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!

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