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The 21st Annual UCI Screenwriting Festival

We cordially invite you to join us for a premiere showcase of UCI's creative writing talent at The 21st Annual UCI Screenwriting Festival over the course of three days: Thursday May 23, Friday May 24 and Saturday May 25, 2013.

The UCI Screenwriting Festival started in 1992 under the guidance of screenwriting instructor Marie Cartier, as a celebratory finale to the yearlong 117 screenwriting courses at the University of California, Irvine.

This is a FREE event and OPEN to the public.

Festivities include live readings of student screenplays (which are read by the students from UCI’s premier drama department), the Pitch Festival, Poster Creativity Challenge, Fade- In Festival, and the Scene Challenge, as well as guest speakers.

This year, we are happy to welcome back a good friend of the festival, the famed chairman of UCLA’s Screenwriting program, Richard Walter. We are also happy to welcome Guinevere Turner, screenwriter of American Psycho (2000) and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005). Books written by each speaker will be sold at the festival on Friday May 24 at 1:30 PM. There will be a book signing after each guest speaker’s Q&A.

Come celebrate the creativity within the UCI community, and share your love of film and writing with others just like you.

Please visit http://uciswf2013.webs.com/ for more information. We hope to see you there!


This year’s finalists for the 21st Annual UCI Screenwriting Festival are:

Thursday May 23

The Plug-In Drug: A Demonstration
By Johnathan Ryan and Rashid Dadashi
“Reality is one click away”

Prescription: An American Story
By Jonathan Boone and Michelle Nation
“There’s money in the pill box.”


Friday May 24

Talk To Me
By Cristina Reguindin
“How ‘Like’ can turn into love.”

Simuverse
By Mike Normandia
“Would she be with him is he was VIRTUALLY the last man on Earth?”

The Offering
By Joyce Im, Mary Morilla and Sara Naor
“You can’t escape your destiny.”

Dateless
By Alex Plye
“Welcome to the most uncomfortable night of their lives: PROM.”

Rathbone Manor
By Sean Kang, Adrian Montoya, Cody Phillips, Eric Stafford, Eszter Zimanyi
“You need the WILL to survive.”


Saturday May 25

Release
By Caroline Kim
“In life, there is humor to be found in everything...Even death.”

16th Grade
By Edlin Ortiz
“20 is the new 10.”