Screenwriters - Cold Cash And Warm Advice

Hollywood's Next Generation Of Screenwriters Receive Cold Cash And Warm Advice At 58th Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards - Deadline.com

The 58th Annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards were handed out Monday night  on the UCLA campus in Westwood. I was honored to be asked to be one of this year’s three judges, along with TriStar Productions Chairman (and former Fox co-Chair) Tom Rothman, and 2007 Goldwyn winner Jennifer O’Kieffe. Open to all University Of California students, the contest offers a cash first prize of $15,000. This year it went to an extremely clever film-noirish animation screenplay revolving around spiders,Inspector Sun And The Curse Of The Black Widow, by UCLA TFT student Rocco Pucillo. It’s so good, it could probably go into production tomorrow. UC Riverside’s Jared Robbins  took second place and $7500 for Farang. There was a three-way tie for the $4000 third place prize among UCLA TFT’s Jeffrey Baker (Dr. Acker’s English Elixir) and Turner Hay (Broken Grey), and UC Irvine’s Sean Harrigan (Dust Red).