Revival
Genre: Drama
Logline: What if you saved a life, but it was the wrong one?
Synopsis: In the small town of Hope, BC, Ruth Sumner is “slow” and barely noticed by most people – except the married man, Gabe, who pays Ruth the wrong kind of attention when his wife is away. Her fiery mother, Charlotte, has channeled the energy of her notorious past into a newfound religious fervor, and is busy trying to get Ruth “saved” – for the sake of both her soul, and her reputation. She doesn’t want her daughter to suffer the censure that she herself endured. Then a terrible accident changes everything. Ruth saves a drowning man from a terrible accident after a van plunges into a stock pond. For a brief, happy moment, she’s a hero, not a disappointment. Charlotte, for whom failure was starting to seem like destiny, is overjoyed. But their happiness doesn’t last long: there was another man in the van: a church-going family man, a guard at the local juvenile detention center who was transporting the man Ruth saved: Lee Broder, a kid with a felony record. It’s not long before the judgment of the town comes down on Ruth and her notorious mother Charlotte: Ruth may have done the right thing, but she saved the wrong man. But Ruth, judged her whole life, finally starts to question why any life might be the “wrong” one. The life worth saving, ultimately, may be her own.
Bio: Annie Reid is a Vancouver-based writer and story editor. Recent story editing projects include Anagram Picture’s Fido, the MOW biopic Elijah as well as several other short and long form scripts currently in development. Annie has worked as a reader for Praxis as well as local independent production companies, and recently received funding from Telefilm and Movie Central for development of her original screenplay, Anything For You. In the United States, she worked as the personal assistant to screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. (Jarhead, Cast Away, Apollo 13, Polar Express). She received the prestigious Nicholl fellowship in 2003, and has also been a Praxis Screenwriting Fellow (2005) and Praxis Story Editor Intern (2004). She is also a published short story writer, and has taught writing at the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program, the University of Texas, and the Texas League of Writers.
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