Ten-Best Script Listings

 

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BEST DRAMA:     

BENEATH THE SHIELD, by Justin Hunter

 

Character-driven slice of life of an NYPD rookie.  Kenny always wanted to be a N.Y. cop, until he discovers that the police world can be an ugly place.  When that world crashes down around him during a terrorist attack on a school, he overcomes his disillusionment and discovers that his men-in-blue dream was right all along.

 

ADOLESCENCE, by Jeff Ryckebosch

 

Heist drama of a preteen armored-car robber.  An adolescent genius from a white-trash family becomes obsessed with the perfect crime, masterminds a plan to rob a Brinks truck, recruits a team of derelict teens and pulls it off…with dire results as they flee with a stolen fortune.

 

A HOUSE CALLED DIGNITY, by Derrick Hubbard

 

Crime drama set against the backdrop of the Black-Hispanic
conflict over drug territory.  An African-American couple
fight to save their home from foreclosure while living in a
community plagued by violent crime and the heroin trade.

 

MECHANICS OF LIFE, by Philip Mark David

 

Inspirational character piece of a Forest Gump type’s spiritual journey.  A small-town auto mechanic, mistaken as simple-minded for his muteness since his parents’ death, comes into conflict with two abused brothers.  His life spirals out of control, until he romances a woman who helps him piece back together the “mechanics of his life.”

 

BAREFOOT BALLET, by Gary Flanigan

 

A celebrity TV anchorwoman marries her sister’s ex-lover, a pro-football player.  Consequently, a plot of revenge spirals out of control into a case of mistaken identity and political intrigue that involves a Supreme Court nominee and a billionaire’s attempt to put the first black woman into the Oval Office.

 

THE SURVIVORS, by George Stanislawski

 

The daughter of an American media mogul is kidnapped by Hamas terrorists.  His journey from L.A. to Israel to rescue her revives old memories of his past as a teenage Jewish refugee in Holocaust Europe – a streetwise Artful Dodger who stumbles on a fortune that will make him rich and secure his future, if he can hide it from the Nazis and stay alive long enough.  Based on true events.

 

FORSAKEN, by Randy Hines

 

Urban version of Les Miserables, set in post-Katrina New Orleans.  An African-American ex-convict who strikes it rich redeems his criminal ways, builds a community center, adopts a young girl and embroils himself in a gang war that threatens the city, all the while being pursued by an obsessive Louisiana cop.

 

THE WATSONS, by Ray Arthur Galanis

 

Adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, which follows the struggles of Emma Watson to find romance, along with the riches she needs to save her family.  A poignant exploration of a young lady’s endurance in the face of reduced circumstances.  Classic Jane Austen.

 

MAYOR’S DANCE, by Stan Nabors

 

A newly elected, streetwise mayor falls in love with the daughter of his future enemy, a corrupt union boss.  Their romance becomes a struggle to balance love with power amidst tough city politics, as the rules change with dangerous consequences.

 

THE IRON QUEEN, by Barbara Bidell

 

True story of the first woman to sit in the Oval Office under top secrecy.  Recently widowed President Wilson falls in love with and marries a young socialite at the brink of World War I, igniting a scandal:  while he’s recovering from a stroke, she’s running the White House.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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