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About Georgette
Georgette Skolnick grew up in a poor dysfunctional family with both parents working. Their sole focus was on earning money instead of providing love and attention for their daughter. As a result, Georgette was left alone to fend for herself and became a self-sufficient, independent woman. Her screenwriting themes therefore center on a strong female determined to survive and succeed.
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. She wrote and self-published a Health Education workbook for middle school.
Her work with the Screenplay Development Group at Fox Studios and Roadmap Writers helped her hone her screenwriting skills resulting in twelve award-winning scripts.
Since her great grandfather was a scribe to Tsar Nicholas II, Georgette was motivated to write JUST ONE INCH, a period piece about his life and her grandmother’s plight as she fled to America. Since Georgette is the last leaf of her family tree, she felt it important to write their story lest it be forgotten.
JUST ONE INCH has won seventeen awards so far in such competitions as Page International, Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope, and the Golden Script Awards.
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.
Badges
Certifications
Loglines
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The Secret of Jasper's Cove Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller People and animals disappear at a secluded California cove. A news reporter and a Paleontologist investigate the secret lurking beneath its sand only to be stuck in a mega prehistoric world. Their plight is to find a way home safely.
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The Scribe (Short) Budget: $100K - $1M | Historical In 1897, Vladimir Kaminskaya is whisked away to the Winter Palace by Tsar Nicholas II's Royal Guards. Terrifying thoughts fill his mind. Was he being arrested? What crime did he commit?
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Just One Inch Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical Inspired by a true story, an elderly woman recounts the tales of her ancestors from the age of the Romanovs through today and how their struggles, sacrifices, and perseverance has impacted her decision to have an operation to save her life.
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Murder At Lake Como Budget: $100K - $1M | Mystery Set in Lake Como, Italy 1927, Inspector Lionetti must decipher who killed a wealthy American tycoon. Everyone hated the man, and everyone had a motive. So, who killed him?
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Small Town Gossip Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama In 1975 Montgomery, Alabama, veterinarian Paul Hartley and his partner thought they could avoid homophobia by moving to a small town, but the town gossip lady has other ideas in this feel-good LGBTQ dramedy.
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An Interlaken Affair Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance A tragic love story of a socialite’s extramarital affair and heart-rendering romance with a dashing local farmer set in post-World War I Switzerland, comparable to Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
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Precious Commodity Budget: $5M - $10M | Action When a severe drought in the near future makes water expensive, a powerful drug kingpin decides it's more profitable to sell water. He decides to manipulate the U.S. water supply and take over the White House, but The Secretary of Homeland Security races to stop him by any means necessary.
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Adversity Drama Inspired by a true story, a high school teacher provides a valuable life lesson about adversity she hopes will make a difference in her students' lives.
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An Act of Kindness (Short) Budget: $100K - $1M | Family Inspired by a true story, a high school bully, who continually harasses his teacher, learns a lesson the hard way in this short feel-good drama.
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An Act of Kindness (TV) Budget: $100K - $1M | Family A high school bully who continually harasses his teacher learns a lesson the hard way in this feel-good one hour television episode.
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The New Neighbors Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi In the near future, climate change will cause humanity to end. The Alien leader from the planet Gilese offers humans a chance to survive, but at a price. Will humans accept the offer?
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Sacrificial Lambs Budget: $5M - $10M | Action A mailman's life changes forever when he uncovers a conspiracy and cover up of a genocide during a mysterious flu epidemic in the United States. He is about to blow the whistle, but becomes the target of his own assassination attempt to keep him quiet.
Awards
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Creative World Awards Finalist
(2024) -
New Media Festival Official Selection -- Top 3
(2024) -
Page International Awards
(2024) -
Page International Awards
(2024) -
Page Turner International Awards
(2024) -
Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards
(2024) -
Creative Screenwriting Awards
(2024) -
Emerging Screenwriters
(2024) -
Big Apple Festival
(2024) -
TSL
(2024) -
Filmmatic Sci-Fi Awards
(2024) -
Los Angeles International Awards
(2024) -
Scriptapalooza
(2024) -
Southern California Screenplay Awards
(2024) -
Filmmatic Drama Awards
(2024) -
Quarterfinalist, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
(2023) -
Emerging Screenwriter Semifinalist
(2023) -
Page Turner Awards Finalist
(2023) -
Outstanding Screenplays Quarterfinalist
(2023) -
Scriptapalooza Semifinalist
(2023) -
Pitch Now Semifinalist
(2023) -
Big Apple Fesitval Official Selection
(2023) -
Filmmatic Awards Quarterfinalist
(2023) -
Southern California Screenplay Quarterfinalist
(2023) -
Los Angeles International Screenplay Quarterfinalist
(2023) -
Stage 32 Quarterfinalist
(2023) -
Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Quarterfinalist
(2021)
Education
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University of California, Los Angeles
(1964-1969)
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