Screenwriting : Romantic Comedy Contest -- who submitted? by Pat Alexander

Happy to say I've submitted my screenplay, "Love Has No Geography." It's a bi-coastal love affair of an older couple jumping into the online dating world, with a few funny mishaps and hoping that there are no more betrayals in their lives. Just got selected to the Beverly Hills Film Festival, so I'm heading to LA tomorrow. Hoping this is is good year. Best of luck to everyone. It ain't easy.

Frank McDonnell

I've submitted my screenplay Venus & Vitalis. It's about several love triangles on the Academy Awards red carpet, between an Oscar winning cinematographer, a lesbian Helen of Troy, the goddess of love Venus and a Chippendales dancer/CalTech calculus professor/Tantric sex instructor named Dr. Transcendence Rabinowitz, Ph. D.

Basically, Forgetting Sarah Marshall meets Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Cut lines:

• A comedy that leaves no sacred cows unmilked

• In Hollywood, sex is a religion

• In heaven the sex is great, cats water ski and you live forever

• God invented sex, but the devil's been taking all the credit

Artwork

I submitted mine! MIC CHECK; KARAOKE LOVE.

A widowed sales exec rediscovers her love of singing through a Karaoke App while igniting a romance with a Playboy studio exec that could jeopardize her career.

I submitted my quirky senior dating rom com, (Un)lovable!

I’ve been in the world of senior dating for 12 years and you’d think I’d have it all figured out by now… not even close! I’ve taken the best of my worst senior dating experiences to inspire my quirky rom com, (Un)lovable. It tells the story of Hope, a mildly neurotic people-pleaser who just wants to spend time making her self-centered husband happy. When they retire, their decades-long marriage begins to fall apart. Hope is blindsided and dumped by her husband who cruelly tells her that no man will ever love her again. Determined to prove her self-worth, she enters the daunting world of senior dating entirely unprepared for dating. While she struggles to find a romantic partner, she discovers something far more meaningful along the way!

I was a little piggy and submitted two scripts.

LOWER EDUCATION (R-rated) has been accepted to four OWAs and got me one general meeting.

LOG LINE: An overwhelmed single mom enlists a womanizing coworker to help her prepare for her first intimate date in almost ten years.

WHY ME? When one of my wife’s best friends went through real-life events that inspired this story’s premise, I had a front-row seat to a romance preposterous enough for the big screen.

COMPS: No Hard Feelings, 40-Year-Old Virgin.

GOES AROUND has been accepted to one OWA.

LOG LINE: A songwriter/YouTuber stuck in the past gets a second chance with the love of his life thirty years after she ghosted him when his daughter marries her son.

THEME: Letting go of the past and living in the moment you are in, not the moment you wish you were in.

TONE: Imagine reuniting the characters from 500 DAYS OF SUMMER thirty years after that story ended. Then add to that a musical element. No one spontaneously breaks out in song, but original songs support this story's emotional spine, and there are grounded, circumstance-appropriate onscreen performances.

Also, the lead's YouTube fans collectively play a supporting role as their comments appear on screen like a Greek chorus. And he frequently breaks the fourth wall to communicate with them.

WHY ME? 1) I lived through everything that appears in the flashbacks. 2) My professional life in Hollywood began as a singer/songwriter when I was just a wee thing.

Thank you for reading all the way here! I'm being greedy today, I guess.

I submitted my queer rom-com AFTER ALL THIS TIME, about stolen glances, second chances, and an unlikely match made in heaven.

Logline: Twenty years after graduating high school, a class reunion unexpectedly draws two women back into one another's lives, giving them the chance to rekindle the spark between them.

Partially a love letter to my own Texas high school experiences, this story weaves new and old together with a little musical theatre sparkle, and reminds us that the right time is never too late.

TITLE: Shane and Ivy: We're Eloping to Vegas

LOGLINE: After deciding to elope to Vegas, a couple encounters unexpected obstacles, involving disapproving parents and the bride's obsession with Peter Pan and Tinker Bell. Amidst the whirlwind of chaos, they strengthen their bond, uncovering their genuine devotion as the driving force behind their decision to marry.

LOVE AND THE DANCE began as a posting on FB to ole High School classmates. My dream was to plan a dance on a terrace in Italy where the blue skies meet the sea and I was determined to make it happen. LOVE AND THE DANCE is dedicated to the 12 classmates that shared my vision for without them, this screenplay would have never been written. Even though the characters, the scenarios, and the settings are different from what we all experienced, the feeling of comradery that longtime friends share, is priceless. That we will always remember.

Hello:

Fun and enjoyable competition to help more get their creative delights to more eyes.

What I submitted:

Title: Love Sarcastically

Logline: "Two lovable people meet on an obstacle course where their sarcastic love quickly blossoms, but fades just as fast, as their own inner obstacles become the greatest obstacle they must face to overcome.".

Good luck to all those who entered.

Thankful for your pathways.

God Bless,

John German

Hi Pat Alexander and everyone in the lounge!

I submitted my metaphysical queer romcom:

What Is Meant For You Will Always Find You

which aims to increase awareness of humanity, especially to women.

Logline:

Two spirits attempt to rekindle their cosmic romance on Earth by reincarnating as a pair of women, but find their newfound terrestrial fears and beliefs are an obstacle to their relationship.

Tone: It’s a feature film that aims to explore love beyond the physical realm and the courage

it takes to embrace one’s true self.

Why Me:

I am the only person who could write this feature since the plot reflects who I am, who I was, and who I became. It's my DNA.

The plot is based on a journal I started writing two years ago, detailing a series of metaphysical experiences I've had to face and conquer. The characters' obstacles are based on my own life experiences as well.

Why Now:

Because I want to raise humanity’s awareness with a love story that begins in the

spiritual realms and manifests in the physical world. We need to evolve as human beings and now it’s the perfect time :))

Good luck to all of us and Thank you Stage 32 for this opportunity:))

Best of luck to everyone. These were all cool to see :)

Wihsing everyone in the contest luck. I agree with Sydney S - these are great!

I submitted: Spritzer - Little Does He Know

Logline: A rom-com set in the California wine country, pitting a macho American high-tech, jug wine maker against a sophisticated French woman as they attempt to save the vineyard by producing award-winning champagne.

This is a rom-com set in the wine country of Sonoma, California. Spritzer runs a successful jug winery. But his great Aunt Belle who owns the winery wants to make the best possible champagne.

But they know nothing about making sparkling wine as it is known outside the champagne region of France. So they import a strong-willed and stunning Chef du cave from France. There is an instantaneous mutual dislike but they must find a way to work together as, if they fail, the winery will be lost. Needless to say, romance can bud through adversity.

My idea for a Romantic comedy is called "Tour-Ette" and involves a bus full of smashers doing community service going on a rehabilitation French Tour holiday to a French City called Saint Ettiene. The two with Tourettes syndrome fall in love when they break down in the Alpes. I havent submitted as I don't have a membership yet unfortunately. www.Tour-Ette.com