Script File

Cornerstone

The patient Freud never wants you to hear about.
Based on true events, Cornerstone revises the origin story of psychoanalysis from the perspective of a silenced victim, Emma Eckstein. Plagued by debilitating pain, Emma rejects the doubts of her strident activist sister and seeks healing first from Freud and then from his surgeon friend Wilhelm Fliess with disastrous results.

  • Chris Arnold
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Student, Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Historical, drama, true stories
  • Number of Pages:
    128
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Stony Brook University
  • Los Angeles Film & Script Festival 2020
    Los Angeles, CA
    Winner, Best Student Script
  • Austria International Film Festival
    Vienna, Austria
    November 27, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Script Summit 2020

    Finalist
  • Creative World Awards 2020

    Semifinalist
  • Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Winter 2020

    Semifinalist
  • Student Los Angeles Film Awards 2020

    Finalist
  • Screencraft True Story & Public Domain Competition 2020

    Quarterfinalist
  • Chicago Screenplay Awards 2020
    Chicago, Illinois
    Semifinalist
  • Best Script Award
    United Kingdom
    Winner, First-time Screenwriter & Student categories
  • Creative World Awards 2021

    Runner-up, Drama
  • New York International Screenplay Awards 2021

    Finalist
  • The Great American Script Contest 2021

    Winner, Student Category
  • Alpenfest
    Vienna, Austria
    October 17, 2023
    Winner, Best First Time Screenwriter
  • Kosice International Film Festival
    Kosice, Slovakia
    October 10, 2023
    Winner, First Time Screenwriter
Writer - Chris Arnold