Angela's Decision
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Saturday, April 5 at 7:00 PM |
| ANGELA'S DECISION Life is what you decide. Angela has been waiting all her life. Waiting for her boyfriend to come home from the Army and marry her, waiting for her mother to sober up, waiting for something to happen. Faced with several challenges, Angela makes a decision that will alter her life forever in this powerful drama, set in the somewhat desolate region of Quorn and Flinders Ranges in South Australia. Even though set in Australia, "Angela's Decision" literally crosses many boundaries, both in story and in the filmmaking process. Local screenwriter Gena Ellis wrote the script as part of her graduate thesis at the University of Oklahoma in 2003 before moving to the Huntsville area. An Australian director, Mat King, contacted her in 2005 through an online script site. The film was directed/produced by King and produced by Kate Croser in Australia in 2006, starring Rhiannon Owen and Xavier Samuel. The original music was recorded in London and Madrid. London-based Liam Gerner wrote and performed the theme song, "Touch Love," along with other songs in the movie. Gena's script was a Top 25 Winner (out of 632 scripts) in the 2003 American Gems Script Competition and featured in Screentalk's July/Aug 2003 issue. The"Making of Angela's Decision" was featured in South Australia's"LipSync" magazine in July 2006. Gena Ellis is an award-winning screenwriter whose screenplays have also had options in Hollywood. She teaches screenwriting and non-fiction seminars and has published over 200 articles in magazines and newspapers. For more information, see www.riterwings.com |