Genre: Romantic Sci-Fi comedy Note to producers and agents Available for option. Contact me to review the treatment or full script. A frequent question: Is The Persepone Effect based on real science? Yes, indeedy.  "Really! So simple even a chicken can understand it!" Kate Charlesworth Cartoon History of Time Well -maybe quantum theory is simple for Schrodinger's Cat and a chicken. For me it's just a little less murky, thanks to Kate, John Gibbon, Stephen Hawking, and a host of othe layman's-version science writers. Kudos *Semi-finalist (30 of 3,000 entries) in the Austin Film Festival's screenwriting competition. *Top 10 (80 international entries) in the Pacific Northwest Screenwriting Competition. *Selected for Seattle's Hugo House on-stage reading by professional actors. "A good, professional script with smooth writing and pacing and unusual premise." Agent Anna Cottle, CineLit Representation "This script just flows. Each character is non-stereotypical and has a distinct voice. Good yin and yang between the realism of science and the world of the inn." Pacific NW Competition judge "A page turner! Funny, visual, near-slapstick. You're a great storyteller." PNWC judge "You've created a magical screenplay." Austin Film Festival judge |
The Persepone EffectTITLE SEQUENCE A surrealistic montage -Dali clocks, cats, Escher illusions, galaxies - fade into the reality of a large wall clock at: INT VANCOUVER B.C. AIRPORT TERMINAL - AFTERNOON Passengers collect luggage and queue under "Customs" signs. Jeans-clad MELANIE BERRENS draws admiring male looks as she scoots her suitcase forward. She rummages in a bulky portfolio for her passport. The delay annoys a tired FEMALE CUSTOMS AGENT. The agent flips open Melanie's passport. Stamped next to Melanie's photo: "Abroad on official assignment for the U.S. Government." Deadpan, the agent scans Melanie from Birkenstocks to tousled hair. Melanie looks aging California Girl, not D.C. suit. FEMALE CUSTOMS AGENT In town for? MELANIE Science convention. Only her hair could class her with an Einstein. The agent contemplates Melanie's lumpy portfolio. FEMALE CUSTOMS AGENT Open your bags, please. Her search of Melanie's luggage is way thorough. Melanie shifts tiredly, looks at her watch, runs a hand through her unruly hair. Passengers behind her shift over to fast-moving customs lines. EXT VANCOUVER AIRPORT - TAXI STAND - LATE AFTERNOON The last taxi pulls away just as Melanie flags it. Tired, she plunks herself down on her suitcase and pulls out a directory for rental cars. An ancient, faded-black, British-style taxi pulls up. INT TAXI Melanie cranes to see through the window a hotel's electronic readerboard: WELCOME QUANTUM REALITY FORUM." The taxi's driver, RUFIUS ADLER, a spritely septegenarian, watches her in the rearview mirror. RUFIUS Have you ever heard of the Sugarplum Tree?/ |
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