UCLA Screenwriters Showcase

Just came across this:

UCLA is set to honor the Oscar-winning screenwriter of MILK at an upcoming film festival event that will feature staged readings of prize-winning student scripts… Don’t miss the next Dustin Lance Black or Mike Werb.

UCLA alumnus Dustin Lance Black, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of “Milk,” will be honored with UCLA’s Distinguished Achievement in Screenwriting award on Wednesday, June 10, at the Freud Playhouse on campus.

The presentation will take place at 7:30 p.m. during UCLA’s Screenwriters Showcase, a gala event featuring staged readings of student screenplays and teleplays selected by a jury of respected industry professionals in an annual competition.

The showcase is part of “UCLA Festival 2009: New Creative Work,” a nine-day celebration of the newest work by students from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, which takes place at UCLA and other sites from June 5 through 13.

The event will be hosted by screenwriter and UCLA alumnus Mike Werb, whose works have included the Jim Carrey comedy “The Mask,” the John Woo-directed action-thriller “Face/Off” and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.”

Admission to the Screenwriters Showcase is free, but space is limited and reservations are required. To R.S.V.P. and view a schedule of events, visit www.tft.ucla.edu/festival. Campus parking for the festival is available for $9 in Lot 3 (enter campus at Hilgard Avenue and Wyton Drive ).

The 2009 Showcase feature winners are:

Barbara Curry: “Talk of the Town” (romantic comedy)
A cutthroat tabloid reporter goes undercover as a nanny in order to get the scoop on the impending marriage of a famous Hollywood couple but ends up falling for the guy and his motherless children.

Meg Gifford: “Paint It Black” (black comedy)
Four siblings are being raised to fulfill their parents’ own desires for success until a hippie neighbor moves in and introduces the kids to a world their parents never wanted them to see.

Ed Goodman: “Limbo Larry vs. Death Et Al” (comedy)
Larry Stickler, a self-righteous rule-follower, dies in a car crash but accidentally eludes Death and becomes a rogue spirit. Larry just wants to return to the land of the living and marry the woman he loves. All that’s preventing him are the Bureaucracy of Heaven, the Laws of the Universe and one angry Grim Reaper.

Joseph Hartstone: “New Dogs” (drama)
A young Republican political operative switches parties and gathers a group of old friends to run an unknown Democratic candidate against the most powerful Republican congressman in Washington .

Nils Lyew: “Lutins” (thriller)
Two desperate brothers set out to rob a bank, but when the heist turns unexpectedly violent, one is forced to stop his out-of-control sibling from killing people — sending both of them deeper into the madness of their childhood trauma as the last minutes of their lives frantically tick away.

Those of you in LA still have time to get there.

What do you think about these scripts’ loglines?

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