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DROSSELBART
A reinvention of the Grimm tale: A ruler gives his bitchy princess daughter to the next man to walk into the city. He turns out to be the noble king she has disgraced -- only now he is disguised as a peasant. Sparks and axes fly!
FIRST PLACE for BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 2011 L.A. Feel Good Film Festival
FINALIST (Top 10)for L.A. Story Pros 2011 family/teen/animation category.
I reinvented this Grimm tale for my 13-year-old daughter. She laughed out loud a dozen times.
I am an American former photographer and journalist who lived in Germany 18 years. I have written numerous news stories on European events, travel and culture. I covered the Fall of the Wall, and elsewhere, the Rwandan Refugee Crisis in Africa, and the U.
StoryPros Awards (Semifinalist, 2014 pending family/teen/anima)
ScreenCraft Family (Quarterfinalist, 2014 Family friendly category)
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