The Golden List of 2017 | The Golden Script Competition
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CHURCHILL IN SUDAN

By Callum Bryce

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The adventurous young Winston Churchill is serving as a cavalry officer in India, but the infamy his journalism has brought him prevents him from joining the campaign to crush the Dervish uprising in Sudan. He must fight against time and the military establishment if he is to report on and take part in one of the last great battles of the British Empire.

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GENRE: ADVENTURE

Country: UK

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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THE BOY WHO SHOT THE SHERIFF

By Nancy Bartley

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In 1931, a 60-pound 12-year-old boy is sentenced to life in an adult prison for murder. In this true story based on a book, the boy must learn how to navigate deadly politics amidst dangerous men.

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GENRE: N/A

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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overwatch

By Dallas Gibson

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“Overwatch” is the story of Marine Scout Sniper Scott Taggart, a man that has been in the Marine Corps since he was eighteen and is driven by duty, honor, country and extreme loyalty.

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GENRE: war, action, adventure

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: Tammie Smith and Smith International Productions

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THINK forward

By david keogh

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A man with terminal cancer, an ex-army pastor and a homeless teenage girl, become unlikely allies when they stumble across some drug money. But a local Russian Crime Lord wants the money and the girl, back.

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GENRE: drama, thriller

Country: Uk

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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MALIKA

By Carlos Mesber

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Malika is a tumultuous love story heavily divided by ethnic racism. Malika, a six years old Lebanese girl, suffers from her first family’s loss when her younger brother, Issam, passes away at four years old from a gunshot wound during the civil war in Lebanon in the late 1980‘s. An exhausted and heartbroken family, Malika and her parents, Waffa and Amir, both in their 30s, decide to emigrate to Mexico. 

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GENRE: N/A

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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chocolate potato

By Neil O'Neil

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An illicit spam email arrives at the wrong time and pushes a man over the brink when his wife thinks he's having an affair. Unable to convince her otherwise, he inflicts an horrific death on the spammer. The story turns from a raunchy 'British black comedy' to a dark tale of murder, copycat killings and revenge.

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GENRE: N/A

Country: UK

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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THE MEDAL

By Tom Weck

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In the First World War, a British officer, having fallen in love with an army nurse, must forsake her to confront his own cowardice under fire, the ghost of his highly decorated father, and a legacy he never knew.

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GENRE: war

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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Second best bed

By Terri Kauffman

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Historical fiction about Christopher Marlowe as the true author of the Shakespeare Canon. The story follows Marlowe and Shakespeare as their lives become intertwined in a web of lies, betrayal, murder, and – finally – redemption.

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GENRE: N/A

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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the last vikings

By David Thorndill

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In the Middle Ages when the Little Ice Age causes famine and conflict in the doomed Greenlandic colony a desperate Viking clan leader attempts to escape by sailing to Iceland, but pirates, storms and treacherous sea ice force them to sail to North America. With the help of a native Micmac woman and a Huron ally they battle Mohawk warriors on their journey to a new homeland beyond the mighty falls of Niagara.

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GENRE: historical action, adventure

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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ONLY MAKE BELIEVE

By Benjamin Owens

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A university professor is terrified to find that the shadows that pervade his dreams are beginning to manifest in his family's life.

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GENRE: N/A

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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The Chessmaster, The Artist, The Priest and The Gypsy

By ROBERT COLE

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In the summer of 1943. Russian chessmaster, Alexander Petroff seeks refuge from war in Barcelona with his friend, terminally ill artist, Pippi Sanchez.

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GENRE: N/A

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: Alexandra Maramenides, Reve agency

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Missing persons

By Chris Bieszk

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A one-legged detective with PTSD must convince a teenage prostitute to return home before her pimp kills them both.

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GENRE: Drama, human rights

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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END OF LINE

By PAUL HUNT

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It’s summer 1996 in an isolated Welsh valley town. A teenage boy with a dead mother and father at risk of redundancy must overcome his obsession with romantic comedy tropes to win his first love.

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GENRE: COMEDY, coming of age, Drama

Country: United kingdom

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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CADEBY

By David keogh

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When Vikings invade the village of Cadeby a small band of desperately unprepared people must defend it or lose everything.

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GENRE: historical, action, drama, Romance, war

Country: United kingdom

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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The Ballad of Horace & Baby Doe

By Tom weck

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The wealthy Silver Baron of Colorado, with Presidential ambitions, risks all by divorcing and marrying a beauty, decades his junior, and they ultimately together face a catastrophic collapse into poverty.

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GENRE: N/A

Country: United States

REPRESENTATION: NONE

SPACE MAN

By Taiyo Yoshida

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Carwyn does everything he can to help his best friend, Kemena, confront her biggest fear.

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GENRE: DRAMA

Country: UK

REPRESENTATION: NONE

THE CHILDREN of lir

By Ian Robinson

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WWII. Two injured British soldiers are caught behind enemy line, trying to get back to friendly territory. But when dying woman gives them her baby girl, the soldiers must decide whether they can make it with a child to protect.

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GENRE: Drama, war

Country: UK

REPRESENTATION: NONE

LOST FOR WORDS

By HELEN WATSON

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A short comedy movie about a dystopian world where communication suffers when people start buying words.

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GENRE: COMEDY

Country: UK

REPRESENTATION: NONE

PURGED

By Philip Dorr

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When a sexual abuse victim drags a Priest down to the river to absolve him, the Priest declines so the victim has to absolve himself.

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GENRE: N/A

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

PERSPECTIVES

By NIR SHELTER

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Based on a true story, after a suspiciously dressed Palestinian boards an Israeli bus, an IDF soldier must choose between a risk to the lives of the other passengers and a potentially innocent man, in order to keep the peace.

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GENRE: Drama, military

Country: australia

REPRESENTATION: Kristen Hodges, Bird Eggs Films

STILL

By Andrew M. Ward

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N/A

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GENRE: ROmance, drama

Country: UK

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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