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A young talented artist wants to commit suicide after going blind, but gradually she sees musical notes dancing and trees fizzing like fireworks and starts painting in a unique synaesthetic style and joy returns to her life
Based on a true story.

  • Linda M James
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Short Script
  • Number of Pages:
    15
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Writer Biography - Linda M James

Linda M James is a published author/ commissioned and optioned screenwriter.
She has had three historical drama screenwriting commissions and six film options.
Her scripts have been selected by 12 Film Festivals so far. In February and March, 2024, she became the winner in four Film Festivals for her dark supernatural thriller WHITE WITCH in THE TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL, IF INDIE FESTIVAL, 8 & HALFILM FESTIVAL and INTERNATIONAL GOLD AWARDS. MOVIE PLAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL also awarded her an HONORABLE MENTION for this project.
Her psychological thriller THE DAY OF THE SWANS became an award winner in the MULTI DIMENSION FILM FESTIVAL and a finalist in the EDIPLAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in March, 2024.
Her Romantic Comedy ALCHEMY was a finalist in THE MULTI DIMENSION FILM FESTIVAL in March.
She also wrote a TV drama called 'Crescendo' which was part of the Doctors series. Broadcast in 2003. [It was Eddie Redmayne's first screen role.]

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Writer Statement

A number of my feature film projects have been green-lit, only to have the final finances collapsing. Heart-breaking at the time, but a writer has to overcome rejections to make it in the film world and I've learned to become tenacious.
I wrote this important short film to highlight the problems of blindness and how, for some people, they can be overcome through synaesthesia.
I hope you will see the potential in the script and help it to reach the screen and people's hearts.