Brooklyn Brothers Win Canadian Short Screenplay Competition Top Script Prize

June 27, 2011 - PRLog -- The screenplay, as penned by the Brooklyn, NY natives, tells the tale of Elijah, the pious, chummy and alcoholic prophet, whose yearly antics have graced Jewish households for ages. Unfortunately for the childlike servant of God, not everyone understands drunk driving is, for him, a divine right.

Thirteen short film scripts and writers as determined by the competition judges were vying for the top prize during the Golden Sheaf Awards gala as part of the Yorkton Film Festival Saturday night.

As co-grand prize-winner, the Herrmann’s received the coveted Writers’ Block Crystal in addition to $2,500 and an Apple iPad, while 2nd place honours went to Canadian Ira Henderson’s “Strange Music”, about a young music student in the big city who develops a relationship, through music, with a neighbour they have never actually met. Third place standing went to UK writer Sundae Jahant-Osborn’s “13”, a whacky comedy thriller about an obsessive nerd who's sure he hears voices calling out to him - and him only, from the other side of a forbidding fence. Henderson and Jahant-Osborn will each receive $500 and $100 cash prizes, respectively.

The announcement was made official and the writers honoured during the Golden Sheaf Awards gala at the Yorkton Film Festival, May 28, 2011 in Yorkton, SK.

The 2010/11 CSSC Top 13 finalists in order of judges ranking are:

  1.  “Elijah The Prophet”, Jesse & Zachary Herrmann USA
  2.  “Strange Music”, Ira Henderson CAN
  3.  “13″, Sundae Jahant-Osborn UK

  4.  “The Ridge to the River”, Edmund Jory AUS
  5.  “Tubby’s Car Project”, Julian Williams UK
  6.  “The Great Ghouldini”, Ian Johnston CAN
  7.  “When The Dust Settles”, Suleiman Wali USA
  8.  “Sudden Death”, Al Kline USA
  9.  “Near Sighted”, Evan Jobb, CAN
  10.  “Shattered Worlds”, Matthew Layden CAN
  11.  “Mother Will Be So Pleased”, Carrie Ann Lee USA
  12.  “The Chicken and the Egg”, Lisa Eismen AUS
  13.  “The Box Social”, Scott Summerhayes CAN

Judges for this year’s script contest were:

Neil Graham, Writer and 1st place winner of 2009/10 CSSC
Carolynne Ciceri, Screenwriter, 2-time CSSC finalist, #WW Laureate and Award winning blogger
Richard Comely, Artist, Creator of “Captain Canuck”
Joanne McDonald, Broadcast Executive – SCN
Stephen Kayfish, Screenwriter
Dillon Andrews, CSSC Social Media Coordinator & Web Entrepreneur
Tonya Lee Williams, Actress (Young & the Restless, She’s The Mayor), Founder of Reel World Film Festival
Glenn Cockburn, Literary Agent – Meridian Artists
Eileen Arrandiga, Festival Director – Worldwide Short Film Festival
Michael Leo Donovan, Screenwriter
Laurence Cohen, Director (Rusted Pyre, Rocket Man)
Jeff Boulton, Producer/Director – Dante Media Group
Sarah Wayne Callies, Actress (Walking Dead, Prison Break), Writer

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The Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, established in 2008, is the premiere script contest for short film screenplays. CSSC is the single-most competitive, prestigious, short screenplay festival in Canada.