Atlanta Film Festival 365

2009 ATLFF Screenplay Reading
Margaret Mitchell House

6pm Reception
7pm Reading

Excerpts from the six winning screenplays from the 2009 ATLFF Screenplay Competition will be read by local Atlanta actors.

2009 Winning Screenplays
2009 Mentors
2009 ATLFF Screenplay Reading Cast
2009 ATLFF Screenplay Competition Sponsors

2009 ATLFF Screenplay Competition Winning Screenplays

Grilled Cheese Virgin - Steven Arvanites
New York, NY
When a streetwise hooker and a devout pre-op tranny fry a grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary seared into the bread, one makes it a business opportunity while the other sees the relic as her salvation.

Gurus - Homa Mojtabai
Atlanta, GA
Priya and Samantha - desperate to maintain their posh lifestyles after being laid off - pretend that Priya is a famous Indian Yoga Guru to bilk wealthy Manhattanites.

Highway to Nowhere - Lanre Olabisi
New York, NY
Hector has a dream to re-unite his family after a two year absence.  He must trek through the scorching Arizona desert to do so.  Unfortunately for him, the desert is where dreams come to die.

Horror Comic - Stephen Hoover
Baton Rouge, LA
In the 1950s the greatest threat to the United States is not global Communist expansion or nuclear annihilation. It's comic books.

The Jerusalem Syndrome - Caveh Zahedi
Brooklyn, NY
A metaphysical thriller about a writer who starts having inexplicable visions which lead him to suspect that he may have been the apostle Judas in a past life. He begins a quest to discover his hidden identity.

Wajda - Haifaa Al Mansour
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
A young girl innocently challenges the deep-rooted and traditional constraints of her conservative Saudi village through a desperate and hopeful attempt to attain a forbidden green bicycle.

2009 ATLFF Screenplay Reading Cast

TBA

2009 ATLFF Screenplay Retreat Mentors