DC Shorts Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition

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Screenplay Competition

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Friday, September 14 @ 7:00pm @ Atlas Performing Arts Center

The DC Shorts Screenplay Competition is a very different kind of screenwriting competition. A panel of judges consisting of filmmakers, screenwriters and critics has reviewed over 145 screenplays — and selected the top 6 to be performed in front of a live audience! After the table reading, the audience votes on their favorite, and one lucky writer will walk away with $2,000 to shoot their project! If the script is shot and completed by the deadline, it will be automatically included as an official selection for the 2013 DC Shorts Film Festival.

Meet all of the writers after the reading at the complimentary wine and cheese reception hosted by the Irish Dairy Board and Barefoot Wines.

Tickets for this event are very limited. Get yours before they sell out! Sales go live August 1.

The Screenplays

MAGGIE AND THE BANDITS

CHRIS SVEHLA
LOS ANGELES, CA
A mischievous young girl encounters troublemakers bigger than herself in this charming fantasy.

AMYGDALA

LINDA SILLS
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
As the Israeli army searches for a kidnapped soldier, a Palestinian father tries to protect his family in the Gaza Strip.

HAUNTED HOUSE HUNTERS

HEIDI WILLIS
HYATTSVILLE, MD
Ghosts go looking for new homes to haunt in this wild parody of reality TV.

THE TRIUMPHANT DEATH OF FRANK BEAN

CATHERINE HARDIN
LAS CRUCES, NM
A poor black man in the South finds greatness in death.

MIND GAMES

CRAIG CHARTER
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Free will has consequences, as an experiment in perception goes awry.

SHENANIGANS

PETER KIMBALL
WASHINGTON, DC
Two families collide in this funny teen sex farce.

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