Winds of Transition

‘WINDS OF TRANSITION’

Best Script Award-London
Best Historical Script
Winner
February 2023
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London Movie Awards
Best Feature Script
Winner October 31, 2022
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Paris Film Awards
Best Feature Script
Winner
December 2022

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Lily Indie Film Festival
Best Feature Script
Winner
December 11, 2023

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Beyond Hollywood International Film Festival Official Selection
Best Script
Finalist
May 2022

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LA Independent Women Film Award
Official Selection
Best Unproduced Feature Script
Winner
July 2021

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United States Film Festival
United States
Official Selection
Best US Screenplay
Winner
October 2021
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Bridge Festival
Vancouver BC Canada
Official Selection
Best Screenplay
Winner
September 2021

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Crown Wood International Film Festival
Official Selection
Best Screenplay
Winner
June 2021
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BEST FILM AWARDS
Official Selection
Best Script Award
Finalist
2021

California Women's Film Festival
Official Selection
Feature Script
Finalist
2021

Roma Film Festival
Rome Italy
Official Selection
Best Script
Finalist
October 2021

Wiki Screenplay Contest
Official Selection
Best Screenplay Award
Finalist
2021

Oniros Film Awards New York
Official Selection
Best Screenplay Award
Finalist
2021

Red Movie Awards, Reims Cedex, France
Official Selection
Best Script Unproduced
Finalist
August 2021

WRPN Women's International Film Festival
Official Selection
Script Writing
Award Winner
2021
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Cordillera International Film Festival
Official Selection
Best Screenplay
Semi-Finalist
2021

European Cinematography Awards
Official Selection
Feature Screenplay Award
Semi-Finalist
2021

Venice Shorts of California
Official Selection
Screenplay Awards
Semi-Finalist
2021

New York International Screenplay Awards
Official Selection
Best Screenplay Award
Quarter Finalist
2021

Milan Gold Awards
Official Selection
Silver: Best Script Award
2024

‘Winds of Transition’
Sil Brook

LOGLINE:
A Mixed-Race nurse falls in love with an aristocrat and suffers racism and discrimination, against the backdrop of the suffragette movement in Edwardian England. And how a family is torn apart by passion, deception and forbidden love.

‘Winds’ tells the story of the struggle of 3 women Lady Constance Lytton, Lady Emily Lytton and their friend, the Mixed-Race nurse Lyta, a woman different to them in class and ethnicity but united in their passion for equal rights for women. The story has never been told and is unique.

INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY

The screenplay has been well received at festivals with over 26 Awards and an extra Selections of 25. It’s because, like Downton Abbey, as the critics call it, it’s an ensemble cast and it’s all about the family.

SUMMARY: This British historical docudrama deals with the life of Lady Constance Lytton. Lady Constance was quiet, shy and physically weak. Early in life, she would like to leave political matters to the men. Her aristocratic title meant that the authorities treated her kindly, after all she was the daughter of a Viceroy and the Earl of Lytton and her brother was a member of the House of Lords.

Set in the turmoil of 1909 England, when women's rights challenged the Edwardian morality that still gripped British society. ‘Winds’ tells the story of two sisters who
could not be more different than Lady Constance and Lady Emily Lytton.

Emily is high-spirited and unconventional; her appearance quickly brings to mind the new emancipated woman. Constantly stifled by the rigid customs of the times, her inherent passion for life takes her to the forefront of the British suffrage movement.

Our story opens at a suffrage rally where, once again, Emily and Lyta had been arrested. Not surprisingly, Emily’s suffrage activities are a constant source of conflict within the family. Set during the same period as Downton Abbey, we see class barriers break down amid social upheaval and turmoil. You see a family torn apart by passion, deception and forbidden love. Passion and forbidden love is the story of Sir Richard, Lady Constance’s brother-in-law, and Lady Emily’s best friend nurse Lyta. A suffragette born on the continent of mixed race. Interracial relationships were unheard of, specially within the classes. Lady Constance’s husband, Sir Sinclair, lies, deceits and does everything he can to break his own brother’s relationship. Suddenly, after all these years of marriage, Lady Constance believes her husband to be a stranger; his actions had peeled away her final misconceptions. Her world of careful boundaries and self-imposed limitations had been shattered.

Lady Constance’s growing involvement with the movement also conflicts with her manipulative husband who believes that men are meant to lead and women to follow. Even when Lady Constance was imprisoned for her militant activities on
behalf of the suffragette movement, she was treated well and released.

After one of her arrest, Lady Constance gives the police a false name, Jane Warton. She then refuses to pay the fine and is sentenced to three months in prison. Lady Constance goes on a hunger-strike and is being brutally force fed.

References at IMDb, Articles in US Times Now, London Daily Post, America Daily Post and Reader's Digest UK. Film Freeway for a list of Awards/Selections.

Sil Brook
silbrook@tierraproductions.com
310-488-6880