I'm pleased to announce that my screenplay "Whiplash" won the First Prize in the MORE magazine screenplay contest, competing against more than 1000 other entries.
http://www.more.com/more/story.jsp?s...1396164085.xml
The script was also in the top 30 (out of more than 5,000 entries) in the 2007 Nicholl Fellowship competition.
LOGLINE:
To bring her brother's killer to justice, a young woman disguises herself as a man and works her way across the country as a stagecoach driver, pursued by a jaded ex-Confederate officer who threatens to expose her true identity -- and steal her heart. (Based on a true story.)
The script was judged in the MORE final round by:
Angela Bassett, Academy Award nominated actress
Ilene Chaiken, creator of The L Word
Glenn Close, five-time Academy Award nominated actress
Lindsay Doran, producer (Stranger Than Fiction, Nanny McPhee, Sense and Sensibility)
Mary Hansell, screenplay competition director, Austin Film Festival
Diana Ossana, Academy Award winning Brokeback Mountain screenwriter
Jeanne Tripplehorn, actress from HBO's acclaimed Big Love.
Sela Ward, Emmy Award and Screen Actors Guild Awards winning actress
The prize is:
First-Place Prize
LauriD
http://www.more.com/more/story.jsp?s...1396164085.xml
The script was also in the top 30 (out of more than 5,000 entries) in the 2007 Nicholl Fellowship competition.
LOGLINE:
To bring her brother's killer to justice, a young woman disguises herself as a man and works her way across the country as a stagecoach driver, pursued by a jaded ex-Confederate officer who threatens to expose her true identity -- and steal her heart. (Based on a true story.)
The script was judged in the MORE final round by:
Angela Bassett, Academy Award nominated actress
Ilene Chaiken, creator of The L Word
Glenn Close, five-time Academy Award nominated actress
Lindsay Doran, producer (Stranger Than Fiction, Nanny McPhee, Sense and Sensibility)
Mary Hansell, screenplay competition director, Austin Film Festival
Diana Ossana, Academy Award winning Brokeback Mountain screenwriter
Jeanne Tripplehorn, actress from HBO's acclaimed Big Love.
Sela Ward, Emmy Award and Screen Actors Guild Awards winning actress
The prize is:
First-Place Prize
- <LI minmax_bound="true">$5,000 cash; <LI minmax_bound="true">at least one carefully matched meeting with the development director at a prominent film production company and/or with a prominent movie agent; <LI minmax_bound="true">a workshop of her film at the Austin Writers' Ranch, early 2008; <LI minmax_bound="true">producer-level badge to the Austin Film Festival, October 2008; <LI minmax_bound="true">press and online attention; <LI minmax_bound="true">spa getaway;
- and other prizes.
LauriD
Comment