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A Winter Girl
Genre: Drama
Logline:
Charlotte, a fifteen year old runaway, meets an ex-con on a bus and falls in love. Two thousand miles later, she realizes . . . there's no place like home.
Synopsis:
Two days before Christmas, fifteen-year-old Charlotte jumps on a prairie bus bound for Vancouver. She's running off to marry her sweetheart from Grade Nine. But on the bus she falls for Noel, pale and edgy from spending the last seven years in prison. He's bound to get back what he left behind.
As Charlotte runs away from her parents, Noel hopelessly searches for his. But they're not where he left them and nowhere to be found. Charlotte's determined to help, but adds to Noel's confusion by throwing her useful wiles in his path.
Charlotte soon learns she's not the only one with eyes for Noel. Jean, a woman dressed in black, also rides the bus, looking for her match. She's waiting to snap up Noel just when things are starting to get hot. Charlotte soldiers on, despite a confrontation with her Grandfather who's been searching the prairie bus stops for her. 'Two thousand miles later, she realizes what she's known, and needed, all along.
Author Info:
GLYNIS DAVIES is an actress living in Vancouver. Her writing credits include Revisited, a 24 minute drama nominated for a Genie Award (2000) for Best Live Action Short, and a LEO (1999) for Best Screenwriting. Revisited, a 24 minute drama nominated for a Genie Award (2000) for Best Live Action Short, and a LEO (1999) for Best Screenwriting. Lift, another live action short nominated for a LEO (2001) for Best Screenwriting. Her second feature Desolation Sound was produced by Sleepwalker Films, Mary Anne Waterhouse in 2004, Directed by Scott Weber, starring Helene Joy, Jennifer Beals, Ed Begley Jr. Lothaire Bluteau and Ian Tracy. A Winter Girl was a semi-finalist at Sundance and in the Chesterfield Screenwriting Competition.
GLYNIS DAVIES, Writer
2929 West 4th Avenue, Apt. 102
Vancouver, BC V6K 4T3
(604) 732-4199
glyn@intergate.ca
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Abby's Place
Genre(s): Drama
Logline:
Rodney fixes up a lake cabin in northern Alberta as a healing place for his wife, Abby, who prepares a path for him to discover after she is gone.
Synopsis:
Abby is dying. Rodney, her husband, knowing she is preoccupied with water, buys a cabin on a lake in northern Alberta, hoping it will be a healing place. Rodney's eager hands fix up the cabin and gradually Abby gets better. She and Rodney find a new understanding in their love for each other and kindle an unlikely romance between Rodney's assistant, Maxi, and Clyde, the operator of the town dump. Clyde opens his heart to Maxi, a self-styled crone who presents her quilts as poetic, magical markers for the journeys in life of those she loves. After the inevitable happens, and time begins to fall out of Abby's hands, Rodney discovers the gift that has been laid for him at Abby's Place.
Bio:
KATHERINE KOLLER's plays for CBC Radio include Cowboy Boots and a Corsage, Magpie, and Going to the Dump. Her stage plays have been produced at the Edmonton Fringe Festival and Jagged Edge Lunchbox Theatre. Katherine has won several awards for her radio, stage and screenplays, including two Praxis fellowships and two Alberta Screenwriting competitions. She has also attended the NSI Writer's Workshop, the Banff Writing for Series Television course and the NSI Writers' Roundtable.
KATHERINE KOLLER, Writer
Tel: (780) 436-7272
Fax; (780) 436-7272
kkoller@donovans.ca
Angels
Genre(s): Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/, Drama
Logline:
A psychologist who is helping the police to investigate the abduction of two children, finds herself connected to the victims in a way she couldn't have imagined.
Synopsis:
Katherine Ward is independent and determined. She's had to be to make it as a criminal psychologist in spite of a hearing disorder. But when the crisis she's trained for arrives, she's not prepared for the emotional toll or the physical danger.
In this case children are disappearing, and Katherine struggles desperately to discover the predator's pattern before another child is kidnapped. She faces indifference and even hostility from the police, especially Lt. Valerie Gill, a poker-faced cynic who has to prove her competence through contempt for Katherine's methods.
As the case unravels, so do Katherine's emotions. Childless herself and trying to adopt, she finds her personal passions merge with her work, especially when a startling link between the victims reveals a plot to exploit reproductive technology and leads back to her own family.
The predator will threaten her. The truth will overwhelm her.
Bio:
BRIAN WATSON is a screenwriter who has studied theatre and film in BC. He has written several feature length scripts and worked as a script coordinator. In the summer of 1999, Brian was granted a Professional Internship from British Columbia Film and interned in the story department of the Phil Savath/Susan Duligal CBC series These Arms Of Mine.
BRIAN WATSON, Writer
scriptco@shaw.ca
Phone: 604-716-5519
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