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These six screenwriters and their screenplays will participate in the 2009 ATLFF Screenplay Retreat at the Margarget Mitchell House, November 13-15, 2009.
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
- Jay Rosenblatt and 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 Finalists and Honorable Mentions
2009 ATLFF Screenplay Competition Sponsors
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