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Re: [Denver-ScreenWriters] Today-13th Screening of The English Patient at the Sie Film Center

From: Trai C.
Sent on: Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 10:41 AM
It's great info, Rick, and we're all very excited for you!!!

--Trai Cartwright




On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Rick McGovern <[address removed]> wrote:
Thanks, Tracy. 

I've learned not to get too excited too early, but you guys can check scriptpipeline.com on Tuesday afternoon to see if I got the top prize. 

It's for their First Look project. The prize money isn't anywhere near as high as their other contest, but I suppose the ultimate prize is them helping me get my western in tip top shape and sold, along with getting representation. It's a contest for studio-level writers. 

Also been talking to the director of development, and he seems pretty excited, which excites me, too... but which I still keep under wraps until something really breaks. lol but even though I have a hard time doing it, we do need to celebrate our small victories, which can ultimately lead to huge victories. 

But entering the three or four genuinely "can help your career" contests really can help you gauge where you are as a writer. And if you make it high enough in these contests, can also give you the needed strength to keep pushing forward, and to help you know you're on the right path.

Take part in these wonderful programs/meetings that Tracy sets up and use them  to your advantage to help make you better writers. And listen to the feedback you get. And don't take them as personal attacks, either. They're meant to help you. As my friend Bruce who wrote Ghost and Jacob's Ladder always tells me, if you hear it from one person, it's just an opinion. But if you hear the same thing from three or four different people, then pay attention, because something is definitely not working. I see a lot of people out here defend their choices instead of being willing to change them when they don't work. 

There are also a couple good screenwriting communities you can take part in. One is Scriptshadow. Some good people there. And there's a couple others. I also suggest getting hooked into one or more of them. And of course read as many screenplays as you can. 

Sorry lol didn't mean to start a class, but this contest had me thinking about the 4 years I've been a screenwriter and I started thinking aloud. 

Have a great Sunday! Hope to see everyone over the summer. 


Rick

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On Mar 13, 2016, at 10:39 AM, Tracy O'Shaughnessy <[address removed]> wrote:

Hello DSW:

Congratulations to Rick - a DSW member who lives in LA and just made the top two for the Script Pipeline Contest!  He finds out by Tuesday if he won 1st or 2nd place! Go Rick - So very thrilled for you!!!!

Join us today - I will be in the lobby of the Sie Film Center (meet in lobby at 3:35pm) wearing a multi-colored Hawaiian Shirt with pianos on it...and hope to meet you today (in person)!

We have posted this Lighthouse event as a way to connect...and further our craft...and encourage DSWers to show up and connect...so get out of your house...meet other screenwriters...and stay for the talk-back session afterwards and make new friends;-)

We have also posted lots and lots of amazing screenwriting classes from brilliant teachers for you to sign up...brush up...and celebrate the next level of your screen writing adventure.

DSW Meetup at the Lighthouse Event:

Film screening and talk-back of The English Patient

at Sie Film Center on March 13 in preparation for:

Michael Ondaatje’s visit on March 19 & 20.

The English Patient

United Kingdom, 1996, 162 Minute Running Time

Sunday, March 13th at 4pm.  
This screening is a collaboration with Lighthouse Writers Workshop and will feature a talkback with instructor Alexandre Phillipe. Lighthouse Writers Workshop is the largest nonprofit literary community in Colorado and the Mountain West. Click here for more info.


Anthony Minghella wrote and directed this award-winning adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel about a doomed and tragic romance set against the backdrop of World War II. In a field hospital in Italy, Hana (Juliette Binoche), a nurse from Canada, is caring for a pilot who was horribly burned in a plane wreck; he has no identification and cannot remember his name, so he's known simply as "the English Patient," thanks to his accent. When the hospital is forced to evacuate, Hana determines en route that the patient shouldn't be moved far due to his fragile condition, so the two are left in a monastery to be picked up later. In time, Hana begins to piece together the patient's story from the shards of his memories; he's actually Count Laszlo Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), of Hungarian nobility and an explorer working with a group mapping uncharted territory in North Africa. An Englishman, Geoffrey Clifton (Colin Firth), soon joins Almasy's team; travelling with him is his lovely and spirited wife, Katherine (Kristin Scott Thomas). Katherine and Laszlo soon fall in love, which leads Laszlo to betray his friend, his country and all that is dear to him. Meanwhile, Hana and the Patient are joined by Kip (Naveen Andrews), a Sikh with a gift for defusing mines, and Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), an intelligence agent who knows some of Laszlo's most shameful secrets. The English Patient won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Juliette Binoche).

 

The English Patient

 





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