2009 Virginia Screenwriting Competition Winners

• Jesse Bausch

  Unfinished Business

  An office drone accidently kills his boss, but his coworkers believe it to be murder and help him cover it up. When the boss’s ghost starts haunting the office, the worker must battle against the undead, the police, and still get the girl.

• Travis Gordon

  Souveniers Of Men Who Cheat

  Abby Layne, a seemingly harmless waitress, must stay one step ahead of a detective hot on her trail as she attempts to quit killing men.

• Charles Griffin

  Land Of Egypt

  Based on a true story, a black youth exposed to Depression era bigotry changes from rebel to civil rights leader.

• Nathan King

  Best

  Mason, a highschool senior athlete, experiences his last summer of boyhood in 1973.

Finalists

• Baron Blakely

  A Better Man

  A hardened criminal is forced to see that he is playing the villain in the story of his life. His first attempt to turn his life around puts him at odds with his gang who later frame him for the murder of a cop.

• Wayde Byard

  Again

  A security agent who blames himself for 9-11 gets a chance to prevent an even bigger catastrophe.

• Jeremy Dillon

  Fabulous

  Adam and Skylar are two out of work actors who can’t catch a break until they accidently come across the Mafia’s little black book. They come up with a scheme to impersonate hit men and pay off their debts.

• Donald Driscoll

  Chris Gaines Saves The World

  Two friends must kidnap Garth Brooks and convince him to adopt his rock alter-ego Chris Gains again in order to stop a malevolent super computer from destroying mankind.

• Jeremy Fischer

  Killing Jane

  The story of a 17 year old suburban girl who wants nothing more than to escape the abuse of her alcoholic stepfather. One night her stepfather accidentally kills another girl in the house and nearly kills himself in a devastating fire. The girl now has a chance to start her life over….if only her stepfather wasn’t looking to silence her.

• Karen Rugg

  The Lightkeeper

  A young woman takes over a Chesapeake Bay lighthouse at the start of the Civil War. She faces the isolation and dangers of her job, impending attack from Confederate raiders, the Union soldiers sent to protect her and the local man bent on marrying her.