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My Movie Screenplays

Short Screenplay Competitions

I adapted my short story “Paddy’s Tonsorial Emporium” to a short screenplay. It has received the following awards:

WINNER of the HOLLYWOOD JUMBO: THE 2020 SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL.

BEST DRAMA SCREENPLAY for May in TOP SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL and a FINALIST in their annual short screenplay competition

PLATINUM WINNER in the INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS in Encino, California.

AWARD OF ACHIEVEMENT Best Short-Form Screenplay. SOCAL FILM AWARDS.

SHORT SCREENPLAY WINNER in the over sixty ATLANTIC CITY CINEFEST

WINNER – OUTSTANDING SHORT SCREENPLAY in the OIL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL

OFFICIAL SELECTION in the SCRIPT SUMMIT SHORT SCREENPLAY COMPETION.

SEMIFINALIST in the FILMATIC SHORT SCREENPLAY AWARDS

FINALIST in the HOLLYWOOD JUST4SHORTS FILM AND SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

SEMIFINALIST in the SOUTHEASTERN INTERNATIONAL FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL (Winner to be announced).

SECOND PLACE in the SENE FILM FESTIVAL in Rhode Island.

SEMIFINALIST in the HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL in Hollywood.

MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL as a quarterfinalist.

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Feature Screenplay Competitions and Festivals

My New Screenplay “Fleedom” has won the following awards.

Fleedom was selected as BEST THRILLER SCREENPLAY and was also SELECTED to participate in the SOCAL FILM AWARDS.

I adapted my short story “Paddy’s Tonsorial Emporium” to a feature screenplay. It has received the following awards.

A WINNER in the LOS ANGELES CINEMATOGRAPY AWARDS. The festival will be in Los Angeles.

PLATINUM MOVIE SCRIPT WINNER in the INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS in Encino, California..

Awarded BEST THEME in the SCRIPT SUMMIT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION in Royal Oaks Michigan and THIRD PLACE IN THE DRAMA CATEGORY.

A FINALIST in the NEW YORK MOVIE AWARDS.

FINALIST in the MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL.

FINALIST in the HOLLYWOOD GOLD AWARDS.

FINALIST in the VENICE MONTHLY FILM AWARDS.

Honorable Mention in the 2021 Garden State Film Festival.

SEMIFINALIST in HOLLYWOOD JUMBO: THE 2020 SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL.

SEMIFINALIST in the SCREENCRAFT DRAMA COMPETION

SEMIFINALIST in the SOUTHEASTERN INTERNATIONAL FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL

FINALIST in the SENE FILM FESTIVAL in Rhode Island.

OFFICIAL SELECTION in the EDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.

QUARTER FINALIST in THE SCRIPT LAB SCREENPLAY CONTEST. (Top 1000 of 12,000 entrants).

SELECTED in the FLORENCE FILM AWARDS.

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My Books

Bobby T. Squirrel has a coloring book available on Amazon.com. It’s got a beautiful gloss color cover and sixty 8 1/2″ x 11 1/2″ illustrations. The 24 pound paper is blank on the back of each illustration to prevent blead-through by markers. The price is surprising low at $6.99.

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The newest Chicken Soup for the Soul book is available wherever books are sold. My story “The Old Black Phone” is included.

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My novel is available on Amazon. A riddle found in Charleston, Illinois in 1967 leads a group of teens on a hunt for John Dillinger’s loot from a 1933 bank robbery in Greencastle, Indiana. It’s a humorous tale for middle schoolers to adults.

I cared for my aged mother for six years. She has Alzheimer’s Disease. In this book I offer suggestions for caregiver’s of people with dementia.

Writing Competitions

Winner – My short story, “Revenge is a Dish Best Served with Pizza” won first place in the Me First Magazine Short Fiction Competition.

Finalist – My short story “Paddy’s Tonsorial Emporium” placed as a finalist in the 2019 Screencraft Short Story Contest (Top 50 of 13,000 entrants).

Recent Print Publications Where My Short Stories Appear.

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Magazines Where my Short Stories Appear

“This Job is Sew, Sew” was in the November 2019 online issue of Bookends Review. It was also published in their Best of 2019 anthology.

“The Kids are Coming,” a poem, was in the Christmas edition of Wax Poetry and Art

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