A longtime, award-winning, Chicago-area advertising copywriter and newspaper features writer, I am aggressively, and enthusiastically, chasing my dream: To become a working screenwriter…to move people as she has been moved by filmmakers, who continue to amaze.
With a plethora of projects in my slate, my past work has been lauded via the following:
2015 - Quarter-Finalist - American Zoetrope
2014: Double Finalist - Austin Film Festival Screenplay & Teleplay Competition Feature Film and Original Sitcom Pilot
2012: Scriptapalooza finalist and PAGE quarter-finalist.
2011: My short film, "John Delaney Died Last Night," starring Patrick Gallagher and directed by Charles Kanganis, premiered at the Los Angeles Film School and was an official selection of the Nashville Film Festival and New Filmmakers Los Angeles.
2009: My short film, “The Birthday Party,” produced and directed by Veronique Doumbe of N’Dolo Films, awarded: Best Short at the Pan African Film Festival in Cannes, April ’09, plus:
The Award of Merit in the category Contemporary Issues, Ethics, Religion in the 2009 Accolade Competition (La Jolla, CA)
The Micro Mini Award at the 2009 Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival. (NY, NY)
The Gold Kahuna Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2010 Honolulu International Film Festival. (Hawaii)
Best film/video on matters relating to the Black Experience/Marginalized People at the XXV. Black International Cinema Berlin 2010.
One of only nine short films chosen by the SAG foundation to screen in Manhattan in 2011 and was also an official selection of New Filmmakers New York.
