1st Place **FINALIST** 'New Year's Eve' by Nadim Dimechkie   LOGLINE - A doctor carefully raises two children in a bunker after a nuclear holocaust, but will his efforts to keep them from the mistakes of the past succeed?    15 PAGES   (Heat 14)  

2nd Place **FINALIST** 'The Blending' by Michael Zealey   LOGLINE - When magic and science combine, the military create a new weapon.   9 PAGES   (Heat 14)  

3rd Place  'Together' by Mateo Moreno   LOGLINE - For a romantic afternoon date, Thomas has taken Lydia to the field of his Apple Orchard to have a picnic.  But Thomas has a secret, and once its revealed things will never be the same for either of them.   11 PAGES   (Heat 14)  

4th Place  'Blood Orchard' by Lloyd DeSouza   LOGLINE - An ex-Chicago police officer and his despondent wife are forced to move to a rural town where he takes a position as the new deputy.  Little to do they know that it takes more than fertilizer and water to produce the small town's cash crop.   15 PAGES   (Heat 14)  

5th Place  'Path of the Righteous Man' by James Abney   LOGLINE - An unknown man’s fate becomes tragically intertwined with a serial killer on death row.   8 PAGES   (Heat 14)