The October, 2011 One Week Challenge genre was Gothic Horror. The theme was Ghosts are not bad, just misunderstood.

Participants had one week to write a 6 – 12 page script on the genre and theme. There were 38 scripts which were read and discussed over on the discussion board. One script was selected to be audio performed by the fine folks over at iScript.com.

That selected script is Veil of Blood by Ryan Lee.

A young woman ventures to her uncle’s crumbling plantation in 1874 Louisiana.

You can read along with the pdf version of the script. You can discuss this script and all the OWC entries here. Click the “Play” button to listen to the script.
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Thanks to everyone who participated in the challenge. – Don

Babz Buzz 17.

Each month Literary Agent, Babz Bitela of Silver Bitela Agency talks soup to nuts about screenwriting.

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In this installment Babz talks about…

• Pumpkin Nightmare
• Insidious
• The Crawling Eye
• Joe Downey
• Rhino
• Brett Martin
• Hip pocketting
• Wets
• Option Heaven/Hell
• Martin Lancaster
• Phil Clarke
• Mafia Dogs
• Tenacity
• Hate Mail
• Grammar
• Courageous
• Why I stop reading
• Contests vs Market-ready
• Writing the second act by Michael Halperin
• The B-story
• The Through-line
• Table reads
• Subtext

Talk about this Babz Buzz podcast on the Discussion Board

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Over on the Unproduced Scripts page are thirty-one original scripts for your reading pleasure.

More scripts up for 2011 award consideration.

The Debt – march 29, 2009 revised script by Matthew Vaughn & Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel and Stefan about their former colleague David . All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team’s mission was accomplished – or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.

Information courtesy of imdb

More scripts up for 2011 award consideration.

Jane Eyre – undated, unspecified draft script by Moira Buffini (based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte) – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he’s hiding a terrible secret.

Information courtesy of imdb

More scripts up for 2011 award consideration.

Beginners – undated, unspecified draft script by Mike Mills – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

Information courtesy of imdb

More scripts up for 2011 award consideration.

Pariah – undated, unspecified draft script by Dee Rees – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

Information courtesy of imdb

More scripts up for 2011 award consideration.

Hanna – march 3, 2010 revised script script by Seth Lochhead and David Farr (Story by Seth Lochhead) – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

Hanna is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father, an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin.

Information courtesy of imdb

Pumpkin Nightmare

A little something to get you into the Halloweek Spirit.

A young woman arrives at home after a Halloween party and finds a nice pumpkin at her door. She brings the pumpkin inside, which might be a big mistake.