Great Movie Idea Contest Finalists

Grand Prize Winner

The Interlopers by Jason Vaughn

Jason M. Vaughn earned a degree in Painting from the University of Kansas back in a majestic time called “the nineties,” then drifted away from visual art and found himself addicted to books. Writing naturally followed. His poetry and short prose pieces have been circulated by various print and online journals, including Contrary, Monkeybicycle, and The Missouri Review. His first screenplay, The Synth House Wife (now titled The Green Sea), was a grand-prize winner in the 2012 Script Pipeline Screenwriting Competition. His third feature script, tentatively titled Interlopers, is being developed with Script Pipeline following a Great Movie Idea Contest win.

Runners-Up

The Somali by Andy Criss
The Wellness Plan by Wendy Burt-Thomas

Grand Prize Winner

Untitled Comedy by Sean Woolford

Runners-Up

Beta 619 by Brian Thompson

I Am Free by David Alarco

Secret Passage by Guy Bolling

Grand Prize Winner

The Starter Marriage (Romantic Comedy)
by Matthew Tolbert

Matthew Tolbert is an award-winning screenplay, comic strip, comic book, short story, and greeting card writer. And beer snob. His works have been syndicated and published nationwide. Proving that espresso works, he has written for Marvel, Malibu, and other comic book companies, has had science fiction, fantasy, nonfiction short stories, and poetry published in a variety of magazines, and greeting cards produced for Gibson Cards, Allport Editions, and Beyond.com.

The Starter Marriage, a romantic comedy, is his first feature length screenplay. Present writing projects include his fifth script (this one is on Leif Eriksson) and a nasty email to his cable company.

Finalists

Download Me (Sci-Fi/Comedy) by Mel Hamill

Hell Week (Comedy/Horror) by Monica Byrnes & Toria Sheffield

VMS (Sci-Fi/Action) by Alexander Janko

Grand Prize Winner

The Adventures of Columbus Junior in the New New World (Animation) by Ishai Ravid

Finalists

The List (Comedy) by Mike Ross

Oliver Clark and the Future Unknown (Futuristic Adventure) by Nickolas Shepherd and Toni Wynne

The Long Way Home (Period Drama) by Sharon Baker

Grand Prize Winner

Wild & Wilder (Comedy) by Mark Stouffer & David Wieger

Finalists

Freaked (Horror) by Heather Wilson

Haven (Thriller) by Heather Wilson

The Knife Salesman (Crime/Thriller) by Shawn Holmes