Mother's Day

For love or for luck, professionals who live in harm’s way keep a memory close of the one person who always tried to keep them out of it.

  • CR Sherman
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay, Short Script
  • Number of Pages:
    5
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Austin International Art Festival
    Austin, TX
    October 28, 2025
    WINNER Best Short Script
  • New York Screenwriting Awards
    New York, NY
    September 20, 2024
    WINNER Best Short Screenplay
  • Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards
    Palm Springs, CA
    October 31, 2024
    WINNER | Best Short Screenplay
  • Cannes Script Festival
    Cannes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
    September 9, 2024
    FINALIST
Writer Biography - CR Sherman

My first job as a storyteller was as a designer doing brand development for companies such as Symantec, Polaroid, Virginia Power, Cole Haan, Zildjian Cymbals, and The Harvard Business School. My career took me to design firms in Houston and Boston, then I opened my own firm as a cofounder of BrandTank in San Francisco.

I made a career change to aviation in 2001. I built my flight time flying Grand Canyon tours, flew corporate charters throughout the Southwest, and then moved on to jets. I hold multiple type ratings in turbo prop and turbo fan aircraft, and my total number of takeoffs matches my total number of landings--except for that one time.

In 2020 I enrolled in the College of Fine Arts, Department of Film, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I focused on screenwriting classes in both the Graduate, and Undergraduate Programs.

To get production experience on set I worked as a sound mixer doing location sound. Now I freelance as a photographer shooting production stills for music videos and film productions. I write as much as I can between projects, it keeps me out of the heat.

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Writer Statement

My name is Sherman, I am a writer living in the Vegas Valley in Southern Nevada. My area of fascination is creating action-adventure stories about men and women who live with risk.