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. She was a latchkey child, left alone to fend for herself, and as a result, became a self-sufficient, empowered woman. She is the only one in her family to attend college and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from U.C.L.A. After a forty-year career teaching middle school in Los Angeles, California, she decided to become a screenwriter.
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.
Her screenwriting themes, therefore, center on a strong, independent character rising to meet the challenges of their life and finally succeeding, or when they see an injustice, they decide to do something about it.
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.
