Melanie Schiele has won the grand prize at this year’s Slamdance screenplay competition for “Butterfly Children.” The award includes $10,000 cash and $50,000 in production funds. The story centers on a husband and wife, whose marriage is on the brink of failure, reconnecting as they help their young daughter try to beat a rare life-threatening skin disease that is leaving her skin as fragile as butterfly wings. First place in the feature screenplay category went to Mary F. Unser for the “The Ecdysiasts” for her script about a 13-year-old breaking free of his isolation and lifting his heart-broken family out of their grief. Second place went to “Swine” by Clayton Sakoda and a joint third place was awarded to “Terrestrials” by Elliot and Teresa Sutherland; and “Wallingford” by Lisa Rubin. The horror screenplay trophy went to Mark Strassel and Rebecca Rudell for “Exquisite Corpses,” in which a surrealist parlor game turns deadly when college art students summon a series of macabre creatures. “That Time of the Month” by Joe Hauler took second place and “Dead Tired” by Geoffrey Uloth was third.
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