From more than 2,600 entries,
judge Francis Ford Coppola and the
American Zoetrope staff honored the following screenplays:

GRAND PRIZE–WINNER
Mixtape by Stacey G. Menear

TOP TEN FINALISTS
The Adventures Of Mom And Dad by Sarah Shana Arlen
Doing Paris by Brantley Aufill
Crypto-Baby by Van Boyd
Romance in D by Arati Madhav Jambotkar
A Tin Of Paint by Paul Ian Johnson
To The Ice by Ruth Ellen Johnson
Things I Saw Before I Went Blind by Ehud Lavski
Bite The Stars by Terry O'Brien
Triangle by Pietz Peterson
The Dark One by C. Ross Simpson
FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE 2009 SCREENPLAY CONTEST

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