​​​​​​​​​NNFestival 2017 (1 semifinal)

Jackie

Writer Anatoly Postolov
United States
Genres:
Number of Pages: 90

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Recently discovered documents from World War II show how seemingly insignificant episode could lead to self-destruct mechanism is an established political and military intrigues of the Third Reich, bringing to an absurd chain of blind luck and bizarre coincidences. We are talking about the history of purebred (mutt) named Jackie, who belonged to the Finnish industrialist Thor Borg. Dog imitates the Nazi salute, raising the front leg each time when hearing the word "Hitler". Learning of this, the Nazis were furious. Started sending mails threatening content, and high-ranking officials from Germany, rushed to Finland with the intent to destroy a pharmaceutical company, owned by Borg. The obsession with the Nazis "dog issue", as has now become known, had yet another paradox extension. In the midst of the birth of militaristic tendencies in Germany was established a secret school for dog training, where the gifted tetrapods taught to pronounce certain words, to later use these dogs for sabotage and covert operations. These delusions Nazis have long been buried in the archives. Is it not time to look at them through different eyes and voice the language of cinema?

A Short Drop and A Sudden Stop

Writer Margaret Dane
United Kingdom
Genres:
Number of Pages 11

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Peter is having a typical, banal mid-life crisis, and cannot see a way out of the mess he has made of his life. He can only see one way out, and has decided to go for the rope and hang himself. Enter Carmine, an angel of dubious origins, probably The Bronx, who is much more gumbah than guardian. He has zero love for his charge. Peter has a mission...to end it all and Carmine has a mission...let him do it! Heaven and earth collide, and the afterlife will either begin or end in a grotty warehouse..

Resurrection Time Conspiracy

Writer James Carroll
United States
Genres: Sci-fi, action, adventure, faith based
Number of Pages 104

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It seems like an innocent research project when the Institute of Learning employs the greatest minds across the world to create a matter transfer machine. But the institute is really a covert organization funded by Islamic Extremists and the matter transfer machine is being created as a GPS bomb delivery system.
When the youngest geniuses’ discover matter transfer, they also discover time travel and the true intentions of the institute. Ram Goldstein, the brightest teen, is forced to complete to project or watch all his love ones die.
The Terrorists go on a mission to commit the ultimate Jihad. They travel back in time to kill Jesus before he can be crucified and prove that he is not God. The teens are the world’s only hope as they must adventure back in time and to avert the catastrophe, before the new time continuum overwrites itself.
The teens arrive in 33 AD, with assassins hot on their tails. Trapped in the past the teens must interact with Biblical characters to defeat the assassins, restore the time continuum, save Jesus, and try to find a way back to whatever future awaits them.

Cadeby

Writer David J Keogh
United Kingdom
Genres: Historical Action Drama, Romance, war film, Battles, Love, Vikings, Swords, drama
Number of Pages 124

When Vikings invade the village of Cadeby  a small band of desperately unprepared people must defend it or lose everything.
A cross between Zulu, The Magnificent Seven, Assault on Prescinct Thirteen and Braveheart, set in the Post Roman British Dark Ages at the times of early Viking incursions along the coast.
A love story, an adventure story and a war film rolled into one. The tension builds throughout the piece as the Vikings close in on Cadeby,  a real fifth century village populated mainly by the elderly and the infirm. They must defend the village from the Vikings to stop them from travelling south and wiping out all of the villages along the coast.
One man, Faelan,  with the help of an unlikely and unprepared band of heroes stands in the way of the invaders. Can he persuade the villagers to defend themselves or will they just become another slaughtered village?
This works as a series of short films, a mini series, a full length series or a movie - this being the movie version. A  story of tragedy, loss, love and what people will do when the odds are stacked against them.

Seriah's Legacy

Writer Julie M Kaufmann
United States
Genres: Drama
Number of Pages 130

INTRO:
The story’s message is about a teenage girl named Emily and a horse named Seriah who found her way straight to Emily’s heart one evening. As their bond grew, Emily felt she needed to know more about Seriah and of the life she had before she became hers. Finally knowing the truth of her past and of the slaughter of so many wild horses, that were born to be free, Emily made a promise to Seriah to be their voice so that their legacy of freedom is returned to them.

A Sacrifice to the God of the Blues

Writer Jonathan LaPoma
United States
Genres:
Number of Pages 19

An impressionable young man struggles to make sense of the alternating good and bad advice he receives from a much older friend as they travel through the heart of Mexican drug territory on a cursed trip to a remote Pacific coast beach.

Lazaro

Writer Brian K. Palmer
United States
Genres: Drama, Spiritual
Number of Pages 150

Lazaro transports readers into a powerful spiritual drama that meshes a tweenage GLBT coming-of-age story with a boy's rediscovery of his faith, through trial by fire.

Elio

Writer Brian K. Palmer
United States
Genres: Drama, Coming of Age, Romance, GLBT
Number of Pages 154

Elio and his father, Ben, struggle to get their lives back on track following the unexpected death of Elio's mother. Ben leaves his research job in order to write novels and spend more time with Elio, who is at that age where playtime gives way to love interests. Just as Elio and Ben discover some level of normality, Elio is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Two completely different plot concepts, one antagonistic and the other protagonistic, work in opposing directions to reveal well-rounded characters who make complex decisions in less-than-ideal situations.

JUMP!!!

Writer Margaret Dane
United Kingdom
Genres:
Number of Pages 9

Peter is having a typical, banal mid-life crisis, and cannot see a way out of the mess he has made of his life. He can only see one way out, and has decided to go for the rope and hang himself. Enter Carmine, an angel of dubious origins, probably The Bronx, who is much more gumbah than guardian. He has zero love for his charge. Peter has a mission...to end it all and Carmine has a mission...let him do it! Heaven and earth collide, and the afterlife will either begin or end at the top or the bottom of a building.

Jagged Edge

Writers Tamara Herman, Cindy Aronson
Canada
Genres: romantic drama, psychological drama
Number of Pages 110
First-time Screenwriter

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JAGGED EDGE is the richly emotional story of two fragile souls with a tragic shared past. When Lily, a twenty-something editor’s assistant at Jagged Edge Magazine, meets Ryder, an urbane, ruggedly handsome venture capitalist in his thirties, their connection ignites. But, regardless of their commitment to each other, one secret threatens to tear them apart as Ryder struggles with a piece of his past that binds them together on an even deeper level—a secret that could destroy the woman he loves.

A Letter Before Dying

Writer Nathaniel Edwards
United States
Genres:
Number of Pages 24
First-time Screenwriter

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When an intrepid young woman suffering from a terminal illness leaving her with months to live accepts her fate, a letter from her long dead father leads her down a path of love, friendship, and forgiveness.

Fyodor

Writer Kamila Stopyra
United Kingdom
Genres:
Number of Pages 24
First-time Screenwriter

A young music composer starts blackmailing his family members, taking a revenge on those stopping him from fulfilling his artistic vocation

The Street Photographer

Writer Jim Norman
United States
Genres:
Number of Pages 19

An old street photographer makes portraits of people that literally change their lives.

The Curious Pot

Writer David Wolgroch
United Kingdom
Genres: Comedy
Number of Pages 15
First-time Screenwriter

A group if young Israeli friends set out to uncover the culprit behind a rogue marijuana plant in their kibbutz garden.

Lord of Cinders

Writer Laura Kutchen
United States
Genres: Horror, Drama
Number of Pages 20
Student Project

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An estranged mother gets her young son for the rare weekend, only to fall victim to a tragic car accident. Stranded in the woods they must survive the increasing severity of their wounds as well as a mysterious presence.