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She's Never Coming Back

Placed under hypnosis, a young man’s not-too-distant memories play out in a non-linear narrative of intensity, depicting a broad range of happiness, warmth, anger, fear, sadness, loneliness, grief, and devastation — all involving the only woman he ever fell in love with.

  • Jesse Dorian
    Writer
    'SVEN,' 'Morituriosis,' 'The Four Of Us Are Dying,' 'As Scared As You,' 'Donavan Emery, The Android & Himself'
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Drama, Romance
  • Number of Pages:
    87
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Naples Film Awards
    Naples, Italy 🇮🇹
    September 22, 2023
    🏆 AWARD WINNER - Best Feature Script (Ennis Morricone Prize - 2nd Edition)
  • INDO FRENCH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    Pondicherry, India 🇮🇳
    September 9, 2023
    🏆 AWARD WINNER - Best Feature Script/Screenplay (Special Jury Award) (August 2023)
  • Gothamite Monthly Film Awards
    New York, NY 🇺🇸
    September 5, 2023
    🏆 AWARD WINNER - Best Drama Script of the Month (August 2023)
  • Hollywood on the Tiber Film Awards
    Rome, Italy 🇮🇹
    August 29, 2023
    🏆 AWARD WINNER - Best Drama Script (July & August Edition)
  • Stanley Film Awards
    London, UK 🇬🇧
    August 24, 2023
    🏆 AWARD WINNER - Best Feature Script (Seventeenth Edition)
  • Stanley Film Awards
    London, UK 🇬🇧
    August 24, 2023
    🏆 AWARD WINNER - Best International Screenwriter (Seventeenth Edition)
  • Sweet Democracy Film Awards
    Cannes, France 🇫🇷
    August 24, 2023
    🏆 AWARD WINNER - Best Feature Script (August 2023)
  • Sweet Democracy Film Awards
    Cannes, France 🇫🇷
    August 24, 2023
    🏆 AWARD WINNER - Best Romance Script (August 2023)
  • Frida Film Festival
    Paris, France 🇫🇷
    August 23, 2023
    🏆 AWARD WINNER - Best Romance Script (Alfred Hitchcock Awards - 5th Edition)
  • 8 & Halfilm Awards
    Rome, Italy 🇮🇹
    August 15, 2023
    🏆 AWARD WINNER - Best International Screenwriter (Venice 3-4 Edition)
  • International Gold Awards
    New York, NY 🇺🇸
    September 6, 2023
    ❤️ Honorable Mention - Best Feature Script (August 2023)
  • Rome Prisma Film Awards
    Rome, Italy 🇮🇹
    September 20, 2023
    🟠 Nominee - Best Feature Screenplay/TV Script
  • Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival
    Athens, Attica 🇬🇷
    September 7, 2023
    🟦 Finalist - Best Original Script
  • ETHOS Film Awards
    Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸
    September 19, 2023
    🌟 Official Selection - Best Feature Screenplay
  • RED MOVIE AWARDS
    Reims, France 🇫🇷
    September 18, 2023
    🌟Official Selection - Best Script Unproduced
  • Silicon Beach Film Festival
    Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸
    September 7, 2023
    🌟 Official Selection - Best Feature Screenplay
  • Austin Under The Stars Film Festival
    Austin, TX 🇺🇸
    September 7, 2023
    🌟 Official Selection - Best Screenplay: Narrative Feature
  • Love & Hope International Film Festival
    Barcelona, Catalunya 🇪🇸
    August 16, 2023
    🌟 Official Selection - Best Script (Feature Film)
Writer Biography - Jesse Dorian


Clinically depressed (yet, properly medicated) ADD/bipolar screenwriter/actor/editor/film director/songwriter/composer/musician, community college dropout, with dumb little gothpop music project on the side; also (as of 2022) newly a small e-commerce business owner, and apparel designer (LostScorpion/LostScorpion Apparel).

Had one full-on manic episode/nervous breakdown in 2012… years later, came out on the other end with an unfinished, 95% completed feature film/directorial effort that never saw the light of day-- plus, 5 separate story ideas that in 2021, would be revised competently into 5 different, coherently-readable documents... er, better yet-- 5 professionally-organized feature-length film screenplays.

Endgame is to station in Los Angeles and focus on acting and music. Would also excel as a writer/actor, and would ideally fit in writing/producing/directing independent projects for distributors A24, NEON... with long-time mainstream prospects including creation of/writing/producing/directing franchise and world-building feature film projects for Universal Studios.

Has 2 rescue cats named Fred and Caramels.

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Writer Statement

‘She’s Never Coming Back’ is a recently revised screenplay that I had first written back in 2012, and really hadn’t looked at until this year. This draft is a complete reworking of that earlier draft from 2012; it’s technically a new script for 2023.

‘She’s Never Coming Back’ is a story told almost entirely with a non-linear narrative.

It’s a depressing jigsaw puzzle, to say the least. As sincere as the tone of this story is, it was ironically, in fact, not a deeply personal story for me to write. I just wanted to write a love story that I had never quite seen before, while also borrowing elements from other films that use a non-linear stream of consciousness to tell their stories.

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PAu 4-188-508