Past Great Lakes Film Festival

Scriptwriting Competition Winners

 

 

 

2010

 

Winner  

 

Never Say Never -

   

Runners-up

 

All in One
Baker's Dozen

Changes
Cuba Libre
Little Girl Blue

Oh No Zombies
Oil Card Cartier Heist
Scarred
Sometimes More is Less

State of Affairs
The Diner
The Embalmer's Apprentice
The Last One
The Patsy
The Walls Have Eyes
Through Laura's Eyes
Too Real To Be True
Wasted
You Wanted to Quit
 

 

 

2009

 

Winner  

 

Hands of Gold - Glenn Booth  

   

Runners-up

 

This is Your Captain - Heather Langone & J. Ardalan


The Singing Tree - Marilyn Pesola & Peter Moss


Confession of Lizzie Borden - Jeff York


Number Eight - Jason Tucker


Stand Up and Die - Dominic Pereira


Two by Two - Chad Rogers


Boo's Birthday - Jorge Ponce


Notches - Michael Justice & E.J. Scalzi


Strange Loop - Nesij Beg


Mowood - Dave Eisenstark


Conflicted - Kimberly Sanders


Baker's Dozen - Julie Keck


Discs - Norman Toy


The Grave Diggers - Colin Fox


MILF - Jeremy Johnson


For the Love of Ryan - Margaret Vazquez


Dead Man's Hand - Ronald L. Ecker


The Bet - Shaun Murphy


The Wind Whispers Mary - R Carter Gray


33 And a Third Xmases - Clark McMillian Jr


In the Blood - Pamela Stovall


All the Fish in the Sea - Cheryl Lewis


Coffee Circumstantial - David Scott


Gaelic and Garlic - Nick Pullia


Sweet Dreams - Linda Thompson

 

 

2008  

 

Winner 

 

The Lost Season - Julian Mendez

 

Runners-up 

 

The Decisions of Doctor Faustus - Dav Freeman

 

Garbo Returns - Kristof Bathory

 

Annabelle and Me - Bradd Hopkins

 

The Cell Phone – Raymond Czerwinski Disqualified

 

Potential Inertia – Matt Croyle

 

Faces Unknown - Robert B. Jacobs

 

Singer's Prime - Pat Rushin

 

Dressed in a Black Flag - Mark Winzer

 

Project Lucy - Scott Ludden

 

A Beautiful Belly - Andrew Kenneth Gay

 

Voices - Susan Klos

 

Farm Team - Megan Breen and Brendan Leigh

 

The Vampire Rose - Jack R. Stanley

 

The Legendary Charlie Lapham - Michael Scalere

 

For My Best Friend - Leigh Ann E. Bell

 

Hatemonger - Jason Cutcher 

 

Hank - Philip Travis 

 

ReFry -  Chad Jones


Streeterville: The legend of Cap Streeter -  Gretchen Potts

 

 

2007

 

Winner

Night Tremors - Thomas Lewis

Runners-up

The Projectionist - Corey Borenstein & Katherine Wutz

FIFTEEN MINUTES: SnoKoneOMatik 3000- Nancy Lacher

Marrying Mom - Susan Kahlich 

Dressed in a Black Flag - Mark Winzer 

The Swimmer Manuscript - Joseph Kenny

Deception - Carlos Perez

Mind Game - John Hays

Cabbie - Diana Kemp-Jones 

Even Unicorns Need to Breathe - Leah Meyerhoff

Living in Limbo - Michael Amato 

Freitags Triangle - Patrick Bates

R & R - Jean-François Chénier 

Getting In - Mara Lesemann 

Anodyne - Michael Deschamps 

William's Christening - Joshua Hume 

Trevor Waits - Richard Herstek 

Scurvy Dogs - Dan Livingston

 

 

2006

 

Winner

 

Portrait of a Klansman - Bill Wellborn

 

Runners-up

 

Jerry’s Pub - Matt Croyle

Alone in the Crowd - Alan Baxter

A Will, Lacking a Way - Shawn Bronson

Ed’s Dead (and he’s hitchhiking home) - Patrick Bates

The Red Bikini - Elizabeth Grant

The Gap - Roman Beilharz

A Taste for Blood - Victor Phan

Mister Fuzzy’s Family - Mike Sherer

Entering Out - Michael Engel

The Swing - Corrine Crane

Voices - Susan Klos

Outer Banks - Mary Carroll-Hackett

The Only Living Man With a Hole in His Head - Todd Pliss 

St Brendan’s - Sarah Geerling

 


2005


Winner

Superior - Katrina L Coombs & Suesan V Wescott

Runners-up

Smart Enough - Len Poggiali

Santa Claus Goes to Pirate Island - Patrick Bates

Geist - Nathan Ross Freeman

When you least expect it! - Marco Kujovic

The Messiah - Fernando Villalba

Mother & Me - Richard Deutsch

 

 

2004

 

Winner

 

Legs  - David D. DeBord & Kristi K. Sutton


Runners-up


Rescue Alpha - Phil Marley

Walk - Jono Rosenberg and Mike Vincenti 

Who's Beside You Now - Chuck Loch

Out of the Blue - Joseph Maxwell 

Insurrection  - Margaret L. Langendorf & Mary King

Angles of Regard - Thomas Mogle

Mackinac - Bruce Dundore 

Higher Desires - Michale A.Greif

Local Boys - Tom Lavagnino

Story of Beth - Rock Shaink JR.

Thomas Paine - Hans Petersen

No Success Like Failure - Stephanie Robey

American Dresser - Carmine Cangialosi
 

 

2003

 

Winner

 

Resurrection - Eric Lowe 

Runners-up


Honor Among Thieves - Bill Balas

 

Intolerable Circumstances - Matt Duffen


It Is & It Isn't - Michael Levin


The Perception Adventure - Kurt Campbell


The Greater Evil - Richard Herstek

Not Necessarily Non-Committal - Tom Neale & Chris Chamides
 

Heaven's Rage - Michael Alan

Untitled Girl Guide Cookie Thriller - Alana Garrop
 

Lawn Man - Todd Slamowitz

Serpent in Paradise - Leo W. Sears

Rabbit Dreams - Diane Baregas

The Leopard Moth - Christina Szombathy

Ghost of the Crossroads - Michael Spohr

Fuzzy & the Mouse - Pat Hunt

Average Guy - Shawn D. Casey

 

 

2002  

 

Winner

 

Venus 104 - Ellen Maguire

 

Runners-up

Gendercide - Kris Hall 

Intrepid Shadows - Robert O'Connell

Journal of an Ex-Smoker - Claresa J. Mandola

The Fields of Athenry - Mike Kelly

Unknown Soldiers - Ami Hendrickson

Chick, Salli, Mo, & Angie - Tim Camponesotti

Possessions - Melissa Mills

The Prediction - Mark E. Wright

Chameleons - Rob Moore

The Curses Fate - Saron Siritool

Auto Annette - Jennifer Carmichael

Chasing Freedom - Scott J. Thompson

Beyond the Forest Green - Jeffrey L. Stein

Sam I Am - Ryan Patrick Carmody

 

 

 
 

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