Here’s how it works.  You apply to just about everything… and then forget about it.  So I was thrilled to receive a phone call from the Austin Film Festival accepting my new stage play, Blue Egg.  And astounded a week later when I got a second call accepting my new screenplay, Final Payment!

 I told the man he better be careful – I was beginning to feel encouraged.

 So it’s off to Austin, Texas, a city I have always wanted to visit.  I’ll keep you posted…

“Chance” - a 5-minute short set in the 1870s and adapted from a play by W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan fame - was shot at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum in NYC. It’s about two estranged sweethearts who run into one another at an inn in New York City during a thunderstorm - the chance encounter giving them a second chance to take a chance on love. I edited the script, directed, edited and co-produced the film.

“Chance” was just selected by iWoman.TV in conjunction with New York Women in Film & Television to play in its festival this March honoring Women’s History month. Check it out here:

https://www.iwoman.tv/playstream/b6a3aee6f88e7477dd37817dbead0a40

It was my pleasure to be interviewed by Joanne Zippel of Zip Creative. Read the interview here:

https://zipcreative.net/fast-forward-friday-with-elizabeth-page/

My short script Second Best, about a practical nurse who's hard-earned nursing school graduation is side-swiped by the on-going conflict between her resentful daughter and a child she once took care of as a nanny, was a finalist in the Cinema Street Women’s Short Screenplay Competition, was a finalist in the top ten at the Oxford Film Festival and is now a finalist at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival.  So the script is getting some love.  We hope to go into production on Second Best as soon as independent production is back up and safely running.

My short film Safe, about an accidental shooting, was an official selection at the Lighthouse International Film Festival in New Jersey and has now just been made an official selection of the Shortcut 100 International Film Festival in Chicago.  It has also just been picked up for distribution in Europe. 

We are very proud to receive this award as the memorial fund is focused on equity in education. And sexual assault and the fallout from these sorts of attacks is a major reason women face an unequal playing field on college campuses. We intend to tour the film on college campuses to help open up this discussion and this award will help pave the way.

Truth be told it’s a looong “short list” but I’ll take it! Fingers crossed.

We’ve been shortlisted for the Ravenal Grant - a fund that supports dramas by women filmmakers. This is a wonderful honor and we look forward to more good news.