“Cowboy Dreams” and “Desert Angel” - two short film scripts penned by Locked Horns’ own Steve Briscoe - have advanced to the Quarter-Finals in the 12th Annual Fade In Awards. Read more about the competition here and click on the link “2007 Quarter-Finalists Announced.”

“Cowboy Dreams” - a surreal comedy about the nightmares plaguing an ex-gunfighter in the Old West - is the next film on Locked Horns’ production slate. Look for major announcements regarding that project very soon!

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WINNER! The Redhead, an original feature-length screenplay written by Locked Horns’ Steve Briscoe and Paul DeNigris has been awarded 2nd Place among screenplays set in Arizona in this year’s Phoenix Film Festival Screenplay Challenge.

Read more about it here.

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UPDATE! The Redhead, an original feature-length screenplay written by Locked Horns’ Steve Briscoe and Paul DeNigris has been named as one of the TOP TEN screenplays in this year’s Phoenix Film Festival Screenplay Challenge. Read more about it here.

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IFP/Phoenix’s television series “Screen Wars,” on which Paul DeNigris served as Executive Producer, has garnered SIX Emmy nominations from the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, including Best Arts/Entertainment Program. Amanda Melby, Julie Holman, and Chris LaMont were the program’s other Executive Producers, and the show was produced by a team of Paul’s students at the University of Advancing Technology led by Todd Anderson and Erin Frisbie.

In addition to supervising the student production and postprodution teams, Paul also contributed to the writing of the show, directed segments for several episodes, and designed the show’s opening title sequence, seen here:

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Variety broke the story on Friday:

Tom Tagholm’s “A Bout de Truffe” drew the short film kudos, with an honorable mention going to “Stabbing Stupidity,” directed by Paul DeNigris and written by Steve Briscoe.

 Read the full story here.

This is the 2nd film festival honor for “Stabbing Stupidity,” coming on the heels of director Paul DeNigris’ win for “Arizona Filmmaker of the Year” at this year’s Phoenix Film Festival.

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