Gena Ellis
ROSA AND THE BLACK TULIP (screenplay)
Richmond International Film Festival, Semi-finalist, 2017
OUT OF SIGHT (radio drama script)
BBC 25th International Radio Playwriting Competition, Highly Commended, 2016 (top 10 English speaking and top 20 of over 1,000))
ANGELA'S DECISION (screenplay)
FilmMakers’ magazine American Gem Top 25 Winner
Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival, Official Selection
Gold Remi Award, Adaptation, Worldfest-Houston International Film Fest
Angela’s Decision featured in SCREENTALK magazine
ANGELA'S DECISION (film)
Gold Remi Award, Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival 2009
Best of Show Ron Tibbett Award, Tupelo Film Festival 2007
Phoenix Film Festival, Best World Cinema 2007.
Garden State Film Festival, Asbury Park, Best Film Music Finalist 2007
George Lindsey Film Festival, 2nd Place, Best Feature 2007
Niche Music and Film Festival, Special Invitation, Portland 2007
Bennie Kent Film Festival, OK, First Place 2007
Australian Cinematopraphers Society Gold ACE Award 2006
Flying Monkey Arts Center, Screening 2006
Adelaide, AUS, Screening 2006
University of Oklahoma, Screening/Seminar 2007
Arts Center, Tupelo, Screening 2008
Flying Monkey Arts Center, AL Screening/Workshop 2008
Webster University, St. Louis, Screening 2009
Optioned & Unproduced Scripts
Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Second Place (Rosa and The Black Tulip)
Honolulu Film Awards Finalist (Rosa and The Black Tulip)
48 Hours Film Project/Nashville 3rd Place
Moondance Film Festival Finalist
Scriptapalooza Quarterfinalist (Rosa and The Black Tulip)
Moondance Film Festival Semifinalist
OWFI in OKC Second Place
Austin Film Festival Semifinalist (twice)
Houston Writers’ League Finalist
Frontiers in Writing, Amarillo, Finalist
Selected for Southernartistry.org
Ursula Ellis
ANOMALIES (screenplay) 2015
Quarterfinalist, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting (in process)
Quarterfinalist, CineStory Retreat and Fellowship
SEVEN STORY SYCAMORE
Eighth Columbia Gorge International Film Festival 2015
Starring our own wonderfully talented Emerson Nosek and the immeasurably talented Allie Gallerani (who also starred in The Ballad of Barbara Allen).
WAR IS KIND
Studio 22 and Senior Directing Premieres Spring 2012
Northwestern University Senior Directing Project 2011-12
NU Women's Filmmaker Alliance NUWFA Grant 2011
2012 NITESKOOL MUSIC VIDEO
Chicago International Movie and Music Festival- CIMMfest 2013
Tupelo Film Festival 2013
George Lindsey UNA Film Festival 2013
Studio 22 Premiere 2012
THE BALLAD OF BARBARA ALLEN
The NextFrame Film Festival online competition 2012
Premiere, Northwestern University Spring 2012
Northwestern's Independent Study/Dean's Advisory Council Grant 2011
JANE AND GOLDIE
White Sands Film Festival, Las Cruces, New Mexico 2011
Studio 22 Premiere 2011
Northwestern's Studio 22 $1,000 Grant - Fall 2010
JESSAMINE
Studio 22 Premiere 2009
Northwestern's Studio 22 Freshman Grant - Winter 2009
Ursula's Columbia University MFA thesis film and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant winner filmed in West Virginia in December in Nicholas and Summers counties and is in post.
YOU can be part of this family drama dealing with water safety and donate to Crick In The Holler
Premiere on May ll @ 5 pm
Walter Reade Theater @ Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam, NY NY
Thanks! Stay tuned...
Gena's book, Angela's Decision: A Journey of Adaptation, is available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, etc. Part memoir, part filmmaking info- contains short story, adapted screenplay and two war-based stories.
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