2008 IFFF Winner Best Feature Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenplay
THE ARDANEA PENDANT     
SCREENWRITERS: Jeanne McKinney, Anne Bradshaw
SYNOPSIS: Three college students prove that today is the future’s past. They travel through the tumultuous past of Ireland, directed by the powers of an ancient pendant, to reform those of influence and bring peace to their modern land.
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FINALIST!
IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS                  
SCREENWRITER: Lew Osteen
SYNOPSIS: Jack Magnuson, 18, is diagnosed as autistic – but is he? Maybe he had a gift that makes him seem different and just isn’t understood by anyone but his mother. When his mother dies under mysterious circumstances, his enlists the aid of his computer friend, a troubled young girl named Liberty. They are close to solving the mystery when Liberty is captured by dark, deadly forces. Jack must decide whether to use his Wildest Dreams to save her, though doing so might destroy the world.

CHASING BABY
SCREENWRITER: Roger Tessier
SYNOPSIS: One week before his retirement, a very human Father Time must struggle to get a totally uncooperative and accidentally adult New Year’s Baby prepared to take over on January 1st or time will stop forever.  We’ve all seen Father Time relinquish his reins to Baby New Year on New Year Eve, but did you ever wonder how that all happened?

MESSIAH (Malta)
SCREENWRITER: Paul De Leonardo (King James Bible adaptation)
SYNOPSIS: The supernatural events in Yeshua’s life, his miracles, signs and wonders.  In 4 BC. The Word is sent on a mission on planet earth to save mankind with a message of love by his father Adonai.  Leaving his heavenly abode, the Timeless City with his army of light, he is supernaturally born on earth to a virgin living in Israel.  During his last three and a half years of his mission he is opposed by his supernatural archenemy, and the army of darkness.  His victory comes when he rises from his death and returns back to his father.

NESS
SCREENWRITER: Elizabeth Pfeiffer
SYNOPSIS: A lake side accident leaves a Jason Comb’s fighting for his life until an unidentified sea creature miraculously saves his life.  Now, Jason must return the favor and protect his new friend from the nation’s leading Paleontologist who’s determined to prove that the creature exists.

TINK! (musical)
SCREENWRITERS: Kevin Cotter, Diane Uniman
SYNOPSIS: A saucy, spirited little fairy who in the old days took a back seat to Peter Pan, emerges as a vibrant, larger-than-life heroine in this uplifting, romantic and deliciously raucous musical parody.  Tinks’ choices and her courage reflect an innate goodness and indomitable spirit that becomes the symbol for all that is good and true in the human spirit.

TWO MOONS
SCREENWRITER: Paul Martin
SYNOPSIS: This is a coming-of-age drama that tells the story of a Native American girl who prefers virtual reality to her everyday life, but must emerge from her chat room cocoon to stop evil developers from destroying an ancient treasure.

TRASH
SCREENWRITER: Timothy Armstrong
SYNOPSIS: A boy falls into a cavernous world beneath the city dump where he encounters strange thrown-away creatures that are plotting to blow up the town above that is debating about building a New Recycling Plant.

ZOOPER HEROES
SCREENWRITER: Christopher Canole
SYNOPSIS: Something strange happened at the zoo, creating super-animals who are discovered by the zookeeper’s kids. They form The Zoo Investigation Agency to solve crime and stop an even greater catastrophe from happening.