Wanna buy my Screenplay?

I have a script to pitch when I am at the festival. I'll have no idea what I am doing, but what better way to learn than by trying. I know it's a cut throat industry, and I'm not one of those people that lives with their head in the clouds. But I'm also an optimist.

My best friend and I wrote this script beginning in August of 2007. We completed it in two months...extremely quickly. Basically I was staying up all night writing and then I would be thinking about it all day while I was working at my job at the time. I loathed that job so having that script to focus on really got me through some difficult days.

Then a cool thing happend. One day in June when we were really hoping for a lead someway, somehow, fate stepped in when my gregarious best friend began talking with a lady. Lo and behold the lady revealed that she is a writer/producer and about to start filming something in Saint Augustine.

So she read our script. She liked it. We met with her. She gave us tips on improving it. (She sat down with us and went throught it with us page by page! She is amazing.) Told us she had a director in mind, but it depended on the director's schedule.

That was last summer. My best friend and I didn't hear from her after our last meeting in July. We assume it is because the director she had in mind is a producer of One Tree Hill, and it got picked up for another season (when she thought it may be the show's last year). And we never inquired anymore about it because our screenplay is based on true events, and we were still somewhat amongst the plotline of the story...things happend in August and the months following that didn't leave us in a place where we were ready to delve into any project regarding it. We were still growing and changing from the exact plotline our story is based on (talk about art imitating life).

But now, I am going to Cannes. And the plotline for the screenplay has become a part of our past. The timing is beautiful. So I am going to hand it off to every industry professional I can. I'm definitely nervous. I won't have any clue as to what I am doing. But I am hoping that somehow my naivety will help me out.

If anyone has any tips at all please share them with me. I believe in this screenplay more than anything, and I know it needs to be made into a film. It's something that every girl from the age of 16-22 should see. It's about heartbreak, and the different forms of it we are faced with depending on what life pitches us. More importantly it's about surviving it, and coming out a stronger person as a result of it.

It's not like any other, but just to give you a grasp on the overall feel I compare it to Garden State and Little Miss Sunshine (not plot, but feel.)

Another plus, it can be made on an extremely low budget. I'll make it myself if I have to (and would love to) But...I need a $$producer$$ and a crew!

5 more weeks...

Female Jury President

Isabelle Huppert is this year's film festival jury president. This marks only the fourth female to be appointed jury president out of the 62 years of the festival. Huppert has won two best actress awards from Cannes in the past (most recently for The Piano in 2001). I say, Go girl! But she is French, so peut-etre...Allez-vous fille! (My French is pretty rusty.)

Heath Ledger's Final Film

There is buzz that Heath Ledger's last film will premiere at the festival.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was midway through filming when Ledger passed away. Johnny Dep, Colin Farrell and Jude Law then stepped in to finish his role.

There is no distributor for the film yet, giving more reason for it to premiere at the festival. We'll know for sure April 23rd when the official films are announced!

Click here for a great article on prospective entrants.

Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt

Recent Cannes Announcement!

Quentin Tarantino will be debuting his film starring Brad Pitt titled Inglourious Basterds at the festival.

Tarantino already won a Palm D'Or award in 1994 for none other than Pulp Fiction. Perhaps another award has his name on it? We'll know soon enough.

I will be surprised if he doesn't win an award this year. Apparently he has been working on this script for almost a decade.

Brad Pitt plays a southern lieutenant redneck who forms a squad to kill the German nazis. The film is said to contain gruesome violence (but you should expect that if you know Tarantino at all.)

The official line-up for the Cannes Film Festival will be revealed on April 23...so be sure to check back for the official line-up. There is lots of talk that this is going to be an exciting year for the festival!