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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
2003 SLAM FI WINNERS AND FINALISTS!
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1st
Place - Daniel Kwak, Toy Robots -
When a fourth grader discovers that a toy ray gun can actually enlarge
objects to colossal dimensions, he endeavors to save the town from
the school bully using enlarged toy robots to battle him. |
Mingling at the Knitting Factory, Hollywood, CA
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2nd
Place - Jeremy Carr, Homemaker 3000 -
A lonely bachelor purchases a robotic housewife, but when he cheats
on her he gets more than he bargained for. |
Steve Weyl
and Judge Jane Frank |
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3rd
Place - Joseph Calabrese, Second Coming -
Joshua, a clone created from the remains of Jesus Christ, is prepared
to become the new savior, but when it’s discovered that the
original DNA was not that of the Messiah, he hides for his life
at a soup kitchen in New York City run by a woman pastor and her
ten year old son. It is there, Joshua finds the true meaning of
his existence and quickly learns what it is to be more than human,
but less than God. |
Peter Baxter (right) with our winner |
SHORT STORY FINALISTS
| 1st Place - Jaygopal Nair, Gezlinger's
Knot - In a future in which nearly all of Earth’s species
are destroyed and humans crowd into Dome Cities, a band of outcast
“gene traders” roam the wastelands in search of viable
samples of genetic material from lost species in hopes of saving
humanity. |
| 2nd Place - Darren Moore, Path
to F'dar - After the apocalypse has all but cleansed Earth
of man, a boy emerges from an isolated environment of children to
challenge their mythology and seek the truth. |
| 3rd Place - Eugene Myers, Silhouettes
- Ryan Murphy attempts to escape his government-arranged marriage
by finding someone to take his place, someone so perfect he doesn’t
even realize that he isn’t the real Ryan. In fact, he isn’t
even human. |
| 4th Place - Shirley Sau-Yung Chan,
David's Beast - A scener for Interactive Theatre Vision
creates a virtual world based on the Beauty and the Beast storyline
for a client who is more than he seems. |
| 5th Place - Chris Lowery, The
Beacon - An adolescent outcast becomes the key to humanity’s
survival when he is inhabited by an alien being that wishes to colonize
Earth using humans as hosts. |
SHORT SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
| 1st Place - Gene Gwynne, Spar
Wars - A small space alien is captured by boys who mistake
him for an action toy, subjecting him to an endless array of combat
matches against the action toys and dolls of other kids. |
| 2nd Place - Rory Hardesty, Autocide
- In the future of commuting, there is no commuting. Desperate
people live in their cars on a twelve-lane nightmare, avoiding the
“stone cold snake” and Retro Punkers while scheming for
a way out. |
| 3rd Place - Faisal Azam Qureshi,
Rewind to the Resurrection - In an abandoned human colony,
the robots who have survived reenact the trial of Christ in the
manner of old Hollywood religious movies to honor their former slave
masters. |
| 4th Place - Erwann Marshall &
Amanda Hartrey, Replica - A young boy locked in a sterile
room as part of a cloning experiment decides to escape the two doctors
who have different views on how to treat him. |
| 5th Place - Ron Fernandez, Unknown
Country - In a future in which the majority of the population
is quarantined due to infection by a lethal airborne virus, two
young lovers (one in the final stages of infection) search for a
cure. |
FEATURE SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
| 1st Place - Barbara Marshall, Overside
- In a time of forced Darwinism, a group of young people
competes for the future. |
| 2nd Place - Robert Leitch, Hancer
- An underground genetic engineer escaping the corrupt plans
of a legendary master geneticist is forced on a life-threatening
adventure through the waterlogged underbelly of a drowned New York
City. |
| 3rd Place - Paul Van Camp, Strange
Time - A time machine explosion forces a pair of scientists
and a group of feuding thugs to relive the same day over and over,
forcing them to shelve animosities and work together to save others. |
| 4th Place - David Ullendorff, Gideon's
Secret - A toy-maker teams up with a discredited physicist
to create the ultimate toy. |
| T5th Place - Todd Supple, Undercover
of Reality - A homicide detective involved in a popular
online virtual reality game called Civil War 2 investigates the
link between a murder victim and a character in the game. |
| T5th Place - Brett Doelling,
Earth, Sun, Moon - On an island divided into humans and
shapeshifters, the romance between a human boy and a young female
shapeshifter throws both communities into turmoil. |
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