Hi
I am a new member. I am so excited to hear there is a Seattle based
scriptwriting group. I hope this becomes a very active and exciting
group!....We need each others support.
My background in film began with an imagination that got me in much
trouble as a kid. As a youth I made up stories for my younger
siblings. As a young married woman with kids I made up my own stories
and designed doll characters for my kids at Christmas. As an adult
divorced woman I created and published an award winning magazine
titled, Northwest Art Niews & Views in Seattle. I next published a
tabloid news paper titled, The Olde Seattle Star...I opened one of
the first few places in Pioneer square, Seattle. I restored the R.O
Smith building and installed my publishing business. In The first
issue of my Seattle star newspaper I wrote about a walking tour of
that run down pioneer Square area...about What could be if we let it
be. I wrote imaginative bits about each of the closed down dirty old
buildings. I published that issue and passed it out free all over
down town. Mr. Caldwell of the SBA found a copy...took himself and
staff on my imaginary tour...then called me to his office. They gave
me the responsibility of gathering 80% of the building owners into a
common meeting.....Mr. Caldwell gathered investers, and in a common
meeting all parties signed, making millions of dollars available in
low interest loans for building owners to develop thier buildings.
That my friends is where Pioneer Square came from. Then in moved
the galleries and eateries and gift shops that made it the success it
is today. later I went to work for state government in Olympia, and
jumped right into video production. I did three video documentarys
for the legislature. One week end I wired both the house & senate for
the first time ever with video monitors and played a documentary
about housing in the black community of seattle, and succeeding
winning funding to help many programs.
I went back to school, Evergreen College and obtained a degree in
motion Pix Production. I wrote a couple of screenplays and I did a
third of all work on a class film, that won an award at the Cannes
film festival. Later I wrote, produced, designed sets and made
costumes for a play titled The Rhuunes of Rangatuun, in Olympia.
Thier were 75 singers,actors and dancers.
I went to Hollywood for a year, learned a lot, sculpted an 18 foot
tall King Kong Gorilla for Arturos flower shop, on the corner of
LaBrea & Fountain. I managed to get a story into Hanna Barbera,
through the VP Richard Rosetti whom I had met at a seattle film
festival prior. He loved my story and put it up on the animation
story board, the said to get an agent. A woman cost me my great
chance by threatening to sue them if she was not included as a
manager. She had nothing to do with my career, They believed her. I
was heart broken and gave up way too easy. I came back north.
later I produced a hilarious comedy in a tiny town...that was
three years ago. And three months ago I wrote a treatment about a
mans life for him, that through Ron Howard has been submitted it to
Oprahs Harpo Productions. No telling where that will go.
The brass ring is still out there waiting for me to grab at just
the right opportunity. So I still pound the keys writing and
improving my several scripts...mailing out thousands of letters
trying to get a good Agent!.... One whose tougher than I am and can
fight the sharks out there and carry us to success.
I also sculpted the worlds biggest Egg in Winlock--the Worlds
Biggest Daniel Boone, in Littlerock--and the Worlds biggest
Sasquatch, which Steven Spielberg visited, asked how to reach me, and
the woman at the visitors center did not bother to tell me till two
weeks later. I flew to Seattle, burning up the freeway...but too late
again, Steven S. had left the building...he was back in LA. Where the
secretarys believe no one on the outside of the Kingdoms
walls...LOL...Well I'm also long winded...Thats my story and Im
stickin to it...as goes the Country western Song.
My Website is at: www.BevsCreativeCrossroads.com Bev Roberts