"Unfinished Business" by May Chaplin Evangeline never confronted her feelings surrounding the death of her twin sister, but when her own life falls apart, she must resolve the alienation and hurt before she loses the man she loves. (Drama) At Minneapolis Community & Technical College Technical Building - 1st Floor Executive Conference Room near cafeteria 1500 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN

Saturday, October 16th, 9 am to 12 noon Minneapolis Community & Technical College (MCTC) Whitney Building - Room L3000 (2nd floor) 1500 Hennepin Avenue, MInneapolis This year's annual meeting will include: Begin with networking over coffee and bagels Updates on the state of the organization and programs Screening of this year's Script to Screen contest-winning short film Guest Speaker: award-winning Hollywood producer Judith James Pitch Contest: Five (5) SWW members will be chosen to pitch Judith after her talk To be considered, submit a typed one page (not longer) narrative pitch for a feature length film (oral version 3 - 5 minutes). Speaker Bio: Judith James is an Emmy-winning producer and has produced 11 award-winning plays. In partnership with actor Richard Dreyfuss, her film credits include an executive producer of QUIZ SHOW, a producer of MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS, producer of TRIGGER HAPPY, and movies for HBO, TNT, ABC and CBS. In addition, she has served as consulting producer on many of Mr. Dreyfuss’ films. Her next film, THE FOREST, has been completed and awaits release. Send your submission to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Dear Diary, After winning the Script-to-Screen Challenge this year for my short script “I Have No Right to Sing the Blues,” I was asked to write a blog—a diary, if you will, about my experiences as my script goes to the screen. With as much other stuff as I have to do (working full time, raising two kids and a husband, not to mention screenwriting), I think it’s a worthwhile activity. Before you see the process of moving something from the page to the film, you really can’t understand the full scope of what screenwriting entails. This will be my third short script put into production. My first, “Forgotten” was done for the Screenlab Challenge in 2007. I was fortunate enough to have Chris Gegax, a talented director, agree to produce it for the contest. He recruited Jon Springer as his director of photography, and the look and feel that resulted was amazing and won first place. The following year with the help of fellow director/screenwriter David Erickson, I tried my own hand at directing my script “Good Love Rises.” With David helping me all the way, it got second place in the contest, but I’ll stick to writing, thank you very much!