Just Effing Entertain Me Screenwriting Competition Grand Prize Winner

Today at 3:15PM, Jared Kelly arrives in Los Angeles to collect his prizes! I will be there to pick him up, then off for several days of meetings, lunches and shopping as I roll out the red carpet for this very talented writer! Jared will be blogging about his experience so you can get a little taste of what it’s like to win the competition.

Speaking of which, I am very proud of this competition and have received hundreds of emails about whether I will be taking submissions in 2012 (owing to the fact that I’m moving abroad in February).  The answer is maybe. Probably. I hope so. I will have a huge culture shock, moving from the good old US of A to the Middle East, but this competition is one of my passions and I would like to keep it going. This year I am thinking of adding a Visionary prize for those writers with scripts that have humanitarian themes and impact.

Which reminds me – did I mention that I discovered an organization the other day that made me want to LEAP into the air? The Global Alliance for Transformative Entertainment is an organization you should know about. With members like Marianne Williamson, Eckhardt Tolle and Jim Carrey (I know! Crazy!) this group is dedicated to fostering and funding entertainment on a global scale, that aims to uplift and transform. I found out about GATE through my dear friend, Nat Mundel, of Voyage Media. Synchronicity!

I hope everyone is having a great day! Stay tuned for Jared’s blog posts about arriving in LA to collect his prizes, take his meetings and.. we’ll see whether he gets that tat!