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I have enjoyed a great measure of competition success recently.
Colorado International Film Festival. Finalist Best Screenplay. "Jane Austen's Emma" 17 August 2018.
EIFA (European Independent Film Awards). Gold Medal . Best Script . "Napoleon" . 28 July 2018.
Feel The Reel Film Festival screenplay competition. Overall winner 24th July 2018. "Gold Diggers."
Alaska Film Competition. Screenplay Competition Overall Winner of Emerging Talent Award . 19 July 2018 Charlie Chaplin Part 2
Pinnacle Film Awards Gold Medal Best Feature Screenplay "My Sister's Wedding" .30 June 2018 California .
International Independent Film Awards .Platinum Award i.e. Overall Winner. Best Screenplay "Gold Diggers" 22 June 2018 . California.
European Cinematography Film Festival. Finalist Best Screenplay . "My Sister's Wedding" . 21 June 2018. Turin.
Hollywood Just4Shorts FilmFestival Overall winner April 2018 . Best Comedy Short Screenplay "Gold Diggers" . California.
Festigious May Competition notified 6th June 2018 Overall winner for "Gold Diggers" California.
Hollywood Hills Screenwriting Competition. Overall winner Best Feature Screenplay May 2018 "Napoleon" . California .
Eurofest Film Festival St Petersburg 7th May 2018 . Finalist. Best Screenplay "Napoleon" . St Petersburg Russia.
LA CineFest Screenwriting Competition
Finalist 31st May 2018. Best Screenplay "Napoleon" . California.
Cannes Film Festival. Finalist Best Comedy Screenplay. "Charlie Chaplin Part One" notified 9th April 2018 (retrospectively) .
I can send you PDFs of any of the above (or any of my other screenplays).
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As you can see from the above list of recent competition successes, I have a number of screenplays that may be of immediate interest to you . They are :
Napoleon, Napoleon II, Napoleon III etc. which is a series of screenplays that to some degree all feature Napoleon Bonaparte. Each takes a wide historical sweep but with the French Revolution at its heart. The first in the series looks at the factors involved in Napoleon's downfall , with his right hand man Fouché as chief antagonist. Comedy.
Rampant Entrepreneur- a comedy which follows our hero Bill Whack on his quest to use every means at his disposal to make his fortune. Unfortunately due to his focus on career his beloved Betty takes comfort in the arms of another . His focus then shifts to tracking down the now absentee Betty who has wound up in a tropical 🌴 paradise.
Charlie Chaplin Part 1, Charlie Chaplin Part 2- the first two chunks of a trilogy. These first two screenplays follow the early years of Charlie Chaplin , his brother Syd and his parents .primarily in and around Victorian London but extending through to his early Hollywood years. Slapstick Comedy.
My Sister's Wedding- a 'who gonna get the girl' romantic comedy with a heist movie thrown in. Andorra is a handsome Australian with some rough edges. Hackman is a more seamless older and initially successful gent. Lucy can't seem to quite make her mind up as to which of these two she has fallen in love with. Her sister April is trying to get Lucy and Hackman back together again.
Gold Diggers- charts the fall (and subsequent rise) in the fortunes of a simple straightforward Hollywood A-list movie star Jack Himpelman at the hands of an unscrupulous gold digger until he is taken in hand by one of his adoring fans Giselle and against all odds his career suddenly takes off again in an unexpected fashion.
Jane Austen's Emma - hilarious comedy that also oddly follows the astoundingly well observed nature of the first 100 pages of Jane Austen's original. Utterly different from the 1996 movie rendering of this work.
Also very willing to undertake rewrite/polish of other persons' screenplays and write bespoke screenplays to order and read and critique other persons' screenplays. Also very happy to edit footage (I edited a fifteen hour TV series in 2009.) Very happy to relocate to Los Angeles.
All Warmest Best Wishes, Ian T Burns 🐝🌈🐳
I meant to post this two days ago but the hotel service was pretty awful at state-
A year ago tonight myself and an audience full of thespians had the privilege to view a screening of Ben Proudfoot's striking documentary Rwanda & JUliet at the Wisconsin State Thespian Festival. 10 minutes prior to the beginning of the film I met the boy who I would later go on to fall in love with. He was sitting in the audience and went to a school in my own district- and lived five minutes away from me. We met four hours away. After the film we got to Skype with with Ben Proudfoot. The next day we met at a coffee shop on campus, and have been inseparable ever since. Thank you from Austin and myself to everyone at Breakwater Studios, for giving us the canvas to begin painting our beautiful relationship.
MONTAGE: GREAT FILM COMPOSERS AND THE PIANO will be showcased at the Coronado Island Film Festival as part of the "Documentary Shorts One Package", on Friday, November 10 at 10:00am in the "Black Box" Theater inside the Coronado School of the Arts (repeated that evening at 10:00pm) as well as Saturday, November 11 at 4:00pm at the Coronado Middle School. Passes for the festival can be obtained at
