Spec Screenplays
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The First Suffragist
An original screenplay by Arlaine RockeY
The radical tactics of the intellectual leader of the original women's rights movement anger young suffragists and frustrate her closest friend, Susan B. Anthony.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the intellectual and radical force behind the original women's rights movement for over fifty years, but when she published a feminist critique of the Bible in 1895, she was publicly censured for allegedly damaging the cause of suffrage. Based on true events and research drawn from multiple sources, all in the public domain, Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The First Suffragist is a moving, sometimes humorous, and inspirational biopic about an American hero who improved the lives of millions of women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The First Suffragist is an historical biopic. It made the top 20% in the 2018 Nicholl Fellowship Screenplay Competition and the second round (top 15%) in the drama genre in the 2018 and 2016 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competitions. Read more about Arlaine's effort to produce Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The First Suffragist in 2020 #ECS2020 here.
My Dead BFF
An original screenplay by Arlaine Rockey
Joslyn's dead BFF becomes her worst frenemy when she learns that Joslyn broke the ex-boyfriend rule.
High school outsider, Joslyn, is thrilled when her charismatic BFF's ghost returns with her bedazzled cell app needing help to get into heaven, but Emily, her dead BFF, becomes her worst frenemy when Emily learns that Joslyn has a crush on Emily's grieving boyfriend. This film takes place in the eclectic mountain town of Asheville, North Carolina.
My Dead BFF is a teenage romantic comedy with a twist. It made the second round (top 15%) in the comedy genre in the 2019 and 2015 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competitions.
PRAISE for My Dead BFF
"The comedic writing is superb. The dialogue is brilliant and the attitude wonderfully sardonic. ... [Arlaine Rockey] exhibits an innate sense for mental editing and how cinematic comedy is constructed and works. ... [The character] development is superb. The teenagers read as real people, which is more difficult than it sounds. Emily is a hugely alluring cinematic creation: brash, iconoclastic, sassy, and her transformation is severe. ... My Dead BFF is highly entertaining. ... This is a smart concept with impeccable execution. It is funny throughout and continually entertaining. The characters are alluring, the setting intriguing, and as a writer, [Arlaine Rockey has] a strong voice and fun point of view."
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