Private Project

Truth on a Bridge

On the day before Thanksgiving, a man and woman find themselves trapped in a skywalk over a metropolitan area. As they grapple with their own life stressors, their patience with the situation and each other quickly spirals into confrontation.

Will they discover something to be thankful for?

  • Rich Kern
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Short Script, Stage Play
  • Genres:
    Holiday, Drama
  • Number of Pages:
    25
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Writer Biography - Rich Kern

Rich Kern is a creative writer and music producer from Chicago IL. He can be seen reading original works at art galleries. His poetry has appeared in The Miserere Review and Spire Magazine as contest winners.

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Writer Statement

For this piece, I wanted to capture the family tensions we come to associate with Thanksgiving, but cast them in the trapped-in-a-room archetype, in order to grapple with our preconceived notions of one another. It is grounded in simplicity, and faintly echoes Sartre's 'No Exit'.