Hello everyone!
In another arena, my feature screenplay "Searching for Shadow" has now won 11 laurels including WINNER of a 2025 Golden Pen Script Award, an Orniros Film Award, and a New York International Film Award, as well as Nominee, Official Selection and Finalist laurels.
Also, my TV pilot script "The Proxy Mom" has garnered 5 awards, including WINNER of a New York International Film Award and an Oniros Film Award and was a Nominee for a 2025 New York Script Award.
Busy, busy - in the best way!
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July 2025
I continue to be grateful and honored that my work is being recognized - goes to show you, if you put yourself out there good things can happen :)
I have returned to the Amazon series "Gravesend," shooting season 3 episodes and I couldn't be happier. It's a great cast and crew and writer/director William DeMeo is wonderful to work with! And everyone's buzzing because Shaq has joined the cast in a principal role! Looking forward to upcoming shoots this fall.
On the Gravesend set with the fabulous Gianna Palmenteri
August 2025
Good things continue to happen!
So excited! My feature screenplay is a OFFICIAL SELECTION for an International Indie Screenplay & Film Award in Paris, and for an Amsterdam Movie Fest award in the Netherlands - I can't wait to see what happens next...
14 Laurels for "Searching for Shadow," feature screenplay, 6 Laurels for "The Proxy Mom" TV pilot script - I am so honored.
September 2025
Fall is here, and happy to be busy. As I await my return to the Gravesend set, my feature script continues to resonate with readers, as the Winner of the Melbourne International Screenplay Awards, and a nominee in Paris and Munich for a potential win.
I'll be going to the Grove Film Festival in Jersey City, one of five screenplays up for the Best Feature Screenplay award, then to pitch live at the prestigious Haydenfilms 2.0 Screenwriting Competition.
Doing what I love - telling stories as a writer and actor. I feel so lucky!I've got more details about my screenplay & pilot on my Writing page if you'd like to have a look.
October 2025
Since May, I've been submitting my feature screenplay "Searching for Shadow" to festivals in the US. Then I started receiving invitations to submit from festivals abroad, and to my great surprise and pleasure, readers overseas have also been honoring my script.
The screenplay is the Winner of a Mebourne Int'l Screenplay Award, a Finalist/Nominee in the impressive FilmHaus Berlin festival, the Indiemania Film Awards in Prague, a Semi-Finalist in the London Script Awards, a Nominee in the Amsterdam Movie Fest, and in the running as a Semi-Finalist in the Darkland Munich Film Awards in Munich. Such an eventful month I've got to catch my breath!