Georgette Skolnick
Georgette Skolnick grew up in a poor dysfunctional family with both parents working. Their sole focus was on earning money instead of providing love and attention for their daughter. As a result Georgette was left alone to fend for herself and became a self-sufficient woman. Her screenwriting themes therefore center on a strong female determined to survive, succeed, and find romance.
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. She wrote and self-published a Health Education workbook for middle school.
Her work with the Screenplay Development Group at Fox Studios and Roadmap Writers helped her hone her screenwriting skills resulting in twelve award-winning scripts .
Since her great grandfather was a scribe to Tsar Nicholas II, Georgette was motivated to write JUST ONE INCH, a period piece about his life and her grandmother’s plight as she fled to America. Since Georgette is the last leaf of her family tree, she felt it important to write their story lest it be forgotten.
JUST ONE INCH has won sixteen awards so far in such competitions as Page International, Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope, and the Golden Script Awards.
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.
This story is inspired by the true story of my great grandfather.
In 1897, Vladimir Kaminskaya is summoned to appear before Tsar Nicholas II. He fears he is about to be arrested but doesn't know why. At the Winter Palace, standing before the Tsar and Tsarina, Nicholas questions him. With the Tsarina's approval, Vladimir is hired as the Tsar's scribe. To Vladimir's relief, he accepts the position, but later tells his wife, Svetlana that he doesn't feel worthy of the honor and is afraid he won't be good enough especially after hearing the last scribe was executed. Svetlana gives him the epiphany that he is, and to her surprise, finds out that the Tsar wants her to be one of his cooks. They celebrate with music and dancing.
