Script to Screen 2014 Winner Announced!

Congratulations to our top five finalists in Willamette Writers’ 2014 FiMLaB competition! As a recap, our finalists are:

BEK by Elisa Graybill
MIDNIGHT KISS by Xavier Chavez
SIX MONTHS OF WONDER WOMAN by Susan Fleming
TIME PIECE by Michael Meyers
UNWELCOME GUESTS by Jon Dragt

Jon Dragt, author of Unwelcome Guests

Jon Dragt

Our Hollywood judges read and evaluated each script and chose one clear winner. The Grand Prize winner will have his/her script produced by Willamette Writers and Ampersand Productions, and will be screened at this year’s conference.

And the winner is…UNWELCOME GUESTS by Jon Dragt! Congratulations to you, Jon, and we look forward to working with you this summer as Ampersand turns your script into a visual masterpiece!

To everyone who submitted to this year’s contest, keep writing and come ready to make things happen at the Doubletree in August!

Ruth Witteried

As Visual Media Director, Ruth Witteried works with all programs based in the visual arts, including screenwriting and film production. As Executive Director of the FiLMLaB competition and project, she produced the 2012 FiLMLaB short, Alis Volat Propriis, winner of the 2013 OIFF Best Comedic Short; 2013′s Coffee.Table.Book.; 2014's Unwelcome Guests, and in 2015, The Return of Bug Eyed Bill. She acted as Film Coordinator for the Willamette Writers Conference from 2011-2013 and occasionally teaches screenwriting at Clark College. She currently is Executive Director of Willamette Writers' FiLMLaB. You can follow her on Twitter @sityourassdown1 or Facebook at FiLMLaB. Contact her. (visualmedia@willamettewriters.org)