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A Toucan Amazon Adventure

Action-Adventure Family Animation

(Previously titled "Toucans of the Amazon") A flock of rowdy, fun-loving toucans must rally around an outcast female when they're banished from the treetops and threatened by Night Creatures. Synopsis
Written by:	Donna Lisa [Contact Author]
Format:	Screenplay
Budget:	Mid
Starring Roles For:	Anne Hathaway Shia LeBeouf Meryl Streep
In the Vein Of:	Finding Nemo Madagascar Lion King
Posted:	12/06/2008
Updated:	05/08/2013
Author Bio:	Donna Lisa is an award winning, published writer of screenplays, songs and stories. She specializes in writing for families and children. Her screenplays have received awards and recognition in a variety of competitions, such as, The 2013 Script Exposure Screenwriting Contest, The 2013 Screenplay Search, The 2012 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, The 2012 Moondance International Film Festival, and many others. Chicago Scriptworks performed a professional reading of Donna's contest winning screenplay, "Kheng Kheng Crocodile," and The International Family Film Festival performed excerpts from her contest winners, "A Toucan Amazon Adventure," and "Toucan You Can!" Donna writes a column for ToonBoom News (Montreal) on script writing and songwriting for animation. She was hired to write for a series that Scorpio Studios is producing. Her screenplay, "Kheng Kheng Crocodile," is currently under agreement with Flat Rock Motion Pictures. Her series, "Bat Cat and Bitsy" will be produced by Engine 15 Media. "Kheng Kheng Crocodile" has been consistently listed on Moviebytes.com as the Number One contest-winning screenplay in the Animation Category, and as one of the top five in the Family and Action-Adventure Categories. "A Toucan Amazon" has also been listed as one of the top five contest winning scripts in the Animation, Family and Action Adventure Categories. "Toucan You Can," Donna's CD of humorous, original songs about birds and animals, received twenty two national and international awards, including an iParenting Media Award, and a National Parenting Publications Honor Award. The Songwriters Market featured Donna as their children's songwriter. Songs from Donnas screenplay, Kheng Kheng Crocodile, were played at The Moondance International Film Festival. Donna's songs have been recognized in The 2012 International Songwriting Awards, The 2011 Dallas Songwriting Awards and many other competitions. Donna is the A&R Coordinator and a contributing songwriter, on the soon to be released childrens, compilation album, Playful Journeys to Grow On. This CD will feature a number of well known childrens singer-songwriters such as Raffi and Laurie Berkner. Donna's song, "Toucan You Can," was included on"Celebrate Earth," a compilation CD that was released on Big Round Records.
Contest Results:	Fade In (Semifinalist, '07) Worldfest - Houston (Finalist, '08) Red Inkworks (Finalist, '08) Moondance (First Place, '08 (Kids Screenplays)) PAGE International (Quarterfinalist) All Access (Quarterfinalist, "08) Cinema City Fest (Finalist, '09 Screenplays) Screenplay Festival (Finalist, '08 Family Category) StoryPros Awards (Second Place, '09 Family/Animation) FilmMakers (Semifinalist, '09) Screenplay Search (Finalist, '10 Family Category) Acclaim Film (Second Place, '10 Screenplay Runner Up) Big Bear (Semifinalist, '10 Screenwriting Contest) Screenwriter Showcase (Second Place, 2010) IFFF (Finalist, 2011 Animated Screenplay Cat.) ScriptVamp/Feature (Third Place, '11 Action/Adventure Category) Kids First! (First Place, "10 Screenplays for Kids 5-12 ) Extreme Feature (Finalist, 2011) Creative World (Finalist, 2011 Feature Screenplays) Script Exposure (First Place, 2013 Action/Adventure Category) Writers Place (Finalist, 2012 Screenplay Contest)

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