a man in a boat

The Sundance trip may have hit a little bump.

I heard from Cinema St. Louis yesterday that Texas Snow will be competing in a new online category this year during the St. Louis Int. Film Festival.  Instead of the normal single day screening, the film will compete along side 9 other films in an online competition.  In partnership with IndieFlix’s Indie-Fest the  films will be online from October 27th - November 12th.  Anyone, anywhere can log-on, watch the films and then vote for their favorite.

The winner will then receive a screening at the Winnie-Moore Auditorium at Webster University on the closing night of the festival.  The winner will also receive a distribution deal through IndieFlix DVD, PPV and some of it’s partners Joost, Hulu, TIVO, UnBox and iTunes.

As more details come in I’ll be sure to post them.

I found out yesterday that I won the Cinemaspoke screenwriting contest for a second year in a row.  “The Drowning” will receive a full reading at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15, on the fourth floor of the Centene Center for Arts and Education, 3547 Olive St. in Grand Center. The reading is free and open to the public.

Over the last couple of days I’ve been working on how to approach a novelist to beg for the film rights to one of his books. I’ve written a rather lengthy email but even as I read over it I feel strange asking someone for permission to turn their novel into a script. Suddenly the script form appears elementary compared to a novel. Despite that, I can tell you this: I know exactly how to turn the book into a film.