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.
