I'm now sharing "Trunk" on Google Drive, you can read it here.

The first three pages of the script were analyzed by John August and Craig Mazin on their Scriptnotes podcast as part of their Three Page Challenge a few weeks ago, which lead to a funny discussion about my nationality, among other things. Overall they seemed to enjoy the pages, which is in part what gave me the courage to finally put the script out there for others to read. You can listen to the podcast here or read the transcript here if you prefer.The podcast is also available on iTunes.

I realize it's only a short, and one that is very unlikely to ever be shot due to its content, but it's the first bit of writing that I really spent time rewriting and polishing. I'm still not 100% satisfied with it, but as they say, you could work forever on a script, but there comes a time when you just have to consider it done and put it out there. This was a practice run, and I am now tackling the first rewrite of my first full length feature, the one I started while going through the UCLA Extension program. I'm not gonna say too much about it yet, except that it is a horror-comedy based in the corporate world. Think Shaun of the Dead meets Office Space...

A little while ago a friend of mine turned me on to an interesting little contest put together by Bombay Sapphire in association with the Tribeca film festival and screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher. Fletcher basically came up with a premise and wrote and very simple script for it, and it was up the participants to make the script more specific and describe how they would shoot it. Read about it here.

I basically found out about the competition a few days before the deadline and finally settled on an idea and started writing it literally an hour before they closed up to submission. I scrambled to complete the script and hit the link to submit it at 11:59pm, but hit my nose on the door. Apparently my computer's clock and theirs weren't in sync...

So I could not submit my script to the contest, but since I'd written it I figured I should put it somewhere it can be read, so here it is.

The Door

Here is a revised draft of my short script Trunk.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/665397/TRUNK_Final_Draft_1.pdf

Comments are welcome.
Thanks for reading.