CONGRATULATIONS to our 2007 Screenplay Winners

Outside Arizona Category:

First Place:

MIGRATION
Written by Broderick Fox

Synopsis: Rob Cruz, a young progressive Arizona radio host, believes in social action and justice, not prayer. He is also a ‘pocho’(looks Hispanic but can’t speak Spanish). So when his lover is killed in a hate crime, he finds himself with nothing left to hold onto and embarks on a road trip to Mexico in search of God.

Second Place:

GIDEON’S SECRET
Written by David Ullendorff

Synopsis: A brilliant physicist, discredited for insisting that he’s invented a perpetual motion machine, redeems himself by teaming up with an idealistic toy maker that believes in the machine and its power to heal his son.

Third Place:

SAVING BABY NEW YEAR
Written by Roger Tessier

Synopsis: One week before his retirement, a very human Father Time must struggle to get a totally uncooperative and accidentally adult New Year’s Baby prepared to take over on Jan 1st or time will stop forever.

Inside Arizona Category

First Place:

A NOT SO SIMPLE PLAN
Written by Paul Magid

Synopsis: A rich lovable loser decides that his last chance for happiness in life is to kill himself so that he can be reincarnated as his own perfect grandson.

Second Place:

APOCALYPSE PARK
Written by Joseph Schorr

Synopsis: An absurdly remote town in rural Arizona is teetering on the brink of financial collapse when one of its leading citizens hatches an unlikely plan to revive the area’s flagging economy by building a theme park based on the Bible book of the Apocalypse. The outlandish project comes under the scrutiny of Preston Chase, an ambitious big-city reporter who accepts an assignment to run the town’s dysfunctional newspaper in order to avoid a layoff – and who ends up uncovering the biggest story of his career.

Third Place:

LITTLE AMERICA
Written by John Antonelli, H. Edgar Jenkins and Gunard Solberg.

Synopsis: When Sonny Bertucci, an aspiring major league baseball player, drives to a spring training camp in Arizona, he hits Tom Yazzi, a Navajo horse wrangler, with his father’s ’67 Mustang and ends up traveling across the desert with the Indian and learning about a world that he never dreamed existed.