#Top20 – Kokopelli’s Lounge is 12th in the Mixcloud Global Bossa Nova chart! It begins & ends with rattles used by Master Healer Eleanora Amendolara created by Peruvian #shamans: the Jungle rattle and the Cougar rattle. #trending #bossanova #jazz #nujazz ##lounge #loungemusic
Choice selections from a number of genres: easy listening, pop, adult contemporary, blues, bossa nova, soft rock, jazz, big band featuring Frank Sinatra, and an out-of-this-world swinging duo with Louis Armstrong and ‘Ella Fitzgerald’–all expressing and embracing the lover’s heart. Consider this a pre-Valentine’s Day Cupid’s Hunt mix. Love and romance always! ~ Valerie Mich’El Oliver
The International Screenwriters Association (ISA) is seeking classic family material for feature categories. They are also looking for genre-busting holiday material in TV pilot categories. This contest is a celebration of traditional and idiosyncratic family narratives.
Congratulations to JACOB LARCH and VALERIE MICH’EL OLIVER for their work as creators and screenwriters. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this most recent success through development meetings and other support!
The International Screenwriters Association (ISA) is seeking classic and genre-busting family or holiday material in the feature and tv pilot categories. This contest is a celebration of traditional and idiosyncratic family narratives.
Congratulations to JACOB LARCH and VALERIE MICH’EL OLIVER (creators and screenwriters), and thanks to everyone who contributed to this most recent success via development meetings and any other support!
Next up is the Semi-Finalist round. Keep the good vibrations coming!
A Successful Fundraiser & Internship Program During COVID, Screenplay Finalist Award-winner & Top Status On Screenwriter Web Site!
Family, friends, former students, colleagues, and other supporters, I hope you and your loved ones are safe and well as we begin 2022!
The Pursuit Studio had quite a busy 2021 claiming a number of achievements with your support! Here are some of the highlights (primarily in chronological order):
Jacob Larch (Co-creator/Screenwriter), Bernadette Montana (Producer), and Valerie Mich’El Oliver (Co-creator/Screenwriter/Producer) for Thorn Trees. experienced an engaging and fun interview as guests of the That Witch Life podcast.
Established a new company email address: oliver.valerie@thepursuitstudio.net. Best to add this to your email contact list so company communications don’t go to your spam folder.
Jacob Larch partnered with Val as a screenwriter on the following The Pursuit Studio projects: Back Up the Truck (short film, based on a true story), Gifts (short film, based on a true story), and I’m No Square: The Freddy & Ann Tayor Story(feature film or limited episodic series, based on a true story)…AND MORE!
CLICK HERE to read a web page version or select the download button below to read a PDF version!
To retaliate against his mother’s boyfriend who beats her, a precocious pissed-off 10-year-old recruits his best friend to help punish him. Based on a true story.⠀
Unfortunately, we did not progress to the Titan Awards Quarterfinalist round. We realize that different readers look for different things based upon their backgrounds, experiences, and storytelling interests, so making Finalist status for one screenwriting competition (Vail Screenwriting Competition) and not moving forward in another is taken with this perspective in mind.
But there’s GOOD NEWS resulting from our submission. According to Coverfly, the script service facilitating the Titan Awards submissions, our script score was significant enough for them to increase the script ranking on their website to the TOP 12% of ALL SCRIPTS on their site:
Your COVERFLY rank received a BOOST for this submission because the underlying scorecard data was strong.”
It has been an honor to share my thoughts with you, and to share stories and news about our beliefs, craft, and vision from various times and spaces in this gazette. The purpose has been three-fold: to create a sacred space for sharing what has gone before, is happening, and becoming in our own voices; to shine a light on how we are perceived and represented in the entertainment industry and news media; and to invite you to discover and support my story–and those of my loved ones–through the telling of Thorn Trees.
This is the last issue of the gazette as much work needs to be done to bring Thorn Trees to you in the realms of television, streaming, or film.
The main themes in this last issue concern Samhain & Halloween, the history of witches, and the craft as it has evolved to modern time; news about plans and policies that respect and protect us from discrimination and hate crimes; how we have influenced the art and culture of fashion, a special photography focus on portraits of witches and a special witches songs collection music video, plus book reviews and more stories and videos that reflect our perspectives.
I wish to thank everyone who has supported and shared this Thorn Trees-inspired publication in whatever ways you have done so and invite you to continue to help the creators and producers manifest its success. Currently, they are seeking a female showrunner for the series.
May the highest and most divine good for all be accomplished. So mote it be!
The Thorn Trees script progressed to FINALIST status in the Vail Screenplay Competition!
Jacob Larch and Valerie Mich’El Oliver were one (1) out of nine (9) finalists chosen in the TV Pilot category (see below).
The top winning television pilot genres are included below as an FYI.
Have a great day, and thanks to all who assisted with script development, “happy thoughts” and other support!
TV PILOT FINALISTS & WINNERS
Disasterman by Mark C. Spera
1st Place: Don’t Fear the Reaper by Erin Burchard
3rd Place: Dragoness by Samantha Duncan
2nd Place: Hartline by Chuck Driskell
In Utero by Gina Scanlon
The Mâr Chronicles by A.S. Templeton
THORN TREES by Jacob Larch, Valerie Mich’El Oliver
XCHANGE by Scott Hawthorne, Jim Goode
You’re Doing Great by Sharon Spell
1st Place: Don’t Fear the Reaper by Erin Burchard Genre: Not Given (looks like a Thriller from the title) Logline: Not Given
2nd Place: Hartline by Chuck Driskell Genre: Thriller Gage Hartline, a former special operations soldier, is targeted by the French mob after he uncovers a set of diaries written by Adolf Hitler’s Jewish lover.
3rd Place: Dragoness by Samantha Duncan Genre: Adventure When she finds a clue that her father may be alive, a tenacious, mixed-race high school student hurls herself into Chinatown gang life to uncover the truth about the incident that broke up her family ten years earlier, inadvertently impressing the city’s lone superhero and becoming his sidekick.
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