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An American journalist on the trail of a story becomes an unsuspecting accomplice in a terrorist plot that weaves together the lives of an Israeli war hero, Palestinian farmer, and Christian grocer.
GRAND PRIZE, RHODE ISLAND INT'L FILM FESTIVAL'S SCREENWRITING COMPETITION
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Written by:
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Timothy Jay Smith
[Contact Author]
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Format:
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Screenplay
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Budget:
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Modest
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Starring Roles For:
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Omar Metwally
a young sean penn type
Rachel McAdams
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In the Vein Of:
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Babel
O Jerusalem
Walk on Water
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Posted:
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10/22/2006
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Updated:
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01/21/2013
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Author Bio:
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Raised crisscrossing America pulling a small green trailer behind the family car, Timothy Jay Smith developed a ceaseless wanderlust that has taken him around the world many times. En route, hes found the characters that people his work. Polish cops and Greek fishermen, mercenaries and arms dealers, child prostitutes and wannabe terrorists: hes hung with them all in an unparalleled international career thats seen him smuggle banned plays from behind the Iron Curtain, maneuver through war zones and Occupied Territories, represent the U.S. at the highest levels of foreign governments, and stowaway aboard a devils barge for a three-days crossing from Cape Verde that landed him in an African jail. If life were a sport, Tims life would qualify as an extreme one, yet hes managed most of it by working with people in personal, even intimate, settings. These experiences explain the unique breadth and sensibility of his work, and he continues to collect stories while splitting his time between Paris, Miami Beach and Greece. He brings the same energy to his writing that he brought to a distinguished career, and as a result, hes won top honors for his screenplays, stageplays and novels in numerous prestigious competitions; among them, contests sponsored by the American Screenwriters Association, WriteMovies, Houston WorldFest, Rhode Island International Film Festival, and the Hollywood Screenwriting Institute. His first novel won the 2008 Paris Prize for Fiction and his first stageplay, which went on to a successful NYC production, won the prestigious Stanley Drama Award.
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Contest Results:
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RIIFF/Rhode Island (First Place, Grand Prize Winner)
Open Door/Script Magazine (Finalist)
Chesterfield (Semifinalist)
Cinestory (Semifinalist)
American Accolades (Quarterfinalist)
FilmMakers (Honorable Mention)
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