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Arlaine Rockey and her Legal Representative Attended the American Film Market.
Over two dozen production companies requested my Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The First Suffragist script and my other scripts. Some of those and many others requested synopses for all seven of my scripts. I am honored and excited!
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The First Suffragist will be the first biopic of the pioneer suffragist who called for women’s right to vote and equal rights for women at Seneca Falls in 1848. We have an excellent female Director attached ~ Angela Shelton (Eagle and the Albatross & The Hammer).
The 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, that gave women the right to vote in the United States, was in 2020. This film shows how it all began. Read the logline, reader comments and more about Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The First Suffragist at the #ECS page here. As well as comments about the legal scenes of Susan B. Anthony’s actual trial for voting illegally.
My screenplay, Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The First Suffragist, made the top 20% in the 2018 Nicholl Fellowship Screenplay Competition. It also made the top 15% in the Drama category in the 2018 and 2016 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competitions.
My screenplay My Dead BFF, a teenage romantic comedy, made the top 15% in the Comedy category in the 2019 and 2015 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competitions.
My screenplay for the animated film, Purrfect, made the top 15% in the Comedy category in the 2016 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition. It also has comedic legal scenes about an adoption of kittens by the dog couple. The Beaver judge pounds his gavel, uh… tail, on the bench, to quiet the courtroom. See the Purrfect Mini Book.
My screenplay, Madness & Lies, a coming of age psychological legal thriller, about a tween girl who craves her bio mother who cannot give her what she needs yet cannot accept the love of her other mother who she hates and betrays, twice placed in the top 15% in the Nicholl Fellowship Screenplay Competition. In Feb. 2025, it placed in the top 10% of the LA International Screenplay Awards. It has intense courtroom scenes, with a teenage girl who was abused, testifying and dramatically standing to show the burn scar on her body to the jury.
Inspired by true events, Stent, is an epic thriller in which a daughter fights the world's largest medical conglomerate to prove that her late father was the first inventor of the balloon-expandable heart stent. With a half a billion dollars in royalties at stake, she fights to save her family from financial ruin, grappling with blackmail and corruption, and risking her safety and her family's lives all the way to the Supreme Court. In Feb. 2025, it placed in the top 10% of the LA International Screenplay Awards. It has scenes of oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court. (Ms. Rockey is a member of the Supreme Court Bar). Stent was inspired by Ms. Rockey’s sister’s impressive and successful effort to market their father’s patents, a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars, until a huge medical conglomerate, owner of a competing but new patent, started a hostile takeover months later. Dr. Arthur G. Rockey was the first inventor of the balloon expandable stent, for use in the heart, and among other places, including the brain to stop strokes. See more about their case.
My two romantic legal thrillers take place in Miami: Ocean Court, based on my novel, and the sequel original screenplay, Ocean Pearl, have courtroom scenes, involving young lawyers and the social issues of homelessness and domestic violence, respectively.
Click Spec Screenplays to read the loglines and professional readers’ comments for and other information about my seven spec screenplays.
