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MovieBytes Readers Named Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalists

Brendan Foley, a Who's-Buying-What and Moviebytes subscriber (brendan.foley@btinternet.com), is one of some 275 quarterfinalists from a field of around 5,500 entries in this year's Nicholl Fellowship, the screenwriting contest run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

His romantic comedy, Island Games, was selected earlier in the year as a treatment in the Euroscript awards, part of EU film body MEDIA. He describes it as "somewhere in the region of Castaway meets Notting Hill with a dash of Il Postino."

A previous script, The Riddle, a modern thriller with a Dickensian twist set along the foreshore of London's River Thames, was a winner in three competitions earlier this year. It was a top ten finalist in Final Draft, took second place in the Archer Prize and was a $1000 prizewinner in the Australian International.

"I'm delighted to have made it this far, and it would be great to progress further, but the one thing I've learned from entering competitions is to just get on with the next script, rather than stewing over the next set of results," he commented.

Other MovieBytes readers named Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalists include:

Writer: Doug Solter (DWSolter@aol.com)
Script: Father Figure
Logline: A new high school student falls in love with a teenage femme fatale who has other plans for him. But when she obsessively falls in love with the boy, it becomes a struggle between life and death.

Writer: Zoje Stage
Script: The Opposite of Secret
Logline: At the age of ten Jesse was convicted of murdering two young children. Now 21 and released from prison, she seeks out her biological father, hoping for a second chance and a better life. Her new family tries to unravel the mysteries of Jesse's dark childhood.

Writer: James Morganelli (jamesvm@worldnet.att.net)
Script:Captive Moon
Logline: Hired to protect a high-profile China-US summit by keeping the mother of a kidnapped Tibetan-American holy boy from going to the Press, a disillusioned FBI agent is drawn into an epic quest to rescue the child from the hands of a murderous Chinese general, by his only allies – a mysterious 640-year-old cadre of Ninja warriors.

Updated: 08/09/2001

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