» On 3/01/2024 08:00:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Script Competition Laurels. 

I started writing scripts following my stint as an NBC Page, and I still keep hoping one of them will sell. 😉

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2003Jul: Azért is . . ! [Despite everything . . !] (short animation script included in the facebookworm book) first appeared in Newtopia Magazine and was later selected (2004Feb) as one of the 68 Notable Online Short Stories of 2003 (from over 600 nominations) in the storySouth Million Writers Award for Fiction. ➡️It was also announced as an eighth finalist (top 206, from over 1,200 entries) in the FilmMakers Magazine American Gem Short Screenplay Competition (2007Sep).

1998Oct: Francis Ford Coppola calls The Fall In Budapest "quality stuff." This feature screenplay (included in the 9TimeZones.com book) was one of five finalists in SCRNWRiT's First Draft Contest. Fifty original scripts from the 1,486 members of SCRNWRiT had advanced to the quarterfinals in early October. ➡️It was subsequently named as a Quarterfinalist in the 8th Annual Writers Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition (2001Nov). ➡️A year later, it was announced as one of the top 100 scripts in AFP's competition (2002Dec).

2004Nov: Eleven Thousand Virgins: Hildegard von Bingen's Last Chants was announced as a Semifinalist in the 11th Annual Writers Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition.

2020Sep: Vlad the Impaler: Son of Dracul was announced as a semi-finalist (feature-length) in this Screenwriters Network (British) contest.

2004Feb: Merlinsky: The Sorcerer's Apprentice was announced as one of 124 Quarter-Finalists (out of 2,186 entries) in the First Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest (2003), judged by Francis Ford Coppola.

2001Nov: Merlinsky: The Sorcerer's Apprentice was earlier named as a Quarterfinalist in the 8th Annual Writers Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition.

2020Jun: Côte d'Azur was announced as a semi-finalist (feature-length) in this Screenwriters Network (British) contest.

2024Mar: And the eBooks are still popular, after 4+ years!
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» On 10/02/2019 04:00:00 PM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Côte d'Azur to NBC NY Page. 

I was hired as a Page soon after returning from a year in southern France, selling t-shirts to the tourists with a Danish business partner. The venture wasn't successful at all, and we still laughingly refer to that period as "The Year Of Failing Miserably." But it was a lot of fun, and it convinced us that we could accomplish great things in life. Well, medium-great, anyway. I filled several notebooks with our daily adventures, and later threatened for decades to dramatize our year abroad. After a few of my other screenplays placed well in international competitions (quarters, semis and finals), I figured it was time to dig out the notebooks.

So I fictionalized our experiences, then converted the screenplay into an ebook. That proof-of-concept adaptation has appeared on Amazon's Performing Arts Best Sellers list since it was first published, in July 2019, with reviews averaging 5 out of 5 stars.

Title: Côte d'Azur

Logline: "There's nothing quite so romantic as spending one's youth in a foreign land."

Synopsis: Eric is a 20-something American guy who's plunging headlong into some humorously calamitous and often outrageous adventures, sexual and otherwise, while selling t-shirts on the French Riviera. Or maybe Eric is an older man who's looking back on his earlier years with nostalgic regret and trying to alter the course of his life. The story was inspired by Lawrence Durrell, and his experiments with metafictional techniques in The Avignon Quintet ("fictional" characters interacting with "real" characters) and The Alexandria Quartet (the Rashomon of literature, with multiple points of view). This is a coming-of-age buddy movie, with fantasy, humor, adventure, romance, alternate history and a touch of magic. The script reads like a heightened junior year abroad, with independent 20-somethings instead of traditional students: "L'auberge espagnole" meets "The Motorcycle Diaries." It might be described as a hedonistic tale in the shape of a Möbius strip, trapped in an Escher wood engraving: magical realism with just a dash of irrealism, drenched in Mediterranean sunshine.

The screenplay is available here: 9TimeZones.com/cote.pdf

Enjoy!

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