THE BRIDES OF INTI: An original screenplay by Patricia L. Meek.
Jolie McPearson, an unorthodox New Orleans oncologist, is on a race against time to cure a young patient before the child dies. Jolie travels to the high mountains of Peru for a secret cult initiation that promises a disease defying plant compound, but instead finds an ancient curse. She is to become a Shaman’s bride, wedded in death.
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Patricia L. MeekWriterMy poem “Weather” was a 2016 finalist for the International Literary Awards, Rita Dove Award in Poetry. My poem “Up From Small” was published in East Jasmine Review. My poem “Weather” published in Natural Bridge, A Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Missouri – St. Louis, Number 38, Fall 2017. “Dialogue with Georgia O’Keeffe IV: Feast For The Dead” has been published in Masque & Spectacle. A video of the same title, “Dialogue with Georgia O’Keeffe IV: Feast for the Dead,” was screened at Southern Colorado Film Festival, October 2015, and was long listed at Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival, 2016. “Dialogue with Georgia O’Keeffe II: Ghost Ranch,” was short-listed and screened at Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival, 2017. My short story “Night Creatures” was published in Euphony Journal, University of Chicago, February 2018. My short story “The Crucified Bird,” published in Puerto del Sol and REDUX #59, won the AWP Intro Award for Fiction. My prose “Cold Harbor” was published in The Penmen Review, August 15, 2016, and “Laughing Trout” was published by The Broken Plate in Spring 2017. My essay “For the Love of Clouds” is in The Healing Presence: Photographs of the Sky, and Children’s Perceptions of Hope, Sunstone Press, 2014. My novel, NOAH: a supernatural eco-thriller, was published by All Things That Matter Press in 2011.
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Number of Pages:124
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Country of Origin:United States
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:Yes
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Student Project:No
Patricia L. Meek won AWP Intro for Fiction, “The Crucified Bird,” and “Weather” was a 2016 finalist for Rita Dove Award in Poetry. Author of Noah: a supernatural eco thriller, All Things Matter Press. Other work published by Natural Bridge, University of Missouri; Euphony Journal, University of Chicago, Puerto del Sol; REDUX #59; Sunstone Press; and The Penman Review.
She taught English composition and creative writing, and holds a BA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Wichita State University, and an MA in Counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is currently a medical integration clinician (LPC) in Southern Colorado.
Website: patricialmeek.com
Patricia’s visionary work derives its inspiration from mystical experience, archetypal imagery from multi-cultural spiritual reference, and the life and death struggle within the natural world.