Feature Narrative
ALICE IN MOVIELAND
by Christina Kotlar
Inspired by true events
LOGLINE:
An impressionable, tech-savvy young woman searching for her identity falls into life’s rabbit hole at the dawn of the moving picture industry, testing the devilishly-guarded bastion of male chauvinism.
THEME:
“Art challenges the technology. The technology inspires the art.”
John Lasseter
Taking risks as a woman in a man’s world, Alice in Movieland is on par with indomitable spirit biopics of dynamic, accomplished women living their art– La Vie en Rose + Frida challenging male-dominated realms as in The Queen’s Gambit
STORY:
As the bourgeois-repressed social order opened up at the turn of the century, artists and free thinkers joined industrialists to achieve their goals.
Consequently, a super-tech chick, Alice Guy Blache, arrives on the scene, influencing the likes of Picasso and Braque, impressing inventors and entrepreneurs, Eiffel and Einstein, while launching an upside down, topsy-turvy, breaking-the-rules approach to life’s absurdities and scenarios.
FILMTOWN series
FILMTOWN
an original teleplay by Christina Kotlar
LOGLINE:
When first woman film director Alice Guy Blache strikes a devil’s bargain with mysterious French Creole smuggler, Jules Brulatour, forming a secret alliance to take down Thomas Edison and build their own movie-making empire, all Hell breaks loose in FILMTOWN.
AUTHOR’S BIO
Christina graduated with an M.A. in Producing for Film and Video from American University, Washington, DC, co-wrote the short film Soul Searching, which was awarded the Gold Remi for Dramatic Short from the Houston World Film Festival (2010) and worked as a Teaching Assistant and Production Manager for AU’s Summer Film Institute. She has since written and produced shorts, feature narratives, and documentary films and attended screenwriting conferences including Santa Fe Screenwriting. She completed a television screenwriter workshop, Michelangelo Screenwriting (PageCraft), in Orvieto, Italy and currently has written several screenplays, including a multi-episodic series for television, FILMTOWN and a feature narrative, Alice in Movieland.