StoryPros Awards Contest Winners Circle

Grand Prize Winner
YOU LIKE CHINESE FOOD by Ryan Sager & Jacob Gershman (CONTACT)
A young New York City newspaper reporter finds direction in fortune cookies, leading him to fall for the wrong woman while stumbling onto the story of a lifetime.
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1st Place - Drama
A NARROW BRIDGE by Joyce Gittlin & J. Bain Fattal (CONTACT)
After witnessing the death of his young family in a terrorist act, a Brooklyn cantor finds himself adrift without memory in the deep South. With the help of the congregants of a black church -- and gospel music -- he finds his way back to life.
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1st Place - Family/Teen/Animation
THE NORTH PUDDLE by Rick Fonte & Don Zolidis (CONTACT)
A ten-year-old girl must save Santa and Santa's workshop from death and destruction due to global warming.
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1st Place - Comedy
GUARD #3 by Doug Molitor (CONTACT)
A security guard learns the hard way why he should not work for villains.
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1st Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
PIECES OF EIGHT by Tommy Wood & Marc Benton (CONTACT)
In 16th Century Spain, a revered sea captain resorts to piracy to find his lost son and exact revenge against those who murdered his family in the Inquisition.
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1st Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
YOUR PLANET OR MINE? by Richard Hohenrath (CONTACT)
A teenage girl from New Mexico becomes the reluctant heir of a faraway planet thanks to her alien father's last wishes. Longing for home, Jessica Jordan must outwit her treacherous half-brother and save her adopted world from invasion.
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2nd Place - Drama
THE GIRL WITHOUT by Erik Engstrom (CONTACT)
A street-smart young woman battles a corrupt minister and an idealistic gang leader to recover a fortune hidden within an old homeless shelter.
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2nd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
MITTENS by Saeed Faridzadeh (CONTACT)
A lonely high school prodigy struggles to save her family from a dangerous arms dealer when she discovers the plans to a secret weapon in the body of a snarky, cybernetic cat, who turns out to be a CIA spy.
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2nd Place - Comedy
SMILERS by Mike McGeever (CONTACT)
A cynical auditor faces the most challenging case of his career -- but could his smiling quarry be hiding nothing more sinister than his own salvation?
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2nd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
THE ACE OF ACES by Geoff Breuder (CONTACT)
The true story of American WWII flying ace Dick Bong, credited with the most kills of any pilot in history -- and the men who fought and died with him in the war-torn South Pacific.
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2nd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
SAVAGE WEEKEND by Todd Crawford, Patrick Crawford & Jeremy Padow (CONTACT)
A small construction crew working on an isolated site finds themselves fighting for their survival as they're hunted by a clan of mutated cannibalistic savages.
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3rd Place - Drama
MR. CHRISTMAS by Paula Brancato (CONTACT)
A reluctant stepmom struggles to forge a bond with her teenage stepdaughters after the sudden death of their father -- but a happy first Christmas may require divine assistance from an unlikely source.
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3rd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
STEALING FIRST by Joan Golden & Cynthia Drew (CONTACT)
In the 1950's South, a white teenager recruits a black coach to lead his ragtag baseball team to the championship.
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3rd Place - Comedy
SHROVETIDE by Peter Besson (CONTACT)
A callous American travels to rural England to collect an inheritance -- and finds himself in the midst of an old family feud, played out every Shrovetide holiday in a...very odd sporting tradition.
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3rd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
THE HUSTLE by Aaron Pinchback (CONTACT)
A band of thieves gets caught in the middle of a bitter hip-hop feud.
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3rd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
THE LITTLE ROOM ABOVE by Sam Minier (CONTACT)
A young man with brain cancer confronts an alternate reality linked to his horrific childhood.
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