Friday, March 1, 2013

Birthday Bonanza

I started this blog a year ago in the hopes of helping screenwriters get feedback on (and maybe even a little exposure for) their work. I've considered abandoning it at times, due to a few snafus and the time it takes to maintain it, but thanks to the generous contributions of my reviewers (whose info you'll find in the sidebar) as well as Amy Suto, Dan Dollar and the many guest reviewers - we've been able to keep it going.

I'd like to thank everyone who has  taken the time to submit pages and share their thoughts. We'll be back next week with a review, but today we're celebrating our first year with the 1st 10 pages from 10 different writers below.

How It Works

Email Rob the first ten pages of your feature length screenplay (in pdf. format) along with a logline and title. Every Friday one of us (or a guest reviewer) posts one writer's work along with notes and a:

Rating

Trash It (Start over.)
Take Another Pass (You're onto something, but it needs more work.)
More Please (I'm hooked. What happens next?)
Somebody Shoot This!

Readers then vote and comment on your work.

Click here to > READ THEM ALL

ALUMNI NIGHT by Matthew Kane

A 19-year-old movie star ditches an important Hollywood Christmas party to play in the "Alumni Night" game of her high school comedy improv team — but she gets one crazy night from hell — chased by paparazzi and juggling three guys: the pop-star boyfriend who kicked her out but wants her back, her high school sweetheart who still wants them to be college sweethearts, and that adorable little 10th-grader who's now a senior … and super hot!

AMAZON CON by Jeff Thomas (Title Page)
A two-bit hustler who gets himself hired as translator on a jungle medical mission learns that the missionaries want to poison the villagers.

BEFORE A FALL by Joshua Lee Andrew Jones

Seduced, set up, ruined by a sex tape, the new minister’s son dared to pursue a girl above his station and was rewarded with humiliation so now he must turn the tables on the person who destroyed his reputation.

DOGBITE by Paul Holbrook

Looking for a fresh start, a man with a violent past moves his family to Small Town, New Mexico. When they are tormented and abused by a sick and twisted psychopath, he is forced back down the path of vengeance.

EPOCH by Cillian Daly

The crew of an interstellar ship, on an eighty year mission, return to the solar system to face a devastating mystery.

KATE by Eric N. Jones

How much is love worth? In this darker modern take on Henry James's WASHINGTON SQUARE, shy billionaire heiress KATE SLOPER finds out when she defies her tyrannical father, Senator and high-powered businessman AUSTIN SLOPER, and engages in a passionate relationship with the handsome, but rootless MORRIS TOWNSEND.

LITTLE BANDITS by Michael DiMartino

A group of orphans steal priceless works of art to keep them from falling into the hands of the Germans and to save their orphanage.

SNIPER by Geoff Breedwell

A high school student must evade the Sniper's cross-hairs during class, without telling anyone, or everyone in his family dies.

TERRA INCOGNITA by Cillian Daly

A group of scientists and marines must travel back in time to stop a cataclysmic event that could destroy the galaxy.

THE BUTTON MAN by Robert Dillon

A hitman faces a tough choice when he learns that the boss of a rival outfit, whom he's been ordered to whack, is also the brother of the woman he loves.

TIMEKEEPER by Ari Gill

If you're a fan of Looper, 12 Monkeys, Source Code, Deja Vu type of films - then you might see what I'm trying to do with this.