PFP Reveals Screenplay Finalists

This fall, Pride Films and Plays developmental work with writers from around the country continues with Gay Film Weekend for new screenplay development. Five finalists and five semi-finalists have been named in PFP's Great Gay Screenplay Contest, an international contest for screenplays with LGBT characters and themes.

The finalists include a wide range of subject matter ranging from a thrilling drama about the secrets revealed when a man returns home to care for his mother, an action-packed TV pilot about gay club owners taking on the Italian mafia, an exciting crime story about a detective investigating a serial killer, a fun road trip comedy involving an unlikely pair of friends, and a touching coming-of-age tale about a friendship put to the test.

The five screenplays will be performed as enhanced staged readings from November 13 to 15, 2015 during Gay Film Weekend at Center on Halsted's Hoover-Leppen Theatre. Tickets for the readings are pay-what-you-can, and each reading is followed by a discussion with the director and the actors in the reading, and the screenwriter.

Gay Film Weekend kicks off with Queer Bits Fall Film Festival on Monday, November 9 at Public House Theater. The selection of the short films that will have their Chicago premiere?s will be announced next week.

The five finalists in the Great Gay Screenplay Contest are:

• Drowning City by Chuck Griffith
• Finndale by Lloyd Ohls
• The Gay Shoe Clerks by Brad Cryan
• A Place in the Woods by Erik Gernard
• Somebody to Love by Jay Cipriani