Sean Mannion

Tag: contest

  • Catastrophe a 2010 StoryPros Awards Finalist

    I am pleased to share that my feature screenplay Catastrophe made it to the Finalist round of the 3rd Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest. Catastrophe‘s logline is: “In a world of superheroes and supervillains an unsuccessful disaster insurance salesman becomes a supervillain to save his job.”

    I started writing Catastrophe just over a year ago for my Feature Screenwriting class at the New York Film Academy. This spring, after many revisions, I entered the screenplay in several contests. I’m very excited that the script made it as far as the Finalist stage of the StoryPros contest. The story is a mix of action and dark comedy and one of my New York Film Academy instructors favorably referred to it as an indie comedy colliding with a summer blockbuster.

    The logline for Catastrophe and other feature and television scripts I have available or am in the process of revising are available to view on my Loglines page in the Screenwriting section.

  • The Brooklyn Film Race

    In October I teamed up with some friends and collaborators to participate in The Brooklyn Film Race, a competition to see who can write, shoot, edit and deliver a four minute film in 24 hours. We made it.

    My wife, Jessica, was our writer. My friend and former classmate, João Lameira, was our director. His girlfriend, Mafalda Melo, was our cinematographer. Miranda Childs who worked with me on my directing project at NYFA was our lead actress, and I acted as editor.

    It was a great collaborative exercise. We completed our short, “For Outerspace I Long,” with 2 hours to spare. I am really proud of what we produced.

    For Outerspace I Long from Sean Mannion on Vimeo.