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Name: |
Paula R Montgomery |
Phone: |
(604) 346-7286 |
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pmonty1@gmail.com |
Website: |
www.writeonfilms.com |
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N/A |
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| Biography: |
Paula is a graduate of the UBC Film & TV Production Program and the UCLA Feature Film Screenwriting Certificate Program. She has written several short films and web videos that have been screened worldwide. She placed in and won many competitions throughout North America, and is currently writer for hire on the feature screenplay Manchester Reunion. Her first children’s book Pickle and the Gift, which is based on the award winning script, is soon to be published with Blue Badger Books. |
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| Title 1: |
The Ethical Traveller |
| Genre 1: |
1/2 hour travel/wish fulfilment series (TV) |
| Log Line 1: |
Contestants vie for the chance to experience the expedition of a lifetime and to give back to the world while doing it. |
| Synopsis 1: |
This is a show that gives people the opportunity to help endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica, teach English to Buddhist Monks, or build a school in Africa, just to name a few. Contestants, individuals, couples, families and even groups, will submit a one-minute video to the show’s website. These videos will showcase why they want to go on an inspired adventure, and why they should be chosen for the opportunity. The public will be able to go online and VOTE for their favourites. Once the top 25 highest rated videos are chosen by the public the producer’s will determine the winner for that week’s adventure. |
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| Title 2: |
Red Card |
| Genre 2: |
Dramatic Comedy/Sports (Feature Film) |
| Log Line 2: |
A star athlete who falls from grace struggles to fight his way back into the big leagues, but before he can rise again he must lead a delinquent youths soccer team to victory. |
Synopsis 2: |
A knee injury and an addiction to painkillers causes soccer heartthrob Danny Hayes to black out during an important division match, setting off a chain of events that causes him to lose everything.
A drunken mischievous evening incited by a hot fan loses Danny his position on the team; lands him on the front of the tabloids; and in front of a judge where he is sentenced to community service.
Pushed into coaching a soccer team for troubled teens, he turns it into an opportunity to impress his former premier league Manager and win his way back into the big leagues.
Although he uses the kids anyway he can, he connects with the youths and develops a great friendship with one of the boys. He reclaims his self-respect, a renewed joy of being part of a team, and finds a renewed sense of purpose.
Just as he is pulling his life together Danny gets that elusive offer he has been dreaming of. Only this time just who is being played? |
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| Title 3: |
Pickle and the Gift |
| Genre 3: |
1/2 hour animated kids series (TV) |
| Log Line 3: |
A chance encounter with a magical toad changes a young girl’s life. |
| Synopsis 3: |
Molly Gherkin is teased and tormented at her new school because she is afflicted with warts. Her family lovingly calls her Pickle, but the kids at school aren’t so kind. The school bully hears her nickname and begins to relentlessly taunt her. Even the other kids at school won’t play with Pickle, for fear of catching her ugly warts.
Sad and lonely she finds solace in the nook of a nearby pond, where a magical Toad befriends her. Toad seeing how tormented Pickle is offers to buy her warts for a penny apiece, and sceptically she accepts his offer.
Back at school a wart less Pickle stands up to Thug and his cronies. Her fearlessness and resolve inspire the other kids to do the same and together they banish the bullies to the other side of the playground, reclaiming their right to a safe and secure playing environment.
Pickle’s belief in herself enables her to chase away her fears and her insecurities, and as her mother predicted, to make some new friends. |
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| Additional Comments: |
Ask me about Script #4 “The Wedding Topper” A Romantic Comedy about a wedding photographer who hates weddings and must pretends to be gay and marry her friend in order to avoid deportation, but when she meets the sexy Immigration officer next door her plans are thrown into a tailspin. |