Friday, March 29, 2024

FLICKERS SCREENPLAY WINNERS

The 2018 RIIFF Screenplay Competiiton Awards??

The winners of the 2018 RIIFF Screenplay Competition are now finalized!

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Shawn Quirk, RIIFF Program Director (l) with Dr. Nancy Carriuolo and Lukas Hassel, previous Grand Prize Winner for Best Screenplay.

Rammy Park from Brooklyn, NY is the Best Screenplay Grand Prize Winner for this year’s Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) Screenplay Competition. Rammy’s winning screenplay is entitled “Monitor City.”

This year our annual screenplay competition received 477 entries (hard copy and online). From these, 43 scripts were selected as semi-finalists and 14 scripts were selected Finalists by our international team of adjudicators.

http://www.film-festival.org/ScreenplayWinner18.php
Our sincere congratulations to all of our winners! Awards include: a free year of screenplay promotion services through ScreenwriterShowcase.com; 1 Script Listing and 1 Magazine Listing from InkTip; a 1-year Writers Database membership from Script Pipeline; Final Draft software featuring Final Draft Screenwriting Suites; and All-Access Passes to the 2019 Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival and the ScriptBiz??? Screenwriter’s Workshop. (Note: Prizes will vary with the specific screenplay??category)

AND THIS YEAR’S WINNERS ARE…

BEST SCREENPLAY

GRAND PRIZE:

“Monitor City” |Rammy Park, Author | Brooklyn, NY??

 

FIRST PLACE:

“Hinterland”| S.J. Main Mu??oz, Author | Venice, CA????

 

INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY

GRAND PRIZE:

“Sound of the Somme” | Written by: Alexander Menu & Thomas Besan??on, Authors | Belgium
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FIRST PRIZE:??

“White Whale”| Rustem Samigullin, Author | Homberg, Germany ??

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VORTEX HORROR/SCI-FI SCREENPLAY

GRAND PRIZE:

“Blank Shores” | Alex Kyrou, Author | London, United Kingdom ??

 

FIRST PRIZE:??

“Silence” | Collin Kornfeind, Author | Astoria, NY?? ??

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JAMES L. SEAVOR LGBTQ SCREENPLAY

GRAND PRIZE:

“Liza Herself” | Joan Kelly, Author | Somerville, MA ?? ??

 

FIRST PRIZE:??

“Chasing The Dragon”| Eduardo Ayres Soares, Author | Porto Alegre, Brazil ??

 

SPOTLIGHT ON NEW ENGLAND

GRAND PRIZE:

“Oil and Water” | Alfred Thomas Catalfo, Author | Dover, NH?? ??

 

FIRST PRIZE:

“Blood and Plunder” | Adam Olenn, Author | Providence, RI?? ??

 

BEST TELEVISION PILOT SCRIPT

GRAND PRIZE:

“The Reservoir” | Dylan Allen, Author | Brooklyn, NY ??

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FIRST PRIZE:??

“Matched”| Tess Allen, Author | Playa Vista, CA?? ??

 

BEST SHORT SCRIPT

GRAND PRIZE:

“Red Shirt” | Mary C. Ferrara, Author | Quincy, MA

 

FIRST PRIZE:

“Last Day of School”| Gypsy Nelson | Mason, WI??