16th Annual StoryPros Awards Winners Circle

Grand Prize Winner
COY DOG by Matthew Corley   (CONTACT)
After wrecking his car in the wilderness, a philandering land developer struggles against the forces of life and death as he is hunted by a pack of supernatural coyotes.

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1st Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
NOWHERE GOOD by Alec Gutherz   (CONTACT)
An older woman on the run. A younger man obsessed. A violent love story that leads nowhere good.

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1st Place - Comedy
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM MUD MOUNTAIN by Michael Buonocore   (CONTACT)
When a clever L.A. gay moves back home to save his small mountain town from financial ruin, only the magic of Christmas and a smokin' hot high school crush can show him it's his heart that needs saving!

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1st Place - Drama
OVER THE HILL by Laura Kemp   (CONTACT)
When two old friends ride into the Montana wilderness to scatter a loved one’s ashes, they must confront their own damaged lives and death itself to discover they’re not yet done with living.

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1st Place - Family/Teen/Animation
HARRY'S HILL by Jeff Reese   (CONTACT)
The death of a loved one compels a young boy to mount a monumental undertaking that divides the family, defies the town and defines the ultimate power of love.

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1st Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
CEDAR LAKE by Madison Sean Flannery   (CONTACT)
A group of C-List camp counselors have to put aside their personal drama to save their young charges when the camp is attacked by masked men - that is, if whatever haunts the lake doesn't destroy all of them.

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2nd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
NIGHT ON THE RIVER by Patrick Hatten   (CONTACT)
An ex-cop turned private eye searches for a disabled girl on the streets of New Orleans, but the closer she gets the deeper she becomes entangled in an underworld of genetic piracy – which leads back to the traumatic case that caused her to quit the police force.

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2nd Place - Comedy
INFERNO: A DIVINE COMEDY by Andrea Silvers   (CONTACT)
After getting spectacularly fired from their promo modeling job, two best friends must traverse through the nine levels of Inferno, the most exclusive club in Hollywood, in order to get to the rooftop bar and beg their boss for their jobs back.

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2nd Place - Drama
THE HEALER by Lonas Taylor   (CONTACT)
When a teenage mother commits suicide after being thrown out of an apartment on Christmas Eve, the hard-nosed Tennessee sheriff responsible for the eviction embarks on an obsessive and dangerous quest to find her missing infant daughter.

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2nd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
BILLIE THE KID by Tom Jennings   (CONTACT)
A rebellious teenage girl named Billie steals a million-dollar horse from her father and rides off into the New Mexico desert to find the grave of her namesake, Billy the Kid. Along the way, she learns the truth about her past and how she and her father have never dealt with the greatest tragedy of their lives.

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2nd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
RENAISSANCE by David Woll   (CONTACT)
When a teen prodigy aboard a spacecraft transporting settlers to colonize Second Earth deciphers a series of clues revealing that the mission is a fraud, she must overcome near-impossible odds to save her family and the future.

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3rd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
QUEEN OF SWORDS by Alyssa Stevens   (CONTACT)
An ex-counterintelligence agent on the other side of 40 must protect her teenage nephew while hunting down the biker gang who murdered her mother and brother.

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3rd Place - Comedy
GOYHOOD by Andrew Sanford   (CONTACT)
A Jewish New Girl.

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3rd Place - Drama
ATLANTIS by Jeremy Gluck   (CONTACT)
A young cop, forced by corruption to flee his native Philippines and join the security detail on a cruise ship, investigates the death of an enterprising maid.

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3rd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
THE UNLIKELIEST OF HEROES by Paul Zeidman   (CONTACT)
After a novice witch from a magical dimension ends up stranded in New Jersey, she must stop a tyrannical wizard from obtaining the enchanted scepter she needs to get home.

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3rd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
A KIND OF GUILT by John Cooney   (CONTACT)
When an ex-cop is released from prison to help a humanoid agent stop an imminent terrorist attack, he is free to pursue his hidden agenda - revenge.

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