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WSF Announces From Concept to Script Final Five!

posted by KenWSFPresident on June 27, 2011

The WSF is proud to announce the Final Five finalists of the WSF From Concept to Script Competition!

This unique screenplay competition focuses on developing high concepts for the film industry,  with the goal of producing five high concept spec scripts that will be put into the hands of major studio affiliates, production companies, that have partnered with the WSF to offer newcomers what they covet most… a chance.

Beyond that, we tried to give participants a taste of the expectations of the film industry.   Concept sells.  There’s a market for everything to be sure, but a high concept only increases a writer’s odds of breaking through, and members know that this is exactly what the WSF is about, doing all it can to help writers break through and have a shot at their dream.

We received over 400 loglines.  Working with our development contact (A request was made for the company to remain anonymous in any press.  It is a major production company signed with a major studio), we chose the loglines with the most potential, narrowing it down to the Lucky 13 participants that advanced to the next round.

The writers were given development notes on where our development contact would like to see each concept go, mirroring the development process often found in the film industry today.

After reviewing those Lucky 13 first ten pages submissions, our development contact has narrowed it down to the Final Five below.  Those final five will receive notes on those ten pages and are expected to implement them into the eventual scripts.

The Final Five will have until November 14th to hand in a final draft, which will be submitted to our development contacts for studio consideration.

In December, the WSF will hold mock industry meetings with each of the writers of the Final Five in Madison, WI, mirroring the development meetings a writer can expect to take part in during a career as a screenwriter.  We will then pick the official “WSF Pick” of the bunch and forward it to additional contacts.

The WSF and our development contact would like to thank the Lucky 13 for their submissions.

So without further ado, the WSF From Concept to Script Competition’s Final Five are…

• MY OWN TIME MACHINE

Mourning the death of his grandfather, an eight-year-old enlists his parents’ help to build a time machine.

Brooke Miller Hall and Amy Gangl

• THE HUNTING SHACK

Hunters become the hunted when friends take their annual hunting trip to Northern Wisconsin and learn one of their number is hunting them.

Rob Dippel

• WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT
  

Creatures produced by outlawed genetic experiments terrorize university researchers trapped with them in the campuses underground tunnel system.

Tom Dunn

• PERSONA
  

A secret agent programmed with multiple personalities must stop her organization from killing the one man who can restore her original personality.

Jeff Burns

• BLACK FRIDAY

A workaholic father bonds with his estranged family on a hectic shopping holiday –- Black Friday.

Daniel Crisp