A RAINY DAY TO REMEMBER
RAIN wins award of Best Short Script at
the ECU European Film Festival in Paris
I'm told it was raining in Paris on Friday, so if the omens were good, now they're inveterate: my short-script Rain - which had been short-listed in the Official Selection of the ECU European Independent Film Festival in France - somehow emerged as the overall winner, claiming the award of Best Short Script 2008.
The 30-page script was also selected to receive a dramatic live-reading by a team of actors to an audience of industry professionals on the Festival’s closing night.
A fantasy-thriller, Rain is the story of a young girl who suffers from a rare water allergy and, in order to help a friend in need, tries recruiting the services of a mythological figure that lives on her bedroom ceiling. Unaware if her fabled aide has accepted her call-to-arms, she is forced to make a decision whether or not to venture outdoors and save her friend during a violent rainstorm.
More info on both the award and the script can be found on the Festival’s website: http://www.ecufilmfestival.com/2008_script-comp_winners.php
Unfortunately I couldn’t make it to Paris in time for the winners' announcement at Friday’s press conference, or the subsequent Awards Ceremony being held today. However, I will be heading over to the magical French capital early next week to collect the award in-person.
Whilst in Paris we'll be undertaking various introductions with producers/production companies who have expressed their interest in the project, and will continue to do so upon our return to the UK. Any other interested parties are encouraged to make contact as we will now be actively seeking suitable partners for a European co-production.
Please register your interest via: dmahmoudieh@yahoo.ca
A massive thank you to ECU and their Jury for recognizing the script’s potential. The fact the Festival’s president, Scott Hillier, is himself an Academy Award Winner makes the decoration an even greater honour.
Also – big, big thanks for the many kind congratulatory messages I’ve received to all who’ve sent them. Your support is – as always – appreciated beyond words. Without it I wouldn’t have the requisite assurance to do what I do with any real conviction. In fact, it’s your interminable backing and belief in this here sucka which makes it all worthwhile.
'Nuff said.
DM
© David Mahmoudieh 2008
the ECU European Film Festival in Paris
I'm told it was raining in Paris on Friday, so if the omens were good, now they're inveterate: my short-script Rain - which had been short-listed in the Official Selection of the ECU European Independent Film Festival in France - somehow emerged as the overall winner, claiming the award of Best Short Script 2008.
The 30-page script was also selected to receive a dramatic live-reading by a team of actors to an audience of industry professionals on the Festival’s closing night.
A fantasy-thriller, Rain is the story of a young girl who suffers from a rare water allergy and, in order to help a friend in need, tries recruiting the services of a mythological figure that lives on her bedroom ceiling. Unaware if her fabled aide has accepted her call-to-arms, she is forced to make a decision whether or not to venture outdoors and save her friend during a violent rainstorm.
More info on both the award and the script can be found on the Festival’s website: http://www.ecufilmfestival.com/2008_script-comp_winners.php
Unfortunately I couldn’t make it to Paris in time for the winners' announcement at Friday’s press conference, or the subsequent Awards Ceremony being held today. However, I will be heading over to the magical French capital early next week to collect the award in-person.
Whilst in Paris we'll be undertaking various introductions with producers/production companies who have expressed their interest in the project, and will continue to do so upon our return to the UK. Any other interested parties are encouraged to make contact as we will now be actively seeking suitable partners for a European co-production.
Please register your interest via: dmahmoudieh@yahoo.ca
A massive thank you to ECU and their Jury for recognizing the script’s potential. The fact the Festival’s president, Scott Hillier, is himself an Academy Award Winner makes the decoration an even greater honour.
Also – big, big thanks for the many kind congratulatory messages I’ve received to all who’ve sent them. Your support is – as always – appreciated beyond words. Without it I wouldn’t have the requisite assurance to do what I do with any real conviction. In fact, it’s your interminable backing and belief in this here sucka which makes it all worthwhile.
'Nuff said.
DM
© David Mahmoudieh 2008
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