Female Festival Best Scene Reading of Rearranging Roxy, by Bridget Bell

Genre: Drama, Musical

A self-centered rocker must revive her estranged father’s holiday musical to fund her band’s last chance for a tour and to save her hometown from developers, finding love and redemption along the way

CAST LIST:

Ruby: Carina Cojeen
Ms. Barnes: Angelica Alejandro
Narrator: Brandon Knox
Roxy: Katelyn Varadi
Grayson: Charles Gordon
Gene: Gabriel Darku

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your screenplay about?

In a last ditch effort to keep her rock star dreams alive, a self-sabotaging rocker returns home to make a deal with the devil, her estranged father. During the painful reconciliation process, she uncovers the missing creative spark she needs to personally and professionally succeed.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Family drama, dramedy

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

The current climate of divisiveness inspired me to write a story where people at opposite ends of the spectrum learn to respect and accept each other’s unique qualities and work together for the greater good. Age, sex, orientation, musical bent, talent level, economic status, none of these need to be barriers to collaboration.

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

Unpretentiously unifying

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?

The Sound of Music

6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?

About three years.

7. How many stories have you written?

Four feature scripts, loads of short stories

8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)

Black Cow by Steely Dan

9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?

Finding the right ending took many, many rewrites!

10. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?

Family, music, food, live theater and movies!

11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your experiences working with the submission platform site?

FilmFreeway makes it easy to stop procrastinating and get your work out in the world.

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Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Director: Matthew Toffolo

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editor: Kimberly Villarruel

Camera Op: Mary Cox

By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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