Independent Writers' Caucus
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Tony Ferrendelli's feature screenplay SAIGON DOLL, set during the final, chaotic hours of the U.S. exodus from Saigon, was selected as a Top 50/semifinalist script in this year's Academy Nicholl Fellowship.
Kim's SPECTOR & SPECTRE - a narrative co-listening podcast is about a 14-year-old girl who is forced to spend the summer in her mother's childhood home. The girl listens to old cassette tapes that release her aunt's ghost (who died when she was 15). The two work together to find out who killed the aunt and why others are disappearing in the town.
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SPECTOR & SPECTRE is now a semi-finalist of the Roadmap Writers Podcasting Competition.
Everything's Fine, Written and Directed by Christina Hulen and produced by IWC members Kim Turner and Tony Ferrendelli had its European premiere at the Rainbow Umbrella Film Festival in London, where it won awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Just a week later it took home another Best Actress award at the Toronto International Women Film Festival.
Tony Ferrendelli’s comedy pilot 2ND RATE FAIRY (co-written with Roger Rittenhouse) was a Finalist at the 2023 AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL in the Scripted Digital Series category. 2ND RATE FAIRY is a hybrid live action and animation 30 minute comedy about an irresponsible fairy who is in danger of being expelled from the fairy union and forces her godmothering services on a comedian who has trouble saying no.
Virtic Emil Brown directed two episodes of the collaboration series CAREGIVER about children on the spectrum. The project premiered in November 2023 in Irvine at the Easterseals' complex.
Lisa Gold’s family action-adventure feature THE SECRET OF SHANGRI-LA was a Finalist in the 2023 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards. Lisa has also written the script as a middle grade novel and is working on a limited series extended version of the project. Lisa has been a PAGE Finalist three years in a row with two different scripts.
