2011 Feature and Short Screenplay Selections

Writer: Miriam Esther Goldman, Nathan Carliner Goldman
The Wicked Witch is back, and she is a threat to the Earth as well as to Oz. Archeologist ELLIOT CRAWFORD, sent to investigate the Ruins that suddenly appear in a Kansas corn field, cannot convince the authorities. He has only one ally -- GLINDA THE GOOD. And he finds himself falling in love with the Good Witch of the North.

Writer: L.E. Grabowski
A lovable loser gets equipped with a Life GPS, a device which provides him with directions on how to do anything he desires. However, he soon discovers that it has a fatal flaw and if it is marketed to the public, millions of people will lose the ability to make their own decisions.

Writer: Gregory Heitmann
Inspired by actual events, Chief Red Iron - The Lakota Uprising is the historical fiction account of the 1862 Santee Sioux Revolt, and how Chief Red Iron with his family strived for a peaceful coexistence.

Writer: David Schroeder
Gabriel Matthews, a twenty-year old athlete/scholar recovering from a paralyzing injury, reluctantly takes a summer job as a live-in supervisor in a halfway house for the mentally challenged.

Writer: Robert James
Belle Starr was probably the first female outlaw to achieve national acclaim. It is speculated that by the age of 22, she had participated in a dozen hold-ups and possibly eight murders. She had one child, Pearl, widely considered to be Cole Younger's daughter.

Writer: David Allingham
A wedding photographer stumbles upon a camera that takes pictures of the human soul.

Writer: Frank Weyer
New M.I.T. graduate student Mike Werner discovers an old lumberjack ax head buried in the Charles River while doing research. As an escape from his constant studying, Mike tries to connect the ax head to a series of murders that occurred twenty years earlier. As he struggles to get through the semester, unbeknown to Mike, his stirring around in the past puts fellow graduate student Kristin in mortal danger.

Writer: Todd Gordon & Lee Chambers
A likeable teen stumbles into the aftermath of a bank robbery gone wrong and finds himself locked inside his high school trying to keep himself and his teacher alive as one of the psychotic robbers hunts them down.

Writer: Matt Brennan, Christine Grisanti
It's kind of like 'The Goonies', but with old people. Richard Fox is a retired magician. He spends most days in his tranquil retirement community helping some of the older folks. But while looking into the vandalism done to his neighbor's garden gnomes, he stumbles upon a plot to break into the museum next door. Soon Richard and his posse of elderly busybodies are exploring the caves under the Rec Center and outwitting the bad guys. Filled with mine shafts, musical numbers and old people having sex.

Writer: D.H. Martin
An earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area opens a time portal in the Berkeley Hills, and three eleven-year-olds travel more than a hundred years back in time. When they return, they are followed by the incorrigible 'Emperor Norton' of old San Francisco.

Writer: F.J. Lennon
April 27, 1865, the greatest maritime disaster in our nation's history occurs. Thousands of Union soldiers, released prisoners of war from Castle Morgan in

Cahaba, Alabama meet a horrifying death on the mighty Mississippi. The sinking of the riverboat Sultana is one of the most over-looked tragedies in history, until now.

Writer: Laura-Ashley Foster
The brothers of Kappa Omega's UCLA chapter are up to their usual mayhem. But, when Ty Stevens' fraternity antics cost him his longtime girlfriend, Miranda, her friends join forces to teach the boys a lesson. Simply put, they've found their perfect guy, and they're not willing to settle for anything less. The only problem is, the guy in question is a fictional character from a popular romance saga! So how do you compete with someone who doesn't really exist? The Kappa brothers think they may have just the answer.

Writer: David Allingham
Two ex-Marines face seven Chechen terrorists at their first job out of jail.

Writer: Abraham Frank
Paris and Julia are a young couple in love. When he tries to push their relationship into the world of forever, however, Julia resists, hinting at a secret past and a former lover now dead. Paris persists. One night, driving home from a party, the topic of marriage sparking an argument between them, the lovers die in a car crash. But luckily for our heroes, there is life after death. Paris wakes to find himself in heaven, a place where all humanity is taken to have a second chance, an opportunity to right mistakes and fulfill fantasies. Paris races to find Julia, only to discover that she has decided to spend her eternity with Albert, who has been waiting in the afterlife for Julia's arrival. Alone in paradise, Paris is left to wander in the shadows of heaven, mingling with the other lost souls, seeking out new meanings for his life, and falling prey to the local narcotic scene, a virtual-reality style experience that allows him to reenter his past memories. To find release, he will need to learn that it is better to be sad in reality than happy in illusion.

Writer: Jason Bickings
An artist faces the turbulence of his past to find the inspiration he lost long ago.

Writer: Frank Morris
'The Elves and the Poomaker' is a quirky comedy with a magical twist. It tells the story of Samuel Twinkle, a lonely office cleaner whose life has passed him by. He is in love with fellow cleaner Rosa Bonita, and is working up the courage to approach her for the first time. The problem is Samuel's boss Jeff Cortina: Cortina is a bully and always seems to find some way of scuppering Samuel's advances. All the time, a magical force is watching Cortina's treatment of Samuel, and just when it seems like Cortina is winning, help arrives. This brings Rosa and Samuel together, but they have one last battle to win before they can be together.

Writer: Tyler Ham Pong
A salesman and his partner grift their way across America, while raising trouble with the law, women, and common decency. With Southern charm, and a hint of the mythical American Dream, these good ‘ol boys scour the land for the chance at a new life.

Writer: Drew Hall
Lightning In The Bottle is a satirical science fiction docu-narrative that captures the fantastical conjunction of science and nature in which a lowly strikehand is catapulted to upper management above the clouds.

Writer: Ben Hein
A dramatic short script that deals with race, self-empowerment, and with the struggle to do what is morally right. At a time when segregation was still predominant in society, a white door-to-door sales man makes his usual drive back home through Morristown Tennessee. Only to find himself compelled to stop when he sees a poor black girl jumping rope by the side of the road. This is a heart wrenching story of one man's inner battle of “head versus heart”.

Writer: Katarzyna Kochany
A satire about the perils of romance in a world of language barriers. Eliza doesn't mean to stereotype, but she can attract any dream date, from French romantic to Italian stallion. Trouble is, she can't understand a word they say...