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OFFICIAL SELECTION (3rd Edition)

17-27 December, 2016

SCREENPLAY - FINALISTS (ALPHABETICALLY ORDERED)
Admiral Lord Nelson
Writer: Michael Rights
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Category: Screenplay
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Year & Country: United States
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Number of Pages: 93
 
Synopsis: N/A
 
Website: N/A
 
 
 
Diminuendo
Writer: Paul Gross
 
Category: Screenplay
 
Country: Australia
 
Number of Pages: 115
 
SynopsisIn 1800’s Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven struggles with political censorship, hearing loss, money problems, and a custody battle over his deceased brother’s son as he composes his greatest music, and ultimately falls in love with a woman he cannot have.
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Website: N/A
 
 
 
GFE
Writer: Rizwanul Haq
 
Category: Screenplay, Drama
 
Country: United Kingdom
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Number of Pages: 97
 
SynopsisA widowed doctor tries to overcome his grief and guilt for his late wife after he strikes up an unlikely friendship with an escort who offers a “Girlfriend Experience”
 
Website: N/A
 
 
 
Just a Girl
Writer: Morgan Cutturini
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Category: Screenplay
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Country: United States
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Number of Pages : 11
 
SynopsisA female student experiences an unwanted encounter with a male college friend.
 
Website: N/A
 
 
 
Mixtape
Writer : Steve McMahon
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Category: Screenplay
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Country:  United States
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Number of Pages : 11
 
Synopsis: N/A
 
Website: N/A
 
 
No Choice
Writer: Stephen M. Hunt
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Category: Screenplay
 
Country: Ireland
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Number of Pages : 11
 
SynopsisA modern-day couple are divided over whether to sacrifice their only son to their pagan gods.
 
Website: N/A
 
 
 
The Incentive
Writer: Rob Callender
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Category: Screenplay, Drama, Psychological
 
Country: United Kingdom
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Number of Pages : 33
 
SynopsisEgocentric celebrity writer, Michael Dent, travels to China to interview Calvin Tripp, the visionary CEO of “the Apple of environmental technology”. But when Michael’s two young daughters stop answering his calls he starts to suspect the CEO is prepared to do anything to change people’s habits on a global scale.
 
Website: http://www.incentivepictures.com/
 
 
 
The Mortality Game
Writer: Ed Vela
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Category: Screenplay, Drama, Comedy
 
Country: United States
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Number of Pages : 113
 
SynopsisThree unlikely friends, all terminal patients at the same mid-west hospital, decide to embark on one final "last hurrah" road trip across the country, all the while playing a dangerous game of death cheating one-upmanship.
 
Website: N/A
 
 
The Time of Killing
Writer: James M. Freeman
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Category: Screenplay
 
Country: United States
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Number of Pages : 105
 
SynopsisTo prevent the partition of India and Pakistan, a young man reared by a secretive guru and trained to be a gangster in Calcutta's slums is ordered to assassinate Gandhi and Muslim leader Suhrawardy.
 
Website: N/A
 
 
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