Inspired Script
Inspired Script's CALL FOR FEATURE FILM OUTLINES is now closed.
The Atlantic Film Festival Association is very pleased to announce screenwriter, author, and story consultant, Noel Baker as our special guest instructor for the 2008 Inspired Script Program, presented by sponsors, Telefilm Canada and Astral Media The Harold Greenburg Fund.
Inspired Script offers a unique opportunity for four Atlantic Canadian writers to develop their feature film outlines to treatments and pitch them to a panel of industry professionals at the 28th Atlantic Film Festival. The winner of the pitch will receive $20,000 in development financing and will also receive a live, staged full read-through with local actors at Script Out Loud during the 29th Atlantic Film Festival.
The four outlines, selected by an Inspired Script Jury, will be developed into treatments through three intensive weekend workshops with script editor, Noel Baker and world-renowned pitching expert, Jan Miller.
Program Dates
Workshops: July 4-6, August 8-10, September 11-13
Inspired Script Pitch & Match: September 14
Our 2007 Winners
The 2007 winning outline was Pot of Gold by Drew Hagen (NS):
Doug Davidson and his wife Penelope are living paycheck to paycheck, expecting their second child, when he suddenly loses his job down at the chocolate factory in Dartmouth. With their life is thrown into turmoil, Doug is convinced by his crazy buddy Lyle McKelvey to take a wild road trip across the country to the promise of a lucrative job in the Alberta oil fields. Doug and Lyle quickly find that the streets of gold are actually paved with broken dreams as they run into dubious local characters hell bent on their destruction.
27th Atlantic Film Festival Program Guides
Photo courtesy of Jule Malet-Veale
