Venus Rising_
A 1950s suburban housewife is drawn into the NYC mob-run lesbian bars to find pulp fiction material in order to satisfy her hungry publisher.
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Nanci GaglioWriter
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Project Type:Television Script
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Number of Pages:56
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Country of Origin:United States
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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Santa Barbara International Screenplay AwardsSanta Barbara
December 16, 2022
Finalist -
Big Apple Film FestivalNew York
April 28, 2023
Award Winner -
The PAGE International Screenplay AwardsLos Angeles
July 15, 2023
Quarter-Finalist (top 10%)
VENUS RISING is the winner of the Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition (May, 2023), and Finalist with Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards (Dec '22). It's currently a QF (top 10%) with the PAGE International Competition, and a Second-rounder with Austin Script Competition (2023).
Nanci Gaglio's current short "I Saw What I Saw" is world premiering at LA Shorts International, July, 2023. She began her career as a performer and filmmaker in lower Manhattan, then earned an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Nanci is a Sundance Knight Fellow, and writer / director of shorts that combined have screened in over 150 film festivals across the world.
What was it really like to be a repressed & deviant lesbian in the 1950s?
VENUS RISING is a sexy, dangerous series that juxtaposes 1950s puritanical suburban America with a mob-run NYC lesbian bar (Venus), and its salacious and deviant cousin of the era - lesbian pulp fiction.
My stories usually feature an outsider who seeks a home; an honest person who is framed or accused. An underdog that must be heard. And people stuck in strange lands. Absurd or dark comedy, suspense and drama (with a little horror) are my genre. I specialize in mixing genre and style for truly original storytelling. Happy to talk about how structure dictates that :-)