UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s Professional Programs has revealed the winners of its 2023 Feature Screenplay, Television Pilot and Acting for the Camera Pitch competitions.
The winners are determined by a panel of industry experts and UCLA alumni. The first-place laureates in each category were awarded $1,000 in recognition of their achievements.
Rashel Mereness is the Advanced Competition winner. Mereness astounded with her supernaturally charged comedy, The Scottish Play. In it, a heroic young woman fights against otherworldly entities to save her mother’s beloved small-town community theater when she discovers there is a curse on one of Shakespeare’s most revered plays.
Ellen Lichius was the Screenwriting Competition winner for her comedy-drama Sarasota. This heartfelt narrative follows a woman whose world is turned upside down when she discovers her husband in a compromising position. In a bold move, she trades her antidepressants for tequila, accepts an ex-boyfriend’s...
The winners are determined by a panel of industry experts and UCLA alumni. The first-place laureates in each category were awarded $1,000 in recognition of their achievements.
Rashel Mereness is the Advanced Competition winner. Mereness astounded with her supernaturally charged comedy, The Scottish Play. In it, a heroic young woman fights against otherworldly entities to save her mother’s beloved small-town community theater when she discovers there is a curse on one of Shakespeare’s most revered plays.
Ellen Lichius was the Screenwriting Competition winner for her comedy-drama Sarasota. This heartfelt narrative follows a woman whose world is turned upside down when she discovers her husband in a compromising position. In a bold move, she trades her antidepressants for tequila, accepts an ex-boyfriend’s...
- 7/19/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
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