Ilium Ridge

Captain Achilles must choose between his love for Trojan nurse Briseis and his duty to his incompetent commander, as the gods, battles and magic of Homer's Iliad are reimagined in the bloody trenches of World War I.

  • Glendenning McGregor Cram
    Writer
  • Ronald Norman Hier
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    war, historical, fantasy, romance
  • Number of Pages:
    107
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Los Angeles International
    LA, CA
    July 19, 2024
    Quarter Finalist
  • Outstanding Screenplays
    USA
    January 26, 2024
    Quarter Finalist
  • Wiki
    Hollywood, CA
    May 16, 2024
    Finalist
  • Emerging Screenwriters Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition
    Online
    May 29, 2024
    Quarter Finalist
Writer Biography - Glendenning McGregor Cram, Ronald Norman Hier

Glen Cram is a Toronto artist and web developer, with a background in anthropology and education. He has recently published the first volume of The Acts of Simon Magus in the First Century AD, the journals of the Gnostic sorcerer who became the original Antichrist.

Ron Hier (now deceased) was a skilled musician, and studied filmmaking in the MFA program at UUSC. He worked as a research lawyer in Toronto and was the co-author of Music and the Law in Canada (Carswell, 2000) and Model Agreements for Visual and Media Artists (CARFAC 2004).

In university, we wrote, directed and produced Blood Creature From Beyond the Grave, a 40-minute long movie in the silent film tradition, which was National Runner-up and Quebec Winner in the Famous Players Student Film Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gwxG_-DzNE

Our most recent film, 2 Bucks Short, was 8th most popular at the 2009 Toronto Urban Film Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWip7f2M5KA

Together we have written 5 feature screenplays. See http://grinth.com for details.

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We just want to tell a story that combines intimate human relationships with universal truths.