Drool wins Slamdance screenplay competition

Ten finalists picked from more than 2000 submissions

by Amber Wilkinson

Nancy Kissam's Drool has won the 11th Annual Slamdance Screenplay Competition.

Kissam's story of a housewife who kills her abusive husband, then takes her kids and new girlfriend on a road trip to bury daddy, received a $7,000 Grand Prize Award.

Drool was selected alongside nine other finalists from more than 2000 screenplays submitted to the competition.

Screenplay competition director John Stoddard said: "This year's finalists are a diverse group and their material all share an undeniably independent spirit.

"Drool is a perfect example of an uncompromising voice that is just waiting to be discovered."

The Top Ten Screenplays (in order):

1. Drool by Nancy Kissam

2. Black Dove by Phil Penningroth

3. Ball by Julian Breece

4. Pennsyltucky by Francis Abbey

5. Vampire Strippers Must Die! by Keith Hartman

6. Jump the Void by Goro Toshima

7. Three Latin Girls by Yamin Segal

8. Reserved Seats for the Plain and Unconscious

by Steve McCall & Zak Hilditch

9. Sugarcane Blues by Chris Gordon

10 .Struck by Lynne R. Kamm

Best Short Screenplay: 4 Corners, by Ken Pisani

Slamdance alumni include Christopher Nolan, Marc Forster and Jared Hess. Each festival produces film acquisitions including the upcoming Sony release of Sasquatch Dumpling Gang and Mad Hot Ballroom, one of the most financially successful theatrically distributed documentaries of all time.

The Slamdance Writing Competitions receive over 2500 submissions per annum. Slamdance winning screenplays acquired for production include Nicole Kassell and Stephen Fetcher's The Woodsman, Joshua Marston's Maria Full of Grace and current release Tim Boughn's Neo Ned.

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