Kevin Bachar’s Edison’s Ghosts Wins the 2018 ScreenCraft Action/Thriller Screenplay Competition

This February, the winners for the 2018 ScreenCraft Action/Thriller Screenplay competition were announced. Selected from roughly 800 entries, Edison’s Ghost by our very own Kevin Bachar was named the winner.

In Edison’s Ghost, after the mysterious death of his wife, young infamous inventor, Thomas Edison, teams up with renowned magician, Harry Houdini, to uncover the truth. Inspired by true events, the two men use their diametric skill sets to reveal diabolical forces at play. The judges were impressed with the slick confident writing and fun read akin to recent historical action films such as Sherlock Holmes.

In addition to the ScreenCraft team, the judges included: Belles Avery of Apelles Entertainment (The Meg); Jeannette Francis of Bad Robot (Star Trek, Cloverfield); Matthew Leonetti (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and The Equalizer); Andrew Bergamo (Deadpool, Logan, Constantine, and The X-Men films); and the legendary screenwriter Steven E. de Souza, (Die Hard, 48 Hrs., Commando and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life).

Both the Grand Prize winner, Bachar, and runner-up, Travis Opgenorth, will each receive cash prizes and have their material circulated to ScreenCraft’s network of agents, managers, and producers.

That’s not all for Kevin. His other script Blood Relative is casting with John Poliquin directing. Mitchell Peck optioned Kevin’s Page Award finalist Tundra Kill and his My Boy Friend the App, which won Final Draft Big Break, is a finalist for Stage 32 National Lampoon Search for Comedy Gold.

Canadian Mixed Martial Arts Icon Georges St-Pierre Formally Announces His Retirement

During this morning’s press conference at Montreal’s Bell Centre, MMA superstar Georges St-Pierre says he’s finally satisfied. And that’s why he’s retiring because throughout his career he hasn’t been satisfied. And this dissatisfaction has been his main motivator. Now he says he does not have the same hunger anymore.

“It takes a lot of discipline to retire on top. I wanted to retire on my own and not be told to retire or be taken out by an opponent. In full contact sports you should retire on top. And I’m happy to have the wisdom to do so,” he says.

Georges shared his proudest moment. Oddly enough, it’s not a particular victory. Or a particular knockout. “For me it’s when I got dropped by a Carlos Condit kick and I stood up again. I showed I had the guts to overcome an obstacle,” he says.

He names Wayne Gretzky as one of his greatest inspirations. “Everything starts with a dream,” he said. And his was to be the best.

Here’s a gig we did with GSP during a break from fighting and training six years ago. It’s a little comedy starring the MMA icon with Quebec’s Patrick Boivin directing. True to himself, his fee went to the Georges St-Pierre Foundation. All our best GSP!

Who Raised Up The Magic World?

Woolf+Lapin Agency has always been inspired by writers.  Virginia Woolf for one. Who’s afraid of her? We’re certainly not… Hey, have you figured where we got a part of our funny name yet? For 2019, we wish you inspiration to raise up the magic world.  Screen Shot 2019-01-24 at 3.49.18 PM

2018 Going Out With a Bang!

Here’s a short list of what we loved about 2018:

Tiny Inventions nomination at the Oscars.

K5 Films sign on to produce Dan Shea’s No Child Left Behind with Patrick Boivin to direct.

Martin Girard co-scénarise la télésérie LE JEU.

Syon Media sign on to produce Liz Gilbert’s LOVELY

Discovering the work of Caleb Slain, especially his short western DEMON.

Kevin Bachar’s RELATIVE sold to 3 Point Capital with John Poliquin to direct.

Our continued collaboration with Fantasia as VR programmers where Skybound’s VR film DINNER PARTY won the grand prize.

Bernie Goldman to produce Katy Dore’s Black List TV series THE UNSUNG, winner of ATX Television Festival

Midnight Sun director Scott Speer to helm Greg Wayne’s S21 through Catapult Entertainment.

Katy Dore participated as a mentor in the Young Storytellers Foundation Script to Stage program in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles.

Oscar-Nominated Tiny Inventions’ New Feature Project @ Sundance Script Lab

Oscar-nominated Tiny Inventions, made up of the duo of Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter, are fresh off the TorinoFilmLab, a 9-month feature scriptwriting fellowship. The first draft of the script is also part of Sundance Script Lab 2019.

The script in question is a coming of age story exploring the media, Japanese culture, fantasy worlds we build for ourselves and the loss of innocence.

Tiny inventions was nominated for the 2018 Oscars for best animated short, Negative Space, based on a poem by Ron Koertge.

See the BTS for another one of their shorts, SOMETHING LEFT SOMETHING,TAKEN, to see their workflow on how they build, photograph, animate, composite and color correct for their projects. The film is well worth the ten-minute chill time.