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2002

© Peter Devonald


 

'End Of Year Report 2002'

Thank you to everyone who has made this such an
exciting and successful time.

  SUMMARY OF YEAR:
   
REVIEWING  

Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Section

Rated 'Great Reviewer' - 32 scripts reviewed

: Rated 4th in July 2002
: Rated 11th in Dec 2001
: Rated 23rd in November 2001

   
Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Film School/ Short Script Section

Rated 'Great Reviewer' - 60 scripts reviewed

: Rated 1st in September 2002
: Rated 1st in May 2002
: Rated 6th in March 2002
: Rated 1st in February 2002
: Rated 9th in January 2002

   
PLACEMENTS  
   
Competitions THE LIFT
WINNER OF NAPALM SHORT SCREENWRITING COMPETITION
   
Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Film School/ Short Script Section

STACIO MARA (SHORT)
NUMBER ONE - OCTOBER 2002
THE VOID
NUMBER THREE - JULY 2002
EMERGENCE
NUMBER TWO - APRIL 2002

TALES FROM THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
NUMBER ONE - JANUARY 2002
 

   
PRODUCTIONS  
Short Films

Co-Wrote 'Frozen' Dir.Emile Guertin
Edited
'Danger Zone' Dir. Dylan Keeling
Edited 'Last Chance Saloon' Dir. Appleton

   
NEW SCRIPTS  
STACIO MARA
In a futuristic world, a strange genetic mutation attempts to gain ascendancy. The only thing stopping the transition is Shanika, a strong but emotionally fragile woman who slips in and out of the slipstream - a portal to all of life.
   

BLACK MASS
When a prisoner is killed in prison, it seems like a simple case; when another prisoner dies in confinement, then the prison officer, its obvious that its anything but.

   

REDEMPTION
Drugs, prostitution, love and memories… a magical realist adventure.

   

EMERGENCE (7x45mins)
A potential serial killer contacts the female police leader of a special ops unit. His message is short and simple - 'At Twelve tonight the first of many dies'.

VOTED NUMBER TWO ON FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S AMERICAN ZOETROPE FILM SCHOOL - APRIL 2002

   
STACIO MARA (SHORT)
A fish writhes on the floor. A hotel door is smashed down. Traveler calmly gets in a cab, goes to Stacio Mara and tries to take a strange cargo through customs...
VOTED NUMBER ONE ON FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S AMERICAN ZOETROPE SHORT FILM WEBSITE - OCTOBER 2002
   

THE VOID
Conrad changes from being a bullied low-life data input clerk to a star when he finds a magic camera.
VOTED NUMBER THREE ON FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S AMERICAN ZOETROPE FILM SCHOOL - JULY 2002

   

LUCKY STRIKES
An outsider befriends an enigmatic Greek in a small seaside town. It's a friendship that ends in bloodshed, racism and violence…

   
FIVE MINUTE SCRIPTS
A selection of five minute works including:
GREASEBALL sleazes his way through a night-club, but he's about to find out that what goes around comes around.
   
THE LIFT
A man, a child, an old man, a baby - all linked to a surreal lift and an assassination....
WINNER OF THE NAPALM SHORT SCREENWRITING COMPETITION - DECEMBER 2002
   

FROZEN
In a future world obsessed with money, image and status, can human emotion ever be bought and sold?

   
STATISTICS  
   
RE-WRITES 440,000 WORDS (ROUGHLY)
NEW WORKS 320,000 WORDS (ROUGHLY)

May I wish you all a very happy Christmas,
a merry New Year and an immensely successful 2003.


© Peter Devonald 2002-2009