The REVVER

The REVVER

Short · Thriller · 13 pages
Status: Spec
At wit's end with a motorhead neighbor always revving his big truck, a beleaguered artist takes matters into her own hands to finish her masterwork on time. (A wish-fulfillment dark-comedy thriller)
Written by Mike Hanson and Kelly Moothart
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Semifinalist, PAGE Awards - PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Competition 2024
Semifinalist, PAGE Awards - PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Competition 2023

2 Writers

Mike Hanson
Sioux Falls, SD
Mike Hanson has been writing since third grade when he won Cartoon Corral's "My Mom's Great Because..." contest. Later he'd be a stringer reporter in a death penalty case for the AP; write award-winning short stories; see his musings in TIME and Readers Digest; and write scripts, including The Heckler, an award-winning broad-comedy baseball feature...
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Kelly Moothart
Kansas City, MO
Kelly Moothart has been writing since third grade when she won a haiku contest. She was a news reporter and editor in high school and college. In addition to writing short stories and screenplays, she is the published author of a mystery novel, Murder By Text, part of the Mystery, Ink. series. Her focus is now on getting The Revver made into a shor...
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1. Watch Joe Altieri (going in cold & undirected) as The Revver on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DWLEMOLXIrQ?si=DgrsUvc4ifykTEW8 2. The complete roster of all accolades: -- "Best of the Fest", Nevada City Film Festival, Best Screenplay Winner (June 25, 2023) ($1000.00 prize!) -- Grand Prize Winner, SYS's Six-Figure Screenplay Contest (2023) (10/17/23) -- 1st Place Winner, Sunvale Table Read Contest (April) (5/8/23) -- 1st Place Winner, Screenplay Short, Irvine International Film Festival (4/29/21) -- 1st Place Winner, Best Screenplay Short, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards (8/29/20) -- 1st Place Winner, Best Short Script, IndieX Film Fest (1/13/23) -- 1st Place Winner, Best Thriller Short Screenplay, Top Shorts Film Festival (9/29/20) -- 1st Place Winner, Best Short Screenplay, Festigious International Film Festival Los Angeles (10/6/20) -- 1st Place Winner, Best Dark Comedy Screenplay, Nevada Short Film Festival (Spring 2021) (3/19/21) -- 1st Place Winner, Best Unproduced Short Script, Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cilt (4/15/21) -- Bronze Award Winner, Independent Shorts Awards (10/15/20) -- Runner-up, Best Dark Comedy Screenplay, Georgia Shorts Film Festival (4/14/24) -- Top 10 Finalist, Creative Screenwriting Shoot Your Short Screenplay Competition (6/28/24) --Finalist, Mad Wife 100 Scripts (11/19/23) -- Finalist, Glendale International Film Festival (2023) -- Finalist, Pasadena International Film Festival (2022) -- "Finalist", "Screening Selection" (one of 22 films, features, pilots & shorts so designated), and "Honorable Mention" (one of five unranked runner-up scripts behind the Best Script winner), Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival (6/14/21) -- "Honorable Mention: Screenplay", sole non-genre runner-up to first place winner, Los Angeles Film Awards (10/2/20) - Honorable Mention, The Southern California Screenplay Competition (1/27/21) -- Honorable Mention, Bolt (7/31/23) -- Finalist, Creative World Awards (5/19/24) -- Finalist, Vail Film Festival (12/1/22) -- Finalist, WeScreenplay Shorts Lab (9/15/21) -- Finalist, Independent Shorts Awards (July 25, 2023) -- Finalist (one of nine from over 1000 submissions), Chicago Screenplay Awards (7/21/21) -- Finalist (one of nine from over 1000 submissions), Miami Screenplay Awards (7/9/21) -- Finalist (one of ten unranked behind single placer), Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards Season 6 (8/10/21) -- Finalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards (Spring 2020) -- Finalist, Hollywood Just4Shorts Film and Screenplay Competition (7/30/20) and (2/28/22) -- Finalist, Indie Short Fest (9/5/20) -- Finalist, Wiki Screenplay Contest (9/7/20) --Finalist, Independent Shorts Awards (9/10/20) -- Finalist, California Women's Film Festival (Winter) (12/25/20) -- Finalist, Oregon Short Film Festival (2/13/21) -- Finalist, Richmond International Film Festival (5/25/21) -- Finalist, Santa Barbara Shorts Festival (5/21/22) -- Finalist, Reno-Tahoe Screenplay Contest (Fall 2021 Period) (5/31/22) & (5/31/23) -- Semifinalist, Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards & Pitch Deck-Sizzle Reel-Trailer Contest (Winter 2025) -- Semifinalist, Omaha Film Festival (Top 16) (January 7, 2024) -- Semi-Finalist ("Top 50"), Cinequest Screenwriting Competition (2023-24) -- Semifinalist, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Competition, (8/15/23) and (8/15/24) (ongoing) -- Semifinalist, Dallas International Film Festival (Event Horizon "Script to Screen") Screenplay Competition, (7/31/23) -- Semifinalist, Indie Shorts Fest (7/9/23) -- Semifinalist, Outstanding Screenplays Competition (4/3/23) -- Semifinalist, Creative World Awards (8/15/22) -- Semifinalist, Palm Springs Shorts (5/28/22) -- Semifinalist, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards (2/15/22) -- Semifinalist, Sedona International Film Festival (1/21/22) -- Semifinalist, Sedona International Film Festival, one of Top 24, (1/14/24) -- Semifinalist, Hollywood Weekly Magazine Film Festival (11/21/21) -- Semifinalist, IndieX Film Fest (9/19//20) -- Semifinalist, Top 10%, WeScreenplay Shorts Contest (9/15/20) -- Semifinalist, The Script Lab Free Screenplay Contest (only 25 Finalists out of 13,000+ entries) (2020) -- Semifinalist, Big Apple Film Festival & Screenplay Competition (10/24/20) -- Semifinalist, New York City International Screenplay Awards (3/11/21). -- Semifinalist, Circus Road Screenplay Contest (4/2/21) -- Semifinalist, Venice Shorts (7/8//21) -- Semifinalist @ Oscar-qualifying Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival (7/26/21 and 7/29/23) -- Semifinalist @ Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition (8/09/21) -- Semifinalist, FilmQuest (9/2/21) -- Official Selection, B & B International Film Festival (10/5/24) -- Official Selection, LA Under the Stars Film Festival (7/1/24) --Official Selection, LA Film Invasion (May 2024) -- Official Selection, Marina del Rey Film Festival (6/19/24) -- Official Selection, All Genre Screenplay Contest (2/25/24) -- Official Selection, Blue Eye Screenplay Contest (2/19/24) -- Official Selection, HorrOrigins Film Festival (9/11/23) -- Official Selection, Venice Shorts (1/2/23) -- Official Selection, LA Under the Stars (1/17/23) --Official Selection, Austin Under the Stars Film Festival (9/2/22) -- Official Selection, Fort Myers Int'l Film Festival- Screenplay Competition (4/1/22) -- Official Selection, Boobs & Blood International Film Festival (9/21/21) -- Official Selection, Las Vegas International Film & Screenplay Festival (10/11/20) -- Official Selection, Mediterranean Film Festival Cannes (11/10/2020) -- Official Selection, Phoenix Shorts (3/1/2021) -- Official Selection, Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival, Best Suspense/Thriller Screenplay (4/28/21) -- Official Selection, International New York Film Festival (5/5/21) -- Official Selection, Script Summit (8/6/21) -- Official Selection, Culver City Film Festival (11/21/21) -- Official Selection, Quarterfinalist @ Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition (7/6/2023) -- Official Selection, Quarterfinalist @ Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition (7/27/2022) -- Quarterfinalist, Creative World Awards (April 2025) -- Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards (8/15/23) -- Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Competition (2/28/25) -- Quarterfinalist, Inroads Fellowship (Season 6) (May 15, 2023) --Quarterfinalist, 1 of top 56, Sedona Film Festival (1/7/21) -- Quarterfinalist, 1 of top 25, Slamdance Film Festival (9/21/21) -- Quarterfinalist, Oscar-qualifying Nashville Film Festival (7/9/21) -- Quarterfinalist, PAGE International Screenplay Awards, 9400 entries, Top 10% (7/15/21) -- Quarterfinalist, PAGE International Screenplay Awards, 8600 entries, Top 10% (7/15/22) -- Quarterfinalist, SWN Screenplay Competition (Sokolow Award) -- Quarterfinalist, Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Competition (1/20/21) -- The Short List, Barnstorm Fest (12/27/21) --Quarterfinalist, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest (5/21/22) -- Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition (9/5/23) -- Second Rounder, ScreenCraft Film Fund (Spring 2022) (1/12/21) -- Second Rounder, Shore Scripts Film Fund (Spring 2023) (1/ 23) -- Second Rounder, ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition (Spring 2023) (1/23) -- The Red List (Coverfly): Top 1% of 125,832 Overall Projects; ranked #13 All-Time of 20,863 Shorts Projects; in Top 1% of 9982 Thriller Projects; and ranked #2 All-Time of 1490 Short Thriller Projects (as of 12/6/23). Also presently #1 short thriller of the month; #1 short thriller of the year; and #2 short thriller All Time.