Script Showcase

A special page - set aside for those talented writers who have submitted the most entertaining, well written screenplays to our Red Inkworks Screenplay Competition.  We are pleased and honoured to showcase their work.  

 At the time of entry to this page, all of the properties are available for consideration by producers.  A log line, along with the writers names and an email address have been made available.

October 2006 Top Fifty Finalists

GRIM GETS A LIFE  by  Peter D. Fraser
A risk loving Grim Reaper struggles to preserve his retirement to the tropical good life when he and his never-say-die assignment buddy-up.

KINGBIRD AND FRANKLIN  by Donald Thomas Adams 
Seemingly trapped in the shadow of his legendary grandfather (Ben Franklin), Kingbird emerges to found a revolutionary new party, the democrats; prevent war with France; and defend freedom of the press -- thereby changing the course of American history forever.

JUST MAY  by  Alexandra Stafford 
A lonely orphan seeks romance with an unlikely lover.

SLADE  by Jean Hunter
"Blood Simple" meets "The Hunted" when an ex-con breaks parole to track down his son but ends up being stalked by his victim's brother - a P.I. out for revenge.

COWBOYS AND INDIANS  by Cicely Wynne
Three MBA students pass up Wall Street summer internships to work in India. Think:  'Grey's Anatomy' with international MBA students.

SHENANIGANS  by Cleo C. Bresett, Jr.
A greedy cop helps a shady private detective plot the murder of his wealthy wife.

FOGDOGS by Robert Curtis
A reluctant criminal starts a turf war with his gangster boss when he learns that his sick mother must have expensive hospital care -- or die.

OF HEROES AND COMMON MEN  by  Brenda Pressnall
Two best friends choose different paths.  One man turns his back on love, leads an underground political movement, while the other marries the woman they both love and turns his back on his people's plight, until both men learn a valuable and costly lesson.

IN THE LION'S DEN  by  S. Douglas Knox
An ex-con on parole realizes that more than his freedom is at stake when a mobster blackmails him into working as a driver for a mysterious call girl in New York City.

A CYNIC'S GUIDE TO GOD  by  Evakay Favia & Sue Favia
When a rehab counsellor is challenged by a rebellious patient, her own demons are let loose, luring her into uncharted territory.

BRANCHING OUT  by  Cicely Wynne
A successful businessman wakes up from the American Dream to discover that he's out of touch with family and country.

VOICES  by  Susan Klos
A single mother struggles to balance a business, a romance and family life when her daughter's increasing strange behaviour is diagnosed as schizophrenia. Artfully written and inspired by a true story.

THREE  by  Mel Gray 
Three estranged brothers are forced to re-unite to recover a stolen artifact linked to the death of their mother.

SHARING PETER  by  Gail Mackenzie-Smith
A wife tries to cure her friend's depression - by getting her husband to sleep with her!

CAROUSEL OF DREAMS  by  Curtis and Scott Burdick
A billionaire's son marches to the beat of a different drummer.

VALISE OF DANGER  by  Carla Robinson
A New York cab driver, skilled in martial arts teams up with his mystical spirit guide to battle a clandestine criminal enterprise.

THE EDGE OF INFINITY  by  C.S. Torres
An Extra-Terrestrial marooned on Earth travels to the Future to find her father and save Humankind from impending disaster.

THE HIT  by  Anna Moncovich  A production company on the verge of bankruptcy goes to murderous extremes to ensure their next movie is a success.

RENEGADE CHAPS  by  Tyler Burns
Two miserable British teenagers run away to America.

THE BANNER  by  Tina Juarez
An American slave and his 'master' learn the spiritual meaning of freedom during the Mexican Revolution of 1810.

ADVENTURES OF SCHOOLHOUSE ART  by  Ashley Hodgson
Children's art work comes to life every night, except after the annual art fair, all art will be destroyed!

PATRIOT BLOOD  by  Anna Nicholas
In a future America, an idealistic FBI agent must decide whether to support a government he no longer believes in or risk his life in order to restore freedom to America.

AGELESS  by  Jill Miller
When their plane crashes in a remote jungle, two con men discover the fabled 'fountain of youth' and are captured by the guardian tribe.

LOVE ROCKS  by  Diane Banegas
Romantic comedy. A loose-cannon British rock star discovers his first love is the newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State. He wants to rekindle their romance. She wants him to get the hell out of her life.

IVORY TOWERS  by  Barbara Albers Jackson
A Southern university gets an Affirmative Action African-American president.

RATZ  by  Penelope Kahler Swan
The Ratz family thinks the deserted industrial park is an exclusive gated community.

FOOL'S REVENGE  by  Steve Miller
A female newscaster stumbles upon a bizarre serial murder case.

MOMENTS TO GIVE  by  Rosemary Weissman
An American doctor falls in love with an Australian volunteer he meets in Thailand; but can he win her heart by battling different customs, a jealous neurosurgeon and jungle rebels.

LAWYERS IN LOVE  by  Steve Miller
A female government lawyer juggles two love affairs at once - one real, one  phony.

A TALE OF TWO CATHY'S  by  Steven Barry Prince
A Philadelphia story of a Main Line princess and a Kensington prostitute whose lives take dramatic turns after a chance encounter.

THE BIG DAMN DEAL  by  Jeffrey Field
A desperate cable news producer uses a troubled runaway to create the biggest missing persons story in America.

THE GREAT QUEST  by  Steve Weissman
The battles of a Prince who renounces riches in a quest to become enlightened - or go insane!

THE MIND OF A POLITICAL ASSASSIN  by  Stephen W. Lincoln & Alan B. Cockrill
After reading a book that foreshadows his assassination, JFK reshapes history during a tumultuous second term.

CALL ME MAE  by  Paula J. Randall
Smart and sexy Mae West uses her brain and her body to become the highest paid actress in Hollywood, and one of the most powerful women in America.  Mae seems to have it all - including a deep dark secret.

CHRISTMAS IS COMING  by  Leslie Ann Campbell
A man who shuts out Christmas because it reminds him of his mother's death learns he can best keep her memory alive by embracing the holiday with his family.

GOING OUR WAY  by  A.J. Suchy
A young priest has a summer of working with gay teens.

STAY A LITTLE LONGER  by  Randolph Splitter
A coming-of-age story set among the orchards and canneries of northern California in the early 1950's.

CINDERS  by  Kate Pellettiere
Believing she was adapted, a young woman searches for evidence of it, but instead discovers a harrowing reality about her life - a life that almost wasn't.

ADDICTS  by  Anna Moncovich
A former addict tries to cope with life after beating his addiction.

KHENG KHENG CROCODILE  by  Donna Lisa 
A lonely boy in rural Thailand must overcome village fear, a nasty poacher, and a raging river in order to keep his beloved pet crocodile.

LESSON IN FEAR  by  Michael J. Casey 
A high school journalist innocently sets out to prove the decline of the 21st century media, only to have a rabid, bad-ass female in a cop's uniform leading an entire police force to nail him in any way possible.

EDGEWATER  by  Patrick Nicholas
After the death of his mother, a smart college student gets involved with a group of morally bankrupt friends. Crime is par for the course, falling in love an added bonus… but when a lucrative ‘smash & grab’ goes awry he is pushed to the edge of sanity forcing a crime of passion that ends everything, altering his life forever.

1066  by  Elise Jackson
Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy, both headstrong and determined, change the course of history on a battlefield six miles from Hastings in the year 1066.

RED LIPS AND CALVIN  by  Liza Pearlman
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UNDER COVER OF TRUST  by  Bob Gokay
A suburban mother is unwittingly entangled in a corporate collusion that threatens her teenage daughter and the very social fabric of her community.

THE SENTINEL  by  Sharon Jo Halstead
A teenager rebels against the tides of change threatening his community and turns to a mysterious hermit whose prophetic visions set him on the road to freedom.

STEVE, WHY DO YOU SUCK SO MUCH?  by  Patrick Huslig
Erica escapes the realities of her community college life by taking up with a vagrant on his cross-country quest. 

UNDEAD, A LOVE STORY  by  J. Scott Whited
Rob’s your average high school average guy, who has a thing for Selma your average high school popular girl.  Rob’s plight seemed hopeless until one afternoon he scratched by a homeless illegal alien and is turned into a zombie.

THE GAMES  by  Shawn Royce
The journey and challenges for a Japanese-American girl trying to become an Olympic runner.

SEX CHANGE  by  Paula J. Randall
When Millicent and Brad magically change bodies, they discover being a member of the opposite sex is not what they expected.

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