Red Inkworks Presents the Top 50 Finalists

A special page - set aside for those talented writers who have submitted the most entertaining stories in a screenplay format to Red Inkworks.  Logline, and contact information have been made available.

October 2007: Red Inkworks TOP FIFTY Competition Finalists 

In order of Excellence:

SERENA'S THUNDER by  Jean Hunter  
A girl's relationship with a horse named 'Thunder', helps her recover from an accident that killed her family and left her an amputee.  (Family Drama)

THE BOY FROM MULLAGHAMORE by  William P. Shaw
Mentored by his troubled coach, a lonely Irish teenager living in NYC becomes an elite runner and changes the lives of those around him.  (Action Drama)

VOICES by  Susan Klos
A single mother struggles to balance a business and a new romance with family life when her daughter's increasingly strange behaviour is diagnosed as schizophrenia.  Inspired by a true story. (Drama)

CLEAR TITLE by  Peter D. Fraser
A single mom, struggling with the lose of her job and home, jumps into the internet dating pool as she tries to prevent Indian tribal land from being swallowed up by her former employer, a mega-development company.  (Comedy)

THE KNUCKLEBALLER by  Michael L. Murphy
An obscure minor league baseball player overcomes his war injuries to lead Cleveland to a one-game play-off with Boston for the 1948 pennant.   ( Historical Sports Drama - based on the true story of Gene "Lefty" Bearden)

THE PLANE CRASH PORTION OF YOUR AMAZON  ADVENTURE by  Anita Jean Justice
Four egghead teens crash land in the Amazon and must rely on each other to survive angry natives, and a poacher who wants them dead.  (Action Family)

COMMITMENT by  Len and Ali Lippman 
Counseled by his three gay parents, a single bartender tries to deal with his daughter's emerging mental problems without sacrificing his first romantic relationship in years. (Quirky Love Story)

ALIAS BONN by  John Bain 
The story of legendary Anne Bonny,  from Charleston socialite to  notorious rebel pirate bent on re-capturing Nassau from the English.  (Historical Drama)

THE YULE GOAT by  Dave Jenkins
When a jaded American journalist gets a fluff assignment to cover the forty year tradition of vandals burning a giant straw Christmas goat in Sweden, he not only discovers the secret behind this odd act of arson, but love as well.  (Romantic Comedy) 

REAL by  Len and Ali Lippman 
An escaped mental patient who thinks he is a town sheriff, space pirate, secret agent, superhero is on an urgent rescue mission.  He lives in a time when the insanity defense has been abolished, and there are orders to shoot him on sight.  (Genre-Jumping Thriller)  If I had a category for most original - REAL would be number one.

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN by  B. David Peck  Logline to follow  (Drama)

THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER  by  Dianne Cameron
A 16-year-old bad girl tries to go straight, but when her boyfriend is killer and her family threatened, she must return to her former life and untangle a mystery or her loved ones will suffer the consequences.  (Mystery Drama)

ROOM 303 by  Tim O'Reilly  
 A man's wife is raped by two men as he is held at gunpoint in a NYC hotel. Three weeks later she commits suicide. With nothing to lose, and filled with guilt and rage, the man returns to NYC and teams up with a cop to hunt down the criminals.  (Action Drama)

THE NATIVITY SCENE by  Jeff Lewis   
What if the only person in a small town who can't see the miracle is the priest?  (Drama)

FILL IN THE BLANKS by  Barry Leach
After a car accident and a long coma, Joe suffers from amnesia. Can her remember and win back his girlfriend before she marries her current boyfriend? (Romantic Comedy)

HIDDEN PURPOSE by  Michael Farley 
A successful attorney embarks on a mission to prove his wife is an angel. In the process he discovers a secret far greater than he expected.  (Drama)

DEVIL'S LURE by  Marjory Kaptanoglu 
An opera singer's life takes on shades of his signature role - Mozart's "Don Giovanni" - when he returns home after many years to try and clear his lobsterman father's name in a murder case.  (Drama Thriller)

GRAINS OF TRUTH by  Lydia Christine Crichton 
When U.S. Intelligence manipulates a rigid pacifist into taking part in a covert mission to expose a terrorist plot in Egypt, her life is on the line and her heart torn between an Egyptologist and arms dealer until she learns that the world is not always black and white.  (Romantic Thriller)

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE by  Betty Ellington Smith 
To expose an injustice may lead to the destruction of the messenger. But some injustices are so great that the messenger has no choice. (Thriller)

HIDEAWAY by  D. B. Crawford 
A busy mother/executive’s life is abruptly altered by a cancer diagnosis. But her scheme to live in a remote hideaway rather than get medical treatment has flaws in its assessment of her reaction and of those around her -- until fate steps in. (Drama)

THE RAVEN'S TREASURE  by  Connie Tonsgard 
A land venture in Mexico turns into a life or death struggle and helps solve the mystery of the Raven's Treasure.  (Action Adventure)

CHAOS IN MOTION by  Orlanda M. Szabo  
A man is the target of chaos from writing retreat to movie set when his ex-sister-in-law decides he belongs to her.  (Romantic Comedy)

HITLER'S ENGLISH NEPHEW by  Brian Kaufman 
Berlin 1932. Hitler is on the verge of attaining power. But his English nephew holds the Fuhrer's life, and 20th century history, in his hands. (Historical Drama)

HAVE YOURSELF A SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS by  Alvin Easter 
Fifteen-year-old Robbie thinks he's all alone n a boy's school that is snowbound by a Christmas blizzard. Then he hears footsteps one night and realizes there is someone - or something else watching him.  (Psychological Thriller)

QUEEN FOR A DAY  by  Michelle Muldoon 
When a geek and his best friend crash a support group to pick up the therapist, they are unaware that everyone mistakes them for ex-lovers.  (Romantic Comedy)

THE GIFT by  Len and Ali Lippman  
As he investigates his partner's murder, a jaded cop suddenly finds himself with an ability that forces him to feel what everyone around him is feeling.  (Supernatural Cop Drama)

THROUGH DEADLY EYES by  Mitchell Klein
A psychic seeks revenge after her friends are murdered and she's forced to watch through the killer's eyes.  (Supernatural Thriller)

A DEATH IN CONCORD by Connie Tonsgard 
A wealthy young heiress' world turns upside down when she suspects her cheating husband had a hand in her daughter's fatal accident and her new love interest turns out to be her hired killer.  (Mystery Suspense)

ALONE by  Tracey Thomas 
A true, 1930's polar adventure taken from the memoirs of Admiral Richard Byrd, who went to the ends of the earth, and within an hour of death, before finding out why he's alive.  (Historical True Adventure)

INSIDE OUT by  Len and Ali Lippman 
A young ex-con fresh out of prison struggles with the temptation to take a stash of stolen money and falls for a pretty cash-strapped singer, unaware they are being hunted by the killer who stole it.  (Love Crime Drama)

A WINE CALLED BROTHER by  Aleta Niggeler 
In the high stakes world of winemaking, rival brothers batter each other for global recognition...and the heart of a beautiful woman.  (Romantic Drama)

THE PSYCHIC SOLUTION by  C.S. Torres 
In post-Katrina New Orleans, a shrink finds that a man who mixes dreams with reality puts the jazz back into her step.  (Dramatic Comedy)

THE MESSENGER by  Len and Ali Lippman 
When someone kills the King's messenger, only the royal fool will take his place. Spreading the word throughout the land and rallying the people will make him a hero, but only if he can do it without losing his head.  (Fantasy Adventure)

PLURALLY INCLINED by  Dianne Cameron 
A college student with multiple personalities must choose between the boy she loves and her family of alter egos.  (Drama/Romantic Comedy)

A SUSPICIOUS DEATH by  June Escalante  
With the last shovel of dirt on her husband's grave, Violet Jones thinks her troubles are behind her. But whoever said the past is dead and buried has never met Nola French.  (Mystery Drama)

AMERICAN RIDGE by  Carl B. Clark 
The trouble with getting older is you run out of things to look forward to unless you can make it to American Ridge.  (Drama)

A SMILE THROUGH TEARS by  Shawn Royce 
When Bryce Arena, a former CIA operative, and a group of covert specialists free Bryce's Thai-Burmese girlfriend and other political prisoners from a Burmese jail, they are shadowed by the Myanmar military, bent on destroying them before they reach Thailand. (Action Drama)

EXTREMELY YOURS by  Mike Christian and Mark Phillips 
Tom and Heather are perfect for each other, but only Tom knows it.  A crazy therapist has Tom bring Heather to his "Extreme Relationship Camp" designed to help each guy win over the heart of his unsuspecting "buddy."   (Comedy)

CORPORATE by Steven Barry Prince 
A man struggles to make the transition from corporate flunky to stand-up comic in a drama focusing on the tug of war between our reality and our dreams. ( Comedy)

HAT TRICK by  Robert Gately 
A heart-warming comedy that trails the misadventures of three aging men and their last hurrah: streaking down the field during the Super Bowl  (Dramedy)

AT THE CROSSROADS by Colleen A. Keogh 
A brave young woman on the run after shooting her husband sets off a chain reaction sending three unique women on a collision course with destiny.  (Drama Thriller)

ALGO POR MI by  Juan Sebastian Jacome  
A wayward young woman rediscovers her motherhood when illness forces her and her son to make a perilous and illegal journey from Ecuador to the United States in search of medical treatment.  (Drama)

WHITEWASH by  David G. Juhas 
A loner trapped in an urban world of deceit and murder must overcome his own psychotic tendencies to protect the ones he loves.  (Thriller Noir)

FERAL by  Wil Denson  Logline to follow  (Thriller)

SYMMETRY BREAKING by  Lisa A. Novick and Nicholas P. Warner 
A female physicist at the world's largest particle accelerator champions a radical new idea that threatens the status quo, leading to a series of mysterious deaths.  (Mystery Thriller)

T-BIRD by  Don Fredrick
A man-slaughter conviction from a drunk driving incident leaves a retired trucker afraid to get behind the wheel again.  (Drama)

HEROIN(E) by Ken Sandbank   Logline to follow

A BAD TIME FOR HEROES  by  Larry Roy Cochran 
Ordinary security guards risk their lives to thwart a terrorist plot, only to be defamed and threatened with ruin.   (Dramedy)

4TH DOWN by  John Conner 
A horse trainer who left a promising football career because of suffering survivor's guilt after a fatal car accident gets a second chance when he's invited to an NFL training camp in Houston.  (Sports Drama)

P.R.  by  Todd Luongo 
A PR executive is hired to help the White House admit the true existence of aliens.  (High Concept Satire)

Ranked according to excellence of story and entertainment value. Not all the scripts, in their current form, are entirely industry-compliant.

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