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THE PRINCESS: AN URBAN FAIRY TALE
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The place we are about to visit could be anywhere, the corner of a street, a mall, a pizza parlor, or a field in Kansas. The inhabitants are children who come in every shape, size and color. It is a place kept eternally alive by a lack of love, understanding, or self esteem. This is a little story about leaving it. In flashback we look into the lives of two sisters, ten year old SKEETER and sixteen year old DARCYLEE, as they grow up in the projects and shows us how Darcylee proves to be a positive role model for your younger sister by finding pride and beauty against all odds in her life as a young, unwed, teenage mother.
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Written by:
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Helene Wagner
[Contact Author]
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Format:
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Short Screenplay
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Starring Roles For:
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Whoopie Goldberg
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Posted:
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11/23/2011
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Updated:
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01/03/2012
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Author Bio:
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Helene Wagner teaches screenwriting at the University of Richmond. She's had five scripts optioned with one cast for CBS. CAA and other top agencies have represented her scripts. She is the Founder and the Director of the Virginia Screenwriters' Forum now in it's 22nd year. The Princes placed in the top ten in the Short Film category in the 2011 Page International. As of January, 2012 The Princess is a current finalist at Sundance for Short Film Script. I wrote The Princess as a short story years ago and it placed as one of the top ten short stories in the country in the Writer’s Digest Competition. I wrote it into a Short Film Script and it won the Mid-Atlantic States Region Image for Short Film Scripts and received a reading in Atlanta, GA. I wrote it into a play and it won the Richmond Barksdale Theatre’s Footlight Competition and was performed at Barksdale Theatre. At one point, someone at Harpo loved it and was interested in trying to make this beautiful film - but nothing happened.If someone is looking to make a great short film and win an award for it. This is the script to do it. Helene took a ten year hiatus to create and run her own company. She decided to re-submit some of her screenplays this year into competitions to see if the stories she’s written still stand up today. One of those, still great stories, placed in the top 20% in the 2011 Nicholl Fellowships out of 6,700 scripts, one placed as 1st Runner Up Winner in the 2011 Creative World Awards Adventure/Action category. Three of Helene’s action/thriller scripts all placed as preliminary finalists out of 4,400 scripts. So, a good story is a good story. Everyone who reads this story loves it.
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Contest Results:
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PAGE International (Finalist, Placed in the top ten, shorts)
Writer's Digest (Finalist, Top Ten short story years ago )
Sundance (Finalist, 2012 Short Film Scrip Finalist)
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