RIIFF Semi-Finalists Announced!

Dear Mike,

Update on the RIIFF Screenwriter Contest:

2015 Semi-Finalists Announced

Good evening. This year our annual screenplay competition received 433 entries (hard copy and online). From these, 31 have been  selected as semi-finalists by our international team of adjudicators. After one last review, we will select the final award winners (to be announced by October 30th).

Congratulations to our Semi-Finalists:

Bianca
Written by: Arianna Lyons, Los Angeles, CA
Boiler Room Drag           

Written by: Jennifer Harrison, Fanwood, NJ

Brick’s Oven

Written by: Tuck Tucker, Dallas, TX

Coastline
Written by: Ned Farr, Los Angeles, CA
The Cutting Run
Written by: Kelsey Brown, Kingston, RI
The Devil and Madison Rose

Written by: Geoff Ryan, New York, NY

Doretha’s Blues 
Written by: Channing Godfrey Peoples, Los Angeles, CA
The Everything Game

Written by: Ryan Gielen, Los Angeles, CA

Fight or Play Basketball
Written by: Mike Messier, Providence, RI.
Flight of the Wasp
Written by: Andrea Brusa, Burbank, CA
Galapagos
Written by: Lukas Hassel, New York, NY
The Ghost of Providence
Written by: Scott Kirkpatrick, Chicago, IL
Glow
Written by: Raymond Just, Pasadena, CA
Halle
Written by: Ben Hatt, New York, NY (originally from the UK)
Indentured (He Taught Me Elegance)

Written by: Marie-Emmanuelle Hartness. Cambridge, MA

In Quest of the Bluebird
Written by: Connie Zerden, Dunwoody, GA
Living While Dying

Written by: Haley Stamp, Kingston, RI

Mariano
Written by: Chase Brogan, Meriden, CT
Outside Harmony
Written by: Timothy Casto, Burbank, CA
 
The Plague Doctor
Written by: Jon Mennella, Brooklyn, NY
Real Estate Boom

Written by: Casimir Nozkowski, Brooklyn, NY

The Red Chair 
Written by: Alyssa Rallo Bennett, New York, NY
Rogue Island

Written by: Raymond Just, Pasadena, CA

The Searcher
Written by: Can Kutay, Turkey
Stem

Written by: Iqbal Ahmed, Los Angeles, CA

True Religion
Written by:Kara Smith, London, UK
Two Headed Snake
Written by: Petong Sakulchai, Bangkok, Thailand
Virtues & Flaws

Written by: Bruce Zewe, Paoli, PA

Vodoun

Written by: Stuart Creque, Moraga, CA

Welcome to Camelot

Written by: Rachel Goldberg, Burbank, CA.

When You Wish 
Written by: Troy Graham, Lane Cove, Australia.
 

All of the semi-finalists listed above will receive a certificate as an acknowledgment  by our judges of their work.

Additionally, each will be given a RIIFF Day Pass to our next film festival, August 9-14, 2016, this will provide them full

access to all films on any given day during the event. The value of the pass is $50.
Additionally, if your screenplay was not on this list, I would like to offer as our thanks for your entry, a ticket to our Opening Night Celebration at next year’s Festival (Tuesday, August 9, 2016), a $15 value plus a reduced filmmaker rate (25% off the regular price) for ScriptBiz 2016, our popular screenwriter workshop and pitch program.

That latter event will take place on Friday, August 12, 2016.

For more information, go to this URL to learn about our most recent program: http://www.film-festival.org/scriptbiz.php

Just print out and save the coupons below to take advantage of these offers.

Finally, we will announce the main winners to this competition as soon as each individual screenwriter is notified.

Again, thank you for your patience and your being a part of  year’s FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition. We are deeply appreciative that you have shared your creativity and amazing storytelling with us!

Most cordially,

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