Female Fest Best Scene: Lucky For You, by Heidi Kozak Haddad, Caroline Somers

LUCKY FOR YOU is a comedy about a people-pleasing woman named Ellie who wins big in the lottery, but instead of lavishing herself with the best money can buy, she hides her winnings and uses the money to secretly transform her slacker husband into the successful man she always dreamt he would become; however, when her plan to rebuild his self-esteem works, Ellie’s life implodes when her husband becomes an unrecognizable douchebag.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Ellie: Val Cole
Mac: Geoff Mays
Dylan: Steve Rizzo

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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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