OWN GOAL
LOGLINE:
A working-class girl, sent to the country's most exclusive school, leads a local multicultural rag tag soccer team to victory, against the school’s prejudiced, unbeaten jocks.
SHORT SYNOPSIS:
A working-class daughter of a highly successful black, single parent, soccer player is sent to an exclusive school, where she tries to join the schools, unbeaten, soccer team.
But when she’s shunned and bullied by the upper-class students and jocks, she finds solace at a local estate’s rundown playground, where she’s befriended by a multicultural rag tag group of street kids.
However, when she’s threatened with expulsion, she challenges the school head!
A soccer match, the schools professionally trained, unbeaten team against her friends from the playground.
The prize? She leaves quietly, or her team win sports scholarships.
Training them to work as a team and believe in themselves; she leads her team to victory at her father’s, world famous, packed soccer club stadium.
She then discovers the club has employed her father’s love interest, a female teacher from the school; and the club are providing all the kids with their own scholarships.
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Dave MacWriter
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Project Type:Treatment
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Number of Pages:15
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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In 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018, I was a guest at the Screenwriters Awards, Paramount Studios in Hollywood. OFFICIAL SELECTION Oaxaca FilmFest & Finalist in ScreenCraft 2021 Finalist in Filmmatic Screenplay Awards. Winner Screenwriting Goldmine, Screenwriting competition. LAUREL - Austin Film Festival. FINALIST - Hammond House Literary Competition
Short Bio
Following my childhood in London, I began entertaining at 16 years old in Radio and the NAAFI whilst in the Royal Air Force; before performing comedy at theatres, clubs, and holiday resorts world-wide.
I continued to perform while spending twenty years in the Metropolitan Police Service, where I received commendations from The Commissioner of Police, Old Bailey Judges, and the Sheriff of London, etc. for covert work, which I reluctantly mention to highlight a rich eclectic history from which to draw inspiration, factuality and realism and the source for the legal, police and covert aspects of some scripts.
In 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018, I was a guest at the Screenwriters Awards, Paramount Studios in Hollywood.
OFFICIAL SELECTION Oaxaca FilmFest & Finalist in ScreenCraft 2021
Finalist in Filmmatic Screenplay Awards.
Winner Screenwriting Goldmine, Screenwriting competition.
LAUREL - Austin Film Festival.
FINALIST - Hammond House Literary Competition