The Writers Guild of America, West has announced its 2014 Feature Access Project honorees, recognizing nine Wgaw members who competed in the Guild’s diversity screenwriting program. This year’s Fap honorees and their screenplays are: Radha Bharadwaj – Final Boarding Soo-Hyun Chung – Faith Q.Terah Jackson III – Rustin Joy Kecken – All-In Tianna Majumdar-Langham & Chris Bessounian – Guns and Saris Latoya Morgan – Same River Twice Nayan Padrai – Billion Dollar Raja Galen Tong – The Monkey King Coordinated by the Wgaw Diversity Department, the Guild project seeks to identify outstanding diverse writers and make...
- 2/27/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Galen Tong's The Monkey King has beaten about 1,000 entrants to win the Beijing International Screenwriting Competition's Feature Film Grand Prize, competition chair Kevin Niu announced Oct. 18. The $15,000 prize will be announced at an event Oct. 19, "China's Entertainment Industry: The Next Chapter," at 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The Monkey King tells the story of a man whose friend is killed by foreigners during the turn-of-the-20th century Boxer Rebellion in China who then disguises himself as the Monkey King, a traditional character in the Peking Opera, and
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- 10/18/2013
- by Tim Appelo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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