Canadian Script Competition Trims Top 50 to Top 25 Screenplays in Contest
Online, April 23, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The list of semis contains the top 25 short film scripts as selected by the judges from the previously announced Top 50 scripts in competition from all 2009 CSSC entries.
The finalist top 13 scripts will be announced April 29, 2010, exactly one month prior to the top screenplay and its author to be announced and honoured during the Golden Sheaf Awards gala at the Yorkton Film Festival, May 29, 2010 in Yorkton, SK.
The 2009 CSSC semi-finalists (in no particular order) are:
"Hostage", Scott Sullivan USA
"Like Magic", Judy Vann USA
"Minus Lara", Surita Parmar CAN
"The East Room", Richard Knight CAN
"Sparkly Pink", Julie Keck USA
"Nicoel", Daniel Audet CAN
"Trap Wax and Sumac Berries", Kathy Para CAN
"Just a Push", Sarah Irvine CAN
"Publish and Perish", Mark Whitteveen USA
"Paul", Chris Amundson USA
"On Apollo 11", Nick Andert USA
"Snow", Kathy-Ann Thomas CAN
"The Conductor's Escort", Carolynne Ciceri CAN
"Something Pointless", Neil Graham UK
"Writer's Block", Sam Patterson CAN
"Cheat 'Em Fair", Carey Westbrook USA
"Those Forgotten", Evan Jobb CAN
"Secrets", Tim Anderson USA
"The Kicker", Jag Dhadli CAN
"Ten Year's Hard Time", Michael MacDonald USA
"Changing Times", Lee Riley CAN
"Earwig & Santa Claus", Michael Miller JPN
"Stalker: A Love Story", Pamela Nash USA
"Ashes to Anthrax", Cat Stewart USA
"Shakespeare's Brain", Allison McWood CAN