WORLD ARTS FILM FEST FEATURES BEST FRIENDS FILMS
Marcus Taylor, Shelby Sporl, Sharon Y. Cobb and Marc Boese
Short films JANE and BEING BECCA, written by Sharon Y. Cobb and produced by Best Friends Films screened on opening nights at the World Arts Film Fest at the Contemporary Museum of Art in Jacksonville, FL, April 11. Both films will screen again during the festival which ends April 13.
To read more about the World Arts Film Fest and both short films: http://www.sharonycobb.com/2013/04/10/world-arts-film-fest-features-two-shorts-written-by-sharon-y-cobb/
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48 Go Green International Film Competition announced that Best Friends Films’ film The Other Half written by Sharon Y. Cobb, won Runner Up for Best Film in their 2012 short film competition. The contest happens simultanteously worldwide during three events over a 48 hour period which includes creating the concept, writing the script, casting, shooting the film and editing.
Best Friends won $1,000 in cash and prizes. The film will be screened with other winners on Friday, April 19 at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. Yes, this is the home of the Oscar folks in Beverly Hills. This is the second year that Best Friends, led by producer/director Marc Boese, has competed in the Go Green competition. The group’s 2011 film, Way Off the Grid, was among the top-rated films competing worldwide.
Read more: http://www.sharonycobb.com/2013/02/15/the-other-half-wins-48-go-green-runner-up-and-screens-at-academy-theatre/
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FALSE CONFESSIONS BOOKS TRAILER
Check out the new book trailer for False Confessions of a True Hollywood Screenwriter created by Chrissy Sellers of Studio 352. Let me know what you think!
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WHAT SCREENWRITER TERRY ROSSIO (The Lone Ranger, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek, Aladdin) SAYS about False Confessions: “Started reading and read it cover to cover. Delightful, insightful, inspiring, terrifying, hilarious, informative, and touching. I have myself imagined many a time arriving at a meeting with loaded weaponry.”
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FLORIDA WRITERS ASSOCIATION INDIE PUBLISHING PANEL
What a wonderful turn out of more than 70 writers at the Florida Writers Association (FWA), Ponte Vedra Beach Chapter, for the Independent Publishing & You panel, Saturday, January 26, 2013. A big thank you to organizer, Vic DiGenti, for inviting me to serve on the panel.
(Left to right) Moderator: Victor DiGenti. Panel: Sharon Y. Cobb (novelist, screenwriter and adjunct professor, University of North Florida); Rik Feeney (author, publisher and book coach); Cheyenne Knopf (Marketing Manager with OnLine Binding); and Judith K. White (novelist).
Photo by: Jane Wood.
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BOOK AUTHORS TOUR INTERVIEW
Check out this interview
with Sharon on: BookAuthorsTour.com!
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THE OTHER HALF IN TOP 15 FINALISTS OF 48 GO GREEN
Best Friends’ short film placed in the Top 15 Finalists of the 2012 48 Go Green International Film Competition, Group A. The film competed with 41 other short films in the group. Filmmakers and film fans voted, pushing “The Other Half,” written by Sharon Y. Cobb, into the Top 15 Finalists.
Nathanial Thatcher as Albert
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OTHER SHORT FILMS BY SHARON Y. COBB
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BARNES & NOBLE BOOK SIGNING SOLD OUT!
A huge THANK YOU goes out to all the folks who joined us for the book signing at the 
Barnes & Noble, St. Johns Town Center in Jacksonville, FL, Saturday, January 28, 2012, 2 p.m.. The store’s supply of False Confessions of a True Hollywood Screenwriter sold out within the first hour! Thank goodness we brought a reserve box of books and the signing went on through 4 p.m., as promised. I’m so grateful for the enthusiastic show of support and hope everyone enjoys the read.
Michael Fitzgerald, Ashley Kritzer buying books.
Lorraine Portman Bought a Bunch’a Books!
David Pratt & Sharon
Wesley Nielsen, Sharon Y. Cobb
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FALSE CONFESSIONS OF A TRUE HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRITER
In Hollywood, there are no rules and they’re strictly enforced.
That’s one of the things LIZ BRADBURY learns during her eight long torturous years in Hell-A working as a professional screenwriter. You can’t get an agent until you don’t need one. You can’t sell a script until you’ve already sold one. Paradoxes of the movie business are driving her mad, or at least she is planning to use that as her defense when arrested for kidnapping.
Liz Bradbury is a woman who is a heroine in her own life. She writes strong female protagonists because she is a strong female protagonist. She moved back to her hometown in Florida to be with her family and bakes buttermilk biscuits from her great grandma’s recipe. She plays paintball and races formula cars. Liz is a Southern belle with a rebel yell.
Liz lives with CHRISTOPHER, her ideal man and perfect marriage material. But every time she heads down the aisle, a catastrophe halts the wedding march. The Southern mansion where the wedding is being held explodes, the groom ends up in a two-day coma after a rugby tackle goes wrong and on their third attempt, their plane crash-lands on the way to the private ceremony. Christopher is certain the fates are trying to tell them to forget about making it legal. Liz isn’t so sure.
She’s a screenwriter who aspires to be on the A-List, but in reality she’s on Hollywood’s F-U List. She pays her Writers Guild of America dues. She writes high-concept comedy. She works hard for her list of movie credits. She gets dumped by her agents.
But there must be some mistake. Wasn’t it her big female-driven action comedy, Jane Blonde, that only one month earlier had garnered the attention of every producer in town? Wasn’t it Jane Blonde that her agents said they sent to KATIE PORTMAN, Hollywood’s It Girl, to convince a studio to make the movie? And now her agents are giving other clients her studio writing assignments and they won’t return her calls, dismissing her like one of the UTBFs (Used To Be Famous) roaming the streets of Beverly Hills?
It’s not until she takes on Hollywood on her own terms — in an adventure including SWAT teams, a hostage standoff, the kidnapping of an A-list actress and a nationally televised car chase through the streets of LA — that she realizes only in LA could crime run amuck have such a deliriously happy Hollywood ending.
False Confessions of a True Hollywood Screenwriter is an action-adventure comedy. The tone is similar to the madcap romps of Carl Hiaasen with a dash of Janet Evanovich’s quirky chick-power plotting. The story is about taking fate hostage, shaping your own destiny and never giving up.
Never.
WoW! With a pitch like that its definately on my maybe gotta-get list.
Have enjoyed snooping into your bio-background and interviews. Great stuff. Unusual curve. Most Key Westies have burned out before they collapse in “Margaritaville” . You bucked the trend.
Hope to listen-in Saturday in St. Auggie and take a few pics – if my hands are steady enough after setting up chairs for the FWA session.
Jack Owen – journalist, promotionalist, oyster-shucker
Hi Jack, Thanks so much for the kind comment. Will see you Saturday in St. Augustine. Bring your oyster-shucking gloves!
Sharon
Hey Sharon–
You gave a dynamite workshop today and I thank you for all the time you put into preparing it. So much information–you answered every question I came in with.
Here’s the book and author I told you about:
“Hooking the Reader: Opening Lines that SELL” by Sharon Rendell-Smock
She’s FWA too, and her book is probably in the FWA Bookshelf.
I’m looking forward to seeing you in other workshops. If I can be of help at any time, you have my info–
Thanks again.
Beth.
Beth, Thanks so much for your comment and info about this book. What a great idea. I really enjoyed having you in the workshop on Saturday. Write on! Sharon
After reading just a bit about Liz, and the book trailer, I would date her. I would post bail for her. I might even help her, but I draw the line at getting arrasted, unless the mug shots come with a press release package.
David, Thanks so much for your comment about Liz and her mad Hollywood adventures. You’re a funny guy and I hope you’re writing comedy, too. Write on, Sharon