The nice folks at my production company Buffalo 8 have produce a great Pitch Deck for my screenplay THE CHESTNUT TREE. Here’s the cover page and the Accolades page, showing my screenplay laurels from film festivals. Meanwhile, we’re going out now to make deals with distributors, streaming companies, actors, directors, you name it. In many ways, I must say, working with people in the Indie film industry is actually more open than the publishing world (not true with the big talent agencies and studios). I think maybe because Indie filmmakers are entrepreneurs, in the Wild West, and are open to at least discussing an opportunity.
I just received this certificate from the 2022 Marina del Rey Film Festival showing my screenplay THE CHESTNUT TREE winning the “Best Period Romance Feature Screenplay” award. I love the laurel with the crown and the film reel. Great stuff!
Mathew Tekulsky’s screenplay The Chestnut Tree, based upon his novel The Martin Luther King Mitzvah (Fitzroy Books, 2018), is an Award Winner,Category of Feature Script/Screenplay March-April 2022 at the White Unicorn International Film Festival.
WUIFF is a monthly film festival held in the heart of Kolkata, the City of Joy. It celebrates films from all around the world with awards in different categories and genres. The White Unicorn International Film Festivalis more than just a film festival; it is an endless and powerful connection among all filmmakers and film lovers around the globe.
Glad to share this nice presentation by my website guru Mason May, who has a great eye for composition. The award for Best Period Romance Feature Screenplay says it all. THE CHESTNUT TREE logline is as follows: A Jewish boy named Adam Jacobs and a Catholic girl named Sally Fletcher team up to launch an anti-Vietnam War protest in the fictional town of Beachmont, NY in 1967 after attending Martin Luther King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech at the Riverside Church on 4/4/67 with blacklisted author Gladys McKinley.
The White Unicorn International Film Festival issued me a Certificate for Award Winner, Feature Script/Screenplay for my screenplay THE CHESTNUT TREE. They have also asked me to serve on their Honorable Jury, and I have accepted. I am now a Juror on an esteemed international film festival. Very honored.
The book is here at the Diesel Bookstore on 3/7/22. I like the reflection of me and the “LOVE” display inside the store, along with GALAPAGOS BIRDS in the lower right corner on the window.
