screenplay competition winners Presented at the 2017 Slamdance Screenplay Awards Ceremony by The Writers Guild of America, West and Howard Rodman, WGAW president. Slamdance recognizes four categories in its Writing Competition and congratulates the top three winning screenplays in each category. The top three Slamdance screenplays in each prize category are as follows: 112
Grand Prize Winner
Day Shift by Tyler Tice
Tyler Tice
Features
1st place - Escher by Jason Kessler
Famed artist M.C. Escher reluctantly uses his status, skills, and unique view of the world to help the Dutch Resistance to Nazi occupation during WWII.
2nd place - Lenore by Goldie Jones
Lenore’s job was simple; get rid of the bodies. Until the day she’s asked to clean up the body of a teenage girl who isn’t quite dead and isn’t at all who she appears to be.
3rd place 8-Bit Heroes by Michael J. Harwood
Set during Christmas of 1991, a simple obsession with a popular Nintendo game leads a 12-year-old boy and his quirky best friend to confront an adversary, redeem a crumbling family, and grow up faster than any boys should.
Horror
1st place - Day Shift by Tyler Tice
Tice’s screenplay Day Shift is a character-driven portrait of blue collar vampire hunting in the San Fernando Valley.
2nd place - PreZident by Raoul Dyssell & Allan Choi
Years into the global Zombie pandemic, when South African President Andile discovers he was a recipient of the cure that is being kept secret for profit by The Powers That Be, he conspires with underground resistance fighters to bring the treatment to the people.