{"id":1032,"date":"2020-04-25T08:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scriptchic.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2020-04-26T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T16:06:33","slug":"black-fish-top-20-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Black Fish Top 20 Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well in a 5-day screenwriting contest where I actually had only 3 days to write, my sports horror\/thriller short, <strong><em>The Allure of Black Fish<\/em><\/strong>, was named a Top 20 Finalist.in the <strong>FilmFesto&#8217;s 5-Day Mashup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for a quick, on-the-fly draft!<\/p>\n<p>For the mashup contest, I was assigned two story genres. I had to utilize elements of both genres in an overall story, producing a script of no more than 10 pages.<\/p>\n<p>My assigned genres were: <strong>Sports &amp; Horror\/Thriller<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I chose Ice Fishing as the sport. Featured it a two contestant contest that was officiated by the grim reaper himself, DEATH.<\/p>\n<p>The contest liked how I chose a non-typical sport, and enjoyed how I mashed up the two genres, loving my twist ending.<\/p>\n<p>The script has more action than dialogue, so it&#8217;s doubtful I&#8217;ll win the contest since the prize is a filmed Table Read of the script.<\/p>\n<p>But, who know?<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced May 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well in a 5-day screenwriting contest where I actually had only 3 days to write, my sports horror\/thriller short, The Allure of Black Fish, was named a Top 20 Finalist.in the FilmFesto&#8217;s 5-Day Mashup. Not bad for a quick, on-the-fly draft! For the mashup contest, I was assigned two story genres. 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