Script File
WAITING FOR HAPPINESS
Vincent, a rootless young Hispanic ex-soldier embittered by a painful past, returns to his ostensibly charming all-American hometown to lay his father's ashes to rest. Urged to take over the family landscaping business by his father's employee and friend Salvador (who, years ago, entered the U.S. illegally) Vincent decides to settle down and start a new life on equal terms with his white neighbors.
Meanwhile, terribly abused by her husband and suffering a miscarriage, Christina hides away from the world in a basement apartment under the house of an elderly woman, Helen, who longs for the lost opportunities of youth.
Though a relationship develops by fits and starts into genuine love, a happy future is abruptly cut short when Vincent's righteous reaction to continued racial persecution, and Christina's need to physically erase her trauma, end in unforeseen consequences for them all.
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Genres:Drama, Romance
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Number of Pages:86
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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
I am a New York-based screenwriter with 5 screenplays and 1 pilot completed.
My screenplay WAITING FOR HAPPINESS advanced to the Second Round (top 20%) in the Drama Feature category of the 2018 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition and Big Break 2019 Quarterfinalist. My pilot MADE IN AMERICA was selected for Round 2 of the MACRO Episodic Lab powered by The Black List, headed by Lena Waithe and Eva Longoria; and advanced to the quarterfinals in the 2018 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch competition. My screenplay NO VOLVERE is a 2018 Scriptapalooza SEMIFINALIST and advanced to the Second Round (top 20%) in the Drama Feature category of the 2018 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition. In 2017, SING DON'T CRY, placed among the Top 15% of all entries in the Academy Nicholl competition.