![]() Specializing in grounded science fiction thrillers, Mehul's work often focuses on wealth/class inequality, environmental issues and diverse sympathetic characters. He has since garnered over 40 festival and contest accolades (including Final Draft Big Break, BlueCat, ScreenCraft and American Zoetrope).īetween 2020-22, Mehul was hired by Voyage Media (Los Angeles) to adapt an original science fiction story treatment into a feature film screenplay, collaborating with Producer and Head of Originals Robert Mitas (Beyond The Reach, We Have Always Lived in The Castle, Flatliners 2017, Ratched). In 2009, Mehul won the Grand Prize at the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards for his science fiction mystery thriller Progeny. Winner of the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (Grand Prize) and Finalist for Final Draft Big Break 2022.Ī graduate in Film Theory & Production, Mehul has written and directed several short films funded by the UK Film Council before focusing primarily on feature film screenwriting. And bless the world with the words you are called to share in whatever form you can share them.UK based Science Fiction screenwriter. God gave you a lifesong to sing and there are men, women, and children all over the world that need to hear the stories and truths that thump inside your heart. So don’t ever listen to any voice that tells you that YOUR voice is not necessary or important. Here’s the secret: what Hollywood needs, what we all need, are unique voices with unique stories from every walk of life. Because for one night – for always –you are Cinderella, and you won’t ever let circumstances get in the way of your dreams. And you ROCK that red carpet with a baby on your hip. And the caller ID says “Hollywood” and they ask you to pick out a red carpet dress for the Star-Studded Awards Show at Paramount Studios. ![]() ![]() But you ignore them, finish your laundry (and your screenplay), and gather the courage to click that SUBMIT button just one more time.Īnd then one day, one magical day, you get a life-changing phone call while cooking up cans of SpaghettiOs. You take UCLA’s online screenwriting class while pregnant and even in labor and you FINISH THAT CLASS WITH YOUR NEWBORN STRAPPED TO YOUR CHEST, BY GUM! through the power of Jesus, a laptop mute button, and a Baby Bjorn.Īnd everyone tells you that you have to be 20 years old and live in LA and NOT have six kids and fourteen loads of laundry a week. You listen to Screenwriting podcasts on your way to soccer practice and type after midnight when the kids are asleep. You read history books at the pool during swim lessons and watch documentaries and screenwriting DVDs for date night. I just can’t! When your kid has a broken leg, your baby needs to nurse, and your husband/friend/sibling/kid/business/job/school/church/sports team needs help with their life projects, you just physically CAN’T do it all.īut sometimes a story just crawls into your bones and you feel like if you don’t write it before you die then you will be living a life unfulfilled. “I don’t know how you do it all,” is a common refrain. Craddock!” he shouted after me as I hauled two squirmy, sticky preschoolers back to the car. But when a fifth grade kid in a three piece suit marches up to your stroller on the school playground and extends his hand to shake hands with the “Hollywood Movie Writer” well gosh darn it, you know you did SOMETHING right. It doesn’t win me volunteer of the year awards at the PTA or accolades for Pinterest-worthy Baby Showers (I wish!). What I am good at, what I am really, really good at, is writing. I spooned up SpaghettiOs to clamoring kiddos, all the while trying to act calm and cool on the phone about the fact that I JUST WON A MAJOR SCREENWRITING AWARD!!!!!! (Note: I didn’t say I was a GOOD cook – just that I was cooking.) I got the phone call from Final Draft that my screenplay, American Exodus, won the Big Break Action/Adventure category in the middle of cooking dinner, actually. ![]() And somewhere between loads of laundry and vats of pasta, I dream up stories and write them down, and miracles occur in the midst of the mundane. But more often than not, if I just keep plugging away at it, the laundry gets done, and the kids have clothes on their backs. Sometimes I can’t find the jerseys for my kids’ games. Sometimes it lies in great piles and drifts around my house. I have six young children, so I do fourteen loads of laundry a week. I’m taking a break from folding laundry to give you a window into the screenwriter part of myself. That’s where the joy lives and that’s where stories take flight and become magic. Katherine Craddock / Guest Post Speaker: Screen Writingįind refuge, inspiration, rejuvenation in the day to day work.
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