Screenwriting and Contest Updates:

Bring on the torture...Fall 2011/Winter 2012 - The 4th Annual NYCMM Short Screenplay Challenge!   Round 1 - part 1 (drama) - finished 4th in my heat.  Round 1 - part 2 (ghost story) - combined scores finished 4th in my heat...on to round 2.Round 2 got Rom/Com...really thought I nailed but bombed out.  Oh well. 

2nd Place finish for my 5 page SP "Letting Go"  in Movie Poet's September 2011 Contest.  The theme was 'The Undead'.  One of your characters had to be a ghost, zombie, vampire or mummy.  Mine was a ghost story.

More torture...Spring/Summer 2011 The 8th Annual NYCMM Screenwriter's Challenge  Round 1 - (suspense) - Finished 2nd in my heat.  Round 2 - (fantasy---YUCK!!!) - Finished 4th in my heat and moved on to the Final round which was SciFi (double yuck).  TANKED!  I should be happy that I made it to the top 25 out of 400...(but I'm not!) :)

I love torture so here we go again!!  20010/11 NYCMM Screenwriter's Championships!   Round 1 - part 1 (scifi)- came in 6th in my heat.  Round 1 - part 2 (rom/com)- Came in 4th in my heat and I made it to Round 2  - (Fantasy - ugh) - finished 4th in my heat and made it to the finals! Final round (Fantasy...AGAIN! CRAP!!) Bombed as usual.

My 5 page screenplay, "PRIVATE PROPERTY" made 3rd Place in Movie Poet's December 2010 Contest.   It was an open theme so I decided to try a bit of a Western vibe.

April 2010 - 1st Place finish for my 10 page SP "Through Eyes of the Innocent"  in the DVX User's themed contest "HitchcockFEST".

My 5 page SP "HONEY DO", got an honorable mention in Movie Poet's February 2010 contest.   :D

January 2010 - My 5 page SP "Time To Fly" finished in the top 10 of DVX User's themed contest "BetrayalFEST".

My 5 page SP "12.21.2012", got an honorable mention in Movie Poet's October 2009 contest.  The theme was "NUMBERS": The title of your script must be a number. You can use punctuation (commas, hyphens, decimal points, etc.), but no letters.  I went for a light/dark comedy.  :D

It's that time again!!  2009/10 NYCMM Screenwriter's Championships !   Round 1 - part 1 (comedy)- came in 6th in my heat.  Round 1 - part 2 (Fantasy - YUCK)- My story totally sucked, I HATED Fantasy, but somehow I made it to Round 2  - (Historical Fiction) - finished 2nd in my heat and SQUEAKED into the finals! Totally Bombed on my final round entry.  Got a ZERO.  That's bad...especially because I thought it was really good.  What a freakin bummer.

September 2009 - Completed my Round 1 entry in Screenwriting Expo's "Cyberspace Open".  You had 48 hours to complete a 3 to 5 minute scene based on the premise given.  It was FUN!  I hope I make it to Round 2!  UPDATE:  you needed to score 93 or higher to move to round 2 - I scored a 92.  :-/

August 2009 - 1st place finish for my SP "Our Time Deserves A Love Song" for SIMPLY SCRIPT'S OWC (One Week Challenge).  Genre was Romantic Dramedy and the theme was you had to write lyrics to a piece of music they supplied and incorporate it into the story.  The prize was your script read by iScript.  Click HERE to listen to my story!!  :) 

My 5 page SP "How To Talk To Women", got an honorable mention in Movie Poet's July 2009 contest.  the theme was "FADE OUT". Everyone's SP had to end with the lines "PARKER Try to get some sleep. Taylor smiles as Parker closes the trunk."  -  I went for a  Rom/Com this time.

April 2009 - Placed 3rd in my heat in the 2009 6th Annual NYCMM Screenwriter's Challenge - but didn't advance to the finals. 

My 5 page screenplay "You Will Always Be Mine" got an Honorable Mention in Movie Poet's December 2008 contest.  The theme was open, I went for something dark. 

"Follow The Signs" & "Free Your Skeletons" made it to the semi-finals in the 2008 BlueCat Screenwriting Lab.

"FOLLOW THE SIGNS" made it to the quarter-finals of 2005 Zoetrope's Annual Screenplay contest.
ZOETROPE'S 3rd ANNUAL SCREENWRITING CONTEST