I'm an Australian screenwriter (Australian Writers' Guild).
My first spec script – The Real Thing – is a Romantic Comedy/Sci-Fi/Coming-of-Age feature with themes about the now and near future that will be hotly debated.
In a past life, I studied Philosophy (my M.A. thesis - The Ontological Status of Space - is listed by the National Library of Australia).
A former Time Out critic in his competition feedback had this to say:
"The Real Thing is a classic screwball comedy. Like Bringing Up Baby, a nerdy protagonist is brought under the spell of an assertive love interest. Its whip-smart dialogue crackles like Hepburn and Grant. But there’s a modern twist updating this classic form."
If this sounds like an unabashed advertisement for my screenplay, it's because it is...
Oh, and I used to write short stories as a teenager that, according to experts who knew about this stuff, "nailed the psychological horror genre and will make money". But lest you think I'm getting nostalgic, so will the screenplay... producers, take note.
POSTSCRIPT: TRT has been optioned