960’s Chicagoland, an idealistic teacher leads a secret life as a notorious eco-saboteur. Based on a true story.
CONTACT: Kevin Leahy
Originally posted 2019-02-09 14:06:51.
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TITLE: The Puppy Mill
PREMISE: A professor and dog breeder is harassed by a corrupt animal rights group. He fights back with disastrous results.
GENRE: Crime drama
TIME: Contemporary
SETTING: Lubbock and Amarillo, Texas
MARKET: USA, International
WRITER: Alan Nafzger
CONTACT: alan.nafzger@gmail.com
COPYRIGHT: 2015
OTHER INFORMATION: This is a compete and ready to shot screenplay.
LOGLINE: A White professor has a run-in with the law and is assisted by his African-American student.
CHARACTERS: Professor Kyle Brugha, student Rashard Pageotte and an animal control officer.
Originally posted 2019-08-26 11:48:59.
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TITLE: Unsolicited Material
PREMISE: Writers and screenwriters have encountered this roadblock of a phrase many times before: “no unsolicited material” but when a wily and eccentric old African American screenwriter discovers a new Hispanic talent he is no longer willing to tolerate Hollywood’s closed doors. An improbable team maneuver to pitch a movie to a Hollywood heavy.
GENRE: Drama, Hollywood drama
TIME: Contemporary
SETTING: Contemporary
MARKET: USA, International
WRITER: Alan Nafzger
CONTACT: alan.nafzger@gmail.com
COPYRIGHT: 2015
OTHER INFORMATION: This is a compete and ready to shot screenplay.
A character driven “Hollywood” story.
Logline: An improbable writing team, an eccentric African American man and a teen Hispanic male, get a chance to pitch a movie to a Hollywood heavy.
Characters: Joseph de la Cosa (81) holds a grudge against the Hollywood establishment. Juan Rodriguez (19) is a tire repair specialist who listens to everything Joseph says.
Joseph Jefferson
· Internal Conflict – disgruntled and jaded writer fights to conceal this from his young mentee.
· External Conflict – failed screenwriter vs. the big studios.
Juan Rodriguez
· Internal Conflict – debates use of the emulation method vs. produce unique scenes.
· External Conflict – young nearly illiterate teen vs. the film industry.
Macro Conflict: East Los Angeles vs. Century City
Micro Conflict: Minority screenwriters vs. Film Industry Executives
Morgan Freeman? Playing the role of Joseph Jefferson can make an actor legendary. He is a very jaded screenwriter. However, he is fighting an internal struggle to keep his young friend from this same fate. Primarily the character of Juan Rodriguez is that of an impressionable young man.
Film Goals: Layers of fun and inside jokes about screenwriting make this story great fun for writers. But it also has a serious side, a story about trying to make a movie true to life turning into a life that mirrors movies, a kind of philosophical joke. My goal in writing this film is to make it more complex than a single viewing reveals.
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Originally posted 2019-08-28 12:25:58.
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TITLE: The Camel Knows The Way
WRITER: Matthew Riopelle
PREMISE: The true story of Lorna Kelly, the first Female Auctioneer at Sotheby’s, who at the top of her career throws away a brilliant future in the art world and heads off to Calcutta to work with Mother Teresa and the Sisters of Charity. Lorna Kelly was a larger than life Brit with a razor wit sharp and radical red nails. Mother Teresa dubbed her “The Queen of Calcutta.” What happens to her in India — changes everything she knows about herself, the world around her and her sense of purpose in it. It is a story about identity and the gifts that come from losing one’s faith and finding it in the most unexpected places. The New York Times took out this one page obituary on her.
CONTACT: Matthew Riopelle
Originally posted 2019-02-01 13:20:35.
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TITLE: The Christmas Three
WRITER: Brantley Aufill
PREMISE: The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future are busier every year, carol-ing hundreds of people who’ve forgotten the spirit of Christmas. But when Past sees himself as a young boy in someone else’s carol, the three Ghosts begin to question who they are and how they got there – even if it means Christmas won’t happen.
CONTACT: Paradigm. Valarie Phillips
Originally posted 2019-01-19 10:02:19.
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A satirical take on the unbelievable but true story of how the NRA changed overnight from an apolitical gun safety and marksmanship club into the most powerful and unhinged lobbying group in Washington, DC.
Agency: WME Entertainment
Agents: Cj Fight, David Lubliner
Management: The Radmin Company
Managers: Linne Radmin
Producers: Star Thrower Entertainment, Linne Radmin
Originally posted 2019-09-22 12:36:00.
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TITLE: Rumors
PREMISE: A wrongly accused man meets his executioners. In the Eastern mountains of Afghanistan, a condemned, Fahran, insists that he’s innocent of collaborating with the Americans, and faces the task of convincing the Taliban that he’s innocent.
GENRE: Drama, War drama
TIME: 2002
SETTING: Easter frontier of the Afghanistan
MARKET: USA, International
WRITER: Alan Nafzger
CONTACT: alan.nafzger@gmail.com
COPYRIGHT: 2017
OTHER INFORMATION: This is a compete and ready to shot screenplay.
Originally posted 2019-08-26 11:44:25.
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