Quoted from leitskev I looked at the draft this morning that I entered the contest with and I cringed a little, wished I could give them another draft. There are things I'd do different now than from a couple months ago.

Par for the course.  Congrats and best wishes.

That's amazing! Congrats Kevin!

Utterly thrilled for all you clowns.

Fingers crossed for a 3-way SS tie.

No tie. But one member of the SS community is in the semi's, which is a huge accomplishment!

Phil Whitcroft, I believe with his script Dumb Animals. No one is more deserving than Phil, a true gentleman and a real script craftsman.

So give him some SS karma, he's one step away from a free trip to LA!

Quoted from leitskev No tie. But one member of the SS community is in the semi's, which is a huge accomplishment! Phil Whitcroft, I believe with his script Dumb Animals. No one is more deserving than Phil, a true gentleman and a real script craftsman. So give him some SS karma, he's one step away from a free trip to LA!

Wow, major props to Phil!
Dumb Animals was written before I joined the site.
But I've downloaded and eager to check it out!
Here's the 2010 OWC if anyone else is interested.

http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-MayOWC/m-1274150630/s-new/

Regards,
E.D.

I've read the feature, but not the short. Cool that it came from OWC. You never know where those suckers end up! It's going to get a lot of looks by producers now.

I didn't remember Dumb Animals, but I see from the thread that I liked it.  Well done to Mr. Whitcroft.  Great to see a script borne of the OWC makes its way to the Nicholls semis.  

See you took everyone's advice about changing the title.  

Congratulations Philip!!  Nice going!!! And I agree, very cool that it originated as a OWC script!!

Yeah, two things;

Well done Philip, v cool that an OWC emerged into something and...

Well done kevin. I'm sure you wanted to go to the next step but hey, kudos, damn impressed with what you did.

Onwards and upwards.

I wasn't going to enter and decided the day before the deadline. So I did a total rewrite. And I made some mistakes. Now I have time to fix them up. And I'll try to come up with another script or 2. You can enter 3.

This is the only contest I have any interest in. There are a lot of behind the scenes games that go on with other contests. Nicholl's seems honest and fairly run. Each script gets at least 2 reads.

Congratulations Phil -- I wish you well.  This is a prestigious contest... I couldn't enter this year, so I focused on Page and Shriek -- But I'll certainly have my Drama ready to go by Feb 2013.  

To everyone who advanced...

FANTASTIC JOB!!!

What a great contest season it's been.

I'm hoping someone gets the BLUE RIBBON from here

Best of luck guys!!!

Shawn.....><

Congrats Phil! Seems like there's a few people from this site that are leaving their mark in the screenwriting business. It truly is a great thing to see.

All the best

Dan

Thanks for your support. I didn't make the finals. Now I'll get my logline and synopsis into shape and hope that it being a Science Fiction script works in my favor when the results are published.

Phil, sorry to hear that. That has to be a stinging disappointment.

But you've now had studio level producers read your work. That's big!  Hopefully it gets picked up!