20/20 Screenwriting Contest
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Featured in upcoming April/June 2010 Script magazine. The greatest race in Olympic history retold as Cuban mailman Felix Carvajal runs the 1904 Olympic Marathon remembering his 1200 mile super-run up the Mississippi River to battle the world's best marathoners attacking him with racism, cheating, and drugs, to become the champion for all small national athletes who dare to dream of victory.
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(Posted: 07/03/2005; Updated: 04/07/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The true story of Dick Bong, a rookie WWII pilot who makes a brazen bet to beat the kill record of America's top-scoring Ace.
But as the deadly competition spirals out of control, he is forced to confront the bitter realities of war and what it means to be a real hero.
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(Posted: 03/27/2008; Updated: 08/23/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A teenager must choose between taking a one-time chance to escape his oppressive family and impoverished town, or staying forever to protect his younger brother.
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(Posted: ; Updated: 04/12/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A powerful, charismatic coal mine owner becomes obsessed with the local schoolteacher, and plots to kill her husband in a deliberate mine disaster.
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(Posted: 06/30/2005; Updated: 11/07/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Kidnapped and condemned to a Bangkok brothel, an American girl falls in love with her mysterious rescuer, only to discover he was the drug lord responsible for her kidnapping.
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(Posted: 03/01/2009; Updated: 06/28/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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In the not-too-distant future, a young intern discovers a government conspiracy regarding a worldwide epidemic, and must race against time to find a cure, inform the public, and protect his wife and unborn child from a sadistic and omnipresent government security organization.
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(Posted: 05/06/2010; Updated: 05/06/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A land venture in Mexico turns into a life or death struggle and helps solve the mystery of the "Raven's Treasure".
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(Posted: 11/27/2005; Updated: 07/28/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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What happens when a naive divorcee and her son land on the set of the world's biggest box office star? Stagemom happens.
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(Posted: 02/20/2004; Updated: 05/20/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A womanizer who is concerned about self-preservation learns to commit to his comrades and inadvertently becomes a hero through his love for a Vietnamese woman.
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(Posted: 08/31/2006; Updated: 08/19/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Logline: In 1888 France, an asylum warden accepts Vincent Van Gogh into his care and learns, through their difficult friendship, to see beyond the confines of his own tragic life.
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(Posted: 02/14/2005; Updated: 05/21/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An underwater salvage expert attempts to reconcile with his archeologist ex-wife during a whirlwind adventure that takes them in search of the most valuable treasure of all - their kidnapped daughter.
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(Posted: 07/13/2009; Updated: 07/30/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A U.S. Army interrogator in Afghanistan uncovers details of an al-Qaeda plot to detonate a nuclear device in Washington, DC during the President's State of the Union Address. But, in the process of interrogation, SHE bonds with her prisoner and fights to save him from the death sentence brought on by his own disclosures
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(Posted: 08/11/2003; Updated: 05/24/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Against all odds, the first female quarterback drafted into the NFL battles prejudices and personal tragedy as she attempts to lead her longtime losing team in the quest for a playoff berth.
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(Posted: 01/15/2006; Updated: 07/26/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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In 1890 a young Hawaiian sailor buys a hellish bottle that grants wishes. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, the hero finds wealth, love, despair, and a scroching countdown to his worst nightmare.
Tagline: "A penny for your soul?"
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(Posted: 06/10/2010; Updated: 08/24/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An opium addict living in the violent, slum streets of 1880's London is no ordinary homeless man -- his poetry has the power to transform lives. Inspired by the true story of British poet Francis Thompson.
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(Posted: 09/25/2005; Updated: 06/18/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When a territorial marshal who does not believe in killing, guns down the outlaw that raped and murdered his wife and can't remember the act, he must face the truth about his actions before he can save his son and town.
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(Posted: 12/27/2009; Updated: 07/27/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A giant sinkhole swallows a West Texas oil field. A folksy geologist is rush to the scene. Horrifying apparitions appear, and a minister's daughters are abducted by 'devils' from the hole who slaughter all in their way before disappearing with them back into the hole. The geologist leads a rag-tag team of volunteers to rescue them.
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(Posted: 08/22/2010; Updated: 08/24/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Framed for murder in Chinese-occupied Tibet, a troubled American thief flees from the Chinese Army, discovers secrets to his past life as a Tibetan monk, and learns to see the world in a new way.
"This movie celebrates the connectedness and continuity of life and spirit."
'Land of Snows' was formerly called 'Ascension.'
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(Posted: 04/13/2006; Updated: 06/24/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An Avon man must avoid being shot, blown up and thrown off a Hawaiian mountain pass to prove his innocence in the murder of a local crime boss, while pursuing a budding romance.
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(Posted: 08/31/2006; Updated: 01/30/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A man who escapes death as a child is tormented by a shadow figure which seeks to take over his soul.
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(Posted: 09/25/2009; Updated: 09/25/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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