Competitions

The Boy with One Ear by Robert Fullerton
A young Mexican boy wakes up an ancient and forgotten God.  A miracle happens. What if the town where he lived wasn’t ready for a miracle?

Robert Fullerton, owner of Collabros Productions, is a resident of Vancouver, British Columbia. With over 30 years of doing business in Canada, the US and Mexico, travels to many countries in Europe and the Americas, Robert is now writing full time and Collabros Productions is his vehicle to pursue more creative passions in work and in life.
 

Broken Circle by Martin Yerxa
Jesse, a young Aboriginal city boy, experiences the rich and dangerous history of his people firsthand when a mystical vision quest unexpectedly transports him 400 years into the past where we must use all his knowledge of the future to save his ancestors from destruction at the hands of an invading Iroquois war party.

Given his strong visual arts background, Martin thought he wanted to be a director and enrolled in the Film Production Program at Concordia University. But after two years of film school, he realized a director’s job description was basically bland.  They cook their films from a recipe, not from scratch. They don’t taste the horror of a blank page or savor the excitement of filling that blank page. That’s when Martin became a scriptwriter.  Hungry for professional feedback,  he attended the Dramatic Scriptwriting Program at Algonquin College and the Summer Institute of Film and Television and then kept writing. Since then he has had a few options, a few loans, and a few grants, and a lot of fun.
 

Dogs of War by Chris Britton
Struggling with the aftermath of the Afghan war, Jack Walsh, a decorated army officer, has returned home to serve as a police officer. On the day his marriage collapses he finds himself in a desperate search for the kidnapped son of a United States Senator on board the same passenger boat as his family. In a race against time, Jack must not only find the kidnappers but prevent a possible mass murder.

Chris Britton, born and raised in Toronto and now living in Vancouver, has been a professional actor for 30 years. He’s acted in theatres across the country and in the United States and has dozens of film and television credits. Capital Murder was his first screenplay and was awarded a Finalist in the Praxis Screenwriting Competition. Dogs of War is his second screenplay.
 

Elliot by Jennifer Westcott
When Blitzen announces his retirement on December 21st, a miniature horse has three days to fulfill his lifelong dream of earning a spot on Santa's team at the North Pole try-outs.

A graduate of McGill and Queen's universities (BA 2001, MA 2003) Jennifer Westcott is a Victoria based screenwriter.  Jennifer has previously optioned two scripts (Really Real Films, Vancouver, 2007, Great American Cinema, Burbank, 2008) and was recently hired by Nasser Entertainment to write an action/adventure pilot for the Spike Network.
 

Everything is Supernova by Jesse Heffring
A dark comedy about a young genius who can save the world from a catastrophic space-time bending apocalypse, but who is not sure if he wants to.

Jesse is a writer/director who works and lives in Montreal, Quebec. His first film, Coil, about a news reporter who commits crimes and reports on them the next day, was shot completely from the perspective of news and security cameras.  Coil won Best Feature at the Empire State Film Festival and the Independent Spirit Award at Planet Indie.  SIGMA, his second feature, was shot guerrilla-style in 60 locations throughout Montreal. Over 100 actors were involved in the production of SIGMA, a cyber punk thriller about a doctor whose wife has been kidnapped.  SIGMA showed at 14 film festivals and won two awards.  Jesse has also produced, directed and written plays, short films and documentaries. His latest work, We Are Daniel, is a documentary chronicling the creation of a gala theatre performance by youth with autism and other intellectual disabilities.  For this work, Jesse was a finalist for the Lindalee Tracey Award.  Jesse continues to develop screenplays, produce theatre and work with youth with special needs.

 

Old Stock by Dane Clark
After three years living comfortably in a senior's residence, 21-year-old Stock is forced back into the real world to rediscover his youth and win back the heart of the girl that he lost.

Ever since his conception, Dane Clark dreamt he’d graduate from the CFC's 2008 Writers’ Lab and write irreverent love stories. So far he’s penned several features including the teen comedy The Fringe, which made the Praxis shortlist. He recently completed the CFC’s Short Dramatic Film Program, co-writing Man V. Minivan (TIFF '09) and How Eunice Got Her Baby (VIFF '09). His stories bridge the cynical and the optimistic, using comedy to guide his characters through even the most hopeless of situations. He’s currently developing very big projects for very big people, including the coming of youth tale, Old Stock.
 

Unravelled by Roslyn Muir
Laura’s life comes unravelled when her married lover dies, leaving her pregnant and at the mercy of his agoraphobic knitting-crazed widow, Jill.
 
Roslyn Muir is an award winning screenwriter, story editor and producer. Her new feature comedy, Unravelled, is a winner of the Praxis Screenplay Competition, Fall 2009. Roslyn has earned other accolades for her writing: her children’s series, Kyra the Last Murch, was a finalist in the 2007 NSI Totally Television program; she received the BC Film Screenwriter Fellowship for screenplay, The Karaoke Queen; and her feature screenplay Hold the Sky won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2008 Female Eye Festival in Toronto and was a finalist in the Praxis Screenplay competition 2008. This year, she was an invited participant the Banff Television’s Telefilm TV360 new media program.  Roslyn works as a story editor and script consultant with many Vancouver production companies, broadcasters and independent writers. Most recently she has been a story editor on Smart Cookies, an Omni Life/W Network production, and a feature story editor for Rave Film (Better Than Chocolate). Roslyn wrote, directed and produced two short digital films and associate produced the CHUM documentary, The Oldest Basketball Team in the World, directed by Sharon McGowan. Roslyn  also consults on and produces educational media.
 

The Waitress by SB Edwards
A shy waitress catches the eye of a serial killer.

SB Edwards is a Vancouver based Writer/Director with two feature films and a TV series in development. Over the past decade she has worked in the film industry in various positions from Props to Production Design while falling in and out of love with the Fine Arts.  A self-described cynical optimist, SB has a serious 'thing' for pop culture and can often be found shooting photographs, watching DVD marathons, ripping pictures out of magazines and listening to the XX or Gaslight Anthem.