2008 IFFF Winner Best Short Drama Screenplay
UNHOLY ENCOUNTER      
SCREENWRITER: Anthony Amenta
SYNOPSIS: A thirteen-year-old boy joins the Newman Club of a Catholic Church under false pretenses, and ‘his confession’ shocks the priest in charge and results in his ‘excommunication’.

FINALIST!!

THE GIFT
SCREENWRITER: Rob Mora
SYNOPSIS: Inspired by a televised African famine relief program, a young foster child named Emma decides to reach out to one specific girl she sees on the telecast, and send her the only item of worth she has left.  This is the story of that gift’s journey…

TIME & TIDE

SCREENWRITER: Ronald E. Podell, Jr

SYNOPSIS: Widow Harriet Sealy, forced to leave her daughter’s home, is faced with living in a nursing home.  To fulfill a dream she had with her late husband to travel the world, she opts to take a cruise and ends up living on the ship.

BLAZE, The Police Horse
SCREENWRITER: Graham Jones, Cal Street Productions, LLC
SYNOPSIS: ‘Blaze’ is an half-hour family drama about a horse in the LAPD’s Mounted Patrol.  It was created to entertain on both a children’s and adult level, much like the original ‘Lassie’ of the 1950’s.