Georgette Skolnick

Georgette Skolnick's father lost everything during The Depression. So, she grew up in a poor dysfunctional family with both parents working to make ends meet. Their sole focus was on earning money instead of providing love and attention for their daughter. She was left alone to fend for herself, and as a result, became a self-sufficient, empowered woman.

Her screenwriting themes, therefore, center on a strong, independent character rising to meet the challenges of their life and finally succeeding.

Georgette obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree from U.C.L.A. and had a forty-year career teaching middle school in Los Angeles, California.

Since her great grandfather was a scribe to Tsar Nicholas II, Georgette was motivated to write. Her work with the Screenplay Development Group at Fox Studios and Roadmap Writers helped hone her screenwriting skills resulting in twelve award-winning scripts in such competitions as Page International, Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope, and the Golden Script Awards. She also wrote and self-published a Health Education workbook for middle school.

In-between writing, you will find Georgette volunteering with the Los Angeles Animal Services helping animals get adopted and at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center delivering flowers to patients.

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Award Category
Screenplay Award 2023
Screenplay Award Sub-Category
Film Script
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Comments

Barri Evins Sat, 19/08/2023 - 07:44

Description is vivid and cinematic and supports the tone effectively, adding tension and suspense at the outset. Not sure how the opening will connect but the flashback story is vivid and compelling and quickly drew me in. The historical context helps up the tension. It succeeded in leaving me interested to know more.

Barri Evins Sun, 20/08/2023 - 04:45

Description is vivid and cinematic and supports the tone effectively, adding tension and suspense at the outset. Not sure how the opening will connect but the flashback story is vivid and compelling and quickly drew me in. It succeeded in leaving me interested to know more.

Felicity Wren Wed, 23/08/2023 - 23:16

The writer is excellent in painting the scene, the description is exceptional, and reads a little like a novel. The opening scene in the school room is so different in style and brief it feels like it is from a different script. I was not certain who's POV I was following in the following pages.

Lauren Cribb Peacock Sat, 02/09/2023 - 07:04

Have you thought about turning this into a book as well? It has the bones and because of your in depth descriptions and characters it reads more story-like. However, with a little bit more massaging of structure/organization, I do see it becoming a hit period piece.

Georgette Skolnick Sat, 16/09/2023 - 05:42

I would like to thank everyone for their wonderful reviews of my script. I noted there was confusion about the two different stories which I merged together. As a result, I have revised the script to to help clarify how the struggles, sacrifices, and perseverance of one protagonist (the grandmother) had a profound impact on the second protagonist's (granddaughter's) decision whether or not to have a life-threatening operation. Thank you very much for helping me make this an even better script now. And, to answer Ms. Peacock's question, yes, I also have it as a manuscript, but I'm better at screenwriting and would need a mentor to help me develop the book.

Georgette Skolnick