2012 Contest Winners

Our contest judges gathered last night at industry hotspot Craig's to discuss the finalists and select the Caren Bohrman Overall Winner of the trackingb feature script contest...

We are pleased to announce the Caren Bohrman Overall Winner, Finalists, Honorable Mentions & New Wave Prize Winner for our 2012 feature script contest, and even more excited to announce that all Finalists and Honorable Mentions have already been signed by great representation as a result!

Thank you to all entrants and industry judges/members. Please note that our original TV pilot contest is now open for entries, and once again ALL entrants with two entries will receive a free one-year subscription to trackingb.com! Check out the TV contest sidebar for our success stories. Now, on to the results...

FINALISTS:

ORBIT - by Bruce Guido. A team of astronauts orbiting the earth find they may be the world's only hope during a devastating alien attack. (JUST SIGNED BY BROOKLYN WEAVER AT ENERGY ENTERTAINMENT! NOW SOLD TO AMAZON STUDIOS!)

XENOPHOBIC - by Kelly Parks. A bodyguard with black-market genetic enhancements, hired to protect a woman he hates, finds himself facing the madman who murdered his mother. (JUST SIGNED BY GOLDBERG & ADLER AT NEW WAVE ENTERTAINMENT!)

SEA - by Duke Doyle & John Frattalone. A conflicted young scientist creates the world's first superhuman intelligence by waking up the internet. (JUST SIGNED BY GEOFF ALEXANDER AT 6-17 MANAGEMENT!)

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

BEFORE I MET YOU - by Sage Wells. A recovering heroin addict returns home to take a teaching job at her old high school and discovers that the baby she gave up for adoption fourteen years ago is in her class. (JUST SIGNED BY WILL ROWBOTHAM AT PROLIFIC ENTERTAINMENT!)

LIMBO - by Matias Caruso. Sci-fi/thriller titled after a mysterious realm where the minds of comatose people are trapped. Follows the story of a grieving husband who infiltrates the realm in order to smuggle out his comatose wife. (JUST SIGNED BY JEN AU AT CALIBER MEDIA!)

VYRUS - by Travis Maruska. When an army of men in Hazmat suits show up in their small town, a handful of people are quarantined in the city hall with no idea what's happening to them as one-by-one they become randomly infected by a strange disease that turns them into blood-thirsty killers. (JUST SIGNED BY JASON HONG AT THE ARLOOK GROUP!)

ALLEGIANCE - by The Daws Brothers (Jeremiah & Josh). An All-American teen discovers his parents are Russian terrorists involved in a plot to set off a nuclear device in Washington, D.C. on the Fourth of July. After unknowingly helping the Russians, he becomes a man on the run determined to stop the bomb and uncover the truth about his parents. (JUST SIGNED BY GOLDBERG & ADLER AT NEW WAVE ENTERTAINMENT!)

I AM ORB - by Cameron Alexander. When a reclusive adrenaline junkie discovers a mysterious crash landed artificial intelligence, he decides to help it rebuild a transport before a ruthless government investigation captures them both. (JUST SIGNED BY SIDNEY SHERMAN AT ROSA ENTERTAINMENT! NOW SOLD TO CBS FILMS WITH THE NEW TITLE OMEGA POINT!)

NEW WAVE PRIZE WINNER:

Kelly Parks

AND AFTER MUCH DEBATE AT THE DINNER, THE CAREN BOHRMAN OVERALL WINNER AWARD, CHOSEN BY OUR PANEL OF INDUSTRY JUDGES, IS.............

XENOPHOBIC by Kelly Parks

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!