Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Top 3 Narrative Features
1st Place
I Hate Your Kids – Benjamin Fingerhut
A middle-aged school portrait photographer struggles to maintain his juvenile life after his best friend violates their pact and has a baby.
2nd Place
Cell Block 9 – Justin Powell
A parolee goes on the run to save his son from a deranged murderer that poses as a highway patrolman.
3rd Place
Last Waltz of Vienna – Brian Weakland
Based on a true story, a young chemist is drafted by Nazis to control the assets of Sigmund Freud after Hitler’s army overruns Austria in 1938. Tells the story of two men, political opposites, who leaned on each other to survive.
Top 3 Narrative Shorts
1st Place
Pamanhikan – Angelo Santos
Adhering to the Filipino pre-marriage tradition, Pamanhikan is a mockumentary about the first meeting between the parents of Brendan McDowell and Jun Hernandez, an interracial, same-sex couple engaged to be married in the state of New York.
2nd Place
Let Me Tell You – Christopher King
A candy salesman examines his life.
3rd Place
Red Flags – Sandra Bowes
When pregnant and battered Maya and her drunken, abusive partner’s car breaks down on an isolated country road fate reaches out to her through two unlikely heroes – an old woman and her paralyzed husband.
Narrative Feature Finalists (alphabetical order)
Title - Screenwriter(s)
Baker Street- Daniel Ginsberg
Cell Block 9- Justin Powell
I Hate Your Kids- Benjamin Fingerhut
Last Waltz of Vienna- Brian Weakland
The Good Fight- Steve Morris
Narrative Short Finalists (alphabetical order)
Title- Screenwriter(s)
LADY LESSONS- Snehal Patel
LET ME TELL YOU- Christopher King
PAMANHIKAN- Angelo Santos
RED FLAGS- Sandra Bowes
THE OBLATE- Beth Hoover, Gary Hoover
Narrative Feature Semi-Finalists (alphabetical order)
Title- Screenwriter(s)
Baker Street- Daniel Ginsberg
Betrayed- Alfred Thomas Catalfo
Cell Block 9- Justin Powell
Considerare- Philip Sedgwick
Fuck Facebook- Zeke Farrow
I Hate Your Kids- Benjamin Fingerhut
Last Waltz of Vienna- Brian Weakland
The Legend of Madog – Karen Kenyon
Ole- Jon Price & Jerry Rapp
Prion- Tom McCarron
Sir Guinevere- Dana Cowden
Stonesburrow- RJ Buckley
The Good Fight- Steve Morris
The High Mesa Colony- Thomas Pace
The Macau Omen- Tony Shyu
Narrative Short Semi-Finalists (alphabetical order)
Title- Screenwriter(s)
A MOTHER’S LOVE- Camille Mitchell
DISABLED PARKING- Alon Bar
FERMI’S BLACKBOARD- Donald Lorincz
GLORY HOLE- Kristen Alario
GROWING UP- Scott Semer
LADY LESSONS- Snehal Patel
LET ME TELL YOU- Christopher King
PAMANHIKAN- Angelo Santos
RED FLAGS- Sandra Bowes
THE BRAVEST,THE BOLDEST- Moon Molson
THE CHOCOLATE KANDINSKY- Suzanne Griffin
THE LABYRINTH OF SILENCE- Izabela Borowska
THE OBLATE- Beth Hoover and Gary Hoover
TO THE DETONATION- Scott Blake
TYRANNOSAURUS SEX- Ron Podell
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