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.
