March 13 2016 Writing Festival Event

This week’s screenplay festival is a showcase of faith, triumph, and ideals. We will be showcasing a feature screenplay, short screenplay, and two best scenes of a feature.

Here are the details of the works that will be performed.

#1 – Feature Screenplay – GATES OF HELL

Written by: Everett House and Pamela Green

Genre: Biography, Drama

Synopsis: GATES OF HELL is a biography of a tenacious Christian youth, including being institutionalized and undergoing years of shock treatment and other atrocities while maintaining his faith.

#2 – Short Screenplay – BEST INTERESTS

Written by James M. Freeman

Genre: Action, History, Drama

Synopsis: To protest inhumane treatment and unfair rejection of his application for refugee status, a teenage Vietnamese asylum seeker challenges the authority of a Hong Kong detention camp commandant, resisting the commandant’s efforts to force him to repatriate.

#3 – Best Scene – SCREAMING MY HEART OUT

Written by Janyce Lapore

Genre: Drama

Synopsis: The actions of 4 girls, from the same Italian family, coming of age in a small steel mill town in the late 60’s, threatens the very fiber of Italian American life as each girl defies tradition and expectation to find a future that lies beyond the bou… See more

$4 – Best Scene – THE HOOPLA

Written by Thomas Nesti

Genre: Drama, Comedy

Synopsis: Asher tries to have a serious relationship for the first time in his life while he works in a struggling movie theater trying to survive.