Every last page of my award-winning screenplay, Mount Pleasant, is now available online. This script won the Film DC Screenplay Competition. It is a feature-length script, inspired by true events, about gentrification and urban politics in Washington, DC.
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Go see the best of DC Shorts on Thursday night at E Street Cinema.
It was a great festival again. I’ve volunteered with DC Shorts for more than four years now and each year it gets better and better.
My personal favorite film in the festival was Funky Prairie Boy. It won the Diversity Award (presented by [...]
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After three rounds of competition, the PAGE Awards judges have selected the top 25 Semi-Finalists in each of the ten genre categories. My screenplay, Eurabia, is a Semi-Finalist in the Science Fiction category.
Eurabia is set twenty years in the future. In my timely story, America has lost the war on terror and Europe is controlled by [...]
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My screenplay Eurabia is a Quarterfinalist in the The 2009 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards. After the first two rounds of competition, my script has made it to the top 10% of all entries. Eurabia is the timely story of what would happen if Europe was ruled by radical mullahs like in Iran.
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Since I finished writing Murder in Ocean Hall, I’ve gotten questions from friends and family regarding the book. Creating something from nothing seems enough of a magical act to inspire some questioning. The question I’ve gotten most is:
Where’d you get the idea from?
I originally planned to write a much different book, something much more serious [...]
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Eurabia, my screenplay about what might happen if the US lost the war on terror, was a Semifinalist in the 2008 Screenwriting Expo Screenplay Competition. The Screenwriting Expo is a huge conference in LA for screenwriters.
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride…
Actually, this script has done really well, making it to at least the semifinalist stages [...]
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I’ve been involved with the DC Shorts Film Festival as a film and screenplay judge for the past couple years. It’s such a good time. The movies are interesting, the parties are awesome and there’s a very friendly, constructive buzz about the whole affair. This isn’t Hollywood – these are real people, just like you, who make [...]
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It’s been a busy summer and I’ve continued to write and enter screenplays in contests.
Accept All Changes
This somewhat saccharine short script is about a romance between a bike courier and a bored technical writer. I was inspired to write this after being a judge for the DC Shorts Short Screenplay Contest. After judging other people’s [...]
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My screenplay, After the Gold Rush, has been selected as a Semi Finalist for the 2008 BlueCat Screenwriting Lab.
The BlueCat Screenwriting Lab is a really interesting project. Founded by Gordy Hoffman (brother of Phillip Seymour Hoffman), BlueCat has become one of the best screenwriting contests in the country. What distinguishes them from other [...]
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A fascinating post by Marc Andreeson on rebuilding Hollywood in Silicon Valley’s image. Here’s his inspiring conclusion:
However, in the event of a long-term strike, out of the ashes of the traditional model would — I believe — come the birth of certainly dozens, maybe hundreds, and possibly even thousands of new media companies, rising phoenix-like [...]
