LIFT OUT LOUD July Feature Reading

The LIAISON OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF TORONTO present
LIFT OUT LOUD

A Bi-Monthly Screenplay Reading Series With Guest Moderator
REBECCA SCHECHTER
(North of 60, Street Legal, ENG, Little Mosque on the Prairie)

UNMASKED
written by Peter Scott Vicaire

* * DATE CHANGE * *

Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm
Admission: $5.00
Location: XPACE, 58 Ossington Avenue (just north of Queen Street West)

GUEST MODERATOR – REBECCA SCHECHTER
REBECCA SCHECHTER’S career as a screenwriter took off in 1987 with the feature film “Taking Care”. Since then, she has written primarily for the small screen. She has been producer, story editor and/or writer on many of Canada’s drama series: Street Legal, ENG, North of 60 (for which she won the 1994 Gemini for Writing in Dramatic Series), Side Effects, Riverdale, and Blue Murder. In 2005, she began working on her first half-hour comedy called “Pray for Me” about a group of Muslims living in a small prairie town. In addition to re-shaping the series and working as Creative Producer on the first season, she re-christened the show LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRE. Ms. Schechter is currently developing an hour-long dramatic series for Can-West Global. She is also President of the Writers Guild of Canada, a position she’s held since 2004.

UNMASKED by Peter Scott Vicaire
A man joins a dangerous and mysterious club in order to relive the worst day of his life.

PETER SCOTT VICAIRE is a member of Listuguj First Nation, and received his bachelors degree from the University of New Brunswick before entering the United States Marines and becoming a sergeant. After an honorable discharge, he worked in juvenile corrections for 8 years. He began screenwriting in 2004 and has been nominated and won screenplay of the month on Kevin Spacey’s popular screenwriting website – Triggerstreet.

*FREE PIZZA will be served at the event.

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LIFT OUT LOUD is our bi-monthly script reading series where members workshop their scripts to by professional actors and then get feedback from the acclaimed guest moderator and an audience of their peers. LIFT OUT LOUD meets bi-monthly on the first Wednesday of every other month.

If you’re an actor interested in taking part in the readings, please send a resume to liftoutloud(at)lift.on.ca
Writers can submit their scripts for consideration to the same e-mail.