Roy's scripts are character driven around the theme of survival. Rather than the hook being embedded in conflict resolution it lies in each character's quest to simultaneously attend to individual and societal survival as well as personal goals.
Roberta M Roy 845-454-5200
robbiedobb@aol.com
Roberta M Roy 845-454-5200 robbiedobb@aol.com
Feature and Series Scripts
• The Morning After the Morning After – 2024: Best Feature Seattle Filmmaker Awards; Paris Lady MovieMakers Festival ; July - Bridge Fest Screenplay Grand Winner; The Page Turner 100; Winner MegaFlix Film Awards; Semi Finalist in consideration; Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Competition, Semifinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards - Diversity Initiative vii ; Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition. 2023; Tamizhagam Internationals Film Festival, Best Feature; Shore Scripts Feature Contest in Consideration; Bridge Fest June, Selected Screenplay, Selected, Los Angeles International Awards Diversity Initiative
• Family Matters Award Winner 2024 New York International Women Festival; Semi Finalist in the Atlanta Movie Awards
• It Takes a Village 2024 Best Screenplay, The Atlantis Awards; Shortlisted, Voices Rising Film Festival; Best Feature Script Robinson Film Awards International
• Two Close: a story of survival – 2024 Selected, Independent Women Film Awards; Screen Craft Competition 2022 Cinematic Book Semifinalist
• Home Again 2020 – 2023: Semifinalist: Santa Cruz Independent Film Fest; Phoenix International Short Film Awards; 2024: Film Haus Semifinalist
• Jolt Survival Series Pilot – 2024 The Page Turner 100 Semi Finalist; LA Independent Film Channer, Selected; Fall 2022 Script Summit Finalist; Vail Film Festival Screenplay 2022 -Quarterfinalist
• Jolt Survival Tele Series I - X Screen Craft Virtual Pitch Fall 2022 Semifinalist
Short Scripts
• Almost by Design 2024: Best Short Screen Play - Los Angeles Film Awards; Winner - Festigious Los Angeles Monthly Film Competition; Semi Finalist - Palm Springs International Screenplay Contest; Brooklyn International Short Awards; Berlin Shorts Award; Rome International Short Festival; Paris International Short Festival; Quarter Finalist, Fetigious Los Angeles Awards; Selected, Vegas Shorts, New York Short Awards
• Just In Time: Semi Finalist: 2024 New York International Women Festival; Dublin Movie Awards; Wiki: The World’s Fastest Screenplay Competition-Shorts; Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
• Just Take a Breath: 2023: Semi Finalist: Dallas Shorts; Nashville Independent Filmmakers Festival; Sydney Indie Shorts Festival; Dallas Movie Awards Festival
• Yell’n’Tell 2024 Best Unproduced Script Brightside Tavern Film Festival; Brightside Festival; Semi Finalist 2023 Dallas Shorts Note: Yell’n’Tell also in French and Spanish
• When Covid Came Dallas Shorts 2023 Semi Finalist
Book Publications
Home Again 2020 (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book 3) won a Gold Medal for Current Events II (Social Issues/Public Affairs/Ecological/Humanitarian), the Silver Medal for Multicultural Fiction and the Bronze Medal in General Fiction in the Jenkins 2021 International eLit awards.
Two Close (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book 2) rated third on the Red List for Sci-fi Book Manuscripts.
Jolt: a rural noir (Book 1) took second place in the 2011 Jenkins Living Now Inspirational Fiction Award. Slivers: Poems by Roberta M Roy, medaled in the 2020 Jenkins International eLit Awards in Poetry.
Education
B. A. NYS College for Teachers, Albany, NY M.A. University of Nebraska
Pre-doctoral study. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; 16 hours speech language pathology.
Languages Fluency in sign language. Working knowledge of Italian, French, and Spanish.
Roy is a NYS Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist with G and E Therapies.
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Filmography
Writer (3 Credits)
Almost By Design
Short Script
Family Matters
Screenplay
It Takes a Village
Screenplay
11 Awards & Selections
Selected Almost By Design
New York Short Awards New York, New York
2024
Selected Almost By Design
Vegas Shorts Las Vegas, Nevada
2024
Semi Finalist Almost By Design
Paris International Short Festival Paris, France
2024
Semi Finalist Almost By Design
Rome International Short Festival Rome, Italy
2024
Semi Finalist Almost By Design
Berlin Shorts Award Berlin, Germany
2024
Semi Finalist Almost By Design
Brooklyn International Short Awards Brooklyn, NY
2024
Semi Finalist Almost By Design
Palm Springs International Screenplay Contest Palm Springs, California
2024
Winner Almost By Design
Festigious Los Angeles Monthly Film Competition Poughkeepsie
2024
Best Short Screenplay Almost By Design
Los Angeles Film Awards Poughkeepsie
2024
Quarterfinalist Almost By Design
Palm Springs International Screenplay Contest Palm Springs, California
2023
Semi Finalist Almost By Design
Brooklyn International Short Awards Brooklyn, New York
SUNYA (formally NYS College for Teachers at Albany)
English
Personal Details
Nickname
Robin
Birth City
Poughkeepsie, New York
Height
5'2"
Gender
Female
Eye Color
Blue
Trivia
Over the years I have gravitated from doing speech language therapy and writing award winning poetry and novels until COVID came and I changed my focus to the writing of scripts: five feature scripts, twelve hour long television episodes to my Jolt Survival Series, and six shorts.
Quotes
'Life's a dance, sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow."
Roy's scripts are character driven around the theme of survival. Rather than the hook being embedded in conflict resolution it lies in each character's quest to simultaneously attend to individual and societal survival as well as personal goals.