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OUR CATEGORY : AwardsAug 9, 2010: Marla Hayes Sells Short Film Rights!Screenwriter Marla Hayes (ProSeries 6) has sold the rights to her short film, “PUSH.” The purchase was for non-exclusive rights and Marla was represented by her sales agent Ouat Media. Last year, the script won the Grand Prize in the “From the Heart” Film Festival and Marla was commissioned by the North Bay Symphony Orchestra [...] July 2, 2010: Sheila Seclearr Hired to Rewrite ScreenplayScreenwriter Sheila Seclearr (ProSeries 19) has been hired by Ray Zimmerman and Tammy Smith Zimmerman to do a rewrite for their upcoming film, “The Fine Art of Living.” The Zimmermans are both former executives from Sony Pictures and have worked on hundreds of significant films like Jerry Maguire and As Good As It Gets and [...] Mar 16, 2010: Simon Garrity Film Wins Santa Barbara FestivalSimon Garrity (ProSeries 4) enjoyed a win as the story he originally crafted called EXAM won the Panavision Independent Spirit Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. (See Hollywood Reporter announcement.) Simon’s original draft was rewritten and shot by writer/director Stuart Hazeldine. Simon received “Story by” credit, with “Written by” going to Hazeldine. [...] March 9, 2010: Kevin Lee Miller Produces Oscar Tribute VideoKevin Lee Miller (ProSeries 17) produced the 3-minute “John Hughes Tribute” video that was shown at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. With 40 million viewers, that’s pretty exciting. The tribute was a great compilation of movies like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Home Alone. See it at the Oscars.org [...] Jan. 29, 2010: Jennifer Quintenz’s Script makes the Black ListJennifer Quintenz (ProSeries 10) had her one-hour drama pilot THRALL voted onto the Runway TV Pilot Black List. Previously, Jennifer was a staff writer on “Wicked Wicked Games” on Fox Network and “American Heiress” on My Network TV. Currently, she has a feature and her pilot being shopped. More news coming up. Way [...] Nov. 9, 2009: Kevin Lee Miller Wins Grand PrizeCongratulations to Kevin Lee Miller (ProSeries17) on winning one of the Grand Prizes of the Final Draft Big Break Contest! It is one of the bigger contests (3,000 screenwriters), so this is quite an accomplishment. Great job, Kevin! Nov. 9th, 2009: Jeff Burns wins 1st Place at Electric City Film Fest.Congrataulations to Jeff Burns (Proseries 23), whose short film “Chasing Fate” just won 1st Place at the Electric City Film Fest. You’re on the way, Jeff. Oct. 2, 2009: Wally Zambrano Nominated for Two Emmy AwardsThe midwest National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has nominated Wally Zambrano (ProSeries 18) for two Emmy awards. Wally has been nominated for “Outstanding Achievement for Individual Excellence” as both a director and producer. The winners of the Emmy awards will be announced on November 7th. You can see Wally’s nomination along with others [...] Jan. 15, 2009: Marla Hayes Wins Grand PrizeMarla Hayes (ProSeries 6) won the Grand Prize for her short film PUSH. Marla wrote and co-produced the film. It will premier on Feb. 14th with the Symphony playing Holst’s “Mars, The Bringer of War” live and in sync with the film. Congratulations to Marla! Oh, and I can’t wait to see her upcoming high [...] Nov. 19, 2008: Simon Adams to Work with Nickelodeon on PilotAfter winning the “Nickelodeon Land A Pilot” contest, Simon Adams (ProSeries OZ ) and his co-writer Shane Elsmore are developing a pilot for their children’s TV series “Insomniacs”. The news hit the Industry trade mag at Cynopsis.com. Read it here. Great job, Simon! This is going to turn into something great for you. Sept. 10, 2008: Mark Kratter Wins Grand Prize at Fade In MagazineFade In Magazine announced the 2007 awards this week and our own Mark Kratter is their Grand Prize Winner. In the next few months, he’ll get three days of meetings with Hollywood agents and producers, and he’ll be featured in an announcement that goes out in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. This is going to [...] March 2008: Lauren Smith’s Movie CompleteLauren Smith’s ProSeries script finishes production as a low-budget movie called Freshman Psych (See Lauren’s IMDB). You can see it at www.freshmanpsych.com . Feb. 2008: Nick Epstein Wins Academy AwardThat’s right! Nick Epstein won an Academy Award – for Special Effects (See Nick’s IMDB). Here’s his story: I work at FRAMESTORE in London, England (www.framestore-cfc.com). I was LEAD TECHNICAL DIRECTOR on two sequences (including the bear fight sequence) for THE GOLDEN COMPASS, and I worked for vfx supervisors MICHAEL FINK and BEN MORRIS who picked up [...] Sept. 2007: John Arends wins PAGE InternationalSept. 2007: John Arends wins the Grand Prize at PAGE International for a script he rewrote in our Rewrite class called SOLOMON’S WHALE. His prize is $10,000. Sept. 2007: Yarrow Wayman Wins MoondanceYarrow Wayman won the Starfish award at Moondance for her ProSeries script called MESSIAH #247. |