The Hole in the River

Phil Lombardi, a retired attorney, is now working on a second profession in writing. His debut screenplay EDDIE THE KING, a modern adaptation of Oedipus the King (public domain), was awarded BEST SCREENPLAY at the Milestone Worldwide Film Festival in Battipaglia, Italy, awarded BEST SCREENWRITER at the European International Film Festival in Saint Petersburg, and awarded FIRST TOP SCREENPLAY at the 12th Jaipur International Film Festival 2020, with additional selections as FINALIST in the Pitch Now Screenplay, the Screenplay Festival in Sherman Oaks, California, Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship in Los Angeles, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards in Los Angeles, and the Las Vegas International Film and Screenplay Competition, and SEMIFINALIST in the Ojai Film Festival and Indie Visions Film Festival.

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Phil Lombardi, a retired attorney, is now working on a second profession in writing. His debut screenplay EDDIE THE KING, a modern adaptation of Oedipus the King (public domain), was awarded BEST SCREENPLAY at the Milestone Worldwide Film Festival in Battipaglia, Italy, awarded BEST SCREENWRITER at the European International Film Festival in Saint Petersburg, and awarded FIRST TOP SCREENPLAY at the 12th Jaipur International Film Festival 2020, with additional selections as FINALIST in the Pitch Now Screenplay, the Screenplay Festival in Sherman Oaks, California, Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship in Los Angeles, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards in Los Angeles, and the Las Vegas International Film and Screenplay Competition, and SEMIFINALIST in the Ojai Film Festival and Indie Visions Film Festival. His second screenplay is entitled The HOLE IN THE RIVER, a feel-good drama, set in small town America in the 1970’s where four misfit boys, bullied and marginalized, defend a mysterious Muslin man who is falsely accused and jailed by a bigoted sheriff. His third screenplay, selected as BEST SCREENPLAY in the Open Window International Film Challenge, BEST SCREENPLAY NATIVE AMERICAN STORY in the Marina del Rey Film Festival, FINALIST in the Hollywood Sun Awards, and SEMIFINALIST in the New York Cinematography Awards, is entitled CHILOCCO, named for an actual Indian boarding school where runaways were hunted for bounty. In this drama, a Cherokee girl discovers that a sexual predator, a white teacher, is stalking her. She must find a way to weaponize in a world that deems white men as saviors and Indians as savages. He recently completed a teleplay entitled THE BROTHERS BOUDINOT about an American soldier who searches for Confederate gold left by his Cherokee ancestor General Stand Watie. A slick politician, the Chief of the Cherokees, wants it for the tribe. His brothers want it for the family. The sleazy lawyer he works for says he wants it. But life is more than a treasure hunt. Recurring PTSD nightmares have left him with an ex-wife and banned from seeing his son. He wants his wife back. His son back. His life back.

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