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Brook Farm

On the cusp of American Civil War, a group of Boston intellects cast out to the countryside to establish a progressive society, but their ill-prepared nature sends them into historic disarray.

  • Alexander Wake
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Number of Pages:
    108
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Festigious International Film Festival
    Los Angeles
    July 6, 2020
    Best Screenplay of the Month
  • Festigious International Film Festival
    Los Angeles
    July 6, 2020
    Best First Time Screenwriter
  • Chicago Screenplay Awards
    Chicago
    June 15, 2020
    Quarterfinalist
  • I See You Awards
    Southfield., Michigan
    Official Selection
  • Script Summit
    Royal Oak, Michigan
    Official Selection
  • Imaginarium Convention
    Louisville, Kentucky
    September 9, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Austin Revolution
    Austin, Texas
    September 21, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Los Angeles Film Awards
    Los Angeles, California
    August 2, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Hollywood Dreams International Writer's Competition and Film Festival
    Los Angeles, California
    September 2, 2020
    Official Selection
  • New York City International Screenplay Awards
    New York, New York
    July 18, 2020
    Finalist
  • Loudoun Arts Film Festival
    Middlesburgh, Virginia
    July 22, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Action on Film Megafest 16th Annual Film Festival
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    July 28, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival
    Providence, Rhode Island
    July 26, 2020
    Semi Finalist
  • Depth of Field International Film Festival
    Nassau, Delaware
    July 29, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Hollywood Jumbo 2020 Screenplay Festival
    Hollywood, California
    July 28, 2020
    Finalist
  • Los Angeles Film Awards
    Los Angeles, California
    August 2, 2020
    Best First Time Screenwriter
  • Log Angeles Film Awards
    Los Angeles, California
    September 2, 2020
    Honorable Mention: Comedy
  • Austin After Dark Film Festival
    Austin, Texas
    August 20, 2020
    Best Dark Comedy Screenplay
  • Houston Comedy Film Festival
    Houston, Texas
    August 18, 2020
    Best Dark Comedy Screenplay
  • Table Read My Screenplay

    August 18, 2020
    Top 100 Comedy
  • Atlanta International Screenplay Awards
    Atlanta, Georgia
    August 6, 2020
    Semi-Finalist
  • Gulf Coast Film Festival
    Houston, Texas
    August 10, 2020
    Finalist
  • All Genre Screenplay Competition

    August 20, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Creative World Awards
    Marina Del Ray, California
    September 30, 2020
    Finalist
  • Fresh Voices
    Hollywood, California
    September 8, 2020
    Best Dialogue
  • Burning Love Screenplay Contest
    Richmond, Virginia
    Semi-Finalist
  • Southeastern International Film & Music Festival
    Nashville, Tennessee
    Semi-Finalist
  • Mystic Film Festival
    Mystic, Connecticut
    September 5, 2020
    Finalist
  • Awareness Festival
    Los Angeles, California
    September 3, 2020
    Semi-Finalist
  • NewsFest True Stories 2020
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    September 2, 2020
    Best 1st Time Writer
  • The NewsFest
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    September 2, 2020
    Best Script Inspired by History
  • London Independent Film Awards
    London, UK
    September 16, 2020
    Best Original Screenplay
  • Filmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards
    Los Angeles, California
    September 15, 2020
    Semi Finalist
  • Los Angeles Movie Awards
    Los Angeles, California
    September 9, 2020
    Best Script
  • Williamsburg International Film & Music Competition
    Santa Monica, California
    September 15, 2020
    Runner Up Screenwriting Competition
  • Portland Comedy Film Festival
    Portland, Oregon
    September 12, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Austin Spotlight Film Festival
    Austin, Texas
    September 10, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Cinema World Fest Awards
    Los Angeles, California
    September 13, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Chicago Indie Film Awards
    Chicago, Illinois
    September 21, 2020
    Official Selection
  • SoCal Film Awards
    Huntington Beach, California
    September 26, 2020
    Official Selection
  • WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition
    Nassau, Deleware
    September 27, 2020
    Silver Best Feature Screenplay
  • International Independent Film Awards
    Encino, California
    September 24, 2020
    Platinum Best Feature Screenplay
  • Austin Under the Stars Film Festival
    Austin, Texas
    October 2, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Marina del Rey Film Festival
    Marina del Rey, California
    October 1, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Hollywood International Golden Age Festival
    New York, New York
    October 23, 2020
    Semi-Finalist
  • Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Festival
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    October 22, 2020
    Official Selection
  • L.A. Neo Noir Film and Script
    Beverly Hills, California
    October 19, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Anchorage International Film Festival
    Anchorage, Alaska
    October 16, 2020
    Finalist
Writer Biography - Alexander Wake

There are things in life that are pure. Things that unite a body of the uncommon. Things that inspire and achieve in doubt. Things that fulfill, surpass and bring purpose to what was lost. Things that rise with blinding momentum.
My life has been filled with trials and tribulations, as many have, but the art of a storyteller is unique to most. I come from a long line of raconteurs and have endured far reaching walks of life. From early brushes with the law, to living on my own through my teens, to semi pro hockey, and working for a Fortune 100 firm, my stories encapsulate the ebbs and flows of finite emotion.
I grew up on the fourth largest and third oldest farm in Illinois. Generations of farmers coursed through our family dating back before the Civil War. Stories of oil tanks exploding, lightning strikes, snapping turtle duels, an all-but-fatal bee attack, and accidentally eating an endangered fish, were tales of the terrain just from my lifetime. There is desperation, heartbreak, solitude and strife coupled into those years that yearn for light.
I moved away from home at the age of fourteen to play AAA hockey, climbing ranks and playing for NHL coaches along the way. After making it to semi pro I spiral fractured my scapula; with 13 broken bones I was no stranger to injury, but our team doctor said he’d seen anything like it before, comparing it to a car wreck at 90mph. I suffered a concussion, 3 broken ribs and a shoulder that was dislocated and splintered, all from a moment seemingly frozen in time.
After that I was forced to find life after hockey. I went to college, studied creative writing under Alex Shakar, a New York Times best-selling author, and intended on accepting his recommendation to Iowa Writers’ Workshop before learning I had thyroid cancer that fall. A newfound appreciation of life pushed an entirely new perception of the world around me. I started a family and slowed down, eventually overcome with that innate desire to do as my lineage had done so well before me – tell the stories that accent our journey. To invite a stranger to a time and place, disconnected from their current reality - that is a purity that few other forms of art enjoy.

Ultimately our paths are not all dissimilar, but our convection of the like is what defines us.

Alexander Wake

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