Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Gracious Vallarious: “Vin and Jill” is about finding acceptance in your true self, even if it means leaving behind an old life. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Drama-comedy. 3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? To bring non-transgender people into a world… Continue reading Interview with Winning Screenwriter Gracious Vallarious (VIN AND JILL)
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Interview with Winning Screenwriter Farook Qais (THE PORTAL)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Farook Qais: ‘The Portal’ is about a girl becoming a woman, her relationships with people in her life and the small matter of defending earth from whatever emerges out of a mysterious portal. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? It’s a sci-fi drama. 3. Why should… Continue reading Interview with Winning Screenwriter Farook Qais (THE PORTAL)
Interview with Winning Screenwriter Robert Tartell (Hard-Hearted Hannah & Funny Boneyard)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Robert Tartell: Hard-Hearted Hannah: A rookie detective, sent on a routine hotel skip case, find himself instead up against a diabolical serial killer with a grudge against the Eight Air Force, holding their 25th reunion there. Can he stop him before he kills again…and again? Funny Boneyard: A… Continue reading Interview with Winning Screenwriter Robert Tartell (Hard-Hearted Hannah & Funny Boneyard)
Interview with Winning Screenwriter Gregory N. Ranky (GECKO ON-SIGHT)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Gregory N. Ranky: In a world like ours, where conscious robots are commonplace, a courageous female android enters a futuristic martial arts tournament to save her old neighborhood from developers. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sports (these last 2 primarily). 3.… Continue reading Interview with Winning Screenwriter Gregory N. Ranky (GECKO ON-SIGHT)
Interview with Winning Screenwriter Maurizio Caduto (LIKE A BLOODY MONKEY)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Maurizio Caduto: To me, Like A Bloody Monkey is about the price of survival. Zehra’s traumatic transformation into a stronger character, who’s finally fit to fight for survival and revenge, begs the question: At which point the price becomes so high it defeats survival’s very purpose? 2. What genres… Continue reading Interview with Winning Screenwriter Maurizio Caduto (LIKE A BLOODY MONKEY)
Interview with Winning Screenwriter Anoop Judge (THE RUMMY CLUB)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Anoop Judge: The Rummy Club is Joy Luck Club with an Indian cultural twist and tells the story of four Indian women bound by decades of friendship: Alka, a child of privilege and power; Mini, a beauty and a flirt; Priya, a nurturing earth mother; and Divya, who… Continue reading Interview with Winning Screenwriter Anoop Judge (THE RUMMY CLUB)
Interview with Winning Screenwriter David Hearne (STARFARERS)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? David Hearne: It mirrors real-world events, in particular the U.S. invasion of countries that have resources. It’s also about love, sacrifice, honour, conflict, lust and loss. It’s also character driven. I’ve included a synopsis for you below: In the far-flung future, a conflicted space pilot will fulfil an… Continue reading Interview with Winning Screenwriter David Hearne (STARFARERS)
Interview with Winning Screenwriter Anna Milun Walsh (GIRLS TV Show)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your TV Pilot screenplay about? Anna Milun Walsh: This pilot is about how the most pivotal characters in the show Girls – Hannah, Marnie and Jessa – met. The episode follows the first few weeks of their freshman year of college at Oberlin. 2. Why should this screenplay be made into… Continue reading Interview with Winning Screenwriter Anna Milun Walsh (GIRLS TV Show)
Interview with Screenwriter Tali Zingman (HEADSTRONG)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Tali Zingman: Alice (32), a girl plagued by her own self-criticism and loathing, has just caught her boyfriend of five years cheating. Faced with the double-edged question of what to do, Alice confronts the different, zany sides of her personality. In this inner battle of the mind, she… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Tali Zingman (HEADSTRONG)
Interview with Screenwriter Marilyn Lee (WOMEN OF STEEL)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about? Marilyn Lee: Three women share their powerful and touching personal histories, past and present, to reveal phenomenal determination, steeling themselves, focusing on physical and emotional survival and overcoming inner conflict and pain. In the telling they share what and how they did this to create a new life… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Marilyn Lee (WOMEN OF STEEL)
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