Top 50 Quarterfinalists Announced – 2023 Shorts Competition
Stowe Story Labs Announces Fellows and Honorable Mentions for 2023 Labs and Retreats
Virginia Screenwriters Forum Launches New Screenwriting Contest
Ever wanted to write a movie? The time may be now. The Virginia Screenwriters Forum (VSF) is looking for the best thirty pages of a feature script for its inaugural “First Act, First Look Screenplay Contest.” The winner will receive $500 and feedback from award-winning screenwriters. The grand prize winner will be selected September 1 by guest judge Jesse Vaughan, RVA’s own director extraordinaire. Vaughn is the recipient of the 2020 Ted Yates Award for lifetime achievement from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
CRT – Critical race truth
As Black History Month 2022 wraps up, we again call our readers’ attention to the growing national assaults on teaching and learning about America’s past and the racist policies and practices that have brought our city, state and nation to where it is today – with gaps in education, health, wealth, employment, homeownership and justice that disproportionately impact Black people and people of color.
Ms. Career Girl
Roberta Forest is a bright and rebellious Black thirteen-year-old living in Philadelphia at the height of the Watergate scandal. After a nun at her school makes a racist remark after Roberta criticizes Jefferson for being a slaveholder, she spirals into doubt about her religion and the adults in her life. Roberta copes with life’s difficulties and her parent’s struggling marriage through her poetry, writing, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. When disappointment with her ineligibility in her school’s essay contest puts Roberta into an enraged confrontation with her mother, familial truths are revealed.
Getaway
Roberta Forest is a bright and rebellious Black thirteen-year-old living in Philadelphia at the height of the Watergate scandal. After a nun at her school makes a racist remark after Roberta criticizes Jefferson for being a slaveholder, she spirals into doubt about her religion and the adults in her life. Roberta copes with life’s difficulties and her parent’s struggling marriage through her poetry, writing, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. When disappointment with her ineligibility in her school’s essay contest puts Roberta into an enraged confrontation with her mother, family secrets are revealed.
