NSI names Movie Camp winners

The National Screen Institute has announced the six winners of its Movie Camp Screenwriting Contests in Toronto and Ottawa.

Aspiring screenwriters, aged 13 to 19, were asked to submit five-minute scripts, which will be produced at Movie Camp 1.0, and webcast on Excite.ca and the @Home network.

The three winners from Ottawa are: Adam Meisner for Faceless, about two girls who get revenge on the guy who dated them both at the same time; Diana Fan for Disillusionment Is Not Burning, about a screenwriter who tries to defend his work while on a movie set; and Sharyn Larter for The Blinding Darkness, about the inner world of a girl who lies in a coma.

Toronto winners are: Candice Chow-How for Double Double, a character study of the various people who inhabit a coffee shop; Zachary Derhodge for Morris Beam Accident, Incident and Fate, about a man who spent 40 years as an optometrist and now lives in a treehouse; and Justin Thomson-Hertzog for Family Business, a wacky day in the life of a family’s bakery business.

Movie Camp Ottawa ran July 17-28 and Toronto runs July 31 to Aug. 11. *

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